Brisbane (Year 1)

Mrs Edwards

Class Teacher

 Mrs Shinar 
Class teacher Fridays

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:

  • Looking at stories with predictable patterns and familiar structures such as The Day the Crayons Quit, The Bog Baby and Lost and Found

  • We will also look at these stories to find out what "voice" they are written in and play with changing the voices to first person.

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. This term children will take part in the national phonic screening check. This will be done in a relaxed atmosphere in as fun a way as possible! 

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:

  • Time  we will be learning days of the week, months of the year and telling the time to the hour and half hour.
  • Fractions we will be learning to find halves and quarters of objects and amounts
  • Position and direction we will use our knowledge of fractions and clocks to describe turns clockwise and anti clockwise and full and half turns.
  • Money we will learn the names and amounts represented by coins and notes and to begin to count up money

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. We will also look at trees and the role they play in our environment and how to identify the most common varieties.

History and Geography

 In Geography this term we will look at our local environment and how the land around us is used. We will link to our science work to identify trees in our school grounds and return to work from earlier in the year to use maps. We will also link to our maths work by creating maps of our own and making routes around places we know well.

Computing

Computing this term is all about staying safe online and using beebots to begin early coding using our skills from maths and geography to program the beebot to follow a route.

 Art

In Art we will be doing pictures of trees using a variety of media such as charcoal, watercolour and pencil, building on our work from arts week and linking to our science and geography work.

RE will be taught weekly. This term our topic question is: What is the good news that Jesus brings? 

We will expect children to be able to: Identify what a parable is. Tell the story of the Lost Son from the Bible simply, and recognise a link with the concept of God as a forgiving Father. Give clear, simple accounts of what the story means to Christians. Give at least two examples of a way in which Christians show their belief in God as loving and forgiving; for example, by saying sorry; by seeing God as welcoming them back; by forgiving others. Give an example of how Christians put their beliefs into practice in worship; by saying sorry to God, for example. Think, talk and ask questions about whether they can learn anything from the story for themselves, exploring different ideas.

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. This term also includes RSE and we will teach children about the parts of their bodies and use the NSPCC resources to help them understand which parts of their bodies are private to them, as well as who it is safe to talk to if they have a worry.

 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 general fitness and gymnastics in the village hall and on Fridays they will work on athletics outside.

Music

This term children will have the opportunity to copy simple melodies and rhythms, and begin to compose some of their own during their enrichment time on a Wednesday.