Summer Term

We can’t believe that we have now started our last term in Year 1!  Where has the time gone?  It only seems like yesterday when we were settling into our new class!  We have learnt so much and have grown up and developed our independence a lot since September, but there are still plenty of exciting things to learn before we leave Year 1 and venture into Year 2. 

Our English work starts with narratives, using ‘No Bot' and then 'Goat and Donkey in the Great Outdoors'. We will have great fun and our creativity will be pushed to the limit!  We will also be reading and writing our own robot poems. Towards the end of term, we’ll be writing recounts of sports day. 

In Science, we will be looking humans and learning to identify, name, draw and label the basic parts of our bodies and  identify our 5 senses and how we can test them. We will be using lots of working scientifically skills.

For our Computing work this term, we making an e-book using purple mash. We will be introducing coding for Year 1 and having a go at 'de-bugging' programmes. The children will be creating their own characters, adding sound, movement and page transitions. 

In RE we’ll be learning about what happened very special Christian holidays and important holydays . We will then move on to looking at being sorry and how the bible stories can be our inspiration and guide in life. 

Topic work will start with the Queen Elizabeth.  We will learn about her wonderfully important life and the great work she did.  We will then move on to learning all about weather in the United Kingdom. 

In DT we’ll be exploring shell structures. The children will build their own shell structure and there will be a particular focus on methods for strengthening, providing children with opportunities to develop problem solving skills.

Useful Information

Our P.E. lessons will  be on Wednesday and a Thursday. Your child's full PE kit should be brought into school at the start of each term. Children may wear blue or black sports pants and trainers for outdoor PE. No jewellery is to be worn. 

Our Behaviour Charter

Our school Behaviour Policy is built upon the ‘5 pillars of Pivotal Practice’ (‘When Adults Change, Everything Changes’, Paul Dix):

• Consistent, calm adult behaviour,

• Relentless Routines,

• First attention to best conduct,

• Scripting difficult conversations,

• Restorative Follow-up.

We have three simple goals: Be safe, Be a Learner, Be Kind and Respectful.

We have selected these recommended reading lists from Peters Education to ensure that our children have access to a wide range of books.  These books are all available in school and form our 'core' texts in our class libraries.  These lists are chosen because they:

• link with our curriculum for each year group
• represent different cultures
• introduce children to new authors and expand their knowledge of familiar authors
• ensure progression 
• match topics of interests for our children
• tackle current themes