Year 1 Classes

Welcome to Year 1!

New to Year 1

This term our line of enquiry is….

Who flew first?

This half term our learning will be based around the book ‘Man on the Moon’ by Simon Bartram.

As Historians we will be developing our learning about the history of flight. By the end of our learning, we will be able to explain who developed the first flight.

Reading

This term the children will be engaging in a range of fiction and non-fiction texts, where possible linking into our Power of Reading book. We are practising our VIPERS reading skills, focusing this term on the vocabulary and retrieval domains and the skill of reading a picture.

We will be learning about a new author each half-term and will be focusing on their books throughout this time during our Author Mornings. This half-term, our focus author is Allan Ahlberg. We will be reading various Allan Ahlberg books and will be participating in some learning activities surrounding these.

Please continue to support your child’s reading at home by reading every day.

Word of the Day!

Each week we learn five brand new words to expand our vocabulary!

This half-term our words are:

Week 1	Noun Week Beast Queue Padlock Pouch Ditch
Week 2	Size Gigantic Tiny Mammoth Hefty Monstrous
Week 3	Action Week Jumping Opening Pouring Falling Peeking
Week 4	Black History Month Carriage Viewpoint Background Old-fashioned Lonely
Week 5	Halloween Terrifying Frightening Nightmare Spooky Eerie
Week 6	Fireworks Booming Zooming Deafening Breath-taking Darkness
Week 7	Family Napkin Household Protective Roasting Tableware

Can you be a Word Wizard and write a sentence for each word for each week?

Reading Wednesday!

Don’t forget to read every Wednesday and at least three times a week. Do not forget that we are all in a reading race against every other class in the school!

Please practise your spellings at home!

This term we are focusing on spelling high frequency words correctly. The first 100 words are:

Writing

At Northfield St. Nicholas we teach our English curriculum through high quality texts. The texts we use link directly to our lines of enquiry and support our learning in other areas of the curriculum. Roughly, each half term we introduce a new text.

The children explore the text page by page over the half term and engage with it in a variety of ways. We use lots of drama to support us and take lots of photos – keep checking back to see what we have been up to!

We will be improving our knowledge of grammar and parts of speech, as we learn to write different types of sentences. Approximately once a fortnight, we will be putting what we have learned into practice with a ‘Big Write’.

Please continue to support your child at home with spelling and handwriting practice.

Maths

At Northfield, we adopt a Mastery approach during our lessons. Daily children will engage in four maths sessions, timetables, maths mastery and maths workshop. The children’s lessons will be based upon their gaps and will use the mastery ‘White Rose Maths’ program.

Times tables!

Don’t forget to practice your times tables at home! We are currently focusing on the two times table. Please remember to log in to Times Tables Rockstars and practise at least 3 times a week.

Click the links below to sing along with the Super movers!

KS1 Times Tables Mash-up!