Brisbane (Year 1)

Mrs Edwards

Class Teacher

Mrs Shinar

Class teacher

Mrs Ellis

Teaching Partner

Early Morning Activities

The children will use this time to review and practise basic skills in maths, handwriting, spelling and reading. They will also have the opportunity to play and learn outside in the Role Play shed. Over the term, there will also be several activities outside linked to our maths, English and Science work.  On Friday’s session, the children will practise their weekly spellings through engaging activities and have a spelling quiz.

 

English

English is taught daily from Monday to Thursday 

This term, Brisbane Class will cover the following:

  • We will be looking at a variety of familiar stories incorporated in The Jolly Postman

  • We will work on non fiction writing making our own instructions for making bird feeders and Christmas decorations

  • We will be focusing on sentence building, including capital letters, full stops and finger spaces

  • We will be using phonics to support spelling choices

Phonics

In Year One, Phonics is taught on a daily basis from Monday to Thursday. We will be focusing on phase 4 and 5 sounds and recapping those from last year. We will also learn tricky words (words that can't be worked out using phonics) associated with these phases and ensure we use them correctly in our writing. 

Children will be bringing home spellings to learn this term, we will also be working on them in class too. 

Thank you for your support at home with practising spellings and hearing your child read regularly. It really does make a difference to all areas of learning.

 

We will use the following vocabulary regularly in our Phonics sessions:

Phoneme – a sound in a word

Grapheme – a letter or sequence of letters that represents a phoneme

Digraph – two letters that make one sound (e.g. ‘ai’ in rain)

Trigraph – three letters that make one sound (e.g. ‘igh’ in bright)

Split digraph – two letters that make one long vowel sound but they are split with other letters placed in between. You would have possibly learnt them as ‘magic e’ at school (e.g. ‘a-e’ as in name or taste)

Suffix – a group of letters added to the end of a word that changes the word’s meaning.

Prefix – a group of letters added to the start of a word that changes the word’s meaning.  

  

Maths

Maths is taught daily from Monday to Thursday. Each session will start with a Number Sense lesson - the number equivalent of phonics which supports the underpinning understanding of the number system. During the maths session, the children will have the opportunity to develop their fluency, reasoning and problem solving within each unit. 

 

This term, Brisbane class will cover the following objectives:

  • subtraction including missing number problems, using a number line, taking away objects and creating number fact families by spotting addition and subtraction fact patterns
  • naming and identifying 2 and 3d shapes and their properties using mathematically correct language.

Science

We will be working on the changing seasons as autumn moves into winter and looking closely at the natural world around us. We will also be looking at materials and identifying the different properties of key materials we use every day.

History and Geography

 In History this term we will look at our local environment and find where we live to spot evidence of when buildings were established and for what purpose. We will look at our school buildings and see the differences in how they have been adapted over time.

Computing

Computing this term is all about accessing simple programs. We will continue to practice logging onto a laptop and choosing a program to use, practising mouse and keyboard skills. We will also create text and pictures and save.

DT

In DT we will be making houses and focussing on creating hinges and how to join materials together.

RE

RE will be taught weekly. This term our topic is Incarnation, with our big question being "Why is Christmas important to Christians?"

         • retell the Christmas story

  • find out about Christmas traditions around the world
  • explain what made Jesus extraordinary
  • understand the idea of thankfulness

We will also be working on our Christmas performance "Christmas with the Aliens"

PSHE

In PSHE this term we will be working on health and wellbeing and thinking positive. Children will learn:

  • recognise and describe positive thoughts and negative thoughts.

      • think about and discuss the consequences of decisions they make and their actions.

      • set goals for themselves and think about how they might achieve them.

      • recognise triggers for certain emotions.

      • describe ways to show or give thanks for what we have.

      • describe what being mindful is

PE

PE lessons are taught twice weekly on a Monday and a Friday this term. Children will continue to get changed as they did in Auckland class so please bring kit in on the first day of term and it will go home for a wash at the end of term. On Mondays children will work on ball skills outside and on Fridays working on building their fitness skills.

Music

This term children will be working on learning Christmas songs for our performance.