Miss Caff
Teacher
My favourite book is 'How to Train your Dragon' by Cressida Cowell. When I was at school, this book was read to me by my class teacher. I became engrossed in the adventurous, magical and wondrous characters within the story and the ups and downs within the plot. I was hooked. The book follows a young Viking boy, Hiccup who wants to be just like his dad until he meets an interesting dragon, Toothless. The bravery, independence and teamwork within this book resonated with me as a child and still do now. I will continue to read this book and recommend it to all of my students.
Miss Franklin
Support Staff
There is something so special about getting lost in the pages of a good book. I love reading. My favourite thing to do is to curl up under a blanket with a good book and a hot chocolate. When I was young, I used to love reading 'The Secret Seven' and 'The Famous Five' books by Enid Blyton. Now I'm older I still enjoy reading mystery novels. My favourite grown up book is 'The Night Circus' by Erin Morgenstern.
Autumn 1
Welcome back after the summer holidays! The title for Autumn 1 is ‘Food, Glorious Food’.
In Science, we will be thinking about ‘animals – including humans’, the children will identify, name and draw different body parts, notice that animals have offspring that grow into adults and explore whether things are dead, alive, or have never been alive. They will find out about the basic needs of animals for survival and will describe the importance of exercise, a balanced diet and hygiene.
In Design Technology, we will be thinking about the importance of eating healthy foods. The children will then design, make and evaluate their own healthy sandwiches.
In Art we will be exploring the work of Lynn Flavell, exploring patterns in the natural world and in traditional South African art and then applying our learning to make our own fruit and vegetable print. We will also be creating our own self portrait to be displayed in the classroom.
In music we will be covering the ‘Hey you!’ unit from Charanga, we will learn about the pulse and beat within a piece of music and will learn to play the note ‘C’ to the beat. We will also learn to sing and perform the ‘Hey you!’ song.
Phonics and spelling will be taught daily alongside our English lessons. This half term we will be focusing on the story ‘Meesha makes friends’ to inspire our writing, and will go on to write a recount of the story.
In maths, we will follow the White Rose scheme of work. Our focus will be number and place value to start off with, and then we will move on to addition and subtraction. We will be continually reviewing our arithmetic methods throughout the half term through our ‘fluency in five’ sessions.
In P.E, we will be attending a week of swimming lessons at Polkyth Leisure Centre. We will also be learning about circuits and how we can move our bodies in different ways such as jumping, balancing and rolling.
In R.E. we will be exploring the question: ‘Who do Christians say made the world?’ We will be thinking about the story of creation, how Christians say thank you to God for his creation, and how Christians feel we should treat the world because of their belief that God created the world.
In computing, we will be completing our ‘online safety’ unit, in which the children will learn the importance of logging on safely and of keeping personal information private. We will also complete a ‘2question/2investigate’ unit in which they will use and create pictograms and create and search binary trees.
In PSHCE, the Year 1s will be covering ‘Being Me in My World’. We will be learning about how to feel proud of our achievements.