Year 1

Welcome to Year 1!

Our class teachers are Mrs Parker, Mrs Pobjoy and Mrs Glenn.

Mrs Edge, Mrs Milner, Mrs Gates, Mrs Ward and Mrs Allen are all part of our team too!

This term we are looking at Oliver Jeffers' Lost and Found and Up and Down. We will explore what happens to the characters, what they are thinking, feeling and what they could be sayin to each other. We will also be researching and writing fact files about Penguins.

In Science we are learning about our amazing bodies, we will be exploring our senses and naming parts of the body.

Our Topic focus this term is Geography. We will be looking at the UK, its four countries and their capital cities. We will also look at the seas around the UK. We will draw maps of our local area and try to follow our maps on a walk around Coningsby.

During RE this term we will be looking at Islam and what Muslims believe about Allah (God). We will look at what Muslims believe about the Creation story.

In Art we be creating penguin pictures using a range of media, for example, pencils, paint, collage materials and a paint programme on the laptops.

Our Church School Value is Compassion.

The Bible story of the term is: 

Elijah and the widow of Zarephath. 1 Kings 17 v 7-24  

These websites are really useful to support phonics at home: 

https://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/

http://www.ictgames.com/literacy.html

https://www.phonicsbloom.com/uk/game/list/phonics-games-phase-2

https://www.teachyourmonstertoread.com/