Brisbane (Year 1)

Mrs Edwards

Class Teacher

Mrs Ellis

Teaching Partner

 Mrs Shinar 
Class teacher Fridays

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:

  • Fairy Tales Three Little Pigs Gingerbread Man, Goldilocks (3 weeks): Read and learn the stories, creating story maps and learning some actions to help us. We will then innovate the stories, creating a version of our own using some new vocabulary, adjectives and focusing on getting the punctuation just right

  • The Tiger Who Came to Tea (2 weeks) the children will hear and learn the story using story maps and actions. We will then focus on list writing based on events in the story, learning how to set them out and the punctuation needed (commas)
  • Poetry (2 weeks): The children will read a poem based on the sense of touch and smell. They will learn the poem and then create some of their own.

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 : Children will work on recapping their understanding of 10, and manipulate numbers up to 20.
  • Addition and subtraction:  Children will use number sense strategies and real objects to add and subtract within 20.

Science

This term, the children will be learning all about materials. We will be looking at different types of material and considering what they are used for. We will do some "experimenting" on absorbency. We will also look at seasonal changes happening and think about why they happen.

History and Geography

 In Geography  this term our topic is This is Me Now.  Children will learn:

  •          To know where I live and to be able to find where I live on a map.
  •          Use locational language to describe the location of features on a map.
  •          Add key features to a simple map.

Know the four compass directions. 

Computing

Computing will continue to be taught across the curriculum to enrich the children's learning in Maths and English and to develop their computing skills. This term will be all about using increasing independence to access and navigate simple computer programs.

 

Art

In Art this term we will be working on portraits. We will look closely at a portrait by Picasso and try to do a self portrait of our own in that style. We will look at individual parts of our faces and sketch and draw with increasing detail. 

RE

RE will be taught weekly. This term our topic is Creation and our key question is "Who made the world?" We will look at the festival of harvest both here and around the world including the harvest of the yams.

PSHE

In PSHE this term we will be learning about relationships. This will include how to be a good friend and relationships they see around them.

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 Friday and it will go home for a wash at the end of term. On Mondays we will be focusing on our ball skills of throwing and catching and on Fridays we will be learning how to move our bodies with increasing control in multiskills.