Brisbane (Year 1)
Mrs Edwards
Class Teacher
Mrs Ellis
Teaching Partner
Brisbane timetable term 5
Our outside learning!
Early Morning Activities
The children will use this time to review and practise basic skills in maths, handwriting, spelling and reading. They will also have the opportunity to play and learn outside in the Role Play shed. Over the term, there will also be several activities outside linked to our maths, English and Science work. On Friday’s session, the children will practise their weekly spellings through engaging activities and have a spelling quiz.
English
English is taught daily from Monday to Thursday
This term, Brisbane Class will cover the following:
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Continuing our work on traditional tales, this time focusing on The Princess and The Pea.
- Recounts - we will work on creating a recount of our trip to Farleigh Castle, coming up on the 1st May.
Phonics
In Year One, Phonics is taught on a daily basis from Monday to Thursday. We will be focusing on phase 4 and 5 sounds and recapping those from last year. We will also learn tricky words (words that can't be worked out using phonics) associated with these phases and ensure we use them correctly in our writing.
Children will be bringing home spellings to learn this term, we will also be working on them in class too.
Thank you for your support at home with practising spellings and hearing your child read regularly. It really does make a difference to all areas of learning.
We will use the following vocabulary regularly in our Phonics sessions:
Phoneme – a sound in a word
Grapheme – a letter or sequence of letters that represents a phoneme
Digraph – two letters that make one sound (e.g. ‘ai’ in rain)
Trigraph – three letters that make one sound (e.g. ‘igh’ in bright)
Split digraph – two letters that make one long vowel sound but they are split with other letters placed in between. You would have possibly learnt them as ‘magic e’ at school (e.g. ‘a-e’ as in name or taste)
Suffix – a group of letters added to the end of a word that changes the word’s meaning.
Prefix – a group of letters added to the start of a word that changes the word’s meaning.
Maths
Maths is taught daily from Monday to Thursday. Each session will start with a Number Sense lesson - the number equivalent of phonics which supports the underpinning understanding of the number system. During the maths session, the children will have the opportunity to develop their fluency, reasoning and problem solving within each unit.
This term, Brisbane class will cover the following objectives:
- Multiplication and Division: Children will counting in 2s, 5s and 10s, grouping, sharing and creating arrays to show their thinking.
- Fractions: Children will learn to find halves and quarters of amounts and objects and use their new skills in multiplication and division to help them link knowledge and solve problems.
Science
This term, the children will be learning all about plants. They will learn to name parts of a plant and then identify them when planting and potting on seeds and young plants using scientific language.
History and Geography
In History this term we will be learning some interesting facts about castles. We will find out when and why they were built, some of their consistent features, and begin to think about what it was like to live in one. As part of this topic we will visit Farleigh Hungerford Castle.
Computing
Computing this term is all about a program called Revelation Natural Art, which children will explore to create pictures of plant life, and use their skills to save in their files on the server.
DT
In DT we will be making our own castles in small teams, thinking of ways to make a draw bridge that actually works.
RE will be taught weekly. This term our topic continues our learning in Judaism.
We will expect children to be able to: Understand the underlying themes of forgiveness and how to say sorry, and the importance of this within the Jewish faith. To be able to draw parallels in their own experience. To explain how this manifest in Jewish rituals and beliefs.
PSHE
In PSHE this term we will be working on Aiming High. In this unit of work, children will learn about having high aspirations. They will start by discussing positive views of themselves and will then identify how having a positive learning attitude can help them tackle and achieve new learning challenges and improve learning outcomes. Opportunities will also be provided for children to share aspirations for the future, with regard to employment and personal goals. Through this learning, different jobs and roles will be considered. In doing this, some of the difficulties faced by stereotyping will be explored. Children will also have the opportunity to discuss what they are looking forward to about their learning next year.
PE
PE lessons are taught twice weekly on a Tuesday and a Wednesday this term. Children will continue to get changed as they did in Auckland class so please bring kit in on the first day of term and it will go home for a wash at the end of term. On Mondays children will continue to work on ball games and on Wednesdays the children will work on yoga with Ms Last.
Music
This term children will have the opportunity to listen and respond to medieval music, and to begin early composition of rhythms using instruments to accompany poems and stories.