Cathcart Street Primary School

Year 1

Year 1 - Summer 2 2024

Welcome back for the Summer Term,

P.E.

This term the pupils will be learing athletics and will learn throwing, jumping and running techniques and skills. The pupils will develop their agility in order to change direction and pace. The Year 1 pupils will have the opportunity to work with Everton in the Community to apply their fundamental skills to games.

Pupils will need to wear a school P.E. kit and any earrings to be removed at home before coming into school.

PE kit is white T-shirt, shorts and pumps. Thank you.

Reading

This year we wil lhave a real focus in school on reading. The children will have a daily phonic lesson in the morning. During their phonics lessons the pupils will also read a book matched to their phonics lessons.

The children's reading books sent home will be matched to their current phonic levels. The reading log can be completed at home and in school. Please can the book bag with log and reading book be brought in everyday. Thank you.

Shared Reading

For our shared reading we will focus on the following texts
- No Dinner
- A selection of poems.
- Deep in the Woods
- The Leopard's Drum.

During these lessons we will learn reading strategies and skills, comprehension skills, vocabulary and how to refer to the text.

Phonics: Read Write Inc

As mentioned above the pupils will participate in a daily phonics session within smaller groups. Phonics will support the pupils both with their reading and writing. Towards the end of Year 1 all pupils will be assessed on their phonics. Consequently thoughout the year the pupils may receive homework to support their phonic knowledge. The phonic screening check will commence the week beginning 10th June 2024. The pupils will read a list of real and non-real (alien) words to assess their decoding skills.

Phonics: This Phonics Screening Check will commence week beginning Monday 10th June 2024.

Pupils will have daily phonics lessons using Read Write Inc. Pupils can play phonics games at home to help them such as:

https://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/english-games/5-7-years/letters-and-sounds

Spellings

Spellings will be given out on a Monday and tested on the Friday that week unless there is a bank holiday then we will give out the spellings on a Tuesday. Thank you

Homework

Homework will be given out on a Monday and expected back the following Monday unless it is a bank holiday then it will be given out on a Tuesday.

English

Our text this half term will be The Last Wolf by Mini Grey. We will use this text to help us a narrative- a hunting story and to write instructions in the form of a recipe.

The Last Wolf

Maths

For maths this half term we will be learning about volume. The pupils will be continuing to count in 2's, 5's and 10's. During our maths learning we will learn about positional and directional language, the place value of numbers number within 100, money and time.

Numbots: Pupils will be given a Numbots login. This will also be placed inside the cover of their reading logs. Pupils will have access in school and can play at home to unlock maths levels.

NumBots - Apps on Google Play

Science

Our focus this half term is seasonal changes and weather patterns.

Geography

Our topic this half term links with our science learning. Our focus is weather patterns in the UK. We will learn about the four countries that make up the United Kingdom and their capital cities. We will compare the weather in Birkenhead with Edinburgh and make our own rain gauge. The pupils will learn about weather forecasts and why these help us. The will learn about the weather symbols and what they represent.

Weather Symbols and the Weather Map