Autumn Term

Phonics
We will build upon the phonics that the children have learnt in reception. The children will continue to learn new phonemes, digraphs and trigraphs and be exposed to these in a range of contexts.

Reading
We are a Power of Reading school and therefore use a range of high-quality texts and strategies to facilitate our English lessons. The children will be listening to a range of classic and contemporary fantasy picture books. Our first book is an exciting fantasy adventure– we like to reveal the book slowly, so the titles will remain a mystery for now! Our aim for the children to able to link books to their own experiences. We are confident that the children will find these texts highly engaging, and you will hear more about them throughout the year. Children will be bringing a reading book home to share with you. Please read with your child and add your comments onto the reading diary page on Seesaw.

Writing
Children will engage with a wide range of writing opportunities. Writing outcomes will be stories, writing in role and practising writing non- fiction sentences. Children will learn to generate and construct sentences using capital letters, full stops and finger spaces. They will use their phonics knowledge to help them spell words.

Our focus will be primarily on number and place value. The children will learn to:

• count, read and write numbers to 20
• read and write numbers from 1 to 20 in numerals and words
• given a number, identify 1 more and 1 less
• identify and represent numbers using objects and pictorial representations. For example, Numicon, base 10, counters and snap cubes
• understand mathematical statements involving addition (+), subtraction (−) and equals (=) symbols
• represent and use number bonds and related subtraction facts within 10