Year 1 2023 - 2024

Mrs MacNeill

Mr Martin-Bird

Meet the team

1M - Mrs MacNeill, Mrs Bousie and Ms Wheeler

1C - Mr Martin-Bird and Mrs Gomez

If you have any questions, please speak to one of our Year 1 staff or email year1@almapark.manchester.sch.uk


Welcome

Welcome to Year 1! Year 1 is an exciting time, as children move away from child-led learning and begin to learn from the National Curriculum. As we adapt to new timetables and routines, we work together as a class to meet challenges with confidence and celebrate our achievements.

Here, you can find an overview of the Year 1 Curriculum. You can use this information to discuss with your child what they have learned and continue to support their learning at home.

 

The knowledge organisers are listed at the bottom of this page.

 


This half term:

Maths:

  • Weights and measures
  • Addition and subtraction to 20
  • Counting in 10s


English:

Talk for Writing unit: We are focussing on writing a journey story using Meerkat Mail as our inspiration

  • Write correctly punctuated sentences and include adjectives.


Geography:

Exploring hot and cold places in the world and identifying where we can find them with partivular reference to the North Pole, South pole and the Equator.

 

Science:

Animals including humans. Exploring the senses and identifying body parts.

 

Art:

Investigating and practising using watercolours.

 

Computing:

We are focusing on selecting and using appropriate tools to take a picture from the internet and put them into a program and then sort them. We will also lok at e-safety.


Religious Education:

What it means to be a person of faith.

 


PHSE
:

How to take care of ouselves with a focus on physical health and mental wellbeing


Music
:

Using our bodies to make a beat. We are looking at keeping a beat and beginning to play the African Drums.


P.E:

Remember to come into school wearing your PE kit on the following days.

  • Outdoor Games - Wednesday

    We are learning to send and return.

Kit: Trainers, black shorts or tight-fitting black leggings, and a plain white t-shirt (a tracksuit top and joggers may be worn if cold)

  • Gymnastics - Thursday

Performing the 

            Kit: Black shorts or tight-fitting black leggings and a plain white t-shirt.


Reading:

In class we are currently reading a range of different stories about a range of topics, that can be linked to our half termly targets in other subjects.

 

We encourage the children to borrow a book from our library to read for their enjoyment. We would be very grateful if you could make sure they bring them back every week to get a different book to read to you at home. Please record when they read to you in their reading record books. 

Please read with your child every day. You can access their guided reading text through the Collins E-Book app in addition to reading for pleasure.


Homework:

Spellings will be sent out every week on Monday, which children will learn for a spelling test on the following Monday.

This half term's BrainBuilder can be found below:

 

Enrichment: 

We were very pleased to have a visit from a Veterinary Nurse, who was able to talk to the children about pets and how to look after them. This has enhanced our delivery of our focus on animals in science this term and built on the children's knowledge and understanding. We are also looking forward to welcoming a special visitor to Year 1 next half term, who will be able to talk to us about their experience of being in the Antarctic. This will link well with our geography (hot and cold places) as well as continuing the link to animals (specifically penguins).  

Year 1: Celebrations and Enrichments items

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