Welcome to Our Page!
Our teachers are:
Spectacular Sycamores – Miss Cooke and Miss McCallum
Positive Palms – Miss Goodhead and Miss Hussain
Welcome to Our Page!
Our teachers are:
Spectacular Sycamores – Miss Cooke and Miss McCallum
Positive Palms – Miss Goodhead and Miss Hussain
Look at our classrooms!
Our classrooms are well organised and provide a calm environment to promote the children to be independent. The children can find their own resources to support them in learning.
See who our dojo masters and school council representatives are.
Our dojo masters are:
Positive Palms – Isabelle and Kallum
Spectacular Sycamores – Elijah and Aderinsola
Our school councillors are:
Positive Palms – Alex
Spectacular Sycamores – David
Throughout our Topic, Bright Lights, Big City, we will be learning about London. For History, we will be exploring the Great Fire of London, thinking about why it happened and how it stopped. We will also be learning about the capital cities in the United Kingdom. In Science, we will be investigating materials and their properties. In Art we will be looking at Christopher Wren and creating our own drawing of St. Paul’s Cathedral.
For our writing, we will be writing our own journey story based on the book ‘Cops and Robbers’ by Janet and Allan Ahlberg.
Our Fiction Key text for Autumn 1 is ‘Cops and Robbers’ by Janet and Allan Ahlberg. We will be using the talk for writing structure to learn and innovate the story. We will be focusing on setting, using drama and exploring vocabulary to uplevel our writing.
After, we will be writing a Non-Chronological report using the Great Fire of London as a focus.
Somebody stole important things from our classrooms! A suspicious figure was seen sneaking into our classrooms with a bag full of our items, even our class laptop! We wrote wanted posters to help find the culprit and wrote a list of the missing items for the police to find them. Thankfully, these were helpful and our items were found very soon after.
During this Topic, we will be exploring significant historical figures (Amelia Earhart and Nelson Mandela) who have challenged stereotypes such as gender roles and race. Through our Environmental Studies we will be looking at Greta Thunberg and how significant she is to fighting climate change. In science we are looking at animals including humans.
For our topic this term, we will be learning about the oceans and continents in Geography. In Science we are learning all about animals. we will find out about what animals need to survive, classifying animals and investigate animal life cycles. We will also be learning about animals food chains and what habitats different animals live in and why.
During this term we will be focusing on plants in our science lessons. We will learn how to name, identify and describe common plants and trees and investigate how beans grow. In geography we will be using maps and looking at the physical and human features of our school environment. In Art we will be looking at the artist Georgia O’Keeffe and creating our own observational drawings of flowers. We will also be designing and building our our bug hotels in Design and Technology.
In this topic, we will be learning about dinosaurs. Through our Environmental Studies we will be looking at extinction; looking at other animals now extinct or endangered due to climate change/human development. In History we will look at Mary Anning who was a palaeontologist. Through Art we will be creating dinosaurs sketching and working on our pencil skills.
Our model text this half term will be based off the book ‘ Tyrannosaurus Drip’ by Julia Donaldson. We will be writing a tale of fear.
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In Land Ahoy this term, We are looking at Christopher Columbus and Grace Darling. They will learning about his travels, this will link to our Geography where we are looking at maps and the different seas and oceans in the world. In Design and Technology, we will be designing, testing, modelling and evaluating boats. In Science we will be looking at Materials and different properties.
See below our important information you need to know:
In maths, we are looking at increasing our children’s fluency with basic skills. Have a go at this interactive game at home! https://www.topmarks.co.uk/addition/robot-addition
Here is a list of the spellings your child will need to learn by the end of year 1 and 2:
Our PE lessons happen on a Thursday afternoon. Please send your child to school with their PE kit.
Autumn 1
Autumn 2
Superhero day – Children are invited to wear a superhero costume to school.
Spring 1
Peak wildlife park There will be a voluntary cost to parents to ensure that this visit will go ahead.
Spring 2
Parents to be invited to allow the children to share their computing work (programming)
Summer 2
W/C Monday 6th June – Year 1 Phonic screener week
Here are some useful websites that you might want to visit to support your child’s learning.
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