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 familiar theme: We will be looking at creating stories similar to ones we know well and the type of language that makes things sound interesting by extending our use of adjectives. We will look in depth at the story of The Bog Baby, The Day The Crayons Quit and Lost and Found.
  • We will look at information writing and create some information leaflets about animals.
  • 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.  

 This term children will take part in the phonics check which will be done over a few days one to one in as fun a way as possible!

 

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:

  • Fractions. We will be learning to identify half and quarter of a shape and a quantity, using real objects and abstract numbers and begin to record.
  • Position and Direction: We will be learning to describe movements in turns - whole half and quarter turns, as well as forwards and backwards. We will be more precise in position language such as above, below and next to.
  • Time: We will be learning to tell the time to whole hours and half hours, how many minutes in an hour, how many seconds in a minute and how many hours in a day.

Science

This term, the children will learn to name the main parts of a plant and identify what a plant needs to grow. They will then identify common trees and compare parts with smaller plants. They will closely observe the growth of a plant, following on their learning in Auckland, and sketch and label their observations.

History and Geography

 In Geography this term our topic is The Great Outdoors. We will be learning more about the points of the compass and following directions around the school site. We will make more detailed maps for the beebots to follow.

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 the beebots to begin basic programming.

 

DT 

In DT this term we will be creating our own pizza muffins and thinking about what ingredients would be most delicious, and how to combine and measure them accurately.

Religion and World Views

RE will be taught weekly. This term our topic is God. We will look in detail at the parable of the Lost Son and how it mirrors God's view of people. We will think in deeper ways creating our own I wonder questions about the story.

We will expect children to be able to:

  •    To ask questions and show curiosity
  •    To be creative and imaginative
  •    To think critically about concepts and ideas
  •    To connect ideas and experiences together 
  •    To identify key themes through the story of the Prodigal Son
  •    To internalise knowledge of themes from a story and apply them to their own life.

 

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. We will begin to work on our RSE topic which is about learning the names of more intimate parts of the body and begin to understand consent in how we are touched by others.

PE

PE lessons are taught 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 be learning about striking and fielding games and begin to use a bat and a ball with more accuracy. On Fridays children will be learning basic athletics skills in readiness for sportsday.