Willow
Welcome to Year 1 - Willow
Mrs Andreas and Mrs Morgan
In Literacy, we have been enjoying the text Dinosaurs and All That Rubbish by Michael Foreman. We have focused on using imperative verbs (bossy words) to give instructions, such as “Pick up your messy litter!” and “Grow lots of colourful flowers!”. The children have made excellent suggestions about how to care for our planet, and next week they will complete this unit by writing their own pamphlet to share these ideas.
In Maths, we have continued our learning on addition and subtraction within 20, focusing on doubles and near doubles, finding fact families (8 facts), subtracting by counting back, and subtraction by finding the difference. We have also been using number lines to help us find missing numbers.
In Phonics, we have been learning more Phase 5 graphemes and tricky words. We have focused on alternative graphemes, including:
- or: aw (awful), oor (floor), aur (dinosaur), al (walk), au (author), a (water)
- air: are (share)
- oo: u (pudding), oul (could)
- er: or (worm)
- ar: al (palm), a (father)
- ch: tch (itchy), ture (creature)
Our new tricky words are: once, laugh, because, eye.
In Handwriting, we have been learning about letter families, including long ladder letters (i, l, t, u, y), curly caterpillar letters (c, o, a, d, g, q, f), and one-armed robot letters (h, b, k, r, n, m, p).
In P.E., we have been playing invasion games, practising dribbling a ball and passing to each other.
In R.E., we have been learning about the Jewish festival of Purim. We learned how Queen Esther saved the Jewish people and why she is celebrated. We also had lots of fun dressing up in special clothes, as some Jewish people do during this festival.
Spring Term 2025
Click on the links below to see what the children in Year 1 will be learning in the Spring Term.