Year 1 2024 - 2025

• Meet the team

1M - Mrs MacNeill, Mrs Gomez, Mr Ahenkorah

1F - Miss Ravat and Mrs Bousie

If you have any questions, please speak to one of our Year 1 staff or email year1@almapark.manchester.sch.uk

Welcome

Welcome to Year 1! Year 1 is an exciting time as the children take the next steps in their development. As we adapt to new timetables and routines, we work together as a class to meet challenges with confidence and celebrate our achievements.

Here, you can find an overview of the Year 1 Curriculum. You can use this information to discuss with your child what they have learned and continue to support their learning at home.

The knowledge organisers and the brain builder for this half term are listed at the bottom of this page.

This half term:

Maths:

• We will be learning about place value and addition and subtraction within 20
• Counting forwards and backwards to 50 and counting forwards and backwards in 5s
• Time - days of the week and months of the year
• Length, mass and capacity

English:

Talk for Writing unit: We are focussing on non chronological reports.

• I can organise my writing under subheadings to group facts together.

• I can write a question punctuated with a question mark

• I can use different sentence starters

Geography:

The poles and the equator- to know which continents have a colder climate.

 Science:

 Animals including humans - Focus common animals, parts and diet

Art

Exploring watercolour

Computing:

'We are collectors'

• find and use pictures on the web
• know what to do if they encounter pictures that cause concern
• group images on the basis of a binary (yes/no) question
• organise images into more than two groups according to clear rules
• sort (order) images according to some criteria
• ask and answer binary (yes/no) questions about 
  their images.

Religious Education:

 'What does it mean to belong to a faith community?' 

PHSE:

• Physical health and Mental wellbeing
• Media literacy and Digital resilience
• Money and Work

Music: Xylophones

P.E:

• Remember to come into school wearing your PE kit on the following days.
• Outdoor Games - Monday
  We are learning different ways of sending and returning a ball.
• Kit: Trainers, black shorts or tight-fitting black leggings, and a plain white t-shirt (a tracksuit top and joggers may be worn if cold)
• Dance/Gymnastics - Thursday
• Kit: Black shorts or tight-fitting black leggings and a plain white t-shirt

Reading:

• In class we are currently reading a range of different stories about a range of topics, that can be linked to our half termly targets in other subjects.
• We encourage the children to borrow a book from our library to read for their enjoyment. We would be very grateful if you could make sure they bring them back every week to get a different book to read to you at home. Please record when they read to you in their reading record books. 
• Please read with your child every day. You can access their guided reading text through the Collins E-Book app in addition to reading for pleasure.

Homework:

• Spellings will be sent out every week on Monday, which children will learn for a spelling test on the following Monday.
• This half term's Brain Builder can be found below:

  *Find out which animals live in the Polar regions and at the Equator. Choose one of the animals and write a fact file about them.

  *Design a picture/ painting in the style of Paul Klee

  *Use your measuring skills to draw some shapes using precise measurements e.g a square with sides of 5cms, a triangle with sides of 6 cms

  *Design and write a postcard from somewhere you have visited

  * Easter activities: traditionally, during this half term we also share, Easter Bonnets in KS1 (decorate a hat for the Easter assembly) and Easter ‘Eggshibition’ in KS2 (decorate and display a hardboiled egg) you can complete these as part of your BrainBuilder.

  You can either choose one of the themes above for your project or you may choose to do them all! It’s up to you how many you would like to do.

  Date for families to drop in to celebrate what they have done:

  9:00 – 9:30am on Friday 28^th March 2025

  We will take photos of the projects and share these with families on our class webpage

Enrichment: 

Visitor coming to talk about his trip to Antartica.