Our Year 1 children have a term full of exciting, hands-on activities, with plenty of opportunities for enrichment to look forward to.

Our first enquiry, “Where is my School?”, will begin in Week 1. During this enquiry, the children will explore their local area and discover where their city is. They will use maps and aerial images to compare and contrast their surroundings with other places. Throughout this enquiry, they will take on the role of geographers, creating their own maps and learning about human and physical features. 

Our second enquiry, “How do we move around?”, will transform the children into engineers as they explore and learn about different mechanisms to create a 'Pop Up' book. To help support them, we will be looking at how different animals move and do some observational fieldwork. 

As readers, we will continue to build on our phonic knowledge whilst enjoying a range of stories linked to our enquiries, including Beegu, We’re Going on a Bear Hunt, Giraffes Can’t Dance, and a selection of non-fiction books about Bristol and the U.K.

As authors, the children will continue to use their phonic knowledge to write simple sentences with finger spaces, capital letters, and full stops. They will also have the opportunity to write a recount of a school trip and create a setting description.

In phonics, Year 1 will also start to learn the split digraphs a-e, e-e, i-e, o-e, u-e. This will support them further in their reading and writing. 

As mathematicians, we will continue to develop our fluency and confidence with numbers through our regular Mastering Number sessions. This term, we will deepen our understanding of number composition to 20 using a variety of methods and resources, helping the children recognise how numbers can be made and broken down in different ways. We will also be exploring 2D and 3D shapes.

Keep an eye on the website for photo updates of our learning!

You can contact your child's class teacher via email: 

neptune@stannesinfants.co.uk

venus@stannes.co.uk

Phonics Homework

Week 1 - ir, er, ur