Year 1

The Year 1 curriculum is taught through 6 half termly topics:

Dear Parents

I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas with your lovely children.  They have been telling me all about their holidays and the presents they received.  Now that we find ourselves at the start of the spring term I thought I should take this opportunity to introduce myself and inform you about the work we intend to cover.

As you probably already know, my name if Francince Jukes, I have been a qualified teacher (KS1 Specialist) since 1992 and worked my way up to the post of Consultant Teacher with the department for Raising Standards.  I then took a career break to have my own family and returned to work after three years.  Recently I have been working as a supply teacher on long and short-term contracts for a range of schools teaching across all age groups up to Year 8.

I feel very privileged and enthusiastic about my new post at Wylam and am confident that under my direction your children will make significant progress whilst having fun at the same time.  The topic for this term is “All About Me“.  The teaching and learning in this topic will include:

PE

Please note that the PE timetable has changed and will now take place on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Fridays.  Please ensure your child is equipped with a kit which includes a t-shirt, shorts and sand shoes.  Thank you.

Communication, Language and Literacy

Reading, writing and talking based on the following:

Non-fiction 

• Magic Grandads’ Toybox
• Labels (weather chart and parts of the body)
• Lists (for shopping, packing for a week-end away).

 Fiction

• Kipper’s Toybox
• Big Bad Bill
• This is the Bear
• Percy the Park Keeper stories

Phonics

Reading & writing words with the following sounds : ch, sh, th, ng, ee, igh, oa, oo, ar, ai, or, ur, ow and oi

Key words

Practise reading and writing common words eg: the, it, said, so, he, she, we, me, be, was, but, have, like, some, come, was, you, that, her, were, there, little, one, they, all, are.

Problem-solving, Reasoning and Numeracy

• Number: counting in 2′s 5′s and 10′s to 100 from any number.
• Learn: addition is related to counting on; that adding can be done in any order, to use informal written methods to add and subtract
• Learn: subtraction as ‘take away’, to find the ‘difference’ by counting up; that subtraction can not be done in any order.
• Measures: estimating and measuring weight using standard (g/kg) and non-standard measures (eg buttons).
• Money: recognition of coins and calculating total cost
• Time: o’clock, half-past, quarter to and past (more advanced if already known)
• Position: above, below, next to etc
• Shape: learn cube, cuboid, sphere, pyramid, cone

Knowledge and Understanding of the World

We will be learning about: the parts of our bodies, how they move and keeping them safe in cold weather.  Learning will also cover cold weather around the world and religious winter festivals.  We will use computers to complement and extend our learning.

Creative Development and Physical Development

Winter collages, self-portraits, observational figure drawing in proportion, creating moods in paintings (Scream by Munch) music (Halloween by John Carpenter), gymnastics and dance.  Games:  Ball skills.  Large apparatus: creating sequences combining travelling and steady balances on different body parts.

Personal and Social Development

We will be studying and discussing ‘ourselves’ in terms of our emotions and feelings (anger, resentment, jealousy, love, happiness etc).

If anyone has any questions or concerns about their child in Year 1 then please do not hesitate to contact me as soon as possible.  I also welcome parents support in class so if you would like to help just let me know but please note that to be able to do this you must have been CRB checked.

Yours sincerely

Francine Jukes

(BA Hons, PGCE)

Please click here on The Classroom to see what our school theme is for 2011/2012.