Year 1/2 - Willow Class

Welcome to Willow Class

Our learning journey is ‘The Great Outdoors’ 

Mathematics  

We will be learning about money, we will recognise and know the value of different coins. Children will use their knowledge of place value to match coins with the correct values.  

Next we will look at time, learning to read o’ clock times, and half past an hour. We will also look at different ways to record time.  

We will also focus on place value to 100, using a 100 square and being able to order the numbers and work out how to add 1 more and find 1 less from a number.  

English 

This term we are looking at developing our storytelling skills by planning and writing our own simple stories based on ‘The Highway Rat’ by Julia Donaldson. We will also be reading and exploring the text ‘The See Saw’ by Tom Percival.  

Oak Class visit the school library on Mondays and Willow Class visit on Wednesdays. 

Phonics 

The Phonics Screening Check is coming up in June and we have been recapping all the sounds that have been learnt throughout the year. 

After the check is complete, we will be continuing with our Little Wandle phonics scheme to learn more alternative pronunciations, such as how ‘dge’ is bridge sounds like ‘j’. 

Science 

We will be learning all about animals. We will be exploring a variety of common animals including fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals and looking at their features. We will then identify whether they are carnivores, herbivores or omnivores. We will be finding out the basic needs of animals for survival. 

PSHE 

We will be learning about boys and girls bodies and this includes    teaching the parts of the body which make boys and girls different. This unit is called ’Changing Me’. We will look at how people change as they get older. This will also include discussing ways in which our bodies have changed since we were a baby and recognising the differences between boys and girls, using the correct names for the parts of the body (penis, anus, testicles, vagina, vulva) and appreciating that some parts of our body are private. This is a statutory requirement for all schools. 

Geography 

We will be learning about the United Kingdom and which countries make up the United Kingdom. We will explore some maps to identify the different countries. We will also find out some key features of each of the countries in the United Kingdom. 

PE - Tuesday and Friday for both classes 

We will continue to  learn different athletic skills to help us prepare for sports day.  

Computing  

We will be learning about spreadsheets. We will understand what a spreadsheet looks like and be able to navigate around a spread sheet and enter data. We will also be learning new vocabulary related to spreadsheets 

Don’t forget to use Purple Mash at home too! 

D & T 

This term’s topic is Bunting. We will be learning how to join two pieces of fabric. We will be building up to designing and making our own bunting.  

RE 

We will be looking at important places to us. We will learn to identify what makes some places special to the children. We will recognise that some places are important to  different religions and we will explore what special places reveal about beliefs, feelings and practices. 

Useful ways to support learning at home 

Read all kinds of books, both fiction and non-fiction.  

Read and write numbers in words as well as digits. 

Say the days of the week in order. Can you start with a different day each time? Can you spell the days correctly? 

Say the months of the year in order. How many months are there? Which is your favourite and why? Can you spell the months correctly? 

Write simple sentences with capital letters and full stops. 

Say your sentence before writing to make sure it makes sense.