School gates open at 8:40 and the day finishes at 3:10. Our main classroom door for the start and end of the school day is Maple Class, located by the gate near EYFS.

Our PE lesson is on a Wednesday; children should come to school wearing their PE kit. We will also be doing a daily run every morning, and engaging with outdoor play in our self-led learning daily. Please send in wellies for pupils to keep at school for outdoor learning!

We will change reading books on a Tuesday and Friday.  However, please bring your child's reading book and diary in every day, as there will be an opportunity to read during the week with an adult during Reading sessions. Reading books will be changed after three reads when an adult has signed in your child's reading record.

Summer term learning

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Year 1 follows a continuous provision approach which may look similar to our Reception classroom. 

Phonics: We follow the Little Wandle Phonics Programme where by every child learns 4 new sounds a week. If any children struggle within their phonics learning we may support them with additional 'Keep Up' activities. There are many games and websites that you can use, for example phonics play which is a free resource. We encourage the children to put sound buttons on their words to ensure they slow down and spot the diagraphs/ trigraphs. This term we will focus on revisiting Phase 3 and Phase 4 sounds.

English: We will be continuing to develop the children’s independence to write a simple sentence with capital letters, finger spaces and punctuation. We will start the Summer term by looking at our narrative text Madlenka before moving onto letter writing with Paddington's post.

Maths: In the Summer term, we will be looking at multiplcation and division as well as fractions, money and time. Alongside our core Maths learning, we will be using Number Sense to consolidate pupils' fluency.

Geography: We will be learning about the 7 continents and 5 oceans of the world.

History: We will be looking at aviation of the past focusing particularly on Amelia Earheart.

Art: During this half term we will be learning about printings and rubbings.

PE: The children will be focusing on their locomotion skills during PE sessions. We are also learning about the importance of stretching and practicing different stretches daily. 

PSHE: We will be educating children on the importance of sleep, who they can go to for help and good and bad touches.

DT: We will be linking our DT work to our Geography lessons by exploring, and tasting, food from around the world.