Miss Dixson
assisted by Karen, Serena & Carol
CURRICULUM
OVERVIEW
Click here for Year 1 overview
HOMEWORK & SPELLINGS
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Your child’s homework is set on a Wednesday afternoon on Google Classroom and needs to be uploaded by the following Wednesday morning (before 9am)
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Weekly homework will be spelling based and 1 or 2 tasks set relating to the spelling words set.
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In terms of the spelling homework, please assist your child with this valuable part of their learning by ensuring they complete all homework to the best of their ability and provide them with support when necessary.
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The spelling words should be revisited throughout the week to ensure your child can remember to spell them for their test on Wednesdays. You will receive your child’s spelling result in their reading record each week (these need to be in school every day).
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Children will be expected to complete Maths homework using NumBots. They should be spending at least 5 minutes on it every weekday. All children need to have completed a total of 25 minutes, which will be checked every Monday. It is very important that children use NumBots little and often rather than all at once. Repeated practice is vital to commit new knowledge to long term memory.
R.E.
Autumn 1: Why is it good to listen to and remember the stories Jesus told?
Autumn 2: What is the story of Noah really about?
Which nativity character are you?
BEING READY FOR
THE SCHOOL DAY
A child’s book bag with their reading pack (with reading record and reading book inside) are considered to be school uniform and must be in school each day. Water bottles should be brought into class with your child’s name on.
Please ensure all items of your child’s uniform and PE kit are clearly labelled with their name to ensure they can be easily recovered if lost and minimise the cost of replacement.
Our PE day is: Thursday
On this day, children should come to school wearing PE kit and do not need school uniform.
PE kit is as follows:
-plain white t-shirt or polo top
-navy blue jogging bottoms, leggings or shorts (no logos)
-school navy blue jumper or cardigan
-suitable trainers for PE
THEME
Our topic this term is history based and centred around Kings and Queens. In this unit, we will find out about the significant British monarchs in history, looking at Richard III as well as drawing comparisons between Elizabeth I and Queen Victoria. The unit enables children to be aware of the past and significant individuals through using timelines and making comparisons between various periods in history.
SCIENCE
This term, we will be learning about seasonal changes during Autumn and Winter. Children will observe and describe the weather across the seasons. They will learn about how day length varies, according to the time of year. Children will be encouraged to document the weather across the year, to see how it changes with the seasons.
BOOK LIST
Click here for Year 1 book list
PSHE
At Boutcher School, we teach Personal, Social, Health Education (PSHE) and relationships as a whole-school approach to underpin children’s development as people and because we believe that this also supports their learning capacity. We use the Jigsaw Programme which offers us a comprehensive, carefully thought-through Scheme of Work which brings consistency and progression to our children’s learning in this vital curriculum area.
Autumn 1: Being Me in My World.
Autumn 2: Celebrating difference
READING
Your child will be given a staged/phase book that will be taken home with them. There is no set day for changing books as children will be read to at different points in the week. To facilitate this, please ensure your child’s reading pack (with their book and reading record inside) is in their book bag every day. It is very important to hear your child read out loud each day and ask them questions about what they have read to check their understanding and develop their comprehension skills (see questions inside their Reading Record).
Their school reading book can be read more than once to ensure they not only read the words but most importantly, understand what it is about. Please remember to record the date and page number along with your signature. This helps us monitor your child’s progress.
In Key Stage One, we expect a minimum of 3 signatures a week, with one of these a written comment using the KS1 reading comprehension skills sheet that is in the front of your child’s reading record. If you read other stories, please feel free to write them in your child’s reading record too. I strongly encourage children to read other books from home or the library in addition to the stage book sent home from school.
As well as one-to-one reading, shared reading will take place in school, where children have opportunities to answer questions and discuss the texts with their peers. Children will also complete reading comprehension tasks in class.
At Boutcher, we promote a reading for pleasure environment and ensure that children have opportunities to choose texts more freely. Your child will spend time in our class reading corner and also have a weekly visit to the school library. Our library visit will take place on Wednesdays, so please ensure that, if your child borrows a library book, they have it in school on this day to be returned so that another book can be chosen to take home and enjoy. It is important to return books because we have spent thousands of pounds on resources for our library and every book that is not returned needs money to be replaced. Funding is very tight and books not being returned will have an impact on how our library is used.
ENGLISH
We will be using a book-based approach to develop our writing skills in our English lessons.
Children should know the alphabet and should be able to write each letter, in lowercase and capital letters. Handwriting practice is a good way to ensure letter formation is correct.
MATHS
Throughout the year, children in Year One will develop mental and written methods using addition, subtraction and counting, they will have opportunities to apply these skills to puzzles and mathematical problems and investigations.
Number focus:
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Count to and across 100, forwards and backwards, in ones, beginning with 0 or 1 or from any given number
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Count forwards and backwards in twos, fives and tens from 0 (to the 10th multiple)
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Read and write numbers in numerals to 100
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Read and write numbers in words to 20 and match to the numerals
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Given a number between 1 and 100, identify one more and one less
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Identify and represent numbers within 100 using objects, structured apparatus and number lines
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Begin to recognise place value in two-digit numbers beyond 20 using practical apparatus
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Use the language of equal to, more than, less than (fewer), most, least when comparing numbers/sets of objects to 100
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We will also look at reasoning-based maths in relation to number.
Example- What is wrong with this sequence of numbers? 30, 29, 27, 26, 25. How do you know?
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Click here for Maths Methods Handbook
