Welcome to Year 1
Hello and a warm welcome to Year 1 at Ombersley First School!
The Year 1 team consists of:
Miss Morgan - Class teacher
Mrs Godbold – Teaching Assistant
We aim to ensure that all children experience a smooth and seamless transition from the Early Years Foundation Stage to Key Stage 1, thereby building on the foundations that the National Curriculum depends on.
Year 1 is the most exciting year in the school! During the Year, our pupils will be exploring ideas, discovering different ways to learn, and will be enjoying a variety of fantastic and new experiences. We will endeavour to instil a love of learning in each and every one of the pupils, and to inspire children's imaginations using our terrific topics!
What does our curriculum look like in year 1?
Phonics
- In year 1, we use Floppy Phonics.
- If you would like to support your child at home, you just need to type in Oxford Owl and login in using our details:
Password: ombersley2023
Maths
- In year 1, we follow the White Rose scheme of learning.
- We also do a Mastering Number starter every day which helps with our fluency.
- Our topics for maths are:
- Autumn term - Place value within 10, addition and subtraction within 10 and geometry.
- Spring term - Place value within 20, addition and subtraction within 20, place value within 50, length and height, mass and volume.
- Summer term - Multiplication and division, fractions, geometry (position and direction), place value within 100, measurement (money), time.
Writing
- In year 1, we follow the I Am a Clever Writer scheme of learning. .
- Autumn term - handwriting and sentence structure focus
- Spring term - Use the conjunction ‘and’ to join words and using exciting openers.
- Summer term - instructions and wanted posters to consolidate year 1 key skills
PE
- We use Get Set 4 PE for our lessons in PE.
- We also have specialist coaches in to support us in our learning.
- Our topics are:
- Autumn term: Ball skills, fundamentals, sending and receiving and dance.
- Spring term: Dance, gymnastics, invasion games, gymnastics.
- Summer term: Net and wall games, OAA, athletics and fitness.
Computing
- We follow Purple Mash for our computing lessons:.
- Our topics throughout the year are:
- Online safety, grouping and sorting, pictograms, Lego builders, maze explorers, animated stories, coding and tech outside school.
History
- We follow Kapow for our History.
- Our topics are:
- Autumn term - How are we making history?
- Spring term - How have toys changed?
- Summer term - How have explorers changed the world?
Geography
- We follow Kapow for our Geography.
- Our topics are:
- Autumn term - What is it like here?
- Spring term - What is the weather like in the UK?
- Summer term - What is it like to live in Shanghai?
Science
- We follow Kapow for our Science. Our topics are:
- Autumn term - seasonal changes and everyday materials
- Spring term - our bodies and comparing animals
- Summer term - pants and learning science through stories
Art
- We follow Kapow for our Art. Our topics are:
- Autumn term - exploring line and shape
- Spring term - painting and mixed media
- Summer term - Sculpture and 3D paper play
DT
- We follow the Design and Technology scheme of work for our DT. Our topics are:
- Autumn term - Mechanisms (moving story book)
- Spring term -Stable structures
- Summer term - Cooking and nutrition
Music
- Our music lessons follow Charanga.
- Practising our class harvest song 'The harvest list'
Look at the fabulous Year 1 learning so far in Autumn term!
