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.

Autumn 1 Current Learning

Home Sweet Home

Year 1 follows a continuous provision approach which may look similar to our Reception classroom. In our topic this term we will be learning about our perception of the world; how toys have developed over the years; and seasonal changes as Autumn sets in.

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.

Art: During this half term we will be learning about drawing techniques. Pupils will use a range of materials creatively to design and portraits.

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 also be focusing on writing questions, as this will support children with their summative piece of work: to write a letter home to a grandparent asking about toys they played with as a child.

Maths: In Autumn 2, we will be focusing on Place Value, moving onto addition and subtraction. Alongside our core Maths learning, we will be using Number Sense to consolidate pupils' fluency.

Geography: We will be learning about 'Christmas around the world'. We will look at geographical similarities and differences through studying the human and physical geography of a small area of the United Kingdom, and of contrasting non-European country.

History: We are all very excited about our 'Home Sweet Home' unit looking of looking at toys from 'then' and 'now' - tying into Christmas around the world. We will be attending our first school trip to 'Milestones Museum' to consolidate our learning.

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: Valuing Difference: Same or Different?; Unkind, tease or bully?; Harold's school rules; It's not fair!; Who are our special people?; Our special people balloons.

DT: We will be learning about mechanisms through creating sliding chimneys.