Worlebury St Paul's Church School

Worlebury St Paul 's
Church School

"Every child matters, every moment of every day."

Dormice Class - Year 1

 

 

Mr M. Tran (Dormice Class Teacher)

Mrs Bamford (PPA Teacher)

Year One is the first year in Key Stage One. The children's education is planned using the National Curriculum via our Creative Curriculum. We use cross-curricular learning themes in which subjects overlap to reinforce and compliment each other.  Each learning theme is planned carefully to meet the needs and capabilities of the child.  We aim to develop knowledge, concepts, skills and attitudes necessary for the child's whole development.

DORMICE CLASS (Y1) NOTICES

Start of the day: 8.45am                                 End of the day: 3.15pm 

Term One for children starts: Wednesday 6th September 2023

Inset days: Monday 4th and Tuesday 5th September 2023

End of Term One: Friday 20th October 2023

 CURRICULUM INFORMATION: 

Dormice Class Information SheetClass Information 23 24Term One Curriculum Information Amazing Animals Term 1

Term One Knowledge Organiser:

Amazing Animals Knowledge Organiser

Term Two Curriculum Information:

Historically Royal Term 2

Term Two Knowledge Organiser:
Historically Royal Knowledge Organiser

DORMICE CLASS HOME LEARNING:

Term 1/2 Optional Home Learning Grid
Optional Home Learning Terms 1 & 2

Term 1 and 2 Project Home Learning

HOMEWORK

Reading 5 x week

      

   

 

 USEFUL WEBSITES

  • Phonics Play
  • Phonics Bloom
  • Numbots 

 

2023-24

Welcome to our Dormice Class page and a brand new school year! The children return on Wednesday September 6th and we are all really looking forward to seeing them again after the holidays!

The first few days back at school will be our induction where we will create class contracts and revisit expectations of learning and behaviour. The week will end with the sharing of our learning with the rest of the school. The following week we will begin our learning project, 'Amazing Animals' The information pack for learning can be accessed on Class Dojo as well as on the website.

All messages and displays of work will be sent through our ClassDojo system. This is where you can get in contact to ask questions, see children's learning and stay up-to-date with everything that is happening in Dormice Class and in the school. For external enquiries, please contact the school office via the email on the contact page of this website.

 

2022 - 2023

Term 6 A Jolly Victorian Holiday

This term we will be learning about the Victorian era and in particular their obsession with seaside holidays and we will be focusing our main attention on sunny Weston-Super-Mare! Keep checking back to find out what we discover! 

Term 5 How Does Your Garden Grow?

We explored our local woods to help us when identifying plants, flowers and trees. It was great to get some hands-on experiences and experience the woods first-hand. We did some colour-matching activities as well as find mini matchbox treasures!

 

Term 4 Historically Royal

This term we delved into the fascinating world of The Royal Family. We looked back at previous monarchs and their achievements, discovered the role they play and made our own crowns! 

 

 

Term 3 China and Us

Chinese New Year Wow Day

We celebrated The Year of the Rabbit with lots of craft, artwork and even tried some Chinese food! We even had a Dragon procession around the playground accompanied by Year R, music and cheered on by the rest of the school!

 

Term 1 &2 Amazing Animals!

Trip to Count Farm

We loved our trip to Court Farm 🐮🐷🐏🐑🐖🐓  We had a fab time learning about animals and life on the farm, meeting some of the local residents, had fun in the play areas and even had a tractor ride 🚜🚜🚜 thank you to all the adult helpers for their support today 👏👏👏

 

 

Hello to Year 1!

I hope you are all as well rested as this Dormouse here! Welcome back to school and say hello to Year 1 and our new class name Dormice Class! During our transition week, we will be learning more about the animal that inspired our class name as well as the book The Red Beast. We will also learn about what makes a good class and learner!

 

Our topic this term is Amazing Animals where we will be discovering the incredible world of animals! More information to follow so keep your eyes peeled and your whiskers preened!

Mr Tran

 

 

2021-22

Term 6

This Term our topic is 'A Jolly Victorian Holiday' We will be focusing our learning on the key questions: Who were the Victorians? Where did they like to go on holiday and why? How did the Victorians travel to their holiday? What did the Victorians wear/do at the seaside? 

The children will experience what a Victorian holiday was like in terms of the entertainment through experiencing a traditional Punch and Judy show before designing and making their own puppets and putting on a show.

Term 5

This Term our topic is 'How does your Garden Grow?' We will be focusing our learning on Plants: identifying the parts of a plant and briefly discussing their function, as well as planting our own sunflowers and observing what happens to plants when all the conditions they need to grow and thrive are not met. 

Term 4

This term our topic is 'Historically Royal'. We will be exploring changes have occurred within living memory of our lives and the lives of our parents & grand-parents during Queen Elizabeth's reign. We will focus on how toys, technology, everyday life, music, entertainment and leisure has changed for children through the decades. Please find attached our curriculum map for this term.

 

Who are the Royal Family?

This week we have been exploring who the Royal Family are and how they are related by completing a Family tree for them. The children also generated some questions that they wish to find out about the Royal Family during our topic including: Do they have any pets? Are they rich? What clothes do they wear? What is The Queen's favourite colour?

Chinese New Year

                      

We had a brilliant day in Year 1 celebrating Chinese New Year. We have written Chinese good luck messages and made beautiful fireworks pictures. We also made incredible tiger masks for our tiger dances! We had prawn crackers for our snack that were a hit! To end the day we had a viewing of our firework pictures and learned how the tiger got its stripes!

Making Spring Rolls

We have had a brilliant day making and tasting our vegetable spring rolls as part of our instructions writing unit. We were so proud of the children for trying so many different new flavours today. We are looking forward to writing our recipes to bring home to try.

      

        

      

Term 3 'China and Us'

Welcome back to Term 3! Our topic for this term is 'China and Us' where we will be comparing life in the UK to life in China including how Chinese New Year is celebrated. Please find attached our curriculum map for this term.

 WELCOME BACK! YEAR ONE 2021-22

Terms 1 & 2 Amazing Animals

The project learning for term one is, 'Amazing Animals!' 

All messages and displays of work will be sent through our ClassDojo system. This is where you can get in contact to ask questions, see children's learning and stay up-to-date with everything that is happening in Year 1 and in the school.

 

 

 Other Weekly Activities (with links):

 

Useful websites:                  

 

  •  Letter formation. Please use this PPT to remind and demonstrate to children of the correct way to form their letters using cursive handwriting. There is additional info on slide 2 of the PPT. Letter-Formation-PowerpoSpellings. Attached is the list of Common Exception words for Year 1. These are the words that do not follow phonics rules and are commonly misspelled but should be secure by the end of Year 1. When checking over writing, highlight 2/3 of these for them to practice. Please note, by the end of Year 1 children are not expected to spell every single word correctly and it is not uncommon for them to use plausible alternatives. By the end of Year 1, children are expected to spell most words using the previously taught sounds and rules. Year-1-Common-Exception-WordsPhonics. Attached is a glossary of terminology used during our phonics lessons. There is also a guide to the sounds covered in Phase 2, 3 and 5.  Worlebury_SSP_guide_for_parentsPhonics PPT. You could use these as a quick recall to help revise sounds taught previously. They have been broken up into 2 sets (Phase 3 and Phase 5). set_1_soundsset_2_soundsReading. Please find attached some guidance and top tips for reading with your children at home. I have also put up links for websites that have books available to read for free online so if you are finding you're running out of books to read or just want to freshen things up, do check these out! Top Reading Tips Reading with your child Booklet Oxford Owl - free eBooks Storyline Online MyOn