Our teachers are Mrs Parker (Monday, Tuesday) and Mrs Eastham (Wednesday, Thursday and Friday) and our teaching assistant is Mrs Clarke. Mrs Houghton works in our class every Monday for the last part of the afternoon and first thing on Wednesday morning. Mrs Rodden will look after us at lunch time.

We are looking forward to our Summer term in Year 1. We will be learning about...

Maths - We start our day with maths and follow the Red Rose Maths Scheme. Our units for this term include place value, addition and subtraction, capacity and volume, fractions and position and direction. After half term we will be working on shape, time, multiplication and division, statistics, measurement and sorting/ sequencing. We will also have our Mastering Number session each morning where we practise our number skills to be quick and flexible in our thinking!

Phonics - We will be continuing our phonics scheme, Little Wandle, and we will have daily phonics sessions to practise our Phase 5 sounds such as ‘ay’ and ‘ie’ and split digraphs as in a-e (game) and i-e (slide). This term we will learn what an ‘alien’ word is and how to sound it out and read it. We will continue to practise reading and spelling our tricky words every day.

English - We are starting an exciting unit of work all about the story ‘Zog’ by Julia Donaldson to inspire our own writing!

Science: This term, we will be learning about the different types of animals in the world. We will learn about the categories of animals - mammals, bird, fish, reptiles and amphibians. We will research the foods these animals eat and understand the terms - carnivore, herbivore and omnivore. We will visit Blackpool Zoo on Monday 23rd June with all of Year One.  We will also reflect on the changing seasons to complete the cycle as we move from the spring to summer.

Geography: In the first half term, we will be learning about the seaside with a focus on the resort of Southport.

History: In the second half term, we will learn about the history of Ormskirk Gingerbread. We are hoping to visit the gingerbread stall on Ormskirk Market and go on a gingerbread hunt around the town in the last half term.

Religion: We will be learning about Hinduism. We will learn about the various gods and goddesses that are important to Hindus and even design some of our own.

Music: We will be exploring sound, learning new songs and playing the glockenspiel.

Computing: We will practise our digital writing skills. We will learn how to use the keyboard to type and use capital letters, backspace, return key, space bar and full stops in our work.

PSHE: We are thinking about our health and well-being. Then we will move onto taking about safety and our changing bodies.

PE: Our PE days are Mondays and Wednesdays. The children can come to school dressed in their PE kits on these days and wear trainers with Velcro or elastic. We will be working with the Lancashire Sports Partnership on our skills in Athletics.

Things your child needs to bring to school every day:

Water bottle

Fresh fruit snack (please label the tub or bag if bringing one)

A waterproof coat

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to speak to us.