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

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• 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

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...and lots of other things!

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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

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• learning about the Impressionist artist Claude Monet and painting flower gardens in his style

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• making preparations for Christmas

and many more..!

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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)