ST PAUL'S YEAR 1A massive welcome to all the children in Year 1

We hope that you have had a wonderful summer and are feeling excited for the year ahead. Our new topic for the autumn term is called ‘What if we could go back in time?’ which has a History focus. The children will be exploring their own family, including family trees, how they have changed from babies to now and special family events. We will also be exploring toys that family members may have played with in their childhood and beyond to Victorian times. They will have the opportunity to visit St Johns Museum in Warwick to explore and play with Victorian toys and tour the museum and Victorian classroom.

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We have some Curriculum Drivers to support our topic:

COMMUNITY

To have the opportunity to speak to mums of babies and toddlers and the elderly who will come to visit.

POSSIBILITY

To conclude the topic, children will be looking at their futures and what they would like to achieve/ become.

ENQUIRY

Children will be asking questions about significant personal events (both in the local community and in their family home). Children will be finding out and asking questions about toys.

SMSC

Understanding different family dynamics and cultures.

BRITISH VALUES

Showing tolerance and respect for the elderly and people in positions of authority during out of school visits.

SKILLS BUILDER

Our Focus will be listening and speaking.

WHAT TO LOOK FORWARD TO...Learning with
St Paul's

In Science we will look at how we have developed from babies to toddlers to children.
In R.E., we will be looking at how Christians show their belief in God and how they put their beliefs into practice.

This half term we will start to use our PSHE scheme, Jigsaw with a focus on the topic ‘Being me in my world.’ This will include looking at feeling safe and special, being proud of ourselves and how to recognise feelings when faced with certain consequences.

In Design and Technology the children will be exploring winding mechanisms through toys and designing and making their own Thaumatrope.

In English we will be following our Read Write Inc programme.

In Maths, we will be continuing to develop our knowledge of numbers to 10 and counting forwards and backwards using number lines and tens frames. We will improving our knowledge of place value.

In art the children will be creating their own sculpture of Moai heads found on Easter Island. We will be using various materials and techniques to manipulate and create our sculpture.

In English we looking at a variety texts over the coming weeks from David Wiesner’s ‘Flotsam’ ‘Oliver’s Fruit Salad’, The Lost Thing’, and ‘The Big sneeze’.

In Maths, we will continue developing our understanding and fluency of counting in multiples of 2, 5 and 10. We will be counting within 100, forwards and backwards starting from any given number. We will recognise common 2D and 3D shapes presented in different orientations.