Year 1

Welcome to Year 1

Croeso I Blwyddyn 1

Miss Jones is your teacher.

Miss George helps us in class too.

Here is a timetable of our weekly routines:

Class page on the school website will be up-dated with information on the learning of the week.

This week we have been ...

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• learning to write subtraction number sentences
• learning to subtract by using tens frames
• solving subtraction problems
• recognising 1 more and 1 less than a number          
• looking at what recount writing is 
• looking at and identifying the features of a recount
• continuing to practice our phonic sounds and using them to help us read words
• looking how pirates live
• labeling the parts of a pirate ship 

This term our topic for learning is Land Ahoy. We are hoping to visit a local Lifeboat Centre and find out about the work of the RNLI. In this topic we will be focusing on learning about different types of boats and the sea through fiction and non-fiction books. We will explore maps both real and imaginary and learn the parts of ships. We will be exploring and finding out about life at sea as a pirate. 

This term in literacy we will be continuing to learn our letter sounds. We will be learning to spell high frequency words, topic words and learning spelling strategies. We will have daily handwriting practice to reinforce spelling. We will also be learning how to retell and write a pirate story. We will learn to sing and chant different sea shanties. We will use role play, puppets, boats and other small world items to stimulate imagination. 

In Mathematical development we will be learning to compare, contrast order and sequence according to size, colour and shape. We will continue to build on addition and subtraction and learning number facts.  

In welsh, we will be learning about 'Barti Ddu' and describe someones clothing.