Welcome to Paris Class!
Here is what we are going to be learning about during the Summer Term
Our Full Curriculum can be found under: school information / curriculum overview.
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English
This half term, the children will be reading the story The Last Wolf - a wonderfully engaging text by one of our favourite authors. This story blends the familiarity of traditional tales with an important environmental message. This term, our focus will be on simple letter writing, writing non-fiction texts and writing traditional tales, with children being encouraged to develop their story telling language and use a well-known text as a starting point for their own innovated narratives. We will look at developing grammar and spelling for writing and embedding the use of the conjunction 'and'.
To enhance and support our English lessons, we will also be working on the following:
- Little Wandle phonics lessons
- Weekly spellings, grammar, comprehension and guided reading tasks
In Summer 2 we will be reading Goldilocks and Just the One Bear – a creative and clever twist on the original traditional tale with a heartwarming ending.
Mathematics
In KS1 we are deepening our mathematical knowledge with a mastery approach, using concrete resources, pictorial representations and building up to understanding more abstract written methods of recording our understanding.
This term we will be working on:
- addition and subtraction to ten,
- composition of numbers 11-20,
- money,
- time,
- fractions,
- problem solving.
Maths Homework: In Year 1 we ask that you continue to support us with your child's rapid recall of number facts by using Numbots on a daily basis. We recommend 10 minutes each day.
Religious Education
As a Church of England School, Religious Education is a core subject and. alongside collective worship, is a very important part of school life. RE is taught weekly but the children have daily opportunities to explore and embrace spirituality and the big questions of life. They have opportunities throughout the school day to pray, reflect and they participate in class daily prayers, whole school and class worship and the sharing of our Christian values.
This term the focus taken from the Questful RE scheme of work and linked to Understanding Christianity is:
- The story of creation in Christianity and other faiths
- Why is baptism special? How do people of other faiths welcome new babies?
Science
Seasonal Change
- Observe changes across the four seasons
- Observe and describe the weather associated with each season, and how the length of the day changes
Living Things and Their Habitats
- explore and compare the differences between things that are living, dead, and things that have never been alive
- identify that most living things live in habitats to which they are suited and describe how different habitats provide for the basic needs of different kinds of animals and plants, and how they depend on each other
- identify and name a variety of plants and animals in their habitats, including micro habitats
- describe how animals obtain their food from plants and other animals, using the idea of a simple food chain, and identify and name different sources of food.
- describe how animals obtain their food from plants and other animals, using the idea of a simple food chain, and identify and name different sources of food.
History
Our focus for the final term is looking at how events and people from our local area have made a wider impact on our lives and those of others in our country.
Important person - the captain of the Titanic lived and was married in Winwick.
Why do we remember the Titanic?
- Asking and answering questions about significant historical events
- How historical events link to our local area
Important event - Warrington had a huge military presence during the war, and after, with Burtonwood playing an important part in the war effort.
How was life different in Warrington during WW2?
- Focus on the Home Front – what was the local area like and how did local people support the war effort
- How Warrington helped during the Berlin Airlift immediately after the war.
Geography
How does the UK compare to Gambia?
- What are the 7 continents and 5 oceans called?
- Where is the UK?
- Where is the Gambia?
- What are the physical and human features of the Gambia and what is its climate like?
- How is the Gambia different and similar to our local area?
PSHE
Our behaviour curriculum is centred around our Heartsmart values, and we explicitly teach the children a new Heartsmart value, alongside linked behaviours, each half term. Heartsmart means being smart with our hearts. The life of our heart affects the whole of our life. Loving yourself and others is the most powerful way to live and it’s the best way to create true friendship. We become powerful when we love ourselves and when we love others.
Heartsmart Values:
Fake is a mistake
No way through isn't true
PSHE
- Asking for permission
- Keeping safe – things that go into and onto our bodies
- Keeping safe with screens
- Choices about what to watch
- Being happy & safe
- Mental health & emotional wellbeing
- Change & loss
- Road & Rail safety
Music
In KS1 we use the Charanga music scheme. The curriculum aims to create a love of music through listening, appraising, performing and composing within different musical genres. We teach our music curriculum in blocks of time over a two-year rolling cycle, allowing for the progression and development of each individual child's musicality and skills.
Computing
Privacy & Security & Digital Photography
- Recognise that different devices can be used to capture photographs.
- Experience capturing, editing, and improving photos.
- Use the knowledge gained to recognise that images they see may not always be real.
PE
Creating games:
- Create games when playing on their own and with a partner.
- Develop their understanding of how to manage the games that they play, promoting fair play, sportsmanship, and responsibility.
Dance:
- Learn how to control and co-ordinate their bodies to perform movements that represent an explorer preparing for an expedition.
PE will take place each Thursday for Paris
We are requesting that on their PE day children come to school dressed for PE with appropriate outdoor PE kit: black jogging bottoms, plain black t-shirt and outdoor trainers.
Please ensure these items are plain black, without logos (excepting school logo) and NAMED.
During colder periods your child can wear their school jumper or cardigan to take part in outdoor activities.
PLEASE NO EARRINGS FOR PE.
Parents or carers are responsible for taking out earrings before the school day begins, as staff are not permitted to use plasters to cover them. If earrings cannot be removed, we kindly ask parents to cover their child’s ears with tape/plasters. There will be tape available at the classroom door, if needed.
DT
Making smoothies
- I can name fruits and vegetables.
- I can name places where fruit and vegetables grow.
- I can get a juicer to get juice from fruits.
- I can suggest fruits to put together based on taste.
- I can cut and juice fruits as part of a recipe.
How you can support us
Reading
In line with school policy, please listen to your child read at home three times per week. These three reads should be from the Little Wandle phonic or fluency book that comes home every Friday.
Please reread this book as often as possible – do not be concerned if you feel the text level sounds too ‘easy’; we want it to sound like they are talking! Evidence shows that regular rereading of a known text increases fluency, pace and ultimately comprehension.
We will check your child’s reading diary each Friday. Reading at home is so important, and really is the best thing you can do to support your child’s learning development across the whole curriculum.
If you have any questions or would like further advice on how to support your child with their reading, please speak with your child’s class teacher in the first instance.
Class Team
Class Teacher - Miss Read
Teaching Assistant - Mrs Rowlands
Key Information
Please make sure that children arrive in school on time, wearing the correct school uniform and black school shoes. We also ask that small, drawstring bags are the only bags brought into school. These can be purchased from the school office for £3 if needed. We do not have space in our cloakrooms to store large backpacks.
To keep our pupils hydrated, please make sure your child has a fresh water bottle containing still, clear water. No juice please. Unfortunately, we do not have many spare drinking bottles or cups in school.
Bagels will be provided by school at the start of each day. In addition to this, toast and milk can be ordered via parent pay. This will be ready for morning playtimes. Fruit is also available to the children at morning break.