Year 1

Year 1 Curriculum Project

Year 1 Project - Moon Zoom

CRASH! What’s that in the playground? Let’s go outside and take a look. Stand back everyone – it looks like a UFO has crash landed. Find out who might have landed by exploring the craft and investigating scattered scientific specimens. Create a ‘Welcome to Earth’ box for an alien explorer. What can you put in it to help explain what life is like on our planet? Would you like to be an astronaut? You’ll need a pretty sturdy spacecraft if you do. Start off small by making an air-propelled rocket. How far can you make it travel? Find out the names of the planets. There’s Mercury, Neptune, Mars and – do you know any others? I’ve forgotten the rest. Then, an alien is found. Can you help get him home? It’s got the experts in a right kerfuffle. Professor Pong doesn’t know what to do. Are you ready for take off Year 1? Hold tight. 5, 4, 3, 2, 1… LIFT OFF!

Memorable Experience - Alien crash scene investigation

Innovate Challenge - Help the alien home

D&T - Designing and making space-themed vehicles; Evaluating toys; Using mechanisms

Art and Design - Models of the Solar System

Geography - Satellite images

Computing - Drawing software; Algorithms; Email; Photo stories

History - Significant people - Astronauts; Changes within living memory

Science - Properties of everyday materials; Working scientifically

Science Investigations - What keeps us dry? How does it feel?

Year 1 Key Information

 

 

In Year 1 PE lessons are timetabled for Thursday and Friday every week.

Reading books are changed every Monday and Friday.

Spelling Tests will take place on Friday every week. 

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English

Next week we will be; 

• Asking and answering questions using who, what, why, where, how and when.
• Speaking in a way that is clear and easy to understand. 
• Planning and writing our own news report.

Maths

Next week we will be;

• Comparing addition and subtraction statements. 
• Recognising and naming common 2-D shapes.
• Identifying and describing the properties of 2-D shapes.

Additional Information

Over the half term break, please could you collect/save any 'junk modelling' bits and bobs (cereal boxes, cardboard tubes, yoghurt pots etc.) and bring them into school on the first day back.

Thank you! 

 

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This week's homework is;

• To read for at least 10 minutes everyday.

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Our first week in Year 1!

Above are some pictures from our first few days in Year 1. 

We have been...

• Exploring our new classroom.
• Playing with all of our friends.
• Getting to know our new teacher and teaching assistant.
• Getting used to the new routines.
• Learning!  

Race for Life September 2020 

We had a great time running and raising money for CRUK during our P.E lessons last week. We had to run around the playground lots and lots of times to complete the 5k challenge. 

Miss Crayford and Mrs Carter were very proud of our enthusiasm and effort! 

English 

In English this week, we read 'My Grandma is Wonderful' by Nick Butterworth. We listened to the story carefully, retold the story using a text map AND had a go at retelling the story in sentences. Above are some examples of our super work! 

Miss Crayford thinks our handwriting is AMAZING!