Rabbit Class
WELCOME TO YEAR 1!
Teacher: Miss Stonehouse
TAs: Miss Perkins and Mrs Lehane
Welcome to Term 4! We hope you had a wonderful break and are well rested and ready for a new term of learning. On this page, you will find all the information you may need for the term. Similarly, I will share updates on the Dojo page as and when required. You will also find weekly updates on the Dojo page so you can see what learning your child has been doing each week.
If you have any questions or queries, please do not hesitate to contact us.
Term 4
Maths
In Maths, we follow the White Rose Maths scheme of learning. Below you will find the overview for the year. We follow this, however, if we feel that the children need extra consolidation of a topic/concept, we may spend a longer time covering this.
In Term 4, we will be starting with focusing on place value within 50 as well as exploring length and height and length and height. It would be great if you can help ensure your child knows their numbers 0-20 and can find 1 more and 1 less of a number. Please also practise number bonds to 10 and 20 so that your child confidently knows these without needing to use manipulatives.
One way to support your child at home with Maths is by regularly talking about number with them and asking them questions such as 'What is 1 more than 4?' In addition, White Rose have an app available on the app store called 'White Rose 1 minute Maths'. It would be great to focus on the category 'Addition' as well as 'Subtraction' to begin this term if you would like additional practise. This is something we are focusing on during our 'Mastering number' sessions whereby the children can recognise a number without counting.
Reading
In Year 1, we will be continuing with Floppy's phonics. Floppy's phonics is a rigorous, easy to use, systematic synthetic teaching programme for early reading and writing success.
We cannot stress enough the importance of listening to your child read at home each day. It will support them significantly with their learning and their consolidation of phonetic knowledge.
Below is the English Alphabetic Code your child uses to help them learn to read. We have a focus sound each week that you child will be developing. This will be linked to their weekly spellings (Please see next subheading).
Spelling
Each week, your child will have spellings to learn. In Term 4, your child will have 10 spellings to learn. These spellings will be linked to the spelling rule your child has learnt that week. Please practise these spellings with your child. We will then have a spelling challenge every Friday morning. You will find your child's spellings in their phonics folder.
Writing
This term, we are focusing on writing a diary entry. We will be exploring features of a diary entry and linking this to our connected curriculum topics 'Bright Lights, Big City'. We will be looking at Samuel Pepys' diary and then writing our own diary entry from the perspective on 1866 during the Great Fire.
We will also write a diary entry based on our 'Great Fire of London' workshop later in the term.
During this term, we will also continue to have a main focus on sentence construction, finger spaces, full stops and capital letters.
Whole Class Reading
In addition to phonics, we will be starting Whole Class Reading (WCR) using ICLUE. ICLUE is a set of comprehension based reading symbols that help us to focus more specifically on the different comprehension skills. Each symbol will help us to think about each comprehension target explicitly and enable us to explore these targets in greater depth. These targets are listed below:
Inference and deduction
Choices
Locating and retrieving
Understanding
Empathy
Below is an example text that we use. The children will then answer various questions about the text to develop their comprehension knowledge.
Connected Curriculum
Bright Lights, Big City
This is our overarching topic for Terms 3 and 4. This project teachers us all about the capital city of England; London. We are going to find out all about its famous landmarks, transport and history. We'll be stepping back in time to discover what happened in the Great Fire of London. Where did it start? Where did it end? We'll be making our own bread just like the bakery on Pudding Lane. Afterwards, we'll need to get a black cab and will think about how to create our own moving taxi!
As part of our Connected Curriculum, we also have smaller companion projects focusing on other areas of the curriculum. These include:
Seasonal Changes Rain and Sunrays Taxi
Useful Web Links
Spelling in Year 1
Reading tips and advice
Maths games
Phonics games
English in Year 1
Bible Stories
Number Bonds game