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Welcome to Year 1 |
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Children enter Year One after their fifth birthday. Year 1 is an important year for the children as they are encouraged to become more independent as learners. The children are always taught to their
own ability, but expectations of them are high. Where needed there are both specialist EAL andSEN teachers to support the children.
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Literacy
Each Literacy hour is comprised of Shared Reading or Writing, independent reading or writing, speaking, listening and drama activities and focused phonics work. The children will learn the skills they need to become confident readers and writers during Year 1. They will explore familiar stories, poetry and non-fiction texts. Children will also take home library and reading books on a weekly basis. |
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Numeracy
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In the Numeracy hour the children will be taught number skills, data handling, shape and space and measures. Work will be differentiated to meet the needs of each child and they will experience a range of learning styles throughout the course of a week, such as kinesthetics, visual aids and auditory material. Wherever possible mathematics objectives will also link into the current topic. Each lesson will comprise of an oral mental starter and then a teacher led session where concepts and methods are modeled to the class, this is then followed by independent work based on the teacher led session. Finally the lesson will end with a plenary where learning is both consolidated and extended.
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Science
During Science the children will be encouraged and taught to explore, ask questions, draw conclusions and explain thinking.
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Ourselves
Light and Dark
Materials
Pushes and Pulls
Growing plants |
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These topics will be linked where possible to other areas of the curriculum.
The children will have practical lessons as often as possible to draw on experiences to make decisions and conclusions.
Information & Communication Technology |
The children learn to explore ICT and use it confidently. During weekly sessions in the ICT suite the children learn specific ICT skills. They will then apply these skills regularly throughout their other subject and topic work.
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Theme Studies / Topic
Within Theme Studies / Topic the foundation subjects: History; Geography; Art and design Technology; are where possible, combined to create a theme based approach.
In term one the theme is Beside the Seaside, where the children compare seaside holidays now and in the past.
In term two the theme is The Great Fire of London, where the children study an event beyond living memory in British history with that of a famous person at that time, Samuel Pepys. |
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In term three the children will work on the theme of
World Geography. They will study the names of
continents and oceans and some main countries and capital cities around the world.
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Personal, Social and Health Education
As for all other classes, PSHE lessons follow a weekly theme using the SEAL scheme of work. Each week the children will discuss and work on a weekly theme such as ‘New beginnings’, ‘Say no to bullying’ and ‘Relationships’.
In Year 1 the children are taught to explore and develop basic skills through dance, games, swimming and gymnastic activities. These skills build upon what the children have learnt in reception and begin to move them toward more practical skills on the field and in creating gymnastic movements for themselves. This also allows them to develop team-building skills through a programmed
progression from individual work to small group activities, in line with a child’s natural ability to work cooperatively. In swimming, the children continue to improve their confidence in the water.
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