Welcome to Year One
Bumblebee and Dragonfly are our Year One classes at the Isle of Ely Primary School. From this page you will be able to read about our curriculum each half term and all the work we get up to in and out of the classroom.
The adults that work in Year 1 are:
Miss Kirsty Palmer: Bumblebee teacher
Mrs Lucy Jex: Learning Support Assistant
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Mr Matthew Turner: Dragonfly teacher
Mrs Natascia Newman: Learning Support Assistant
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Our curriculum
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Subject |
Content |
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RWI (Phonics and Reading) and English (Writing and SPaG) |
Children will continue to work within their RWI groups to increase their fluency by sight reading common exception words and other high frequency words, while still sounding out new and unfamiliar words using Fred Talk. Additionally we will be exploring some poetry this half term, looking at ‘One, Two, Buckle my Shoe’ as well as ‘On the Ning, Nong, Nang’. We will be continuing to work on our sentence structures using ‘get set for writing’ as a basis to build up children’s independent writing. This will be focused at the purple book level of Read Write Inc. in line with the year 1 expected standards. |
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Maths |
The children will be continuing with addition and subtraction within 10. They will be focusing largely on subtraction learning how to manipulate the numbers and write related number facts. After we have finished this we will be looking at 2D and 3D shapes, exploring their properties and how we know which are which. |
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Science |
In science, we are looking at animals this half-term. We are exploring how animals are classified e.g. mammal, amphibian, reptile etc. and finding out what attributes each group of animal has. We will also look at the different diets animals can have and the difference between wild animals and domestic pets. Finally, we will look at how to label parts of animals using basic scientific terminology. To support this unit of work, we will visit Banham Zoo. |
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Geography |
In geography this half term, we are looking at spatial sense. We are exploring aerial perspectives and maps before looking at cartographers and how they represent physical and human features on an area of a map. The children will learn how symbols are used and how to apply them to their own map work. |
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Art |
This half-term we move on to exploring line. We will start by looking at the different types of lines that artists use and the materials they use to create them. We will look at the work of Rembrandt, Klee and Miro (particularly ‘Saskia in a Straw Hat’, ‘Family Outing’ and ‘Peinture’). We will recreate some parts of these artists work and produce our own artwork in their styles. |
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P.E |
We will have two PE lessons a week this half-term on Mondays and Tuesdays. We will continue on from last half-term with our gymnastics topic, exploring further jumps and shapes to build into sequences. We will also start our ball skills topic to explore dribbling, catching and throwing skills. |
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PSHE |
In PSHE, we will be completing the jigsaw piece on ‘Celebrating Difference’. This will allow children to explore what is the same and different about themselves and others and some of their unique qualities and skills. |
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Music |
This half-term we are going to be practising our great new nativity songs from ‘Simply the Nativity’. There are 8 fun songs with actions we will rehearse and sing as a choir.
We will also be looking at Samba music and its origins in Brazil. |
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DT |
In DT we will be doing another cooking topic on Mince Pies and Jam tarts, getting the children in the Christmas spirit and learning about pastry. |
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Computing |
In Computing we will be completing some digital painting, creating shapes and using skills from our previous topic to help us. |
At the Isle of Ely Primary School, we use knowledge organisers as a tool to help our children learn more and remember more and to allow parents and carers to support their children's learning. In our knowledge organisers, you will find essential knowledge, key dates, important vocabulary and key figures. The knowledge organisers can also be used as a fun assessment tool which will help children to see what progress they have made.
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Weekly Newsflash - What have Year One been up to this week?
Newsflash w/c 16.12.24
Year 1 have had another busy week before our Christmas break. On Tuesday, we had our nativity performances; thank you all for coming and supporting the children, their singing was brilliant. We had a great time making jam tarts and mince pies as part of our DT project, the children worked well together making the pastry and were great at rubbing together the butter and flour. On Wednesday, we had a a busy computing day, creating computer art based on different artists. We wanted to wish you all a Merry Christmas and we look forward to seeing you in the new year.
Newsflash w/c 9.12.24
Year 1 have had a busy week full of practising the nativity songs and we had our first show in front of the school Friday afternoon. Well done for the eager actions year 1! In Maths we have consolidated some of our previous learning on fact families, addition and subtraction. In English we have completed our final purple writing tasks, well done on your sentences, they are enjoyable to read. In PSHE, we have been looking at what makes us unique, different or the same in class. We created a friendship token about what we do well as a friend.
Newsflash w/c 2.12.24
Year 1 have enjoyed the start of the advent season with a fun book advent in their classes, each day opening and reading a new Christmas themed story. In maths this week we have created patterns with our 2D and 3D shapes and also reflected back on our shape topic. The children have got their teeth into a new computing topic creating digital art using paintz (this software is available to find on google if you search 'paintz') which the children used to create a portrait and also a painting inspired by Piet Mondrian.
Newsflash w/c 25.11.24
Year 1 have been back to a more normal week this week. In English, we have continued our sentence work using some purple phonics book stories, we are challenging them to use different words to start their sentences now. In maths, we have explored both 2-D and 3-D shapes and how we can sort them. The children have also been enjoying learning about samba music and the instruments that create this type of music. We also had a lovely trip to Banham zoo on Friday, which the children really enjoyed (I can imagine after the cool air they were be rather sleepy).
Newsflash w/c 18.11.24
It has been assessment week this week, the year 1's have displayed what they have learnt in their writing as well as taking part in a spelling check of our common exception words (you can see a list of the common exception words above). We have also completed our topic on addition and subtraction within 10 in maths, reinforcing the children's reception learning and using different methods. In art we have been exploring different artists, last week we looked at Miro but this week we looked at lines in Klee's artwork.
Newsflash w/c 11.11.24
During this week the year 1's have focused on anti-bullying and 'choose respect', we have used some drama roleplay to explore respectful and disrespectful scenarios and how we can solve them or avoid them. In English, the year 1's have written their own counting poems using 'One, Two, Buckle my Shoe' as a base. In maths, we have been exploring more subtraction, using number lines and making subtraction fact families. The children have been very eager with maps during our geography lessons, creating their route to school in their books by using symbols.
Newsflash w/c 4.11.24
We have been very impressed with the year 1's start back this half term, they have shown great resilience and readiness to learn. In English, we have begun to explore poetry by reading 'One, Two, Buckle my Shoe'. In Maths we have continued to look into subtraction. We have also begun to practise our nativity songs, the children have been very eager to do actions, you will probably here the songs at home a lot!