Year 1
Our core text this half term is The Extraordinary Gardener.
In English we will be focusing on a rags to riches tale called ‘The Extraordinary Gardener’. We will be looking at the language and dialogue within the book and how we change our voices when speaking within character. We will continue our learning on how to use capital letters, finger spaces, full stops and descriptive language.
In Maths, we will be working on multiplication and division. Our focus will be on 2, 5 and 10 times tables. We will recap solving addition and subtraction problems and practise solving word problems. We will also be exploring finding missing numbers with objects, on number lines as well as using the whole part model.
In Science we will be researching different types of Plants and trees. We will be exploring the structure of different plants as well as recognising and describing the differences between wild and garden plants.
This term for Humanities, we will be exploring weather and seasons. We will be learning about different seasonal weather and comparing the weather in the UK to the weather in Costa Rica. We will learn about plant life in both the UK and Costa Rica and how climate has an impact.
This term we will continue to learn about Sikhism. We will be finding out about the core beliefs and how Sikhs follow their faith. We will also be learning about - Guru Gobind Singh, the 5 Ks and Akhand Path..
This term we will be learning about yoga and balance. We will be introducing tennis, teaching children basic skills of gripping a racket, striking a ball, aiming a target and returning a shot.
In Art, we will be learning how to use different media such as pencils to sketch ad print to create art. Once we have used techniques such as squeezing, pinching and scoring with our Styrofoam we will then print contrasting colour on top of the background to complete our designs.
If you have any further questions about the content of the Year 1 curriculum please contact the Year 1 Team Leader, Mrs Sammarco, who will be more than happy to answer any questions you may have.
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