Tigers - Year 1
Welcome to Tiger Class!
Summer Term 2
Tigers, welcome back! I hope you had a lovely half term and are ready for your last half term of Year 1.
English
English this half term will be text led, focusing on the book ‘Meerkat Mail'.
By the end of this topic, all children will be able to:
- Use capital letters for the personal pronoun ‘I’, names of people and places, and days of the week.
Children who are working deeper will:
- Begin to develop a greater range of conjunctions.
Read, Write, Inc
Phonics will take place daily, following the Read, Write, Inc. scheme. These lessons will incorporate learning phonics sounds, reading, writing and spelling.
Maths
Our Maths focus this half term is Weight and Volume, Money, Time and Position and Direction.
By the end of this term, the children will be able to:
- Measure and compare mass
- Measure and compare capacity
- Recognise coins and notes
- Learn the days of the week and months of the year
- Tell the time to the hour and the half hour
- Describe turns and position
Science
Our final science topic of the year is ‘Plants and Animals in our Local Area’. It will bring together a lot of strands of our animals and plants topics from the year. We will start the topic by looking at adult animals and their babies – do the adult and baby look the same? We will then move onto nocturnal animals and deciding what features a nocturnal animal needs to survive. We will tie up the year by going around our school field and looking at the different plants and animals which we can find on it.
We will be using the vocabulary from our previous plant and animal topics -
fish, reptiles, mammals, birds, amphibians, herbivore, omnivore, carnivore, leg, elbow, arm, head, ear, nose, back, wings, beak, deciduous, evergreen trees, leaves, flowers (blossom), petals, fruit, roots, bulb, seed, trunk, branches, stem
We will also be concluding our ‘Seasons’ topic by looking at the season of summer and why days are different lengths.
The vocabulary for this topic is - summer, autumn, winter, spring, sun, day, moon, night, light, dark.
Our Tiger scientists
We have a science star each week. Somebody who added something special to our lessons or completed a super piece of work.
our tiger science stars
our tiger science captains
History
In History, the children will be learning about George Mottershead. Throughout this unit the children will:
- Ask and answer questions based on a photograph.
- Put events in chronological order.
- Find out more about George Mottershead using the internet.
- Create an information text about George Mottershead.
Making our own toys
Art
In Art, our topic is ‘Animal Art’. Throughout this unit the children will:
- Print using different objects
- Print onto paper and textiles
- Design their own printing block
DT
RE
After the children’s enthusiastic response to our Islam topic in RE Summer 1, I am really looking forward to sharing our new topic of Judaism with the class. Our Big Question for Summer 2 is, ‘What do Jewish people believe about God and the creation?’ We will look at the sacred text of Judaism, important people to those who follow the faith, and the importance of the creation story.
Computing
In Computing, the topic is ‘Data, Research and Multimedia’. Throughout this unit the children will:
- Represent data in different ways
- Use an onscreen program to represent information with pictures
- Find pictures online
- Use the internet to research an animal
- Use photographs and add text to create a poster
- Record sound to present information
Computing
Music
Our Music topic is ‘Classical music, dynamics and tempo' based around the theme of animals. Throughout this unit, the children will:
- Use percussion and their body expressively in response to music
- Sing songs from memory
- Perform a song
- Use instruments to create different sounds
- Select and create sounds to tell a story
PSHE
In PSHE, we will be using the book ‘My World, Your World’ to explore diversity.
PE
PE will take place on Monday’s and Friday’s, please come in to school wearing your PE kit on these days. This half term the children will be focusing on Bat and Ball Skills and Tri Golf.
PE in Tigers
life in tigers
Staffing
Mrs Gregg will be teaching the children on Thursday afternoons during my PPA.
Working alongside myself will be Mrs Barralet on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, Mrs Holden on Thursday and Mrs Hibbert on Friday.
Homework
Homework is a little different this year as it will be set on Google Classroom. There will be weekly spellings linked to the Read, Write, Inc. sounds learnt in class. There will also be a maths activity to consolidate the learning from the week. This will be set online on a Wednesday and needs to be submitted by the following Monday.
Reading books will be sent home each week. Please read these books more than once if possible to increase fluency. You will change these every Friday so please make sure your reading books are in school that day.
You can also read online at https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/
Username: parkgateprimary
Password: parkgate
Water bottles
Please ensure your child has a named water bottle in school each day.
If anyone has any questions they would like to ask me, please email me at tigers@parkgate.cheshire.sch.uk
Many thanks,
Miss Morris
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