Curriculum Bulletin: Year 1

Curriculum Bulletin: Year 1

Autumn 2 

• This topic has a history focus. Not only will the children be learning about the toys they all enjoy playing with but they will also be exploring how toys have changed over the years.
• Creating a toy timeline.
• Investigating what toys their parents enjoyed and what their grandparents played with.
• Comparing the features of old and new toys including the design and the materials they are made from including similarities and differences.
• Participating in their own toy adventure.
• Here are some activities to support learning in class.

          

• The children have daily phonics lessons which help them to become more confident readers and writers.
• The children will be having weekly spelling tests and will be given a spelling log of all the words they will be tested on over the year.
• Useful games include phonics play  Deep Sea Phonics
• These are all the sounds the children need to be able to read.

• The children are involved in daily reading activities in school, whether they read individually, in a group or by exploring a text as a class.
• They will be able to identify and recognise characteristics of both fiction and nonfiction books.
• We recommend that the children read at least four times a week and record what they read in their reading log. In return they will receive a house point.
• Don’t forget you can also sign up for free with oxford owl.
• We will be reading and studying the Old Bear stories by Jane Hissy with the children as well as other toy stories.

• The children will continue to use their nuts and bolts when writing. They need to remember that each sentence begins with a capital letter, ends with a full stop and each word separated with a finger space.
• The children will be taught about using different words at the start of sentences.
• There will be opportunities for the children to write for different purposes including: a story map, a recount, a character profile and a poster.

• Consolidating counting forwards and backwards to 20
• Practise counting in 2’s and 10’s forwards and backwards
• Learn the value of different coins game
• Using addition and subtraction in real life situations in the context of money
• Exploring Measure with a focus on height and length.
• Learn the names and properties of 2D and 3D shapes game

Days to remember

• PE is taught every Monday and Thursday. Please make sure a PE kit is in school for these days.
• We have the opportunity to go to the library and change our books every Tuesday.
• Spellings will be tested every Friday.