Year 1
Please read with your child at least 5 times per week and record the title, progress, and additional comments in their green reading record book.
Autumn 1
All About Us
The children will arrive into their new classroom and begin to become familiar with their new surroundings and start to build relationships with new adults. The children will start to become accustomed to the Year 1 expectations whilst completing challenges both independently and with an adult whilst also experiencing the familiarity of Discovery Time. They will be introduced to Jazzy Jobs and write a job description to ensure that the classroom is kept tidy and develop roles and responsibilities for their learning environment.
We’re Going on a Bear Hunt
The children will experience a bear hunt in the grounds of the school, following a map, which will guide them into the meadow where they will find the class bear. Using Geography as a key driver the children will look at maps to explore the local area and have the opportunity to draw their own map of the bear’s journey using locational and directional language. This project will focus on high quality texts ‘We’re Going on a Bear Hunt’, ‘Bear Flies High’, ‘The Bear in the Cave’ and We’re Going on a Lion Hunt’ as well as looking at key poetry from the ‘Wild’ anthology and ‘Ice Bear’ by Nicola Davies. The children will immerse themselves into the project by unpicking the key language before eventually creating their own versions of the story. Finally, the children will share their own stories with their Year 1 peers and their teddy bears at a teddy bears picnic using the scenes created as a back-drop.
We're Going on a Bear Hunt Key Vocab
We're Going on a Bear Hunt Parent Overview
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Year 1 Autumn 1
Autumn 2
Pumpkin Soup
A strange parcel is delivered containing a pumpkin, the book Pumpkin Soup by Helen Cooper and a range of autumnal items and ingredients. On reading the story the children discover that the animals needed to work as a team to make the soup. Could we try to make soup for an Autumn celebration? What do we need to learn and do to make pumpkin soup?
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Year 1 Autumn 2
Spring 1
To Infinity and Beyond
The children will arrive at school to discover footprints, a space suit and photographs of astronauts. Following on from this the children will follow line of enquiry to find out more about space and famous astronauts. The children will be creating space fact files whilst learning about the similarities and differences between Neil Armstrong and Tim Peake's trips to the moon. In Art, they will capture the atmosphere of space by evaluating David Hardy's artwork and investigating different pastel techniques. We will then create our very own solar systems inspired by David Hardy's work. The project will have an outcome in which the children will share their new-found science knowledge about space with their Year 2 peers. In Music the children will listen to and interpret pieces of music from the Star Wars movies, and make their own piece of space-themed music. Halfway through the project, the children will consolidate their knowledge of space with an exciting visit to the Winchester Science Centre!
To Infinity and Beyond Key Vocab
To Infinity and Beyond Parent Overview
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Year 1 Spring 1
Spring 2
Goldilocks and the Three Bears
The children will be faced with a crime scene! A broken chair, some half-eaten porridge and blonde locks. Who could have been there? What does this mean? After a discussion it will be revealed that our text for the half-term will be ‘Goldilocks and the Three Bears.’ Following this hook, the children will create ‘WANTED posters’ to help find Goldilocks. The children will then learn the story of ‘Goldilocks and the Three Bears’ and retell the beginning and middle of the story. They will then create their own alternative ending to the story. Music will be used to support the understanding of the story structure and character description.
Goldilocks and the Three Bears Key Vocab
Goldilocks and the Three Bears Parent Overview
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Year 1 Spring 2
Summer 1
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Summer 2
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