Welcome to Year 1 at Red Hill!
We would like to happily welcome your child into Year 1 and we are very excited to support them on their transition from EYFS to Key Stage 1.
At Red Hill, we have three Year 1 classes:-
1J Miss Joseph (Ms Osbourne)
1M Mrs Millbank (Miss Murphy/Miss Newman-Knibbs)
1V Miss Voda (Mrs King/Miss Littlechild)
Our Class Pioneers!
At the start of the year, Y1 were excited to learn about their class pioneers! We explored why they are known as such significant individuals and the impact they they had on the world we live in today.
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Our Learning
Year 1 have been incredibly busy immersing themselves in their topic:
Time Travellers we will be thinking about life in the past and using different photos and objects to explore how life has changed. We will think about how can we order events and learn about chronology. We will explore the passing of time by exploring our family trees and how different family members are inked. We will also consider how our local area has changed over time and finally how we can record changes over time and the information we have learnt
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English
Our key texts this half term is Time Travelling Toby and the dinosaurs by Graham John.
This Half term We will be:
- using this text to explore genres of writing including fact files, story writing and diary entries.
- We will learn about past and present tense and also get introduced to the subordinating conjunction ‘because’.
- We will continue to use our phonics knowledge to write labels, captions and sentences and use different types of punctuation correctly in sentences.
Maths
This half term we will be applying our place value knowledge to numbers up to 50.
- We will practice making groups of tens and explore the number line to 50.
- The we will move onto length and height where we compare and measure using objects and centimetres.
- Finally, we will explore mass and volume and the concepts of full, empty, heavy, light and how to measure and compare mass and volume.
Supporting your child with their learning
Reading
Reading books will be given out on a Monday and kept at home until Friday. Reading books should be returned to school by the Friday to ensure that new books can be given out the following week.
Reading at school will continue with the form of Guided Reading. This is directed teaching of reading, including phonics and discussion and interpretation of the text. We spend time looking at word meanings and an author’s use of language for description and detail.
As their reading ability improves, these skills become more important than merely reading the words. We want to inspire the children to have a love for reading, so it is vital they understand and can discuss what they have read. When reading at home, please spend time questioning your child about aspects of the story, characters actions etc, in order to help develop their understanding of the text.
Homework
In year one we are sending Home Work home on a Friday, please can this be Returned on a Wednesday.
It includes phonics, Maths and IPC.
The Home Work also includes the spellings that the children need to learn for the following week.
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