Year 1 Ash Class 2024 - 2025

Miss Manning

Support staff: Miss Lambert, Mr Goodwin, Mrs Edwards


Mrs Manning

Curriculum Information for Spring 2

English: In English this half term, we will be exploring the story 'Cat, Bramble & Heron'.

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We will be finding out what happens when the three animals discover gold by the lake.

Geography: We will be investigating the question 'Where do our favourite animals live?'. We will be comparing different habitats around the world and why some animals migrate.

Maths: Power Maths Unit 10: Introducing Mass and Capacity, Unit 11: Multiplication & Division

Science: Living Things and Their Habitats

DT- Textiles

RE: Islam- What do Muslims believe about Allah and Muhammad?

Music: Kapow- pitch

PE: Team Building & Athletics

PSHE: Economic Wellbeing

Computing: Moving a robot

Important Information

PE- Ash Class will have their PE sessions on Tuesday and Wednesday.

PE Uniform:

Team colour t-shirt
Plain black shorts
Black pumps for indoor PE
Trainers for outdoor PE
Tracksuits, sweatshirts and leggings can be worn for outdoor PE in colder weather
Ear rings must be removed and long hair must be tied back

Reading Book Changes

Expectations

It is expected that all children will read at home at least five times each week. This can be a mixture of reading with support from an adult and independent reading. It can be their home reader, a magazine, newspaper, library book, or any other book that your child would enjoy reading. All home reading should be recorded in home-school diaries, this can be as simple as individual date and signature and the book that has been read as well as comment about how your child has read.

All children at Whitby Heath read daily in class whether it be on a 1:1 basis or working within group. As a school, we aim for ‘Strive for Five’. Using our Dojo reward system to celebrate this achievement. As a result, parents will receive a notification of this via the Dojo app as well as children receiving a stamp in their Reading Record indicating their total number of reads each week.

Each child has an allocated day that their book/s will be changed, linked to their house teams:

Donaldson- Monday

Seuss- Tuesday

Dahl- Wednesday

Rowling- Thursday

In school, we use children’s Reading Records to keep a record of what the children are reading rather than a dialogue between parents and school. We love to see parent comments about how they have got on if you have listened to them reading aloud or have asked them some questions about what they have read. We look forward to catching up with parents about children's reading progress in our parent’s evenings.

Homework Information

Numbots Tasks: Set every week

English homework will be set every week on Class Dojo.

ClassDojo

Should parents need to contact the Year 1 team please send a direct message through ClassDojo. All communication from school will be shared in this way.

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