Year 1
Welcome to our Year 1 learning page. This half term our topic is '‘Fire! Fire!’. We will be learning all about the Great Fire of London this half term across History, Reading, English and Design and Technology and PE. We hope that the weather will keep improving and we can spend some time learning outdoors.
Stay tuned for lots of pictures of our brilliant learning from throughout the half term.
PE days
Class 4– Wednesday and Thursday
Class 5– Wednesday and Friday
Class 6 – Tuesday and Friday
We love learning in Year 1
In Year 1, we follow an engaging, broad and balanced curriculum. We love practical learning, as you can see from these photos! In Maths, we follow Maths Mastery to ensure that no learners are left behind. We use manipulatives to deepen our understanding of key concepts and we love to explore and reason within mathematics. We have also been making use of our local area to develop our map reading skills. As well as that, we have started learning about online safety and how to stay safe in the increasingly digital age that we are living in.
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Reading
At St Georges School, we focus on the importance of developing a love of reading from an early age. In Year 1, we are accessing high quality texts including 'Vlad and the Great Fire of London', 'Toby and the Great Fire of London' 'The Great Fire of London (Why do we remember?)' 'The Baker’s Boy', 'How to grow a dragon', 'Paperbag princess' and 'There’s not a dragon in this book'.
.We use Little Wandle to deliver high quality, effective phonics to ensure that every child has the ability to be a fluent reader by the end of Key Stage 1 and beyond!
Writing
In English, we are linking our fantastic writing to our 'Fire! Fire!' topic. The children are completing a range of texts linked to this. We will be writing instructions about how to grow a dragon. We will also be writing diary entries from the perspective of someone being affected by The Great Fire of London.
Finally, we will write amazing fact files about The Great Fire of London. We can't wait to share our wonderful writing from the Summer term!
Mathematics
At St Georges School, we are dedicated to the Maths Mastery approach to teaching and learning. Year 1 have started the year by building fundamental skills involving place value. We will be developing our addition and subraction skills this half term too. We use a range of manipulatives to support this learning and to deepen our understanding. Soon, we will be applying these skills to addition and subtraction. We also ensure that reasoning skills are developed in every maths lesson.
We have also started an exciting new scheme called 'Mastering Number', which aims to devleop childrens fluency and understanding of core numeracy skills.
Wider Curriculum
We will be linking our wider curriculum learning to our topic 'Fire! Fire!'. In Year 1, we have a broad and balanced curriculum where we will be developing our skills in Science, Art, DT, Music, PE, Computing, RE, DT and PSHE throughout the term. We also love to make our learning cross curricular wherever possible, and will soon be welcoming some actors to perform a play related to The Great Fire of London! We can't wait to share photos from this exciting day on our website page!