Welcome to Year 1
Spring Term in Year 1
The inspirational texts on our bookshelf will inspire our learning across the curriculum.
We are looking forward to exploring our Spring Bookshelf and learning how the characters in the stories inspire bravery, promote kindness, and nurture curiosity within our world. The books chosen link to our school character traits, promoting the importance of integrity and kindness, encouraging our children to be honest and work well together.
Through tales of courage, resilience, and overcoming obstacles, these books help to teach the children about the world we live in and equips them with the necessary skills to thrive throughout their school journey.
Within our English learning, we will continue to develop our story writing skills by embedding our knowledge of simple sentence structure and trying to include setting and character descriptions. We will continue to practise writing from different points of view, for example writing diary entries, non- chronological reports and instructions. We will also be exploring poetry to coincide with World Poetry Day.
In Science we will explore our new topic on Animals, where we will work scientifically to identify and name a variety of common animals including fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals.
In Maths, we will begin to learn about place value within 20 and how to use a number line to 20, building on the knowledge we learnt in the Autumn Term.
Within our History lessons in Spring 2, we will work towards answering our endpoint question of ‘How and why has air transport changed over time?’. We will be heading to Manchester Airport to participate in an interactive tour where we will also have the opportunity to board real aircraft and discuss our end point question.
Disciplinary concept: Change and Continuity.
Year 1 Spring Term Highlights!
- Opportunities to learn outside the classroom
- Author Visits
- Opportunities to take part in sports events
- Internal visitors
Meet the Year 1 Team
Mrs Bell – Class teacher
Miss Barlow – Class teacher
Mrs Duffy – Learning Support Assistant
Miss Harrison – Learning Support Assistant
Miss Choudhury – Learning Support Assistant
Miss Kelly- Learning Support Assistant
Important Information
- PE kits will be kept in school and returned at the end of each half term.
- Please make sure your child’s book bag containing their reading books, reading record is brought into school every day.
- Reading books will be changed weekly
- Please continue to sign your child’s reading record book daily
- Home Learning will include daily reading, weekly spellings, and a maths or SPAG task each week.
- Your Child’s class teacher will be available every day before and after school to receive messages, celebrate successes and answer any questions.
As always, there will be lots of learning and exciting activities going on in Year 1 this term!
Please speak to our admin team for access to the Year 1 Instagram feed @chps_year1