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Our PE days are Thursday and Friday.

Our unit this half term is Run, Jump and Throw.

Children will learn how to move with increasing control and coordination, practise safe take-offs and landings and improve their accuracy when aiming and throwing. Through fun games and simple challenges, children build confidence, team work skills and a positive attitude towards physical activity.

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The Secret Life of Plants

As scientists, we will be exploring the natural world right outside our classroom door to understand how plants live, grow, and help our planet.

1. Identifying and Naming Plants

Our first job is to build our "field guide" of knowledge.

We will investigate our local environment to identify and name a variety of common wild and garden plants.

We will learn to distinguish between deciduous trees (which shed their leaves in winter) and evergreen trees (which stay green all year).

2. Investigating Plant Structure

To understand how a plant works, we have to look at how it is built.

We will identify and label the basic parts of flowering plants, including the roots, stem, leaves, and flowers.

We will examine the structure of trees, identifying the roots, trunk, branches, and leaves.

How We Will Work Scientifically

Science isn't just about what we know; it’s about how we find out. Throughout this unit:

We will observe closely: Using magnifying glasses to look at the tiny details of seeds, petals, and bark.

We will classify and group: Sorting leaves by their shapes and textures or categorizing plants by where they grow.

We will perform tests: Planting seeds and bulbs and observing them over time to see how they change.

We will record data: Drawing scientific diagrams of our findings and using new vocabulary to describe what we see.

How You Can Support Your Scientist at Home

You can help your child develop their "scientist brain" with these simple activities:

The Comparison Test: On a walk, find two different leaves. As scientists, can you describe three things that are the same and three things that are different?

Garden Detectives: Look for "wild plants" (weeds) growing in unusual places, like between bricks. Why do you think they can grow there?

Dissecting Dinner: When preparing a salad or stir-fry, help your child "dissect" the vegetables to see if you can find seeds or different plant parts.

Our Scientist Vocabulary

Encourage your child to use these "expert" words:

Deciduous, Evergreen, Germination, Roots, Stem, Trunk, Petal, Bulb, Seed.

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As Mathematicians, we will be additng and subtracting numbers (within 20).

We will also beginning to explore and compare numbers up to 50, including positioning numbers on a number line and one more and one less.

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This half term in Year 1, we will be reviewing and revising all of our taught sounds to help the children confidently segment and blend for both reading and spelling.

Our focus is on building fluency, accuracy and confidence as we prepare for the Phonics Screening Check in June.

We will be practising real and nonsense (pseudo) words, revisiting tricky sounds and strengthening our decoding skills every day.

Our Parent Meeting will take place at the end of this half term, where we will share important information about the screening check and practical ways you can support your child at home.

We look forward to seeing you there and working together to help every child feel confident and ready!

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Personal Development - Coram Life Education (SCARF): Rights and Respect

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Personal Development - Coram Life Education (SCARF): Rights and Respect

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As a Safe Cuddington Learner, the children will be developing important personal and social skills through our SCARF Coram Life: Me and My Relationships unit.

Key learning will include:

Understanding why we have classroom rules and how they help everyone feel safe and ready to learn.

Exploring what good listening looks like and how we can show we are listening carefully.

Thinking about different feelings, recognising our own emotions and understanding that everyone experiences feelings in different ways.

Learning how feelings can affect our bodies and how to manage big emotions.

Discovering what makes a good friend and how to build positive, respectful relationships.

Through stories, discussions and activities, we will continue developing confidence, kindness and responsibility in our everyday interactions.

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As a Safe Cuddington Learner, the children will be exploring our No Outsiders text My World, Your World, focusing on valuing differences and understanding that everyone belongs.

Key learning will include:

Recognising that everyone’s world is different and special in its own way.

Valuing differences between people, including interests, families, cultures and experiences.

Understanding that we share our world with others and that everyone has the right to feel included.

Learning how to show respect, kindness and acceptance towards others.

Through discussion and reflection, we will continue building a classroom community where everyone feels welcomed, valued and proud to be themselves.

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MY WORLD YOUR WORLD 🌎 Melanie Walsh | Read aloud #storyoftheweek

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As Writers, we will be exploring Hermelin: The Detective Mouse by Mini Grey and use it as inspiration to write detective-style stories. We will learn to:

In our exciting new writing unit inspired by Where the Wild Things Are, we will be building confidence, creativity and key writing skills.

As Writers, we will learn to:

Write imaginative return stories to entertain, and simple information texts about Wild Things to inform our readers

Strengthen our vocabulary by adding suffixes (-ing, -ed, -er, -est) and using the prefix un- to change meaning

Build clear, complete sentences by combining words and joining ideas using and

Sequence our sentences to create short narratives with a clear beginning, middle and end

Use punctuation confidently, including capital letters (for names and I), full stops, question marks and exclamation marks, while remembering accurate spacing between words.

We are looking forward to seeing the children grow as imaginative, enthusiastic and increasingly accurate writers throughout this unit!

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History - How did the first flight change the world?

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History - How did the first flight change the world?

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As Historians, we will learn about the Wright Brothers and how they flew the first aeroplane in 1903.

We will explore what the first aeroplane looked like and how it was different from planes today.

We will discover how aeroplanes have changed the way people travel for holidays, work and transporting goods.

We will compare old and modern aeroplanes, learning what is the same and what is different.

We will use photographs as evidence to ask questions and learn about the past.

We will learn new history vocabulary linked to inventions, flight and travel.