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Year 1 - Squirrels
Welcome to Squirrels class page!
Class Teacher - Miss Sargent (csargent@inspiream.org.uk)
Teaching Assistants - Mrs N Kearton.
Forest School is on a Monday afternoon. Children should bring in their Forest School kit every Monday.
PE is on a Monday morning. Children should come into school in their PE kit.
Our Farm Education animal this year is chickens
What are we learning this term?
Main Experiences
Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes
Our key question for this term is ‘How can I help others to improve their fitness?’ We have been learning about parts of the body, the senses and why exercise is so important. Using this information, we will be creating and teaching a fitness class to the reception children as well as producing a set of instructions on how to perform the perfect Star Jump, Squat and Push Up! In our writing, we will use full stops, capital letters and finger spaces and will learn how to include time order adverbs.
Hook: We had a very special fitness class with an expert coach. He taught us the scientific names for parts of the body, and we learnt a range of exercises that we can perform to look after our bodies inside and out.
Outcome: Exploring our senses.
Outcome: Exploring different types of exercise
How can you support at home?
Please talk to your child about their learning. Key knowledge that the children need to know is detailed on the launch pages below.
Continue to practice phonics with your child as they are sent home each week and read the Read, Write, Inc text that accompanies this.
Also, can you practice the reading and spelling of the common exception words (red words) with your child throughout the year (see below). Thank you for your support.
Recommended Book List - Year 1
Cinamon – Neil Gaiman
I can only draw words – Will Mabbitt
The very hungrey caterpillar – Eric Carle
Goodnight everyone – Chris Haughton
We’re going on a bear hunt – Michael Rosen
Peace at last – Jill Murphy
The bad tempered ladybird – Eric Carle
Funnybones – Allan Ahlberg
The Gruffalo – Julia Donaldson
A Bear called Paddington – Michael Bond
A lion in the meadow – Margret Mahy
Cops and Robbers – Allan Ahlberg
Hairy Maclary from Donaldson’s Dairy – Julia Donaldson
Owl Babies – Martin Waddell
The Emperor of Absurdia – Chris Riddell
There are cats in this book – Viviane Schwarz
Mr Magnolia – Quentin Blake
Katie Morag’s Island stories – Mairi Hedderwick
My Friend Bear – Jez Alborough
Avocado baby – John Burningham
The Tiger who came to tea – Judith Kerr
Meg and Mog – Helen Nichol
Not now Bernard – David McKee
A Dark Dark Tale – Ruth Brown
Dogger – Shirley Hughes
I want my hat back – Jon Klassen
The Dark – Lemoney Snicket
You can’t take and Elephant on the bus – Patricia Cleveland – Peck
Penguin – Polly Dunbar
You choose – Pippa Goodhart
Stanley’s stick – Neale Layton and John Hegley
What to do if an elephant stands on your foot – Michelle Robinson
How to wash a wooley mamouth – Michelle Robinson
Dinosaurs in the supermarket – Timothy Knapman
The adventures of the dish and the spoon – Mini Grey
Learning Experiences 2023-2024
Sensational Seal
The children have been learning about our school's locality (Seal) and have been learning to write instructions to tell people how to get here!
Patchwork!
In term 1, the children have been learning about Elmer the elephant. They have created a beautiful, patchwork piece of art to display in our Inspire Gallery.
When I was Young!
In this experience we have been learning about changes that have happened in our lifetime. Our hook was a day sharing baby photos and our outcome was a poetry recital at Seal Library. We learnt how to collaborate with others and use alliteration and noisy words in our poems.
Experience 1 - Head, Shoulders, Knees & Toes
Key Learning:
• Basic parts of the body and how to identify them.
• How parts of the body are associated with each sense.
• The importance of exercise.
• How to answer simple scientific questions in different ways.
• How to use secondary sources to gather information.
• How to use observations to gather information.
• How fitness improves health and wellbeing.
Hook
Year 1 took part in an exercise class taught by our PE Lead.
Outcome
Squirrels taught Bumble Bees an exercise class that we had been practicing. Making sure they remembered their instructions using time adverbs, e.g. first, next and finally.
Experience 2 - Sensational Seal
Key Question:
Why should you come to Seal Primary School?
Key Learning:
- Use simple maps to idenitfy features.
- Use simple directional language.
- Identify the features of the locality.
- Set short term and long term goals.
- Use our focus thinking tool, 'spider diagram'.
Hook:
A trip around Seal!
Outcome:
We will be creating a video full of information, telling people why they should visit Seal and what they will see when they do!
