Year 1

Welcome to the Year 1 page. The children have had a wonderful start to Year 1 and have fully settled into the new routines of KS1. They have thoroughly enjoyed our topic  ‘Destination Outer Space’ and it was lovely to see their enthusiasm for our VR Space Workshop! 

This term we are excited to launch our new topic 'Fill up, Fuel up' where we will be thinking about healthy eating and in Geography exploring where different food come from. In DT we will also be designing and making our own fruit salad, and we are all looking froward to visiting Boz's fruit and vegetable shop to buy our ingredients.  

The children have explored a range of texts so far this term and we look forward to exploring more new texts this half term, including 'Oliver's Fruit Salad' and 'Pumpkin Soup'. The children will continue to explore a range of writing opportunities through these texts and continue to practise writing simple sentences using different adjectives and conjunctions such as 'and' and 'because'.   

In Maths, the children will be continuing to recognise 1 more and 1 less than a given number, counting on from a number, comparing numbers, as well as exploring addition and subtraction and place value. 

 In Art, we will be using our observational skills to sketch fruit, focussing on creating line and tone. We will also be studying the work of Arcimboldo and creating our own fruit and vegetable faces.

In Science, as well as exploring healthy eating, we will be using our senses to explore different fruit and vegetables and sharing our likes and dislikes. We will also be making observations over time and making predictions. 

For more information about what we are covering this half term please see our 'Fill up, Fuel up' topic web. 

We look forward to another fun and successful half term!

The Year 1 Team