Welcome to St. Maximilian Kolbe’s Class
Teacher: Mrs Brown
Teaching Assistant(s): Mrs Watkins
Pentecost 1 Term- what will we learn?
Hello Families,
Welcome to Year 1’s class page. I am so excited to be teaching in year 1 for my third year now, I love year 1 and I am very excited for the year ahead. Please read below for an overview of what the children will be learning about this first Lent term:
In Phonics this half term, we will be practising all the phase 2, 3, 4 and 5 sounds and words the children have learnt so far in EYFS and year 1. We will also be practising reading ‘alien words’. We will not be learning any new GPC’s this term. This is to prepare the children for the phonics screening they will be carrying out at the end of year 1. In the phonics screening, children will have to read 40 words using their phonics. 20 of the words will be real words, which they may have come across before, and 20 of them will be pseudo words or ‘alien words’ which are words which are made up, meaning the children have to rely on their phonics knowledge to be able to read them.
In English, first we will be learning about stories with Familiar settings. We will be reading ‘Goat and Donkey in the Great Outdoors’ and then at the end of this unit, the children will write their own story based on this. Then we will be moving onto Non-Fiction texts and the children will be learning how to write their own Information Booklet about camping. We will complete this after half term due to this term being very short.
In Maths our learning begins focusing on Multiplication and Division within 50. where we will be concentrating on making equal groups. After this, we will be learning about Fractions- (halves and quarters).
In RE, our first topic will be ‘Holidays and Holydays’. Within this topic, we think about what a holy day is and why we celebrate them. We learn about the holy days of Ascension Day and Pentecost and why these are important days to Christians. We will then begin our next topic ‘Being Sorry’, where the children will think about how we always have a choice, sometimes we make the right choice and sometimes we don’t but God will always help us to make the right choice and be sorry if we don’t, and he will always forgive us.
Our topic this term is called The Great Outdoors. Within this topic we will be learning all about different the Great Outdoors, particularly in the local area. The subjects we will be learning as part of this topic are Science, Geography and Design & Technology.
In our Science topic this term, we will be learning about materials. We will be naming and identifying a variety of different materials, sorting and grouping objects by the material they are made from and comparing and grouping materials based on their physical properties.
In Geography, we will be learning to conduct fieldwork in the local area. We will be locating our school on different types of maps, making our own maps of the school and local area, and identifying human and physical features of the school and local area. We will also be thinking about what our school and local area is like now and how it has changed over time.
In Design and Technology, which we will be carrying out after half term due to the short term, the children will be using different materials to be create their favourite piece of playground equipment. We will first explore playground equipment in the local area, observing what it is made of, and how it is made safely, then children will choose what piece of equipment they are going to make, what materials they are going to use to make it and how they are going to make it. They will be then make and evaluate their playground equipment.
In Relationship and Sex Education (RSE) and Personal, Social, Health and Economic Education (PSHE) our topic this term will be ‘Created to live in the community’.
In PE this term, the children will be doing outdoor and adventurous activities and learning to play striking and fielding games.
You will see below our timetable for this first Pentecost half term along with the knowledge organisers for our different subjects this term.
Look out for up-to-date messages and homework on Class Dojo.
Many thanks,
Mrs Brown and Mrs Watkins
Year 1 Pentecost 1 Weekly Timetable
Pentecost 1 Science Knowledge Organiser
Pentecost 1 Geography Knowledge Organiser
Pentecost 1 Design & Technology Knowledge Organiser
Year One Curriculum- Yearly overview
Our RE curriculum consists of nine topics with the following themes:
- Families
- Belonging
- Waiting
- Special People
- Meals
- Change
- Holidays & Holydays
- Being Sorry
- Neighbours
As well as covering two other faiths- Judaism and Hinduism.
Year 1 RE expectations:
Little Wandle Graphemes Chart
Little Wandle Tricky Words by Phase and Term
End of Year One Expectations:
