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St William of York Catholic Primary School

Year 1

Welcome to Year One!

Class Teachers – Miss Cotter (Mon-Wed) Miss Whyte (Wed-Fri)

Teaching Assistants – Ms McCall (Mornings) Miss Kernighan (one-to-one)

Spring Term 2019

Welcome to Spring term in Year One! We hope that you have all had a restful Christmas holiday and are looking forward to seeing all of your friends in the new year. We have lots of exciting things planned for our second term and you will be learning lots of new things.

We are looking forward to seeing you in your smart new uniforms and will continue to line up at 8:55 in the main playground. Children are to be collected at 3:15 – parents to gather by the gate on the main playground where children enter school in the mornings and not outside the classroom door (unless it is raining). Please ensure the office have up to date contact numbers and inform a member of staff if someone new will be collecting your child.

Please bring your book bag into school everyday and practise your reading book every night. Parents please continue to write in your child’s yellow reading diary when they have read at home.

Children are permitted to bring a named water bottle into school and can bring in a healthy snack for break time each day.

PE bags should be brought into school as soon as possible as we will be starting PE lessons on Monday 10^th September. PE will take place on Monday afternoons. Please can PE kits be in a drawstring PE bag as large back packs do not fit on the children's pegs.

Literacy

Narrative.

Can’t you sleep little bear? Martin Waddell Owl babies

Poetry.

You Choose

Music

Unit: Round and round.

Style: Latin Bossa Nova, Film music, Big Band Jazz, Mash-up, Latin fusion

Throughout the unit children will learn:

How to listen to music

To sing a song

To understand the geographical origin of the music

To experience and learn how to apply musical concepts and elements –finding a pulse, clapping a rhythm, use of pitch.

To play the accompanying instrumental parts.

To recognise the style of music and to understand its main style indicators

Numeracy

Gym (Balance)

Explore balancing on small and large body parts.

Roll in a long shape.

Roll in a tucked shape.

Explore different ways of balancing on apparatus on small and large body parts.

Jump off apparatus and land safely.

Practice and perform a simple sequence with control and accuracy.

Gym (Pathways)

Explore travelling in a variety of ways.

Explore different ways of travelling over apparatus.

Explore different ways of jumping off apparatus.

Explore rolling sideways.

Balancing on small and large body parts.

Plan and refine a simple sequence using floor and apparatus.

Religious Education

Special People

Meals

Change

Science

Seasonal Changes

observe changes across the four seasons

2. observe and describe weather associated with the seasons and how day length varies

Art

Textiles- Weaving

1. Study of the artists Ellen Jackson, Rachel Brown and Ann Roth.

2. Children to produce a weave. Using weaving cards, binca, a variety of art or found materials to make a simple weaving pattern, either repeating or non-repeating

(ribbons, wool, curling ribbon, raffia, paper, sequin strings, etc.)

Design Technology

Explore and use mechanisms [for example, levers, sliders, wheels and axles], in their products.

Wheels and axles (links with history topic – making a moveable toy).

Geography

Human and physical geography of the UK (our area).

To recognise journey from home to school - Google Earth - use ipad to show route from their house and to school
To recognise and know key landmarks of the school from Google Earth and on a map
Photograph key landmarks and annotate a map.
1. To plan a route around the local area - from their own house to a friends house

History

Changes within living memory – toys.

What did your grandparents play with when they were young?

Chronological Understanding:

Sequence some events in order of time- up to 100 years (intervals of 10)

Computing

Walking with dinosaurs. (CS)

By the end of this project, children will fully understand the term algorithm and will be able to use a simple app on an iPad to reinforce this learning.

Crazy Creatures. (CS)

Throughout this project, children will further develop their understanding of control, directional language and programming, by programming a Bee-Bot and using appropriate control apps.