Miss Dixon
assisted by Karen & Nikki

CURRICULUM
OVERVIEW

Click here for Year 1 overview

HOMEWORK

Weekly homework is set. Please see the expectation for Year 1 on the Home Learning Overview for more information.

R.E.

We will be exploring the world religion of Judaism and thinking a about what it means to be a Jewish person and focus on some special times for Jewish people and the celebrations they have.

PE

At Boutcher, we follow the ‘Real PE’ approach. Real PE is a unique, child-centred approach that engages and challenges children in their PE lessons. It focuses on the development of agility, balance and coordination, healthy competition and cooperative learning. Real PE focuses on six key cogs, these are: Creative, Cognitive, Health and Fitness, Personal, Physical and Social.

In the spring term, we will be working through the ‘cognitive’ cog in our weekly PE lessons.

Our PE day is: Thursday

PE kit is as follows:

- plain white t-shirt or polo top

- navy blue jogging bottoms, leggings or shorts (no logos)

- school navy blue jumper or cardigan

- suitable trainers for PE

USEFUL NOTICES

A child’s book bag with their reading pack (with reading record and reading book inside) are considered to be school uniform and must be in school each day.
Water bottles should be brought into class with your child’s name on.
Please ensure all items of your child’s uniform and PE kit are clearly labelled with their name to ensure they can be easily recovered if lost and minimise the cost of replacement.
PE will be on a Thursday and you are to come to school wearing your kit.
Our library session is on a Wednesday so please have your library book in school to renew or change.
Homework is set on a Wednesday and must be uploaded on Google Classroom by the following Wednesday (9am)
Spelling tests will take place each Wednesday and results recorded in reading records.

HUMANITIES

History: How have toys changed?

Geography: What is it like to live in Accra?

SCIENCE

In this topic, we will be finding out how to:

-identify and name a variety of common wild and garden plants, including deciduous and evergreen trees

-identify and describe the basic structure of a variety of common flowering plants, including trees.

READING

Your child will be given a staged/phase book that will be taken home with them. There is no set day for changing books as children will be read to at different points in the week. To facilitate this, please ensure your child’s reading pack (with their book and reading record inside) is in their book bag every day. It is very important to hear your child read out loud each day and ask them questions about what they have read to check their understanding and develop their comprehension skills (see questions inside their Reading Record).

Their school reading book can be read more than once to ensure they not only read the words but most importantly, understand what it is about. Please remember to record the date and page number along with your signature. This helps us monitor your child’s progress.

In Key Stage One, we expect a minimum of 3 signatures a week, with one of these a written comment using the KS1 reading comprehension skills sheet that is in the front of your child’s reading record. If you read other stories, please feel free to write them in your child’s reading record too. I strongly encourage children to read other books from home or the library in addition to the stage book sent home from school.

As well as one-to-one reading, shared reading will take place in school, where children have opportunities to answer questions and discuss the texts with their peers. Children will also complete reading comprehension tasks in class.

At Boutcher, we promote a reading for pleasure environment and ensure that children have opportunities to choose texts more freely. Your child will spend time in our class reading corner and also have a weekly visit to the school library. Our library visit will take place on Wednesdays, so please ensure that, if your child borrows a library book, they have it in school on this day to be returned so that another book can be chosen to take home and enjoy. It is important to return books because we have spent thousands of pounds on resources for our library and every book that is not returned needs money to be replaced. Funding is very tight and books not being returned will have an impact on how our library is used.

ENGLISH

We will continue with a book-based approach to our writing lessons and developing our spelling, punctuation and grammar whilst embedding the phonics we have covered throughout the year.

Literary theme: friendship and kindness

Literary theme: heroes and villains

Traditional Tales with a twist

Superheroes & Villains

MATHS

During this half-term, we’ll be looking at numbers to 20 (counting, writing, ordering and comparing) then moving onto addition and subtraction within 20. If your child doesn’t already know their number bonds to 10, please keep practising with them. All children are expected to be able to recall number bonds by the end of Year 1, this will help them with their maths work in class.

Click here for Maths Methods Handbook

PSHE

At Boutcher School, we teach Personal, Social, Health Education (PSHE) and relationships as a whole-school approach to underpin children’s development as people and because we believe that this also supports their learning capacity. We use the Jigsaw Programme which offers us a comprehensive, carefully thought-through Scheme of Work which brings consistency and progression to our children’s learning in this vital curriculum area. This term the topic being covered across the school is Dreams and Goals. In this unit, children will think about their aspirations, how to achieve goals and develop their understanding of the emotions that go with this.