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Year 1
Bluebell, Lavender and Sunflower Classes
The Year 1 Topics
Our curriculum is taught through three main topics (one per term) and cross-curricular links are utilised wherever possible. We follow the National Curriculum, full details of which can be found HERE.
All Year 1 children receive Spanish and music lessons once a fortnight, taught by specialist teachers and the children also receive 2 hours of PE each week. Class trips are often organised to enhance a topic and support the learning taking place at school.
Click the links below to see the Parent Overview for each topic:
Objectives for Year 1
At the end of year 1, in order to achieve Age Related Expectations, children need to be able to:
Reading
- Read unfamiliar words accurately by blending sounds that they have been taught.
- Read appropriate texts aloud accurately and speedily.
- Read common exception words.
- Retell familiar stories and traditional tales and consider their characteristics.
- Check that the text makes sense to them as they read and correct inaccurate reading
- Discuss the significance of the title and events.
- Make inferences on the basis of what is said and done.
- Make predictions based on what has been read so far.
Writing
- Leave spaces between words.
- Join words and clauses using ‘and’.
- Punctuate sentences using a capital letter and a full stop, question mark or exclamation mark
- Use a capital letter for names of people, places, the dfays of the week and the personal pronoun, ‘I’.
- Write a sequence of sentences to form a short narrative.
- Re-read what they have written to check that it makes sense.
- Spell the days of the week.
- Name the letters of the alphabet in order.
- Spell words containing each of the 40+ phonemes already taught.
- Spell common exception words.
- Begin to form lower case letters in the correct direction, starting and finishing in the right place.
- Use correct formation of capital letters and the digits 0-9.
Mathematics
- Count to and across 100 from any number.
- Count, read and write numbers to 100 in numerals.
- Count in multiples of 2s, 5s and 10s.
- Identify “one more” and “one less” from a given number.
- Read and write numbers from 1-20 in numerals and words.
- Read, write and interpret mathematical statements involving +, – and =.
- represent, use and apply number bonds and related subtraction facts within 20.
- Solve one-step problems that involve addition and subtraction.
- Use arrays to represent multiplication and record grouping when doing division.
- Recognise, find and name a half and a quarter as equal parts of an object, shape or quantity.
- Compare and describe lengths and heights, mass and weight, capacity and volume and time.
- Recognise and know the value of all coins and notes.
- Recognise and use language relating to dates.
- Tell the time to the hour and half past the hour.
- Recognise and name common 2-D and 3-D shapes including rectangles, squares, circles, triangles, cuboids, cubes, pyramids and spheres.