Reception/Year 1 Class

Teacher: Mrs Roberts and Miss Thomas

TAs: Mrs Middle, Mrs Speake and Mrs Tilley

English
We love stories and rhymes – every day we will share stories
and sing nursery rhymes and songs. We will learn how to listen
carefully and join in with the repeated parts of stories. We will
take part in small world and role play; acting out familiar stories and making
up our own.
Phonics In Clee class we will have a daily phonics session; your child will learn
to listen for sounds and recognise letters in order to ‘blend’ them together to
make words and ‘segment’ words into their individual sounds to write words.
Year 1 will continue their work on digraphs (two letters that make one
sound).
Mark-making We will use lots of different media to make marks, such as
chalks, felt pens, crayons, water, paint and lots more! We do this to build the
muscles we need for writing.
Year 1 will continue to practise their skills to become independent in writing
sentences.
Maths
We will begin by singing lots of counting rhymes like ‘1 Man Went to Mow’
and ‘5 Little Ducks’ to learn the order of numbers both
forwards and backwards. We will learn how to recognise an
amount up to 5 without having to count it, this is called
‘subitising’! We will learn rules for counting accurately and
how to quickly show an amount on our fingers.
Year 1 children will be working on counting, sorting and representing
numbers to 10 before moving on to addition and subtraction within 10. We
will use things like ‘ten frames’ and ‘part-whole’ models to support maths.
Understanding the World
This term we will look at ‘seasonal changes’ as Summer turns
to Autumn and then Winter. We will use our time in Forest
School to explore the changes that are happening around us.
We will also find out more about ‘Materials’; naming objects
and the materials they made of. We will carry out some
simple tests relating to the properties of materials.
We will ask ’What is History?’ and use the theme of ’Holidays’ to compare
past and present. We will also explore the question ’What is it like here?’
when learning about our school environment.
PSHE
We have a special friend in Clee Class, he is a giraffe called
Harold, he helps us to learn more about ourselves and each
other. This term he will help us to think about ‘what makes
us special?’ and ‘who is special to us?’ before moving on to
helping us to recognise and name feelings in ourselves and
our friends.