Year 1 - Blwyddyn 1
Summer Term in Year 1
Tymor yr Haf ym Mlwyddyn 1
Our topic is
All our yesterdays
We will be...
- learning how houses have changed over the last one hundred years
- learning about even older homes and houses
- taking part in a 1920s wash day
- finding out why the Welsh word for toilet - 'tŷ bach' - means 'little house'
- looking at historical artefacts
- developing our role play area: Greenway Museum
- learning about why people move to other countries to live
- writing about our earliest memories
- working out the meanings in some of Aesop's fables
- learning how people dressed in Wales in the past
- challenging age stereotypes
- studying Laura Ashley and making some new designs
- building a canal based on the one at Pontcysyllte in north Wales
- asking an old people questions about the past
- sorting items into past, present and future in various mathematical ways, including Venn diagrams and Carroll diagrams
...and lots of other things!
Ongoing:
- focus texts: Rachel's washday, Changes at home, From me to you, I came to Britain from Jamaica, All kinds of toys, Mrs Wishy-Washy, Aesop's fables, O.M. Edwards and the Welsh Not
- Guided Group Reading
- spelling - words to learn given out Monday for a mini test on Friday
- handwriting
- Big Writing: learning to write for a variety of purposes and in different formats
- Maths: partitioning numbers into hundreds, tens and units; subtraction; addition of three numbers; weight and capacity; temperature; Venn and Carroll diagrams; coins; problem solving using money; representing information in tables; reasoning; Big Maths Beat That! addition songs; CLIC tests
- Wellbeing Wednesday
- maintaining our outdoor area, planting out seedlings, preparing our pollinator bed, watering and weeding, locating and identifying wild flowers, helping maintain our edible garden
- going on a trip to Barry Island (Wednesday 20 July)
Pupil voice:
- old clothes
- cave people
- dinosaurs
- old music
- old TV programmes
- castles
- memories
- what people used to eat
- old toys
Spring Term in Year 1
Tymor y Gwanwyn ym Mlwyddyn 1
Our topic was
Planes, trains and automobiles
We were...
- making a junk spaceship and writing instructions for it
- reading and drawing maps
- matching transport and destinations
- having a visit from Cardiff Bus
- watching a rocket go to the moon and write about it
- making a car with moving parts, first from a kit and then using junk
- learning about the Solar System
- sending a postcard
- MOTing Mr Evans's car
- finding out which colour cars are the most popular
- learning about road safety
- learning about France and having a French picnic
- visiting France through our VR goggles
- visiting the International Space Station
- finding out about the Dadaist art movement and making Dadaist art
- learning what makes a fair or unfair science test
- learning which materials are best for which jobs
- learning what makes a balanced diet and where our food comes from
- finding the names of countries on maps and in atlases
and LOTS of other things..!
- 'dancing' with Izzy from Upbeat Music
- using construction toys
- using the outdoors to help us revise 2D shapes and their properties
- finding something beautiful on a dull January day!
Ongoing:
- focus texts: I know that, To town, I live in France, Whatever next!, Push and pull, Gwyliau, On the Ning Nang Nong, Materials
- Guided Group Reading
- spelling
- handwriting
- Big Writing: learning to write for a variety of purposes and in different formats
- Maths: counting; addition and subtraction; collection and interpretation of data on graphs; days of the week, months of the year and seasons; 3D shapes and their properties; recognising and using coins; estimating; fractions (halves and quarters); reasoning; Big Maths Beat That! addition songs; CLIC tests
- Wellbeing Wednesday
- maintaining our outdoor area and sowing seeds both indoors and out
Autumn Term 2021 Year 1
Tymor yr Hydref 2021 Blwyddyn 1
Our topic was
Out and about
We were...
- trying to capture a Meanie!
- picking blackberries and making sorbet
- harvesting potatoes and making chips
- learning how to sort rubbish for recycling and compost
- keeping a record of how we travel to school
- learning which materials rot and break down and which do not
- learning the names of wild flowers and trees which grow in our grounds
- planning a bee and butterfly bed
- planting garlic for harvesting next year
- harvesting onions, cabbages, Brussels sprouts, sweetcorn, raspberries, Swiss chard and kale, and making tasty things with them
- sharing our produce with the community
- harvesting our pumpkin and making a Halloween lantern
- learning about road safety
- looking at real maps and learning what some of the symbols mean
- learning what makes a healthy, balanced diet (with occasional treats!)
- learning about seed dispersal
- finding out about some African countries - Botswana, Tanzania and Nigeria
- learning about the Impressionist artist Claude Monet and painting flower gardens in his style
- making preparations for Christmas
and many more..!
Ongoing:
- Guided Group Reading
- spelling
- handwriting
- Big Writing: learning to write for a variety of purposes and in different formats
- Maths: counting, addition, subtraction, 2D shapes, place value, number sentences and column addition, reasoning, Big Maths Beat That! addition songs, CLIC tests
Focus texts:
- Kingcup Cottage (Racey Helps)
- Splishy-Sploshy (Joy Cowley)
- Seeds get around
- Playing safely
- I know that (June Loves)
- Gerry's story
- This is our house (Michael Rosen)
- Peintio drws
- Clothes that keep us safe
- Red Riding Hood
- Krismasy Njema (Swahili song)