Welcome to Year 1

Class Teacher is Mrs Al-Hassani

Teaching Assistants are Ms Moorhouse, Mrs Grice and Mrs Kays

Spring 2

In English our focus will be a text called Amazing Grace which focusses upon diversity. Our class text will be non-fiction during Book Week. Sentence work is on-going all year. We will be trying to add further punctuation such as question marks and exclamation marks. The children will also be using conjunctions to write longer sentences. For phonics, the children will be learning lots of alternative spelling patterns and we will be revising Reception phonemes. I will also be preparing the children for the Phonics Test in June. 

In Maths we will be working with numbers to 40. We will be learning to read and write numbers and compare numbers to 40. We will be using bar models and developing strategies for addition and subtraction of numbers to 40. We will be starting multiplication as lots of.This will include number patterns and word problems.

In Science:-This will be about materials and their properties, light and how we see, electricity- constructing a simple circuit, the four seasons, flowering plants and the names of the different parts and animals and their habitats.

In ICT :- . 

History and Geography:- History is about transport now and in the past. Geography is focused on hot and cold places around the world.

Art : Mixing primary colours to create secondary colours and and topic related art.

P.E:- Dance and games

R.E: - Who is a Muslim and what do they believe?

French:- Counting, colours, animal names and simple rhymes.