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Trotts Hill Primary School and Nursery

Year 1

Welcome to Year 1

 

Mrs Dent and Mrs Paice are the class teachers and Mrs Masterson is the classroom assistant, and will be supporting in class every morning and most afternoons. Miss Kelly will also be supporting the children in class every morning.

 

We are looking forward to welcoming the children back to school and have lots of fun learning planned. In Year 1 we will be building on all the skills developed in Reception and developing our skills further through new topics and stories.

 

 This year we will cover a variety of skills, knowledge and understanding including the following topics:

  • Dinosaurs (Mary Anning)
  • Toys
  • Animals including humans
  • Plants
  • Fairy tales

 

The children will be participating in PE  on Wednesdays and Fridays in Autumn 1 and 2. Their PE kits should be in school every day. Wellington boots also need to be brought into school to remain here so that the children can take part in our fantastic OPAL lunchtime playtimes.

 

Reading books and reading records will also need to be brought into school every day. The children will be asked to place them in the reading box when they come in. Please continue to read with your children as much as possible at home and make a note in the reading record when you do.

 

Spelling words will be sent home to learn on a Friday (based on the weeks Phonics lessons) and will be tested the following Friday. We thank you for all your support in helping your child to practice and learn these words. We encourage the ‘Look, Cover. Write, Check’ method.

 

We look forward to an exciting year ahead in Year 1.

Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday - Mrs Dent

Thursday and Friday – Mrs Paice

 

Year 1 Curriculum Overviews

Year 1 Reading Spine 

Book List

Information

2024-25

Week commencing 27th January 2025  LI: To represent numbers

The children have been focusing on teen numbers and representing them using different equipment.

Week commencing 20th January LI: To enjoy the outdoor areas.

Year 1 had a great time at Forest school despite the cold weather. This week the children were given the opportunity to help put out wood chip to create safe walking areas.

Week Commencing 13th January 2025   LI: To investigate 2D shapes.

Children compared and sorted different 2D shapes. The children worked very well in pairs and discussed the properties.

Week commencing 7th January 2025  LI: To recognise 3D shapes.

Year 1 have been investigating 3D shapes this week. They have looked at the properties of shape and built different things using different shapes.

Week commencing 16th December 2024      LI: To investigate our local area.

Year 1 visited our local area and found human and physical features.

Week commencing 9th December   LI: To recognise maps

Year 1 looked at maps and different types of maps. The children created a birds eye view of the classroom.

Week commencing 2nd December 2024 - L.I. To create a moving picture

In DT this week the children have been following their designs and making their moving pictures using different mechanisms.

Week commencing 25th November 2024    LI: To use equipment safely.

Year 1 had a wonderful time in Forest school this week. They used a bow saw to saw cookies of wood. Next session they will be transforming them into Christmas decorations!

Week Commencing 18th November    LI: To sort and classify

Year 1 investigated different objects that were the same, but made from different materials. They sorted them and then thought about their properties.

Week Commencing 11th November. LI To learn about Road safety.

Year 1 had a great morning learning about road safety.

Week Commencing 11th November 2024                   LI: To understand respect

As part of antibullying week, the children wore odd socks, discussed respect and created a respect web to show how important respect is.

Week commencing 4.11.24   LI: To learn different ball skills.

Year 1 had a great session with a tennis specialist from Gosling. The children learned different skills. They focused on hand-eye co-ordination and catching skills.

Week commencing 21.10.24: L.I. To learn about the past

Week commencing 14.10.24: L.I. To investigate the strength of paper.

In science the children have been investigating how strong paper is. They had to make a bridge strong enough for the 3 Billy Goats Gruff to cross. The children had to think about how to rest and strengthen their paper and then tested their bridges with toy goats.

Week commencing 7.10.24 - L.I. To recount key events in the life of Mary Anning

Week commencing 30.9.24 - L.I. To compare and group materials

This week in science we looked at different types of paper and discussed how their properties were different. We sorted the paper into different categories and used these to create a class collage. 

Week commencing 23.9.2024 - L.I. To retell a story

Week commencing 16.9.2024 - L.I. To respect the work of a creator

In RE this week we have been talking about creation. We discussed things we have created and it made us feel to complete them, we also thought about how we would feel if someone destroyed our creations. Finally we went outside and found natural resources to create pictures with.

Week commencing 9.9.2024 - L.I. To investigate seasonal changes.

Year 1 have enjoyed visiting Forest School this week. They went on a walk to look at the changes they could see since the last time they were there. The children noticed that the leaves on the trees are starting to change colour and fall from the trees.

Week commencing 2.9.24 - L.I. To add

Year One have been investigating the number of legs different creatures have. We used the animals and dinosaurs to find different ways to make 10 legs.

2023-24

Week commencing 17th June 2024: L.I. To compare the weather across the UK.

In our geography lessons we have been looking at the weather and seasons. This week we listened to the weather forecast for the next week. We then created our own forecast comparing the weather in each of the capital cities across the UK.

Week commencing 10th June 2024: L.I. To orally rehearse an explanation.

 

In English we have been looking at explanation texts all about bugs. We have enjoyed acting out and rehearsing what we wanted to write about the life cycle of a butterfly.

Week commencing 20th May 2024: L.I. To make a healthy snack.

This week we have been designing, making and evaluating our fruit kebabs in DT. We have learnt to peel, chop and slice different fruits. Our final products tasted delicious.

Week commencing 13th May 2024: L.I. To double

This week we have been using our understanding of repeated addition to help us to double numbers.

Week commencing 6th May 20204: L.I. To find out what a faith story is and why they are important.

In RE we have been looking at Holy books from different religions and this week we shared some faith stories. We discussed the moral behind the stories and why religious believers use these to guide them in their own lives. We then designed our own covers for a Holy book.

Week commencing 29th April 2024: L.I. To count in tens

In maths this week we have been learning to count in jumps of ten. We went outside and chose different objects to represent 10 and then used these to help us with our counting.

Week Commencing 22.4.2024: L.I To classify trees

This week the children have enjoyed taking part in Forest school. They have linked their learning to science as they were identifying the different trees in the school.

Week commencing 15th April 2024 - L.I. To explore Fairytales.

This week the children enjoyed a fairytale day and came to school dressed as their favourite character. They had a great time asking each other questions about their characters, going out to the forest school and building houses for the Three Little Pigs and planting beans for Jack.

Week Commencing 25th March   LI: To investigate our local area

Year 1 had a wonderful day learning about Knebworth House.

Week commencing18th March 2024  LI: To fold, cut and stick

This week in DT we looked at cutting, folding and attaching materials.

Week Beginning 11th March 2024    LI: To thread a needle.

This week in DT the children focused on making knots and threading needles. They showed great determination!

Week beginning 4th March 2024

LI: To classify.

Year 1 classified and sorted different animals and discussed reasons why.

Week beginning Monday 12th February 2024 LI: To describe.

 

In English we have been reading the Jill Murphy story 'The Last Noo Noo'. We found it funny when the main character didn't want to give up his 'noo-noo', and we made our own -'noo-noo snatchers!' Then we used adjectives to describe them. 

Week beginning Monday 5th February 2024 LI: to recognise which part of the body is associated with each sense - hearing and touch. 

Week beginning Monday 29th January 2024 LI: to recognise which part of the body is associated with the senses - sight.

Week beginning Monday 22nd January 2024 LI: to role play characters from a story. 

Year have been reading the book 'Knuffle Bunny' this week. We pretended to be the main characters - Trixie and Dad, and acted out what we thought Trixie was trying to say. This will help us with our next lesson where we will be writing speech bubbles for the main characters. 

Week beginning Monday 15th January 2024 LI: To investigate old and new toys.

Week beginning Monday 8th January 2024 LI: To investigate how many weights a paper boat will hold before it sinks. 

Week beginning Thursday 4th September 2024 LI: to investigate old and modern toys.

Week beginning Monday 18th December LI: to measure ourselves in non-standard units.

Year 1 made some special Christmas decorations - we measured our height using Christmas ribbon and wrapped it around our stockings. Every Christmas we wil be able to see much taller we have grown!

Week beginning Monday 11th December LI: To perform in a Christmas show!

We were so proud of how Year 1 performed in their Christmas show - with loud and clear voices and festive dance moves. Well done Year 1!

Week beginning Monday 27th November 2023 LI: To sort 2D shapes and create 2D shape patterns.

Week beginning Monday 20th November 2023 LI: to investigate which materials float.

Week Commencing 6th November 2023: LI. To explore what Salat is.

In RE we have been learning about prayer. This week we had a visit from Mrs Dogar who came to talk to us about Islam and the Salat prayer.

Week beginning Monday 30th October 2023 LI: To ask questions and investigate.

Week beginning 16th October 2023 LI: To order events.

 

This week in our History lesson we 'celebrated our sisters' as part of Black History month. We listened to the story Coming to England by Floella Benjamin and then talked about what significant things she has done in her lifetime. We then sequenced events from her story into chronological order.

Week beginning Monday 9th October 2023 LI: To investigate and create prints to convey the texture of dinosaur skin. 

Week beginning 2nd October 2023 LI: To explore how different religions celebrate Harvest.

In RE this week we were looking at the Jewish festival of Sukkot. This is the Jewish harvest festival, so we made some comparisons to the Christian harvest festival. The children went outside to the forest area and created their own mini Sukkahs which we then hung pictures of our favourite fruits and vegetables in.

Week beginning Monday 25th September LI: To understand why Christians celebrate harvest.

Week beginning Monday 18th September 2023 LI: To copy, repeat, create and perform actions that represent the theme.

Year 1 have been having great fun in PE creating and learning a dinosaur dance with Mr. Sapsed. Thye have been thinking about to use travel and speed to represent the movements of dinosaurs.

Week beginning Monday 11th September 2023 L.I. To explore a significant figure in history.

Week beginning Monday 4th September LI: To count objects from a larger group.

Year 1 have had such a super start to the new academic year and it has been wonderful to see them all coming in with big smiles in the morning ready for their learning. It's been a busy week and we have done lots of practical Maths activities, labelled dinosaurs, learnt a dinosaur dance, been on a materials hunt around school and much more! Well done Year 1!

2022-2023

Week beginning Monday 10th July 2023 LI: to use a range of artistic techniques such as rolling, printing and making patterns to produce artwork in the style of artist Angie Lewin.

Over the last few weeks we have been finding out about the artwork of artist Angie Lewin in our Art lessons. We have used her work to inspire our own art work. We used rollers to create a background, printed our flower and leaf shapes, and added patterned detail in black pens. Year 1 worked really carefully and conscientiously to produce these beautiful pictures. 

Week beginning Monday 3rd July LI: to compare 2 digit numbers.

Year 1 have been using all their place value knowledge this week to compare 2-digit numbers, using language such as 'greater than', 'less than', 'more then', 'fewer' and 'equal'. Today they rolled dice to create 2 digit numbers, made them using base 10, or drew the tens and ones on their whiteboards, and compared them using these symbols: < > = We were really focusing on explaining our mathematical thinking, using 'because' to talk about the difference in the number of tens and the number of ones. Lots of us noticed that it's the tens number that makes the real difference finding the greater or smaller number. Perhaps you can play this game at home over the summer holiday?

Week Beginning Monday 26th June LI: to name some people in the community who help us. 

In PSHE this week we talked about what it means to belong to a community, the different communities we belong to and the people who help us within those communities. We hot-seated different community figures and had to guess who we were being!

Week beginning Monday 19th June 2023 LI: To use our English, Maths, Science and DT skills and knowledge to enjoy Fairytale day.

Week beginning Monday 12th June 2023 LI: To use positional language. 

Week beginning Monday 5th June 2023 LI: to identify and name some common trees.

Week beginning Monday 22nd May 2023 LI: To identify and name some common garden and wild plants. 

Year 1 have been learning about plants in our Science lessons, and this week we went on a nature walk around the school to see what we could find. We talked about the difference between wild plants and garden plants and used a key to identify the ones we found. We carefully drew some of the plants we saw. We also talked about how fortunate we are here at Trotts Hill School to have such beautiful outdoor spaces. Perhaps you will see some wild plants and garden plants in half term - can you find out what their names are? 

Week beginning Monday 15th May LI: To design and make a hand puppet. 

This half term Year 1 have been planning and designing their own hand puppets in DT. Many of them used sewing skills for the very first time, joining the fabric using running stitch. We all agreed that perseverance and determination were very important learning behaviours when sewing! Today, the children added key features to their puppets and decorated them. The children felt that independence and enjoyment were the key PRIDE learning behaviours today. Well done Year 1, it has been lovely to see all your creativity. 

Week beginning Tuesday 9th May 2023  LI: To role play the story of Little Red Riding Hood.