Year 1
Welcome to Year 1!
Mrs Newman
Mrs Hunjan
Mrs Hodges
This half term our topic is Trees, Trees Everywhere!
During this half term, children will be learning all about plants, trees and environments. We will be reading lots of cumulative stories, where the story keeps repeating. Using these as inspiration, we will create our own stories. Our maths will be learning fractions, time and arrays.
In computing, we will be painting on the computer. We will also be learning about climate zones and mapping out hot and cold places globally. Looking at features in the North and South Poles and Kenya. What trees grow in these areas? We will be experts on woodlands and rainforests and will tell you many facts!
In art we will know that many artists use flora and fauna to inspire their work. We look at artists who used drawing as a way to accurately capture the way plants and insects look, and artists who use their imagination to create their own versions of flora and fauna. In their final pieces, children will complete a minibeast collage and a painting of a flower meadow.
Our scientific skills will be developed whilst we investigate different plant growth. We will be planting seeds, identifying types of plants and recognising plants we can eat. We will be visiting the Botanical Gardens to support this learning on the 2nd May and will be in the science lab!
We will be learning striking and fielding skills and developing out team building skills. Also we will be observing changes in the environment and much more!
Please see the curriculum newsletter for more detail.
If you would like to come and help in the classroom, hear readers or do library sessions, please come and
speak to us, we would love to see you!
Do not forget to check below for each week’s
phonics we are learning.
Phonic sheets for parents - week by week coverage
Marvellous Maths!
Help for parents with maths
Jigsaw - Our Jigsaw theme is Relationships.
We will be able to explain how to appreciate people
that are special to us.
There is a wonderful website below that is useful for your child and for you as a parent. It has games and information about feelings, health, illnesses and sections on body image, mental health and much more. There is also a section for you, the parent, to refer to for information on the school nurse and it shows local Solihull support services.
Learning Target Ladders
Mrs History came and visited us as part of our work on toys in history. We made our own peg dolly's, learnt many new facts and played with old toys. We had great fun!
Our trip to All Things Wild
Our trip to the Botanical Gardens
