Year 1
Welcome to our Year 1 page! This half term, our exciting topic is "Once Upon a Time". We will be exploring a range of traditional fairy tales and favourite stories, including Goldilocks and the Three Bears and The Three Little Pigs. Through storytelling, role play, art, writing, and creative activities, the children will develop their imagination, language skills, and understanding of characters and settings. We look forward to sharing our magical learning journey with you!
Stay tuned for lots of pictures of our brilliant learning from throughout the half term.
PE days
Class 4– Wednesday and Friday
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 'Goldilocks and the three bears', 'Goldilocks and one bear', 'Little Red and the very hungry lion', 'The wolfs story', 'The three little pigs' 'The three little wolves and the big bad pig' and 'Roald Dahl Revolting Rhymes'.
.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 'Once Upon a time' topic. The children are completing a range of texts linked to this. We will be writing stories, making wanted posters and creating character descriptions
We will also be developing our oracy skills, engaging in role play linked to fairytale characters and scenarios.
Mathematics
At St Georges School, we are dedicated to the Maths Mastery approach to teaching and learning. Year 1 have spent the year building fundamental mathematical skills.
During our final half term, we are learning about time, Money and Mass and volume. We will also be consolidating learning from throughout the year.
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 'Once Upon a Time!'. 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!