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Year 1: Mrs McGhie & Mrs Dugmore
Hello and welcome to Year 1!
We hope you find the information on this page useful.
Homework: Please do some or all of the tasks each half-term
PE Day: Wednesdays & Fridays (please come to school in PE kit)
Tricky Words: Learn your first 100, and first 200 tricky words.
Remember to read at least 3 times a week and record in diaries.
Beginning to learn simple times-tables?
Here for you to check out is Percy Parker and he has a song for every times-table. Good luck!
Knowledge Organisers
English
English
In English our main text will be The Lighthouse Keepers Lunch by Ronda and David Armitage. You can listen to the story here.
We will be continuing to work on our sentences, making sure we have put capital letters and full stops in them. We will also be using exclamation marks and question marks. We will be checking for finger spaces and correctly formed letters. As well as this, we will be adding adjectives to our sentences to make them more interesting and using and to make our sentences longer. We will also be using our knowledge of phonics to help with spellings and spelling common words independently. We will be writing poems about the seaside.
Our main text will be The Lighthouse Keeper’s Lunch and we will be writing all about Mr Grinling and his crazy antics! We will also be looking at various non-fiction books about the seaside.
Maths
In Maths we will be working on making sure we have all the concepts we need ready for Year 2. This will include working on, number and place value, addition and subtraction, shapes and patterns, measures (including time), fractions, multiplication and division, position and movement and doubles up to 10.
Maths
Science
In Science we will be continuing our work on the seasons and be looking at signs that it is Summer. We will also be working on the topic ‘Animals including humans’ and be thinking about parts of our bodies and how humans and animals grow up healthily.
Science
Theme
In Geography we will be researching features of the seaside and looking and human and physical features. We will be learning about the four points of the compass and we will also compare and contrast the seaside to our environment. In History, we will be thinking about what the seaside was like in the past.
Topic
Word Aware
To help new words stick in your long-term memory, use the Word Aware rap.
Choose words from this list:
coast
beach
cliffs
seaside
sand
rock pool
lighthouse
sand dunes
pollution
ocean
sea
and join in with the rap!
Think about...
What does it start with?
How many syllables does it have?
What does it rhyme with?
Can you put it in a sentence?
Share new words with your class.
Basic Maths Skills
Useful Basic Skills for Unconfident Mathematicians
Click on any of the topic videos below to watch some useful revision of basic skills needed in Maths.
Represent numbers to 100
10s and 1s using addition
Hundreds
Numbers to 1000
Numbers to 1000 (PVG)
100s, 10s and 1s (part 1)
100s, 10s and 1s (part 2)
Number line to 100
Number line to 1000
Find 1,10,100 more or less
Compare objects
Compare numbers
Ordering numbers
Count in 50s
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