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:

  • Stories with a magical theme: We will be looking at how to create a fantasy setting and the type of language that makes things sound magical by extending our use of adjectives. 
  • We will look in depth at the story Where the Wild Things Are and create a version of our own through writing, drawing and drama.
  • We will continue to work on the fundamentals of punctuation, handwriting and spelling.

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:

  • Addition and subtraction:  Children will use number sense strategies and real objects to add and subtract beyond 20
  • Length and Height. We will be learning to compare lengths and heights (and the difference between the two mathematical words), We will also begin to measure more accurately using first objects and then centimetres
  • Mass and Volume: We will be learning to compare mass and measure more accurately using first objects and then grams. We will look also at volume and compare volumes and then measure, using first objects and then millilitres.

Science

This term, the children will continue to learn all about animals. They will learn to classify them into mammals, reptiles, birds, fish and insects. They will investigate what they eat and the key characteristics of their habitats. They will also learn where humans fit in the animal world.

History and Geography

 In Geography this term our topic is on Kenya. Children will learn where Kenya is the world, the similarities and differences between life in Kenya and life in the UK, the way land is used in both places and the types of wild life to be found there,

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 creating animal pictures and landscapes as part of our Kenya topic and learning sketching skills and control of a variety of media.

RE

RE will be taught weekly. This term our topic is Salvation and aspects of the Easter Story 

We will expect children to be able to: Recognise that Incarnation and Salvation are part of a ‘big story’ of the Bible. Tell stories of Holy Week and Easter from the Bible and recognise a link with the idea of Salvation (Jesus rescuing people). Recognise that Jesus gives instructions about how to behave.

PSHE

In PSHE this term we will be learning about how to be ourselves. Children will learn to: say what makes them an individual, identify feelings from body language and facial expressions, explain how to manage big feelings and understand how to share their thoughts and feelings respectfully.

PE

PE lessons are taught twice weekly on a Monday and a Tuesday 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 target games and on Tuesdays we will be working on invasion games.