Year 1
Welcome to Year 1
The Year 1 team are:
1C – Miss Casey Mrs Plant
1G – Mr Grant Mrs Brown
1S – Miss Spencer Mrs Fleming
Should you need to speak with your child’s teacher please email us on: enquiry@bournvillevillageprimary.org.uk
To report a school absence, please call the office or e-mail attendance@bournvillevillageprimary.org.uk
Summer term 2022 
Dates for diaries
Monday 25th April – Return to School
Friday 29th April – Whole school Eid celebration
Monday 2nd May – Bank holiday
Friday 6th May – Targets sent home
Monday 9th, 16th, 23rd May – 1C Forest School
W/C 23rd May – Jubilee Celebrations
Friday 27th May - Break up for half term
Monday 6th June - Pupils Return to School
Sunday 5th & Monday 6th June - Shavuot (Jewish Festival)
Monday 6th, 13th, 20th & 27th June – 1G Forest School
Friday 24th June - Founders’ Day – School Closed to Pupils
Thursday 30th June – Class photos
Wednesday 6th July – Transition Day, all year groups
Friday 8th July - Reports out
Wednesday 13th July - Parents Evening
Thursday 21st July - Break up for summer
Visits and Visitors
We are planning on taking a walk around our local area, looking at physical and non-physical features in our
immediate environment. This lends itself to our previous and ongoing geography curriculum but also to our
history topic in summer two, where children will learn about local heroes such as the Cadbury family.
English
Phonics During summer term children will continue to engage with our exciting Little Wandle phonic lessons where they will embed their knowledge of phonics in preparation for the phonics screening check. They will be reviewing and revisiting phonemes from across the phonic phases and reading them in both real and nonsense words.
Reading
In summer term children will continue to have three reading sessions per week in which they will read their reading practise book. Each reading session focuses on a different aspect of reading. The first focuses on decoding, the second on prosody (reading with their story tellers voice) and the third focuses on comprehension. To foster the children’s love of reading they will also have one library slot per week in which they are free to choose a sharing book, from a wide selection, to read at home.
Writing
During the summer term, the children will be using some beautiful, high- quality texts to support the study of English. We will be using one fiction and one non-fiction text throughout our English lessons, but we are not revealing the titles just yet, so it is a surprise! The children will be writing stories, leaflets, and information pages, using capital letters, full stops, finger spaces, exclamation marks and question marks. They will also be using ‘and’ to join sentences together.
Maths
During summer term, we will be focusing on the following topics:
- Multiplication and division - Fractions - Geometry - Place value - Measurement - Time
We will continue practising our addition and subtraction facts up to 20, with a focus on improving fluency and reasoning.
Wider curriculum
Science: Animals (including humans and plants)
Geography: Journeys (continents and oceans)
Music: ‘Your Imagination’ (exploring rhythm and composing)
D.T: Structures (making a structure for Bournville park)
P.E: Fundamentals (key skills; jumping, running, hopping, skipping, directional language and coordination)
R.E: Parables
Computing: Coding
PSHE: Relationships
Spring term 2022
Dates for diaries
Tuesday 4th Jan- pupils return to school
Monday 7th Feb- online safety week
Friday 18th Feb- break up for half term
Monday 28th Feb- Staff training day
Tuesday 29th Feb- pupils return to school
Wednesday 2nd March- Parent’s evening
Thursday 3rd March- Parent’s evening
Friday 18th March- Comic Relief
Monday 28th March- Year 1 trip to Martineau Gardens
Tuesday 29th March- Year 1 trip to Martineau Gardens
Wednesday 30th March- Year 1 trip to Martineau Gardens
Friday 8th April- Easter hat parade
Break up for Easter break
Further dates will be added as the year goes on. We will communicate these via email and the school newsletter.
P.E. days:
1C, 1S & 1G – Monday and Tuesday
Library
Year 1 will visit the library on a Thursday. Please ensure that your child has their borrowed book in their bag ready to return.
Visits and Visitors
During Spring term, we have an exciting trip to Martineau Gardens! This trip will allow children to further develop key science learning about plants and animals. Further information about this trip will be sent out at the beginning of Spring term. If you would like to explore the website before our visit you will find the link here- https://martineau-gardens.org.uk/
Curriculum Overview |
English Phonics In year 1, children will engage with a wide range of writing opportunities. Writing outcomes in spring term will include stories, non-fiction reports and writing in role. Children will continue to use capital letters, full stops, and finger spaces in their writing. They will also use ‘and’ to join sentences and use question marks and exclamation marks in their writing. |
Maths
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| Spring Term |
Science | Everyday materials |
History | Transport |
Music | ‘In the Groove’ - |
Art | Making birds- using a variety of techniques to create feathers |
P.E. | Gymnastics, Net/Wall (Tennis) and Invasion (Basketball/Netball) games |
R.E. | Baptism and The Easter Story |
Computing | Grouping and Sorting |
PSHE | Celebrating Difference |
Recommended reads for Year 1 Our Authors of the moment for next half term will be Oliver Jeffers and Rachel Bright. Have you read any books by these authors before? Do you have a favourite? | |
Autumn term 2021
P.E. days for this term are as follows:
1C & 1G – Monday and Tuesday
1S – Monday
These days will change at points throughout the year, but we will notify you via Seesaw of any upcoming changes.
Library
Year 1 will visit the library on a Thursday. Please ensure that your child has their borrowed book in their bag ready to return.
Visits and Visitors
Throughout Year 1 we hope to provide a range of educational visits and visitors to further enhance your child’s learning. This will start with a visit to our local area to support our Geography curriculum. We will provide further details in due course.
Curriculum overview
English
Phonics
During autumn term Year 1, 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. Throughout autumn term 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 is for the children to be 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 over time. Children will also 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
In year 1, 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 lette
Maths
During the autumn term, our focus will primarily be 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
Recommended reads
The following books are by some of our favourite authors, some of whom, we will be finding a little more about during Year 1.
Here we are Mabel and the mountain I want my hat back Look up! The lion inside
Oliver Jeffers Kim Hillyard Jon Klassen Nathan Bryon Rachel Bright