We are very excited to meet you. 

The year 1 team have added some videos for you to get to know them below.Year 1 welcome video

Unfortunately, we are unable to hold our usual information evening for parents; however, we have attached a powerpoint with some useful information for you.Moving from EYFS to year 1

If your child is self isolating they are able to access daily lessons please click on the 'Self-isolating Hub' tab on our home page. 

Any questions please contact Mrs Horton via the school office.

Mrs Horton is the Assistant Head for year 1 and will teach and support throughout the unit.

Our Weekly Timetable

Challenge Zone Area

We have been busy bee's the last few weeks in our challenge areas. We have built numicon cities, made our own superheros, used the bond builder app for number bonds to 6 and even created our own art work in the style of Matisse. Here are some photo's below. Keep checking the see-saw app for more pictures of your child's learning and for the weekly homework.

Road Safety Awareness

We have been learning about road safety this week in Year One. We have designed posters to teach other children about this. Take a look at some of the posters we made.

Autumn 2 

RESPECT and behaviour

This half term we have been learning about the word EMPATHY, and what it means to us. This term our learning hero is David Attenborough. The children have been very informative about all the work that he has done to save the planet and the natural world.

The Year 1 curriculum

Literacy

The children are continuing with their daily Read, Write, Inc lesson, where they will learn a new sound each day. The children are encouraged to spot the special friends in the word first, then to sound it out before blending it to read the word. The children use their Fred fingers to pinch the sounds before writing the word.

During our writing lessons we are encouraging the children to leave finger spaces between every word, to start their sentences with a capital letter and full stop at the end of the sentence. Children refer to the speed sound charts to help with spelling choices during their writing.

Children will take part in oracy, shared reading and writing activities based on our focused texts:

Maths

This term's maths will focus on exploring numbers to 20, with specific emphasis on teen numbers, counting in twos, doubles and halving. We will use a mastery approach to practical problem solving, by taking each number within 10 to invest addition and subtraction operations, whilst incorporating, shape, space and measure in contexts.

Science 

In Science we will be looking at the changes in each of the seasons, with a focus on Autumn - weather, clothing, temperature, hours of daylight and key seasonal features. We will then look at exploring and identifying everyday Materials, including some simple investigations, where we will be predicting the expected outcomes first. 

Creative

Our art activities this term will be looking at the primary colours and how they can be mixed to make secondary colours. We will use the primary colours in our artwork to create work in the style of Mondrian. We will use a paint computer program to create Mondrian work. In cross curricular links to our work with shapes, we will look at the artist Matisse and try to re-create his work.

Geography

In Geography we will be continuing our work on the school community to expand our research to look at the local area, focusing on the human and physical features of Wallasey. We will hopefully be able to take the children on a fieldwork walk around Wallasey village. 

R.E.

In R.E. we are learning about Rememberance day and why we wear poppies. At the beginning of December we will look at how Christians celebrate Christmas, including advent, the christmas story and how Christmas is celebrated in other countries.

HELLO YELLOW

Here are some photographs of the children in each class showing their support for mental health and wellbeing. We used props and made posters to promote discussion about mental health and feelings.