YEAR 1

Welcome to the Summer term Year 1! We have continued to notice the seasonal changes as we moved from winter to spring. We are continuing to learn about the seasons, weather, animals and plants but this term we are doing this through the story of 'The Storm Whale'. Noi, who lives by the sea finds a baby whale on the beach one day. We will be writing our own animal stories too and making baby whales from clay.

In Science we will be learning how to group animals by what they eat and how they live and grow. We will also be going out into our school grounds to learn about plants. In History we will learn about how seaside holidays have changed in the last 100 years. We will be painting our own seascapes. The children will continue to learn how to read and write independently through our daily Read Write inc phonics sessions. Reading books will be sent home every three, four or five days depending on which colour band your child reads and can be read multiple times at home. Please make sure that your child has a school bag so that they can bring their reading book in to school every day.  On Fridays the children can choose a reading for pleasure book from our class book box. This may be a book that you can read to them rather than them reading by themselves. 

We have been using a story map to learn the story ‘How to Catch a Star’. We made our own stars.

We have been learning about how our brains work through our ‘My Happy Mind’ scheme. The soft toys are all characters that are helping us to learn how to have a happy healthy mind. 

We have been learning all about autumn.

During anti-bullying week we learnt about caring for each other and how to be a good friend.