Year 1 learning this week
Below you will find our weekly teaching and learning summary to find out how we develop and enrich your child's learning whilst they are with us.
| Week ending | What we have been learning about |
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| 10/01/25 |
We have started off with our brand new topic ‘Environmental Change’ this half term in Year 1! In our Literacy lessons we have looked at different environmental issues that impact our world such as deforestation, single use plastic and air pollution. We used our oracy skills to discuss these issues and come up with a plan to make a change! In Maths, we have been learning to use the Make Ten Strategy to add two 1 digit numbers, and subtract a 1 digit number from a teens number. In Science we have begun to look at the different parts of a plant and what they need to survive. Phonics: /ee/ y. /e/ ea. /w/ wh. Tricky Words: water, want, mouse, many. |
| 20/12/24 |
This week in Year 1 we received a super special letter from Growly Bear, the character in our new text, ‘The Most Loved Bear.’ Growly Bear was lost in our school and gave us clues on where to find him! We went and rescued him and then wrote a letter back to him to say thank you for coming to visit us. In PE, we performed our Toy Story dance to Year 2, and made a moving Traction Man in our DT lesson. In Maths, we have spent the week recapping all of the units we have learnt so far, such as, odd and even numbers, one more and one less, number bonds to 10 and shape! We hope you have a lovely break, from everyone in Year 1! Phonics: i-e, a-e, o-e, u-e. Tricky Words - pure, sure, love, little. |
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13/12/24 |
This week has been full of our nativity ‘I’m Gonna Shine’ in Year 1. We have practised all of our songs and did a brilliant job performing them to the rest of the school and our grown ups! In Literacy, we used our writing skills to write a recount of our nativity and which part we enjoyed the most, making sure to remember our full stops, finger spaces and capital letters within our sentences. In Maths this week, we have been focussing on addition and subtraction. We used resources such as number lines, part whole models and dice to help us work out the answers and write them as an equation. Phonics: i-e, a-e, o-e, u-e. |
| 06/12/2024 |
We have been super busy in Year 1 this week! We have started to look at doubles and halves in Maths, exploring this concept with a range of resources such as numicon, cubes and cuisenaire rods. In Literacy, we are continuing our journey with Traction Man as he visits Granny’s house. We have planned our writing using a comic strip style plan to match our text, before writing a recount of events. In DT this week we have explored different joining materials and created our very own jumping Traction Man! Phonics: e-e, ew, ie, aw. |
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29/11/24 |
This week in Year 1, we have been channelling our inner superheroes and using the vocabulary used in our text Traction Man, to improve our own writing in Literacy. We saved the toys from ice, and we recreated Traction Man’s journey to Granny’s house using our roleplay station! In Maths this week, we have been looking at increasing and decreasing values, using our new vocabulary to describe the number patterns on our stations and using our new Maths book to learn what odd and even numbers are. We have continued to learn our dance routines about toys in PE this week and have enjoyed putting all of our new skills together. Phonics: Split Digraphs i-e, a-e, and o-e. |
| 22/11/24 | In Year One this week we have been looking at our new story ‘Traction Man’. We used our oracy skills to predict what his name might be, which superpower he has and what might happen in our story. In Maths this week, we have looked at numbers to 20, how to order these on a number line, and find one more and one less. In our science learning, we have looked at the difference between materials and objects, and went on a material hunt to find things in our classroom made of wood, plastic, metal and glass. Phonics: We have looked at how ‘o, i and e’ can also make our ‘oa, igh and ee’ sounds. Tricky words - people, their, Mr and Mrs. |
| 15/11/24 |
This week, Year 1 had an exciting visit from Chertsey Museum! They brought a range of toys from the past for us to explore such as old dolls, cars and spinning tops. We continued this learning within our History lessons by researching how toys have changed using books, fact sheets, old videos and ipads to support our research. In maths this week, Year 1 have been looking at numbers within 20 and exploring each number and how it is represented in different ways. In Literacy this week, we have focussed on our text ‘Lost in the Toy Museum’ and describing the toys in our story. Phonics: This week we have looked at our new tricky words, ‘their, people, oh and your’ and we’ve explored which other graphemes can make the ‘oo’ sound. |
| 08/11/24 | This week in Year 1, we have been searching for all of the toys in our new book ‘Lost in the Toy Museum’. We have used our star words in Maths to decide whether a toy is hiding on top of, under or next to an object. We have also started to look at different toys and how they have changed over time since the Victorian era. Phonics: In phonics this week we have been looking at our tricky words ‘here, today and one’ and focusing on our new sound ‘ur/ ir.’ |
| 25/10/24 | This week, Year 1 have been looking at Betty Campbell in our Literacy lessons. She was the first black headteacher in Wales and we looked at what a wonderful influence she had on our education system! We located Wales and its capital city Cardiff, using our class map in geography. This week in maths, we have been continuing looking at shapes, and learning all about repeating patterns. Phonics: In phonics we have continued to look at digraphs, trigraphs and our tricky words such as ‘all, are, said, says, the and they.’ |
| 18/10/2024 | This week in Year 1, we have been looking at the story of The Gigantic Turnip. We have used our oracy skills to retell the story and used key phrases from the book as we told our friends how all of the animals ‘pulled, heaved, tugged and yanked’ the turnip from the ground. In Maths, we have been looking at 2D and 3D shapes and have been on a shape hunt around the school to see if we can recognise them within our environment. In Science, we have been looking at which animals are carnivores, herbivores and omnivores, and what types of food they eat. Phonics: We have been looking at our alternative sounds, recapping our phase 3 and 5 sounds and practising our tricky words ‘all, are, the and they.’ |
| 11/10/2024 | This week in year 1, we have been learning to subtract by counting back in ones, moving on to exploring different addition and subtraction related facts. We have been able to use the numicon, counters, number lines and Lego to help us with our maths learning. In Literacy, we have been following a salmon's journey upstream as they jump over rapids to escape the hungry bears! We have been focusing on using ‘and’ to connect our two sentences together and looking at the structure of our sentences. In Geography this week, we looked at Wales and recapped the capital cities of the countries in the United Kingdom. Phonics: We have been looking at longer words and spotting the digraphs and trigraphs within them. Our tricky words this week are ‘all, are, I, of, one.’ |
| 04/10/2024 | This week in Year 1, we have been looking at the lifecycle of a frog and following its journey from frogspawn to frog! Using our new information, we have written sentences based on each stage of a frog's life and used our art skills to show this process using different creative materials. In Maths this week, we have been looking at part whole models and how we can use this to help us write a subtraction equation. Phonics: In phonics this week we have been looking at our Phase 5 sounds, ou, ow, ay and ai. Our tricky words this week have been said, says and you. |
| 27/09/2024 | This week in Year 1 we have been looking at what happens to the leaves on the trees as our seasons begin to change. We have been writing sentences in literacy learning to show our understanding of the leaves falling and changing colour as we get ready for Autumn. In Maths this week, we have been looking at combining two numbers together and finding the total amount. We have been using our counting skills to count on from a number between 0 and 10 and using different objects around the classroom to help us. In P.E this week, Year 1 have been looking at our balancing skills and how we can move around spaces in different ways. Phonics: In phonics this week we have been looking at longer words and spotting the trigraphs within them. We have continued to look at our tricky words and this week have focused on ‘all, I, are, of, one, today and here’. |
| 20/09/2024 | This week in Year 1 we met Squirrel from our new book ‘Slow Down’. We read how Squirrel buried her acorns in the autumn to keep them safe, ready for her to eat in the winter. We then wrote sentences and created pictures to show where we would bury our precious items. In Maths, we have been looking at numbers up to 10 and finding one more and one less using large number lines and different natural objects to represent this. We have continued to look at the artist Kathy Pallie in our art learning and have learnt all about how to make sculptures using clay. Phonics: In Phonics this week, we have been looking at words with two or more digraphs and looking at our tricky words what, when and she. |
| 13/09/2024 |
This week, we have been following the journey of the Gingerbread Man, as he runs ‘as fast as he can’ to get away from all of the animals. We have been impressing our teachers with our sentence writing, including using finger spaces, capital letters and full stops. In Maths, we have been exploring how we represent numbers to 10 and also doubling and halving our numbers. We are all thoroughly enjoying diving into our ‘Fairytale Forest’ themed half term, and we can’t wait to welcome our parents and carers into our classrooms next week. |
