Welcome to Year 1! 

The Year 1 teacher is Miss Guinan and we also have the fantastic Mrs Westlake working with us too! We have lots of exciting learning planned and we can't wait to get stuck into Summer term!

Autumn 2

All about the human body 

Try these games about the human body

Here is a usual week in Year One...

AUTUMN TERM

This term our topic will be SUPERHEROES. We will look at what it takes to be a superhero and look at people in our community who are real life 'superheroes'. In Science will will explore our senses and in Design Technology we will be exploring mechanisms and making our own superhero book including pulleys and levers.

Click on the links below for more ways to help at home with the different areas of learning this half term.

Superheroes	Maths	Science	HEARTSMART Don't forget to let love in
Small-town Superheroes BBC	Superhero maths Maths games	All about the senses Senses song	Ideas for being kind Kindness checksheet
R.E Harvest	Ball skills	Spanish	Computing and E-safety
Harvest activities	Throwing and catching ideas	Practise your Spanish at home	Watch Smarty the Penguin to be safe online

Home Learning 

Here are some additional sheets for your child to do that have lots of questions following a similar format. These are good as they just need a bit of input and then they can complete the rest independently. Please do not feel you need to do all of these at all. They are just for you to use in place of any of the activities on Dojo. 

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Summer 2

This term we are exploring Traditional Tales; we will be looking at well known stories such as Jack and the Beanstalk, The Three Little Pigs and Little Red Riding Hood. We will be using our topic not only to inspire our writing, but also our Design and Technology projects. We will be  designing a structure for the Three Little Pigs to live in! Hopefully we will use materials that are strong enough to keep out any pesky wolves!

Use the links below to find out more about the different topics we will be learning about this half term. 

You can visit our virtual library to listen to stories we use in class. We have lots linked to our P.S.H.E topics.

Click here to see our books so far...

Summer 1: Space and Heroes of Our Time

Summer 1

Links to help at home

Mathletics	Times Tables Rock Stars	Purple Mash	Phonics Play	Spelling Shed	Topmarks

Additional links to support learning at home

Teach your Monster to Read - Phonics learning app

BBC Supermovers - Great maths songs to learn and move to

SPRING TERM

Could a Meerkat live in the South Pole?

Our topic this half term is Pole to Pole. We will be finding out what life is like in the most extreme places on earth; hot and cold. We will explore the weather, landscape and the animals who live there. 

Click on the links below to find out more.

Hot places Find out which animals would live here.	Cold places Find out which animals would live here.	Counting on -  addition and subtraction	R.E.                                Find out about more about how Jesus helped people
Click to find out about life around the world
PSHE Too much selfie isn't healthy	Programming Use the programme SpriteBox to help your children with a fun and easy introduction to coding --> Click here	Geography Can you name all 7 continents? I will after listening to this catchy song!

Heart Smart

At St Mary's we are trying to be Heart Smart. This means that we use our hearts and our minds to make good decisions for ourselves and others.

Click here to find our more about the Heart Smart scheme  

This week we have thought about who we are grateful to and why.

Here are some of the things we thought of:

I am grateful to Zara for always helping me in class.

I am grateful to the dinner ladies who help me cut my food and carry my tray sometimes.

I am grateful to Mrs Westlake for helping me with my sounds.

I am happy Tom is my friend because he helps me to have fun.

I am grateful to Freddie because he says kinds things to everyone.