Welcome to Year One

In Year 1 you will find Miss Smith, Miss Blake, Mrs Cross and Mrs Hawkins.

In Year 1 we engage the children with exciting Topics like fantasy creatures and the Great Fire of London. We try wherever possible to give the children hands on experiences and build memories through workshops/ visitors and school trips and make the learning fun and exciting. We enjoy getting involved in maths and science investigations and we have lots of discussions as a class throughout all our learning, building up important communication skills. Learning circus skills; growing our own candy canes and sending the instructions to Santa and exploring bubbles to create some beautiful art work and descriptive writing are some of the things we get up to at school.

To support the learning of Phonics we use Letters and Sounds, the LCP scheme, Jolly Phonics and Bug Club Phonics.

To support the learning of reading we use Letters and Sounds and Bug Club.

Below are our Year 1 topics and a taster of what we will be learning each term.

Also...

- Please ensure you look in your child's reading folder every Friday for their new weekly spellings.
- We also ask that you bring in your child's PE kit on a Monday to be left in school until Friday.
- All children are expected to read at home daily and make a record in their reading challenges. Please send the reading challenge into school every day .

Long Term Plan

	Term 1	Term 2	Term 3	Term 4	Term 5	Term 6
Topic	Ourselves	Light	Fantasy Creatures	The Great Fire of London	Planet Earth	Castles and Palaces
Literacy	Repeating Story – Dear Zoo Travel Tale – Bubbles Poem – The owl and the pussy cat.	Traditional Tale – Red Riding Hood Christmas – Letter to Santa Instructions - Grow a candy cane	Fantasy creature story - Lullabyhullaballoo. Non-fiction text about a creature Fantasy creature poem Instructions – how to catch a fairy/creature.	Story – The Magic Grandad.	Story from other cultures. Story - The Way Back Home. Letter Writing / Persuasive text - to an alien.	Traditional Tale – Jack and the Beanstalk Defeating tale – George and the dragon Non-fiction text – How to Attack a Castle.
Maths	Place Value and Number (wk 1-3) Addition and Subtraction (wk 4-6) Geometry – shape (wk 7)	Place Value (Wk 1-2) Addition and Subtraction (wk 3-5)	Time (wk 1-2) Place Value (wk 3-4) Addition and Subtraction (wk 5)	Measures: Length and Height (wk 1) Measurement: Money (wk 2) Addition and subtraction: money (wk3) Fractions (wk 4-5) Multiplication and division (wk 6-7)	Place Value (wk 1-3) Four operations (wk 4-5)	Four operations (wk1) Measurement: shape (wk2-3) Measurement: weight and volume (wk4-5)
Science	Human body (with 1 wk of seasons)	Seasons – position of the sun, long days/ short days	Animals (with 1 wk of seasons)	Materials (float &sink, materials to make a boat- (topic link)	Plants (with 1 wk of seasons)	Seasons
Computing	Programming and algorithms – Bee Bots (maths link)	Filming the steps of instructions (Literacy link)	Finding and using images on the web (science link)	Creating a digital card	Producing a talking book (literacy link)	Making an e-book about castles (literacy link) Filming – weather reporters (science link)
RE	Creation	Christmas	Jesus as a Friend	Easter	Shabbat	Chanukah
Art	Self Portraits Pablo Picasso	Firework pictures (History link) Light pictures – Van Gogh – A Starry Night	Life drawings – animals (topic)	Easter cards (ICT link)	Life drawings – plants (science link)
DT	Making a moving body model (science link) Designing and making houses	Making Christmas cards		Textiles (Science link) – making a waterproof umbrella		Recycle Models - castles
Geography	Local walk and Bee Bots Google Earth – where we live Geographical skills – map reading, compasses, directions	Around the world at Christmas	Hot and cold places (Science link)	The world’s 5 oceans	Continents, landmarks, countries, counties, cities etc.	Weather patterns (science link)
History	Local history	Bonfire Night – Guy Fawkes	Samuel Pepys	Fire services	The Royal Family	Castles
Music	Hey You	Xmas play	In the Groove	Rhythm in the way we walk	Round and round	Reflect, rewind and replay
PE	Gymnastics (Indoor) Object Control – catching (Outdoor)	Dance (Indoor) Object control – throwing (outdoor)	Gymnastics (Indoor) Net/ wall games (outdoor)	Dance (Indoor) Net/ wall games (outdoor)	Gymnastics (Indoor) Striking and Fielding (outdoor)	Dance (Indoor) Athletics (outdoor)
PSHE	Growth Mindset Pets Happiness	Royal Invitations – Who should be invited? (fairy-tale characters) Question – would you rather be rich or popular?	Judging appearances – monster at school Perfect people	Question – what would happen if there were no schools? Friendship	The Boy Who Cried Wolf Bullying	Kindness Being fair
Possible School Trips/ Visits	Police visit Visit to Banbury museum		Zoo Trip	Visit from the Fire Fighters.		Warwick Castle/ Blenheim Palace.