Year 1

English

We will begin with Our Talk 4 writing text :

Little Red Riding Hood

Writing Outcome:

To innovate a story and be able to use some basic punctuation as part of their writing i.e. capital letters, finger spaces and full stops.

Apply knowledge of embedded sounds to their writing.

Form all lower case letters correctly.

Mathematics

Number: Build on our knowledge of place value within 10 and understand how this can change when more is added or some is taken away.

Science

This half term we will be learning all about Human Body.

Why did God give us 5 senses?

How does my body work? 

What could be our sixth sense?

 Is there a part of my body I could live without?

Do our senses get better as we get older?

We will be exploring the different parts of our body and naming these as well as looking at all of our senses to build a greater understanding of these.

Topic

This half term we will be learning about changes within living memory.

Where does my family come from?

How did children play in the past?

Were the toys better in the past?

Was life harder in the past? 

Talk to your children about what your childhood was like and how things have changed since you were little.

Vocabulary: New, old, past, long ago, changes.

PSHE

We are focusing on

What is a family? 

Identifying special people and what they mean to us. Looking at who is in our family network and who looks after us.

RE

This half term we will deepen the understanding of Baptism.

What does it mean to belong? 

We will gain a deeper understanding of the celebration of baptism and what this means to belong.