Year One Newsletter Spring 2

Welcome back to the second part of the Spring term. We hope that you all had a relaxing and restful holiday. We had a busy and enjoyable Spring 1 with Year One and we continue to be impressed with how independent and hard working the children are. We have an exciting few weeks ahead in Year One with a new History based Topic on coal mining. We are very much looking forward to taking the children to Woodhorn Colliery on Wednesday 4th March. This is an excellent trip and the children learn so much about coal mining and what life was like for coal miners and their families.

English

Our key text for this half term is ‘Where The Wild Things Are’ by Maurice Sendak

Fiction Writing:

• The children will write descriptions of Wild Things and of story settings.
• We will focus on using adjectives, varying sentence starters and our sentence punctuation.

Non-Fiction Writing:

The children will write a recount of Max’s adventure in the story as well as a recount of our visit to Woodhorn Colliery.

• Handwriting and spelling continue to be a big priority in year one. Each week, the children will practise spelling a group of the year one common exception words.
• We will share the words your child is focusing on in school with you, so they can also practise at home.

Maths

Number:

• We are reaching the end of our work on addition and subtraction within 20. Children will then explore place value to 50.
• Children will count from 20-50, count by making groups of ten, partition numbers into tens and ones and estimate where a number would come on a number line to 50.

Shape, Space and Measure:

• We will be learning about length and height before moving on to Mass and volume.
• Children will compare lengths and heights and learn to measure to the nearest centimeter. We will use the language of ‘heavier’ and ‘lighter’ before comparing mass, volume and capacity.

Science

• In Science lessons, we will investigate the big question, ‘Could a tiger come to tea?’
• We will find out about different animal groups and different animal diets.
• At the end of the topic, we will invite an animal to tea.
• Is a tiger the best choice of guest?

History

• We will explore the area around our school now before comparing this to the area in the past.
• The children will learn about the history of the Havannah Pit and Hazelrigg Colliery.
• We will be visiting Woodhorn Colliery to find out more about what life was like for people who lived in our area in the past, especially for miners and their families.

Design Technology

• We will begin to explore the topic of nutrition in D&T, learning about fruits and vegetables, sorting fruits and vegetables and learning about where they grow.

RE

Our topic in RE is Easter. Children will learn about lent and the Easter Story including Palm Sunday and Good Friday.

PSHE

• We will be learning about safety in the home and staying safe when we are out and about.
• We will also be learning about what to do in an emergency.

Music

Children will continue to follow our Charanga scheme and focus on listening, appraising and composing music.

PE

• This half term our focus in PE is on developing our ball skills further.
• We will also be working hard to create a weather themed dance.

Computing

• In computing we will be learning about data and information.
• We will be learning to sort and group data in different ways.