Year 1 2024 - 2025

• Meet the team

1M - Mrs MacNeill, Mrs Gomez, Mr Ahenkorah

1F - Miss Ravat and Mrs Bousie

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 the children take the next steps in their development. 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 and the brain builder for this half term are listed at the bottom of this page.

This half term:

Maths:

• Place value within 100
• Measurement – Money
• Measurement - Time

English:

Talk for Writing unit: We are focussing on a journey tale.

• I can write a complex sentence using who

• I can use and, so, but, because to join two ideas together.

• I can use repetition

• I can write a simple sentence that includes an adjective.

Geography:

The City or the Countryside?

 Science:

 Plants -Focus: wild and garden  plants

Art

Printmaking (relief printing)  Theme: animals/plants

Computing:

'Programming'

• compare different programming tools
•  join blocks and run my programme
• make a change and say what happens when you make a change.
• add sprites
• design your own project using artwork
• follow my design by using my algorithm to create a program.

Religious Education:

'How should we care for the world and for others, and why does it matter?'

PHSE: 

• Safe relationships
• Families and friendships
• Growing and changing

Music:

Travel (performance)

P.E:

• Remember to come into school wearing your PE kit on the following days.
• Outdoor Games - Monday
  We are learning different ways of sending and returning a ball.
• 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)
• Dance/Gymnastics - Thursday
• 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 Brain Builder can be found below:

  *Can you make a picture using natural objects?

         *Can you make a picture with your fingerprints?

         *Draw a picture of a tree/ flower and then label them

         * Write a letter to your new teacher telling them all about yourself.

         *Write a timetable of your day and put on the time that you do things

         *What has been your favourite part of Year 1?

   

  You can either choose one of the themes above for your project or you may choose to do them all! It’s up to you how many you would like to do.

   

  Date for families to drop in to celebrate what they have done:

  9:00 – 9:30am on Monday 14^th July 2025

  We will take photos of the projects and share these with families on our class webpage.

   

Enrichment: 

Watching a performance on Pinnochio