Welcome to Year 1
Class Teacher: Mrs Emily Paskin
Welcome to Year 1. Our PE days are Wednesdays and Thursdays, and our reading books changing is currently a Thursday. We are continuing to move children onto the Accelerated Reader programme, and you will be informed when this happens. Your child’s home learning will be sent out on a Friday, and can be returned by the following Thursday.
In the first part of the Spring Term our learning journey question is:
How did Queen Elizabeth II become a monarch?
We will access our learning through the gateway of Leadership covering History knowledge and skills, alongside meeting our writing objectives.
In our Writing we will:
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Begin to form lower case letters correctly using cursive handwriting
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Rehearse our ideas before writing
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Compose our sentences orally before writing
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Re-read our writing to check for errors
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Leave finger spaces between words
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Punctuation sentences using a capital letter and a full stop, question mark or exclamation mark
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Sequence sentences to form short narratives
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Use joining words and joining clauses with words such as ‘and’
In our Reading we will:
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Apply phonic knowledge and skills to decode words
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Read aloud accurate books of appropriate phonic knowledge
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Re-read these books to build up their fluency and confidence in work reading
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Drawing upon what they already know or on background information and vocabulary provided by the teacher
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Become very familiar with key stories, retelling them and considering their particular characteristics
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Making inference on the basis of what is being said and done
In our Maths we will:
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Counting, reading and writing numbers to 20
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Identifying one more and one less than a given number
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Identifying and representing numbers using objects
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Representing and using number bonds to 20
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Reading, writing and interpreting mathematical statements involving addition, subtraction and equals signs
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Adding and subtracting one digit and two digit numbers to 20
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Solving one step problems that involve addition and subtraction
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Those working at Greater Depth will be working on reasoning skills including explanations of mathematical concepts.
Our RE questions is:
Who is Jewish and how do they live?
Emily Paskin