Parochial CofE Primary And Nursery School, Ashton-under-lyne

Hello and welcome to our Year 1 class page.

Here you will find some information about what your child will be learning in English, Maths, Religious Education and Topic. There will also be some links available to navigate you in the right direction in helping you continue your child's learning at home. 

I am looking forward to getting to know you all and please don't hesitate to contact us if you have any further questions.

Thankyou, 

Miss Hulme and Mrs Aslam

What's happening this half term in Year 1?

Our Topic this half term is all about...

 In our Topic this half term we will be learning all about Ice Explorers. This is a very exciting topic where children will learn all about two famous explorers and their expeditions to reach the South Pole. The children will learn many things about Robert Falcon Scott and Roald Amundsen and their famous expeditions to the South Pole. 

This half term we will cover the following:

What are the achievements of Robert Falcon Scott?

What are the achievements of Roald Amundsen?

Why did Scott and Amundsen take life risking journeys?

What was the journey to the South Pole like for both explorers?

Why did Scott fail to reach the South Pole first?

What happened to Scott's last journey?

English:

In English, we will be focusing on writing to entertain. We are using a new scheme called ‘Pathways to Write’ and we will be looking at the fiction text— The Lion Inside. This text  has been written to cover the Year 1 curriculum objectives and builds on from those that have already been covered in Reception.

The outcome of this unit will be to write a story about a small animal (mouse) who befriends a large animal in the African Savannah. The mastery targets include:

I can punctuate sentences using capital letters, ! and ?.

I can join words and clauses using ‘and’.

I can use the prefix ‘un’ and add suffices –ed, -ing, -er, and –est.

Encourage your child to use Fred Talk to write at home to enable them to become more independent when spelling. Encourage the use of capital letters, finger spaces and full stops.

Maths:

 In Maths this half term we will be looking at number and place value and addition and subtraction.  We will cover the following:

1.  Numbers to 20

2. Addition  within 20

3. Subtraction within 20

To help support your child's learning at home, you can continue to work on their number bonds to 5 and 10. If your child has completed this step, you can move onto number bonds to 15 and 20. This is a great way to get involved in your child's learning and boost their confidence. Children who have completed all number bonds need to practice their time. Seek advice from Miss Hulme or Mrs Singh about what to practice and when. 

Religious Education:

Our religious Education topic this half term is Jesus was special.

The aim of this topic is to explore Bible stories that reveal Jesus' power and divine nature. It was also cover how and why Jesus was special. 

We will be looking at the following:

• Reflecting on special friends.
• Identifying Jesus' miracles within the Bible.
• The 12 disciples and how Jesus called them. 
• Reflecting on The Stilling and the Stone.
• Reflecting on the Feeding of Five Thousand.
• Reflecting on the story of Jesus Turning Water into Wine.

Maths - Uploaded to Class Dojo on Monday due Friday.

Spelling - Uploaded to Class Dojo on Friday due the following Friday.

Phonics reading books will be changed on Monday and must be returned on Friday.

It is essential for your child's progress that they read at home as often as possible, and you record this in their yellow reading record.

Library books are changed on Wednesday

Please remember to pack your child's reading book in their book bag.  Lost or damaged books will result in a charge of £2.