Welcome to Year 1! We are so excited to continue making lots of lovely memories together this term. We have some really exciting learning opportunities and experiences coming up this term! As always if you would like to discuss anything about your child’s learning journey then please do not hesitate to speak with either Miss Watson or Miss Smith after school or you can arrange a phone call or meeting via the school office or email info@belle-vue.dudley.sch.uk

Class Dojo

Remember to check Class Dojo for regular updates on your children's learning. This is a great way to keep conversations going at home and support your child's learning! Thank you for your continued support as always.

Meet the Year 1 Team

Miss Watson

1W Teacher

PSHE / RSE Lead

Miss Smith

1S Teacher

Miss Fennell

Year 1 Teaching Assistant

Important messages

PE

1W - Tuesday and Friday

1S - Tuesday and Wednesday

Please make sure children have the correct PE kit in school and come to school with plasters already over earrings or earrings taken out.

Reading books changed

Friday for both classes

Please make sure children bring both monster phonics books and book to share books into school to be changed, as we can not sent new books home unless old ones are returned.

Safety

Please can we ask that parents not come into the cloakroom for morning drop off and make sure that the door way is kept clear for children to come into school safely. 

At the end of the day when picking up please can you wait on the year 1/2 playground not at the top of the steps so that we can see each adult clearly before letting the children go. 

Thank you for your continued support!

Dates for your diary - Summer Term

Monday 13th April - Term Starts
Thursday 23rd April - Year 1 and 2 Phonics activity and Screening Check Meeting for Parents 2:30pm
Monday 4th May - Bank Holiday
Tuesday 5th May - SEND Parents Coffee afternoon 2:30pm-3:30pm
Monday 11th May to Friday 15th May - Year 6 KS2 SATs Week (No SATs on Friday 15th May)
Monday 18th May to Friday 22nd May - DT Week
Thursday 21st May - Year 1 and 2 Film Night
Friday 22rd May - Last Day of term
Monday 25th May to Friday 29th May - Half Term

Monday 1st June - Term Starts
Tuesday 2nd June - Year 1 and Year 2 SEND Support Plan parent meetings
Week Commencing Monday 8th June - Phonics Screening Check
Wednesday 10th June - HSBC Finance lessons across school
Friday 19th June - KS1 and KS2 Sports Day
Week commencing Monday 22nd June - Assessment Week
Thursday 25th June - Summer Disco Year 1-6
Week Commencing 29th June - Transition sessions (Reception-Year 5)
Friday 3rd July - Belle Vue’s Field of Fun
Tuesday 7th July - Year 6 Show Performances 2pm and 5.30pm
Wednesday 8th July - Year 6 Show Performance 5.30pm
Friday 10th July - End of Year Reports to Parents
Monday 13th July - Parents’ Evening
Friday 17th July - Last Day of Term 1:30pm Finish
Monday 20th July - INSET Day

Our Curriculum

What will year 1 be learning about this term?

Phonics and Reading:
Children will be participating in various elements of reading within the year 1 curriculum. They will have daily phonics lessons to support their decoding and blending skills. To promote fluency, expression and comprehension children will have 3 adult led reading sessions with their weekly monster phonics book. They will also have 2 lessons a week looking closely at a variety of book genres. We also enjoy reading for pleasure throughout the day, including a variety of class novels.

Writing:
Throughout Summer term, children will continue building on their knowledge of how we construct an accurate sentence, using 'and' as a conjunction and using a range of punctuation. To support our writing, we will have daily handwriting lessons to learn correct letter formation. We build spelling knowledge by applying our taught sounds and spelling rules in phonics and putting these into words and sentences. We will be mostly working on writing dictated sentences, but also ensuring we engage in lots of independent opportunities to write across the curriculum.

We will be building the skills needed to plan and write an independent story at the end of Summer 1 based on the book 'No-Bot the Robot with No Bottom'.

In Summer 2, we will base our independent writing on the book 'The Storm Whale'.

Maths:
During the Summer term, children will build foundational knowledge for multiplication and division. They will count in 2s, 5s and 10s, recognise and add equal groups and make arrays.

They will then move on to learn about fractions (halves and quarters of shapes and amounts).

Following this, they will explore position and direction, explicitly using relevant language such as left, right, forwards, backwards, above and below.

Children will then cover their final place value unit, learning about numbers up to 100. This will include partitioning numbers into tens and ones and comparing numbers.

The final two units during summer term are money and time. Children will learn how to recognise coins and notes. They will be able to tell the time to the hour and half hour.

Science:

In Summer 1, children will be learning about plants. They will:

• identify and name a variety of common wild and garden plants, including deciduous and evergreen trees

• identify and describe the basic structure of a variety of common flowering plants, including trees

In Summer 2, children will be learning about materials and magnets. They will:

• distinguish between an object and the material from which it is made

• identify and name a variety of everyday materials, including wood, plastic, glass, metal, water, and rock

• describe the simple physical properties of a variety of everyday materials

• compare and group together a variety of everyday materials on the basis of their simple physical properties 

Geography / History

In Summer 1, children will learn about the seven continents (Geography). They will:

• Name and locate the world’s seven continents and five oceans

• Identify the location of hot and cold areas of the world in relation to the Equator and the North and South Poles

• Use world maps, globes and atlases to identify countries, continents and oceans

In Summer 2, children will learn about Parliament and Prime Ministers (History). They will be taught about:

• Events beyond living memory that are significant nationally or globally

• The lives of significant individuals in the past who have contributed to national and international achievements, used to compare aspects of life in different periods

Art: 

In Summer 1, children will learn:

• to use a range of materials creatively to design and make products

• to use drawing, painting and sculpture to develop and share their ideas, experiences and imagination

• to develop a wide range of art and design techniques in using colour, pattern, texture, line, shape, form and space

• about the work of a range of artists, craft makers and designers, describing the differences and similarities between different practices and disciplines, and making links to their own

In Summer 2, children will learn about sculpture. They will be able to:

• use a range of materials creatively to design and make products

• use drawing, painting and sculpture to develop and share their ideas, experiences and imagination

• develop a wide range of art and design techniques in using colour, pattern, texture, line, shape, form and space

RE

PSHE

Throughout the Summer term, children will learn all about Health and Wellbeing. This will include physical health and mental wellbeing, growing and changing, and keeping safe.

PE

In Summer 1, children will be learning about team building in PE.

Computing

In Summer term, children will learn about pictograms, technology outside of school and online safety. 

Music

Throughout the Summer term, children will learn about the 'Exploring sounds' unit. They will explore different styles of music, singing and playing a variety of music. 

DT

During our Summer term DT week, children will make a moving vehicle which moves using wheels and axles. They will design, make, use and evaluate their product across the focus week. 

Homework

In Year One, children should be reading to an adult a minimum of 3 times a week. We will be sending home a Monster phonics book (matched to children's phonics level) and a book to share (for you to read to your child). These will be swapped each week.

We will be learning the Year 1 High Frequency Words and Common exception words so learning these at home as well will be a huge advantage. 

We will also send home an activity sheet for phonics that will focus on what they have learnt that week. Please can these be completed in pencil and handed in to the class teacher when completed.

Practising number and letter formation on letterjoin (log on code below) https://www.letterjoin.co.uk/index.html 

Regular visits to numbots (passwords can be retrieved from teachers) https://play.numbots.com/?#/account/school-login/3596  to increase fluency in maths.

Websites such as Topmarks and Phonics Play are excellent free ways for your child to embed skills at home.

https://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/ 

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/ 

Phonics Information for Parents/Carers