Willow Class

Welcome to Willow Class!

I hope you all had a wonderful summer holiday and that you are excited about the new year at school. I am looking forward to hearing all about your news and your adventures.

This term, we have lots of exciting learning ahead. We will be welcoming our new Reception children and continuing our learning journey with our Year 1 children.

Let’s make this term amazing. See you all in class, ready to shine your lights!

If you need to speak to me, please feel free to ask questions on the door or click on the button to the right to send me a message.

Mrs Wright, Mrs Lord and Mrs Cross

Important Information:

PE sessions are scheduled for Wednesday and Thursday afternoons. All children are expected to arrive at school dressed in their PE kits on these days. Kindly ensure that your child is wearing the correct kit. PE kit, which can be viewed here.

Reading is extremely important and serves as a doorway to the rest of the curriculum. Your child will receive either a phonics reading book to bring home to practise. Please attempt to read for at least 10 minutes a day with your child and encourage any other opportunities for reading for pleasure.

Come back to our class page regularly for updates.

In English…

Year 1

This half term in English, we will be working on our writing skills using the books ‘Marney’s Mix Up’ and ‘Leaf Hunt’.

The children will be continuing to learn the spelling, grammar and punctuation rules they need to write clearly. They will start to write their own simple stories and non-fiction texts and continue to develop their handwriting.

The children will continue to develop their reading skills using the Read, Write, Inc phonics programme and will be bringing books home to practise weekly.

Reception

Communication and Language

The children will begin to engage in story time and listen carefully to stories and rhymes. They will learn new vocabulary and use it through the day. They will begin to articulate their ideas in well-formed sentences. The children will begin to ask questions and tell simple stories.

Reading

The children will be having daily phonics sessions and will start to recognise the initial sounds in words.

The children will start to blend known sounds into simple words.

Writing

The children will learn to write their names correctly and begin to write the initial sounds in words.

They will begin to form lower case letters correctly.

In Maths…

We will be continuing to use the White Rose scheme for Maths.

This half term Year 1 will start by looking at place value. The children will also start to practise counting forwards and backwards in multiples of 2, 5 and 10.

We will then move onto addition and subtraction within 10.

Reception

Reception will start by matching, sorting and comparing objects and pictures. We will then move onto comparing capacity and mass and introducing simple patterns.

In Science…

Year 1

This half term in Science, we will be learning about seasonal changes. We will be finding out about when Autumn takes place, what the weather is like in Autumn and what events take place in Autumn.

Reception

The children will be exploring the natural world around them. They will be describing what they see, hear and feel when outside. The children will also be thinking about the effect of changing seasons on the natural world.

In RE…

In this unit pupils will start to think about what it means to belong to a faith community. They will learn that people within the faith community will often have special events to welcome people such as baptism in Christianity.
They will learn about symbols and items which show they belong to that religion.

They will also learn about the ceremonies which take place in different faith communities.

In Geography…

Year 1

This term in Geography, the Year 1 children will study the unit “What is it like here?”.

In this unit, the children will be looking at simple maps and plan views. We will start by looking at the classroom and then move onto the school grounds.

The children will then be thinking about how our local area fits into the wider context and learning about the countries in the United Kingdom.

Reception

Knowledge and Understanding

The children will comment on images of familiar situations in the past.

The children will talk about members of their family and community.

The children will name and describe people who are familiar to them.

The children will begin to understand that different people have different beliefs.