Welcome to Sycamore and Willow Classes -Year 1

The teachers in year 1 are:

Sycamore

Mrs Ward: Monday - Wednesday

Mr Aziz: Thursday - Friday

Willow

Mrs Salt: Monday - Friday

Learning Support Assistants:

Sycamore

Mrs Hutt - Monday to Friday

Willow

Mrs O'Malley - Monday to Wednesday

Mrs Porter - Thursday to Friday

Important Information

P.E

Sycamore: Monday and Thursday

Willow: Wednesday and Thursday

Please ensure you come to school in P.E kit on these days.

Forest School and Music - Tuesday for both classes

For Forest School, please ensure you have waterproofs to cover your PE clothes and wellies.

Curriculum Information Summer 2025

English

This term our topic is Seaside and we will be looking at the book The Lighthouse Keeper's Lunch. The children will start their journey through this book by creating narratives about the characters and then creating instructions for a disgusting sandwich to scare the seagulls away. We will then read to Dougal's Deep Sea diary and The Storm Whale as inspiration for dairy writing. We will focus on conjunctions, suffixes ing, er and ed and the  pre-fixe un. 

Reading

We have a daily story slot after lunch, during which time we read a variety of picture books. Every child in the class is heard read by a teacher over a two week period.

Maths

In the beginning of the term  we will be learning about Measurement which includes height, length, mass and volume. We have a number of practical activities for the children to help them understand key concepts and will develop their understanding over the next few weeks. Then we will be doing multiplication and division with a focus on counting in 2's, 5's and 10's. In fractions we will be finding half and quarters of shapes and quantities. In position and direction we will learn about full, half and quarter turns, left and right, forwards and backwards and above and below. and finally ordinal numbers. We will focus on numbers up to 100, partitioning into tens and ones, finding one more or one less and compare any two numbers. Finally we will be learning about money up to £1 and days and months of the year. Then we will learn how to tell the time to the hour and half past. 

Science

This term we are learning about plants comparing plants and trees and naming all the parts. We will learn abut how a plant changes over time and what it needs to grow. 

History

This term we are learning about the history of the seaside. We will be learning about how people travelled to the seaside, what they wore and the activities that happened at the seaside. 

Geography

In Geography we will be learning what it is like to live in Shanghai compared to Long Crendon and comparing the physical features.  We will focus on learning the continents and some of the oceans using directional language like near, far, left and right. We will then focus on learning where our foods comes from and seasonal changes. 
 

RE 

This term we are learning about who are the important people in religion and why. We will be comparing Judaism and Christianity.

PSHE

This term we are learning about relationships and how everyone's families are different and how to make friends. Then we will be learning about how our bodies change including learning the names of male and female private body parts. 

Art & D&T

This term we will be sculpture through the art of paper shaping. We will then move on to learning about different types of fruit and veg and how to create a smoothie. 

Computing

This term we will focus on maze explorers on Purple Mash. The children will have the opportunity to develop their familiarity with both the laptops and iPads in school. 

Music

This term they will be learning about using their voices expressively by singing songs and speaking chants and rhymes and playing tuned and untuned instruments musically. 

P.E

This term we will be developing our gymnastics from previous terms and using apparatus, along with attacking and defending in a number of different competitive and cooperative games.  

This year the phonics test will take place in June 2025. 

Parent Partnership
We are always happy to discuss anything with parents and carers to help to support children in learning or to provide pastoral support. If you would like to meet, please contact the office to arrange this.

    Bug Club Sounds and Actions

In their phonics lessons, the children are taught the letter sounds along with a matching action. This helps many children remember the individual letters or combination of letters more readily. It is important that the children use the 'pure' sound as they read each letter, this will ensure the words makes sense when blended back together. Phases 2, 3  & 4 are taught in Foundation and phase 5 in Year 1.

(Please note there are no new sounds taught in Phase 4.)

Copy the link below into your browser to watch a video of the sounds taught in each phase.

Phase 2 

https://mediaplayer.pearsoncmg.com/assets/bcpafsp2

Phase 3

https://mediaplayer.pearsoncmg.com/assets/bcpafsp3

Phase 5 (Set A)

https://mediaplayer.pearsoncmg.com/assets/bcpafsp5a

Phase 5 (Set B)

 https://mediaplayer.pearsoncmg.com/assets/bcpafs5