Brisbane (Year 1)

Mrs Edwards

Class Teacher

 Mrs Shinar 
Class teacher Fridays

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:

  • Stories with fantasy settings and a magical theme - we will read a variety of stories and look at picture stimuli to help us create settings of our own.

  • Where The Wild Things Are - we will be learning the story and creating a version of our own and working on our descriptive language.

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:

  • Addition and subtraction:  Children will use number sense strategies and real objects to add and subtract beyond 20
  • Length and Height. We will be learning to compare lengths and heights (and the difference between the two mathematical words), We will also begin to measure more accurately using first objects and then centimetres
  • Mass and Capacity we will be learning the mathematical terms around mass and capacity, beginning to measure and compare quantities of liquids and weight of objects.

Science

This term, the children will be learning all about animals. They will learn to classify them into mammals, reptiles, birds, fish and insects. They will investigate what they eat and the key characteristics of their habitats. They will also learn where humans fit in the animal world.

History and Geography

 In Geography this term we will be learning some interesting facts about Kenya. We will find it on a map, learn about it's capital city and about its wildlife. We will compare life in the countryside of Kenya with life in Wiltshire as well as the differences in schools.

Computing

Computing will continue to be taught across the curriculum to enrich the children's learning in Maths and English and to develop their computing skills. This term will be all about using increasing independence to access and navigate simple computer programs, as well as what an email is and how to send one.

 Art

In Art this term we will be working on watercolour pictures of Kenyan animals.

RE will be taught weekly. This term our topic is Salvation 

We will expect children to be able to: Understand that Holy Week and Easter are important symbols of Salvation and part of the stories of the bible. To make links between stories they already know from the bible. To ask difficult questions around salvation.

PSHE

In PSHE this term we will be learning about relationships and being yourself. This will include  understanding what makes them an individual, that most feelings can be seen in facial expressions and body language, and how important it is to acknowledge the feelings of both themselves and others and understand how to manage their own feelings and begin to see how to help others.

 PE

PE lessons are taught twice weekly on a Monday and a Wednesday 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 continue to work on ball games and on Wednesdays the children will work on yoga with Ms Last.

 

Music

This term children will continue to work on voice tuition and musical terminology with Caroline Radcliffe each Friday morning.