Brisbane (Year 1)

Mrs Edwards

Class Teacher

Mrs Shinar

Class teacher

Mrs Ellis

Teaching Partner

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:

  • We will be looking at a variety of familiar stories including The Gingerbread Man, Billy Goats Gruff and The Three Little Pigs

  • We will be focusing on sentence building, including capital letters, full stops and finger spaces
  • We will be using phonics to support spelling choices

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:

  • Place value - accurately counting a set of objects, identifying numbers before and after, counting on and back from numbers within 20
  • addition and subtraction - one more one less, combining to sets of objects and beginning to write formal number sentences

Science

We will be working on the changing seasons as summer moves into autumn and looking closely at the natural world around us. We will also be looking at materials and identifying the different properties of key materials we use every day.

History and Geography

 In Geography this term we will look at our local environment and find where we live on a map. We will begin to learn the four compass points and draw simple maps of our own.

Computing

Computing this term is all about accessing simple programs. We will continue to practice logging onto a laptop and choosing a program to use, practising mouse and keyboard skills.

Art

In Art we will be looking at the portraits created by Picasso and how to use shape and colour in interesting ways. We will be working on drawing what we see rather than what we think we see.

RE

RE will be taught weekly. This term our topic is creation. Our big question will be "Who made the world?" and we will be learning that Christians believe:

 • God created the universe.

• The Earth and everything in it are important to God.

• God has a unique relationship with human beings as their Creator and Sustainer.

• Humans should care for the world because it belongs to God.

We will also be working on Harvest Festival and how it is celebrated around the world - for example the harvest of the yams.

PSHE

In PSHE this term we will be working on ourselves as part of a team, and how we have positive impacts on those around us. Children should learn to

• show the teams they belong to through pictures, name these teams and explain how it feels to be a part of the team;

• create a picture by using good listening to follow instructions;

• create a chain of kindness by thinking of their own idea of a way to be kind;

• draw or write ways to deal with teasing or bullying behaviour;

• sort thoughts given into helpful and not-so-helpful thought categories;

• draw a picture to show a time they made a good choice and to write what happened next

PE

PE lessons are taught twice weekly on a Monday and a Friday 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 work on fundamental skills of movement and ball skills  and on Fridays they will work on yoga and mindfulness in the village hall..

Music

This term children will have the opportunity to work with our voice tuition teacher learning about pitch, rhythm and other musical terms such as piano and forte.