Find out about what we have been learning each week in Year One.
Week beginning Monday 22nd June
In literacy this week:
WE ARE LEARNING TO:
Read and write Space poems.
In maths this week:
WE ARE LEARNING TO:
Add and subtract 2 digit by 1 digit numbers.
In theme this week:
WE ARE LEARNING TO:
Sorting and grouping everyday materials. Looking at materials used to build houses and test them for different properties.
Week beginning Monday 15th June
In literacy this week:
WE ARE LEARNING TO:
Write our own fantasy stories with aliens as the main character. Each story needs to have a beginning, middle and ending.
In maths this week:
WE ARE LEARNING TO:
Use money. We are subtracting amounts to work out the change given.
In theme this week:
WE ARE LEARNING TO:
Sorting and grouping everyday materials. To understand what materials objects are made from. To identify whether an object is man-made or natural.
Week beginning Monday 18th May
In literacy this week:
WE ARE LEARNING TO:
Become very familiar with key stories, fairy stories and traditional tales, retelling them and considering their particular characteristics. Apply phonic knowledge and skills as the route to decode words. Apply simple spelling rules and guidelines.
In maths this week:
WE ARE LEARNING TO:
Visualise and name common 3D shapes, describe their features and use them to make patterns and models.
In theme this week:
WE ARE LEARNING TO:
Identify and describe the basic structure of a variety of common flowering plants, including trees.
Identify what qualities inspiring people have, including significant religious figures, local leaders and people who influence pupils themselves.
To think about why people break rules and why we have punishments.
Explore and share information from a variety of sources (including digital resources).
Week beginning Monday 2nd February
In literacy this
WE ARE LEARNING TO:
Participate in discussions, presentations, performances, role-play, improvisation and debates; To give well-structured descriptions, explanations and narratives for different purposes, including expressing feelings.
In maths this week:
WE ARE LEARNING TO:
Solve one-step problems involving multiplication by calculating the answer using concrete objects, pictorial representations and arrays with the support of the teacher.
In theme this week:
WE ARE LEARNING TO:
Develop their design ideas through discussion, observation and drawing.
Measure and cut accurately.
Assemble, join and combine in order to make a kite.
Develop their design ideas through discussion, observation and drawing.
Suggest meanings to religious songs, responding sensitively to ideas about thanking and praising.
To think about what makes a community and what a community needs.
Week beginning Monday 26th January
In literacy this
WE ARE LEARNING TO:
Discuss what they have written with the teacher or other pupils
Read aloud their writing clearly enough to be heard by their peers and the teacher
In maths this week:
WE ARE LEARNING TO:
Recognise 1p, 2p, 5p, 10p, £1 coins; Find totals using more than two coins up to 10p in value.
Work out what coins can be used to pay an amount up to 10p.
In theme this week:
WE ARE LEARNING TO:
That kites are made up of different parts.
That ideas for their own designs can be obtained by looking at familiar products
To identify seasonal and daily weather patterns in the United Kingdom.
To understand the adverse effects of extreme weather.
Know they can use devices to capture still and video images
Week beginning Monday 19th January
In literacy this
WE ARE LEARNING TO:
Appreciate rhymes and poems, and to recite some by heart
In maths this week:
WE ARE LEARNING TO:
Recognise and name common 2D and 3Dshapes, including rectangles (including squares), circles and triangles.
In theme this week:
WE ARE LEARNING TO:
Explore shadows, observe the apparent movement of the sun during the day.
Recognise that there are special places where people go to worship and their importance to believers.
Investigate the range of people who live and work in the school locality .
Use a variety of tools to create and manipulate an image
Week beginning Monday 12th January
In literacy this
WE ARE LEARNING TO:
Think about different words to describe what we hear.
Use these words in our writing.
Perform our poems in front of others.
In maths this week:
WE ARE LEARNING TO:
Use non standard and standard units of measure to measure the length of different objects.
Recognise symmetrical shapes.
Create symmetrical patterns.
In theme this week:
WE ARE LEARNING TO:
Make sketches of the environment around us.
talk about our favourite type of weather.
Use different collage materials to create representations of our environment.
Notice how the sun moves in the sky during the daytime.
Week beginning Monday 5th January
In literacy this week:
WE ARE LEARNING TO:
Think about different words to describe what we see, hear, feel, taste and smell.
Use these words in our writing.
To perform our poems in front of others.
In maths this week:
WE ARE LEARNING TO:
Write numbers to 100 and beyond.
To count in twos and fives.
To be able to say what each digit represents in numbers to 100 (tens and ones).
In theme this week:
WE ARE LEARNING TO:
Recognise weather patterns in the United Kingdom.
Begin to recognise the link between weather types and different seasons.
Use different collage materials to create representations of our environment.
Week beginning Monday 15th December
The count down begins. This week we will be having our Christmas party on Wednesday 17th December. Party clothes a must!!!!!
Christmas jumper day Thursday 18th December!
A very Merry Christmas to you all!
Week beginning Monday 8th December
This week Christmas gets into full swing. We will be working on our Christmas play, singing cherry songs and learning lots of dances. The big show is on Tuesday 9th December with performances at 10 am and 5 pm. We have our annual Christmas visit on Thursday 11th December to the Adventure Farm. Watch this space for photographs.
Week beginning Monday 1st December
In literacy this week:
WE ARE LEARNING TO:
Use information that we have heard to help us to write information sentences.
Use capital letters and full stops when we write.
In maths this week:
WE ARE LEARNING TO:
Read the time on the clock.
To read the time when it says o'clock and half past the hour.
In theme this week:
WE ARE LEARNING TO:
Recognise the Union Jack flag.
Say how each country that makes up the United Kingdom is represented in the Union Jack flag.
Understand that we need to brush our teeth twice each day to ensure that they are well looked after.
Week beginning Monday 24th November
In literacy this week:
WE ARE LEARNING TO:
Use information that we have heard to help us to write information sentences.
Use capital letters and full stops when we write.
In maths this week:
WE ARE LEARNING TO:
Recognise and know the value of different coins.
Solve simple problems that involve money.
In theme this week:
Look at a globe and map and locate the United Kingdom.
Name the countries that make up the United Kingdom.
Understand what happens when we eat too much of one type of food.
WE ARE LEARNING TO:
Week beginning Monday 17th November
In literacy this week:
WE ARE LEARNING TO:
Form lower case and upper case letters correctly.
To leave space between words when we write.
In maths this week:
WE ARE LEARNING TO:
Understand that a fraction can be described as part of a whole.
Find one half of a shape.
Use words like full, half full and empty to describe capacity.
In theme this week:
WE ARE LEARNING TO:
To recognise our Queen, Queen Elizabeth II.
Create portraits of our Queen.
Talk about healthy and un-healthy foods.
Week beginning Monday 10th November
In literacy this week:
WE ARE LEARNING TO:
Find strings of words that rhyme.
Write sentences with rhyming words at the end.
Share our work with others by reading aloud.
In maths this week:
WE ARE LEARNING TO:
Understand that a unit fraction represents one equal part of a whole.
Recognise, find and name a half as one of two equal parts of an object, shape or quantity (including measure).
In theme this week:
WE ARE LEARNING TO:
Sketch in the style of L S Lowry.
Recognise different sound sources.
Find out about our royal family.
Week beginning Monday 3rd November
In literacy this week:
WE ARE LEARNING TO:
To write information sentences using information we have heard.
To use a capital letter at the start of each sentence.
To use a full stop at the end of each sentence.
In maths this week:
WE ARE LEARNING TO:
Identify odd and even numbers linked to counting in twos from 0 and 1.
Sort objects, numbers and shapes to a given criterion and their own.
Recognise fractions of shapes ½ and ¼.
In theme this week:
WE ARE LEARNING TO:
Explore the work of L S Lowry.
Know that we need to eat a range of foods to stay healthy.
What our Queen looks like.
To throw and catch a ball with control
Week beginning Monday 20th October
This week it's all about our visit to Sudbury Museum of Childhood. We will find out lots about life in the past and what life was like for children. Please have a look at the photographs of our visit. We had such fun learning about the past!!!!
Week beginning Monday 13th October
In literacy this week:
WE ARE LEARNING TO:
Begin to punctuate sentences using a capital letter and a full stop, question mark or exclamation mark.
In maths this week:
WE ARE LEARNING TO:
Read, write and interpret mathematical statements involving addition (+), subtraction (-) and equals (=) signs.
In theme this week:
WE ARE LEARNING TO:
Select materials & techniques for making their box, measure & mark out, assemble and combine materials, use finishing techniques.
To be aware that people will try to persuade them to do things.
To talk about toys from the past.
To answer questions about the past.
To describe characteristics of toys.
Week beginning Monday 6th October
In literacy this week:
WE ARE LEARNING TO:
Listening to and discussing a wide range of poems at a level beyond that which they can read independently.
In maths this week:
WE ARE LEARNING TO:
Read, write and interpret mathematical statements involving addition (+), subtraction (-) and equals (=) signs.
In theme this week:
WE ARE LEARNING TO:
Generate ideas, develop these by shaping materials, talk about their ideas, communicate their ideas using a variety of methods.
Find out how the shapes of solid objects made from some materials can be changed by squashing, bending, twisting and stretching.
To think about where their money comes from.
To reflect on what they spend their money on.
Week beginning Monday 29th September
In literacy this week:
WE ARE LEARNING TO:
Leaving spaces between words when writing.
Use a capital letter for names of people, places, the days of the week, and the personal pronoun ‘I’.