Willow Tree- Year 1 2024 - 2025

Welcome to Willow Tree Class!     

We hope you have all had a fantastic Easter break and enjoyed spending time with your families and friends. Please find some useful information on this page about the Summer term ahead and about some of the exciting things we will be learning about. Also attached at the bottom of the page is our class termly overviews of curriculum subjects. 

We also try hard to update our class Twitter feed regularly with photos and tweets of things we have been getting up to in class!

If for whatever reason you have any questions or queries about the term ahead, then please do not hesitate to contact me through the school office or speak to me on the gate. It is important that we work together in partnership across the year and we're very much looking forward to working with you. 

Mrs Bani & Miss Fellows

Curriculum Information                

Maths

Our Maths topics for Summer Term will focus on partitioning numbers to 50 and counting in 2s, 5s and 10s. Then we will move on to learning about multiplication and division. 

Please note that the children have access to Numbots which is an online tool full of games to help their quick recall of number bonds. Numbots will be used in school and can be accessed at home too. Their log in details will be in their reading planners. 

English

The children will use a variety of different stimulus throughout the term to engage and inspire the children’s writing. The children will begin looking at ‘The Last Wolf’. The children will first look at predictions and inference with this book, then move on to using their knowledge of verbs, different tenses and conjunctions to write a variety of different pieces of writing. A big focus in this final term will be on the children being able to write independently and be able to edit their own writing – looking for spelling and grammar errors and ways to improve their first draft.

Science

This term for science, the children will be learning about ‘Living Things & Their Habitats’. This topic investigates food chains, local and micro-habitats and mini beasts. The children will continue to focus on developing their working scientifically skills alongside deepening their knowledge and understanding.

History

This term we will explore the question:

'Why were Christopher Columbus and Neil Armstrong brave explorers?’ 

The children will study these two significant people, find out about their achievements and the impact their explorations had upon us today. 

Geography

Our last Geography unit is called:

‘Where in the world can I go?’

The children will be discovering where the UK is within the world. They will be using maps, atlases and globes to locate the continents and oceans and some of the countries and landmarks that make them significant. 

Useful Information

Homework - This term, homework will be sent home on a Friday at the end of each week and is to be returned to school the following Wednesday. If you require any help or support with this, please just ask. Thanks for your support. Homework will always be posted on google classroom and work will be completed in homework books. The children will recieve either a maths, english, science and topic based homework each week alongside 3 of the week words. Children will need to practise reading and writing 3 of the week words at home each week.

PE - This term, our PE is on a Wednesday and Friday. Friday  is our indoor session and Wednesday is our outdoor session. As in previous years, children can come to school in their PE kits. Please ensre children are in their correct kit as last year, clothing such as football shirts and other brightly coloured shirts started to be worn in some classes. It is also important children have appropriate footwear and a warm, plain hooded jumper or coat incase of colder weather. 

Useful Links

Please find some useful links below.