Year 1 2025 - 2026

Mrs Dennehy

Mrs Blair

Mrs Seddon

Welcome to Class 1

Spring 2 - 2025-26

Welcome back. We hope you all had a wonderful half term and enjoyed special times with loved ones. We are looking forward to welcoming you back and hearing all your exciting news.

In our Religious Educuation (R.E.) lessons, we will be looking at Branch 4: Desert to Garden. In this unit of work, the pupils will learn a little about the season of Lent as a time to prepare for Easter, a special time for praying, fasting, and helping others as Jesus taught us to do. The children will recognise simple connections between the use of ashes and the Christian belief that Lent is an opportunity for a new start. They will know the story of the last week of Jesus’ life, his death, and resurrection. Children will experience Lent traditions as part of the school’s prayer life and through the charitable activities in Lent as part of a school’s Catholic life. They will know and be able to sequence the story of the last week of Jesus’ life, his death, and resurrection.

Our main English focus will be based around a beautiful picture book entitled 'The Curious Case of the Missing Mammoth' by Ellie Hattie. Enter a magical world where dinosaurs and knights have come to life in this fact-filled, lift-the-flap caper! It's midnight in the museum and there's a mammoth on the loose! Can Oscar catch him before the witching hour is up? The rich, descriptive language in the text and wonderfully detailed illustrations will hopefully inspire some fantastic work.

Phonics will continue daily and sounds covered will be sent home for practise. We will be sending spellings home for practise as part of homework. These will be words including taught phonic sounds and tricky 'red' words.

In Maths we will be looking at place value (recognising the number of tens/ones in a 2 digit number), recall of number facts including pairs of numbers to make given totals up to 20, doubles and related halves,1 and 10 more/less than a given number up to 100. We will use these facts, along with other strategies, to help solve simple addition and subtaction sums and word problems. We will count in 2's, 5's and 10's, and understand simple multiplication and division, such as '5 lots of 10'. We will recognise 1/2, 1/4 and 3/4 of shapes, measure using a ruler and tell the time to the hour and half past. We will work with coins and use 10p's and 1p's to make 2 digit totals.

Topic work has a History focus this half term. We will be considering the question 'Who is the greatest history maker?' This enquiry provides an opportunity for young historians to think about what it means when people in the past are referred to as having ‘made history’. We will look at a number of people, including Malala Yousafzai and Marie Curie. These individuals are drawn from a variety of different locations, cultures and time. The challenge for the pupils is to make a judgement about which of these they consider the greatest history maker – the person whose impact has been most significant. Finally, the pupils have an opportunity to reflect upon how in the future they might wish to create history and in time be remembered as a history maker! More details and a useful vocabulary list can be found in the History Knowledge Organiser below.

In Science our topic focus is 'Materials'. The children will look at properties of materials and their uses. They will investigate which material would be best to make an umbrella for a teddy and design and make their own. They will consider the importance of a 'fair test'. The Science Knowledge Organiser contains more details in the link below.

PE is on Monday (dance) and Wednesday (games). Children should come to school in PE kits on these days.

Fruit snacks are available daily free of charge. Fairtrade cookies are sold by Year Six children on Wednesdays for 40p and toast is for sale on Fridays for 20p.

Please check the class page regularly for updates and photographs of what have been getting up to in class.

Each child should have their own login details for both Purple Mash and Active Learn. Both online learning platforms offer a great range of learning activities that children enjoy in school.

Remember if you want to contact us, please use the email address [email protected]

-Many thanks

Mrs Blair and Mrs Dennehy

Useful links

Active Learn Login

Purple Mash

Music Links

Mini Music Makers

RNSO music challenges

Stomp Style Body Percussion

Mental Health links:

Please also visit the school's dedicated mental health and well-being page for more information on where to get support.

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