Summer Term 2013 Overview – Jurassic Forest
During the summer term Year 1 will be exploring aspects of the discovery of the Jurassic forest through Darwin and other Victorians. The children will have the chance to participate in two exciting off site visits which will allow them to enter the world of the Victorians; from Darwin’s discoveries to school days in Victorian time.
In our science learning, we will be discovering plants that grow in our environment, and creating our own experiment to show how plants grow best. Art learning will allow the children to discover the minibeasts in our environment and liken them to creatures from the Jurassic age; they will then be able to create creatures from clay and bring them home.
At the end of April, the children will have the opportunity to undertake a short Road Safety course, which will culminate in them creating a safety poster for others in their Key Stage. We will be celebrating the Queens Jubilee with the rest of the school, and creating a story with animation, music and words in ICT.
We are looking forward to an exciting Summer Term.
X Marks the Spot – Spring Term 2013
This term Year One will be undertaking a quest to discover the world of pirates and treasure.
In English we are learning about pattern and rhyme with the help of some pirate friends.
Through our ICT we will be using a graphics package to make treasure maps.
Towards the end of this half term we will be going on an exciting discovery mission to HMS Victory where we will learn about life on the high seas.
We look forward to an exciting half term where we will learn and make good progress whilst having lots of fun!
X Marks the Spot – Spring Term 2013
This term Year One will be undertaking a quest to discover the world of pirates and treasure.
In English we are learning about pattern and rhyme with the help of some pirate friends.
Through our ICT we will be using a graphics package to make treasure maps.
Towards the end of this half term we will be going on an exciting discovery mission to HMS Victory where we will learn about life on the high seas.
We look forward to an exciting half term where we will learn and make good progress whilst having lots of fun!
Our Tasty World – Autumn 2012
Our topic for the term is ‘Our Tasty World’. We will be exploring the world through ICT by using Google maps, while concentrating on the area around Portsmouth and its twin town of Caen. We intend to visit a cross-channel Ferry in October, where the children will have the chance to role play with passports we will create in class. We can’t go on the Ferry this year for logistical reasons, theirs, not ours, so we are going to Morrisons instead! In DT, we will also be tasting and making breads from European countries; this will link into our science topic of ‘ourselves’.
Science:
In science we will be discovering our bodies, and how we change from being a baby to being an old person. As part of this we will be exploring our senses, undertaking various exciting experiments and using our inspiring new role play area!
English
The genres we are covering this half term include, Stories from Familiar Settings, Instructions and Poetry. Each of these areas of study will be linked into our topic to enhance children’s learning.
Maths
Linking into our topic we will be covering various areas of maths including; numbers and numbers systems, measure, shape and space, and handling data. Children may be given work to undertake in their learning logs relating to these areas of mathematics.
VAV
In line with the start of year, we are learning about belonging. This we encourage children to feel that they belong to several different communities, including their family, school, clubs they belong to and other groups.
PE
Our outdoor games will allow children to learn how to throw, catch, dribble and pass a ball, whilst in gymnastics we will be learning how to link sequences by rolling, travelling, balancing and climbing.
Your teachers Mrs Gray, Mrs Peters and Miss Churchill look forward to welcoming you to Year One, for a year of progress through hard work and lots of fun!
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Summer Term 2012 Overview – Jurassic Forest
During the summer term Year 1 will be exploring aspects of the discovery of the Jurassic forest through Darwin and other Victorians. The children will have the chance to participate in two exciting off site visits which will allow them to enter the world of the Victorians; from Darwin’s discoveries to school days in Victorian time.
In our science learning, we will be discovering plants that grow in our environment, and creating our own experiment to show how plants grow best. Art learning will allow the children to discover the minibeasts in our environment and liken them to creatures from the Jurassic age; they will then be able to create creatures from clay and bring them home.
At the end of April, the children will have the opportunity to undertake a short Road Safety course, which will culminate in them creating a safety poster for others in their Key Stage. We will be celebrating the Queens Jubilee with the rest of the school, and creating a story with animation, music and words in ICT.
We are looking forward to an exciting Summer Term.
X Marks the Spot - Spring Term 2012
This term Year One will be undertaking a quest to discover the world of pirates and treasure.
In English we are learning about pattern and rhyme with the help of some pirate friends.
Through our ICT we will be using a graphics package to make treasure maps.
Towards the end of this half term we will be going on an exciting discovery mission to HMS Victory where we will learn about life on the high seas.
We look forward to an exciting half term where we will learn and make good progress whilst having lots of fun!
HMS Victory: 25.1.12
On Wednesday 25th January, year one took a trip to HMS Victory to support their Nelson and Pirates topic for the term. Fortunately it was a dry day, as we had a long way to walk from the Dockyard Gates to HMS Victory.
We were met by our guide, who took us straight on to HMS Victory and gave us a talk all about a boy who went back in time to Nelson’s day. The boy told us about the food he had to eat, and the clothes he had to wear, and the ‘Cat o’ nine tails’ which was used to punish naughty sailors. We got to pass round lots of different things, and then tried on the clothes and pretended to eat the hard biscuits; we didn’t use the Cat o’ nine tails!
Afterwards we had a tour of the whole ship, and visited the museum. We found some of the steep staircases a bit tricky, and saw a real pirate flag in the museum. We also saw where Nelson died and learned about the medical equipment on board, Jack lit the cannon, but fortunately no-one got put into shackles!
We had a great time, and some of us wanted to go back again.
