Year 1 Spectacular Sycamores and Positive Palms

Spectacular Sycamores and Positive Palms 2022-23

Welcome to Our Page!

Our teachers are:

Spectacular Sycamores – Miss Hodges and Miss Hussain

Positive Palms – Miss Goodhead and Mr Richardson

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 – Roman and Ruuhi

Spectacular Sycamores – Luca and Muthmoheenat

Our school councillors are:

Positive Palms – Octavia

Spectacular Sycamores – Jessica

Below is how our topics will look this year:

Throughout our Enchanted Woodland topic, in Science we will be identifying wild and common plants and describe the a variety of common flowering plants, including trees. In Art we will be looking at patterns in nature and drawing observational sketches.

Quality Texts

Quality Texts:

Our Fiction Key text for Autumn 1 is ‘Little Red Riding Hood’ We will be using the talk for writing structure to learn and innovate the story.

Hook

Hook

Our Hook for Enchanted Woodland is our trip to Elvaston Castle Country Park.

Coming Soon!

Experiences

Memorable Experience

Coming Soon!

During this Topic, we will be understanding when the seasons are throughout the year, be making a moon buggy for Skybadger and also having a visit from the WonderDome!

Quality Text

This term, our fiction text is Beegu by Alexis Deacon. We will use this to help us write a ‘losing tale’ story.

For our Non-Fiction topic, we will be writing a set of instructions on how to look after an alien.

Hook

On the 4th December we will be having a visit from Wonder Dome for our Hook!

Experiences

Coming soon!

For our topic this term, we will have a messy afternoon. In history we will be learn about Florence Nightingale and Mary Seacole . We will look at different forms of technology in computing. In design and technology we are creating our own pizzeria and making our own pizzas!

Quality Text

Quality Texts

Our Fiction Key text for Spring 1 1 is ‘The Magic Paintbrush’ We will be using the talk for writing structure to learn and innovate the story. We will be focusing on writing the ending of the story.

Experiences

Memorable Experience

Our Hook for Muck, Mess and Mixtures will be a messy afternoon happening soon!

Parental Engagement

Parental Engagement

For our memorable experience in Muck, Mess and Mixtures, we are going to be making our own pizzas. We will be designing our own pizza based on a flag using vegetables to create it.

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.

Quality Text

Quality Texts

For our quality text this term, we will look at the traditional tale ‘Jack and the beanstalk”‘ The Non-Fiction text is a Instructions on “How to plant a seed”.

Hook

Hook

Coming Soon …

Experiences

Experiences

For our memorable experience this term we will be planting and growing seeds. We will be watching them closely to check how the grow and check on them regularly to make sure all their needs are met. We will be using our knowledge to write our instructions.

In this topic, we will learning about Brazil and compare it to the UK. In art, we will look at the artist John Rombola and recreate his art work of a carnival. In science, we will be observing and comparing different about animals. We will also be using paint programme to draw our own animal.

The Papaya that spoke

Our model text this half term will be the traditional tale ‘The Papaya that spoke’.

Hook

Coming Soon!

Experiences

Coming Soon!

During the topic, in History, we will be learning about changes within living memory looking specifically at transport over time, including uses of bridges and tunnels. We will also be looking at Isambard Kingdom Brunel who was an architect. He is famous for building the Thames Tunnel. In Design and Technology we will be designing and building a bridge to solve a tricky problem. We will also be comparing transportation, looking into which ones are the most eco-friendly.

Quality Text

Fiction

This term our focus text is ‘The Tunnel’. We will be writing a portal story.

Non-Fiction

We will also be writing a recount about our visit to a castle.

Hook

For our hook, we explored what is through a special tunnel! We made predictions and described the setting that we would explore if we climbed through the tunnel.

Experiences

Coming Soon.

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

Thursday 22nd September – Year 1 children to go to Elvaston Castle.
Tuesday 11th October – Parents in for an art afternoon.
Tuesday 18th and Wednesday 19th October – Parents afternoon

Autumn 2

Friday 4th November – Wonder Dome coming into school

Tuesday 20th December – Parents in for Design & Technology afternoon.

Spring 1

Messy afternoon (Date to be confirmed)

W/C 23rd January – Parents in to make pizzas (Design & Technology)

Spring 2

Having a Mexican carnival day (Date to be confirmed)
W/C 13th March – Parents in to create a picture of an animal (Computing)
Summer 1
Local area walk round
Parents in to use digimaps to label the local area (Geography)

Summer 2

Coming soon!

Here are some useful websites that you might want to visit to support your child’s learning.

Maths adding

Pure sounds guide for their phonics test and reading

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Contact Us

Firs Primary School
Raven Street
Derby
DE22 3WA
Telephone: 01332 346230
Fax: 01332 200782
admin@firsprimary.derby.sch.uk

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