Mrs Stoke’s Year 1 Class
Mrs Stokes Year 1 Class
On this web page you can find out about all the exciting things taking place in Year 1!
Teacher: Mrs Stokes
Email: jstokes@discovery.victoriousmat.org
Teaching Assistant: Mrs Wood
English: This half-term in Year 1, we will be reading ‘Winnie and Wilbur in Winter’ as our fictional text. This book mixes wacky characters with magical creations and ideas. The children will have the opportunity to write their own spells and re-write this book, making innovative changes and creating new magical characters! We will also write our own travel reviews describing places and weather in detail linking all of our Geography knowledge.
Maths: Place Value- The children will continue exploring place value in more detail and will be encouraged to apply their knowledge from previous learning to support themselves. In this unit, the children will be learning the value of numbers up to 50 and understand what each digit means.
Measurement- The children will be exploring different ways of measuring objects. This will include length and height, mass and volume. The children will be introduced to tools such as rulers, metre sticks, scales, measuring jugs and lots more.
Science: Why do we use certain materials for specific jobs?
In our science topic, we will continue exploring everyday materials and why some are better for specific jobs than others. The children will be investigating the different properties materials have. They will also be introduced to female chemist, Tricia Carmichael and explore what important discoveries she has made during her studies.
Geography- Why do we need different types of weather?
In our Geography unit, the children will be observing weather patterns and investigating how to predict the weather scientifically. They will compare weather across the UK and use fieldwork skills to collect data. The children will become meteorologists and have a chance to act out their own weather report using lots of fantastic new vocabulary.
Art: Exploring Watercolour Painting
The children will apply their knowledge from the previous half terms learning and improve upon it. They will be exploring how to apply watercolours into a sketchbook to create a piece of Art.
RE: What do Christians believe God is like?
In RE this half-term we will be building on our knowledge of the Christian Faith from Autumn term. We will be hearing parables from the Bible and considering what Christian people learn from them. We will use drama to roleplay and study images in books and on stained glass windows to understand each parable thoughtfully.
Computing: Data and information – grouping data
The children will be taught how to use technology purposefully to create, organise, store, manipulate, and retrieve digital content. This will be through saving work to a computer, organising them into folders and locating them.
Music: Classical Music Can I use my voice to create an image?
In this musical unit, the children will be introduced to the genre ‘classical’. The children will explore the features of classical music and have the opportunity to rehearse and perform a classical piece of music. This unit will highlight the song ‘Lark Ascending’ and children will listen and appraise this piece.
PSHE: Be Yourself
The children will learn throughout this unit what it means to be themselves and to celebrate their personalities, characteristics and features. Self-confidence will be encouraged throughout this unit to give the children a positive outlook and mindset. The children will be taught to celebrate their similarities and their differences.
General Class Information
Reading: Each week, the children read a range of texts through their learning. They also take part in whole class or small group Reading sessions where their decoding and comprehension skills are developed with a different reading skill being focused on each day.
Home reading is to practice and consolidate their fluency, expression and comprehension. Children still being taught phonics will take two books home – 1 decodable book and 1 reading for pleasure book. The decodable book is for the children to practice their fluency and expression as well as to show their understanding through questioning. The reading for pleasure book is for the children to share with an adult and to promote a love of reading. If they are past being taught phonics they will be sent home 1 colour banded book to practise decoding and comprehension as well as 1 reading for pleasure book. Please let us know how your child has got on with their reading books using the reading record. We would like you to write a comment each time you hear your child read. If your child is in KS2 they can write in their reading record after they read 2 out of the 3 times they read it that week.
The children will also be listened to at least once every two weeks on a 1-1 basis with their teacher or teaching assistant. The class teacher or teaching assistant will change your child’s book on a Friday. This is a book the children will have read 3 times in the week during the reading sessions. If a book is not returned for two weeks Mrs Stokes, our Reading curriculum leader, will contact you.
One child per half term will be nominated for being the Reading Hero for their class based on their commitment to home reading. The child will be chosen based on the evidence seen in their reading record and in class. If your child is chosen to be the class Reading Hero they will be given a prize and a certificate and acknowledged in Friday’s good work celebration assembly.
Homework:
- Read at home at least 3 times
- Go on Numbots twice for 10 min
- Go on Lexia twice for 10 min Lexia.
PE:
PE is twice a week on a Wednesday and Thursday.
Your child will participate in a dance lesson and sports/gymnastics lesson every week. It is normally expected for children to have a full PE kit kept in school at all times.
Children should not be wearing any jewellery including earrings for PE. If your child does wear earrings, please could you ensure they are taken out before school on Wednesday and Fridays please.
Snack:
Snack is to be a piece of fruit or a squeezy yoghurt. No chocolate, crisps or sweets are allowed.