Welcome to Summer Term one, the year is flying by and our Year One children are working so hard. Our amazing topic for this half term is called ‘Home Sweet Home’.  In Science we will be learning about animals and recapping our knowledge of animal classifications and learning all about carnivores, herbivores and omnivores. 

In Geography, children will be learning about our local area. The children will use fieldwork and observational skills to study the geography of their school and its grounds. We will also be learning about the key human and physical features of the surrounding environment in the West End of Lincoln. In Art the children will be learning to develop a wide range of art and design techniques, particularly printing! We will be looking at the work of Angela Harding who are inspired by the countryside. 

In PSHE we learning about physical health and mental wellbeing. This includes keeping healthy; food, exercise, and hygiene routines. We will also be learning about how rules and age restrictions help us to keep us safe online. Our computing links with our PSHE, and the children will take part in three Natterhub lessons. Our RE topic is on Incarnation.

We will be visiting The Lincolnshire Life Museum and Mrs Smith’s Cottage in Navenby with the children this term.

We also have many carefully selected high quality texts for story time that link to Home Sweet Home, we cannot wait to start reading them. These include The Three Billy Goats Gruff, Sharing a Shell, On my way home, A squash and a squeeze and The whale who wanted more.

New vocabulary will include: carnivore, herbivore and omnivore,

Sketch, printing, human features, physical features, being unique and a health lifestyle.

English

In English our Talk for Writing focus story is ‘The Storm Whale’. We will learn how to retell the story, write detailed character descriptions and explore new language.  We will also learn all about the suffixes ‘s’ and ‘es’ and use these in our writing.  We are looking forward to writing in a range of different styles including instructions and descriptive poems.

Maths

In Year One we follow a maths scheme called White Rose Maths. This term, we will cover:

Multiplication and Division, Fractions and then Position and Direction where we will learn about backwards, forwards, above and below. We will also learn about ordinal numbers.

New Vocabulary: multiply, divide, half, quarter, whole, left, right, clockwise