Year 1

Welcome to Year 1

Home to the Octopus, Penguins and Dolphins.

We would like to welcome you all to our Year 1 page! We hope that you find this information useful. If you have any additional questions, please speak to a member of the Year 1 team, message us on Class Dojo or you can send us an email.

Miss Jones – Year group lead and Octopus class teacher

Mrs Woodward and Mrs Cooper – Penguin class teachers

Mrs Miller – Dolphin Class teacher

Year 1 in Terms

Term 1 - Me, Myself and I

Across this term, we shall be exploring and engaging with our topic of ‘Me, Myself and I’.   We will be thinking about our lives and what events have happened in our lives so far.

We finish the term off with a ‘All about Me!’ day where we will dress up in clothes that represent us.

Books we will be reading this term that link to the topic are:

  • Me and My Fear
  • What Makes me a me?
  • I Am Enough
  • My Hair
Term 2 - Down in the Valley

Across this term, we shall be exploring and engaging with our topic of ‘Down in the Valley’.

We will make a map to describe the local area and we will be discussing about how the Fleet Estate is similar and different to Dartford town Centre.  We will also be looking at and describing buildings within the local area.

We We finish the term off by going on a local walk around the Fleet Estate and also Darenth Country Park.

Books we will be reading this term that link to our topic are:

  • The Invisible
  • Bee & Me
  • My Name Is Not Refugee
Term 3 - We could be heroes

Across this term, we shall be exploring and engaging with our topic of ‘We could be heroes’.

We will be looking at different real life heroes and will finish the term of with a superhero theme day.

Books we will be reading this term that link to the topic are:

  • Supertato
  • A superhero like you
  • Even superheroes have bad days

 

Term 4 - Land before time

Across this term, we shall be exploring and engaging with our topic ‘Land before time’.

We will be learning about dinosaurs, their habitat, how they lived and fossils. We will end the term with a dinosaur workshop.

Books we will be reading this term that link to the topic are:

  • Dear dinosaur
  • The dinosaur next door
  • How to look after a dinosaur
Term 5 - What a wonderful world

Across this term, we shall be exploring and engaging with our topic ‘What a wonderful world’.

We will be learning about the different seasons and the weather and will finish the term by making a fruit salad.

Books we will be reading this term that link to the topic are:

  • If all the world were
  • Dear Greenpeace
  • Rain before rainbows
Term 6 - Into the woods

Across this term, we shall be exploring and engaging with our topic ‘Into the woods’

We will be learning all about the United Kingdom and its features and will finish the term by going to Trosley country park.

Books we will be reading this term that link to the topic are:

  • The Gruffalo
  • Lin Lin Pangolin
  • Leaf
  • The cafe at the edge of the woods