Updated 16th June 2025
Overview
Our continuing topic this summer term is 'Oh I do Like to be Beside the Seaside!'. with lots of lessons linked to this topic including Geography, Literacy and Art. Shortly, Year 1 will enjoy a trip to Ruislip Lido to celebrate all things 'beach' which we are all really looking forward to.
In Maths, Year 1 are now progressing to numbers to 100. The class is continuing to learn through concrete resources and they all enjoy playing maths games. The resources we use include dice : d6, d10 and d20 as well as using part whole models, number lines, tens frames and basically anything we can count: cubes, conkers, counters, Numicom, Base 10, Unifix, fir cones etc.
We will also cover capacity, multiplication/division in 2s, 5s and 10s, fractions and geometry, money and time.
In Science we are moving on from the Seasons Spring and Summer to Scientists and Inventors, although we will still watch our sunflowers and beans grow in our playground garden..
Geography will concentrate on identifying seasonal and daily patterns in the weather, together with basic geographical vocabulary.
In Art, Year 1 will be experimenting with water colours and creating seaside landscapes.
In DT the class will discover in what order a sandwich needs to be made and then go on to write design and evaluate their own revolting sandwich creations. They will also make a moving invention which ties into our science topic.
In ICT the class will continue using Purple Mash and will learn about spreadsheets and technology we use in everyday life.
In RE the children will look at Religions and go onto their places of worship after half term.
PE will concentrate on multi-skills as Sports Day will soon be here, together with gymnastics and yoga.
