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Year 1

Welcome to Year 1

To contact the year leader please email:

heatherlands.office@coastalpartnership.co.uk

Please phone the office if you have an urgent message or enquiry.

PE days: Monday (outdoor) & Thursday (indoor) - Children to come into school dressed in PE kits.

The Heatherlands Way

KS1 Curriculum Information For New Yr1 & 2 Children in Sept 2025

Yr1 Knowledge organisers - 2025 2026

Wow! We have nearly reached the end of our first half term. What a fantastic half term Year 1 have had. It has been another exciting week with Year 1 busy reading and writing words with 4 sounds including a digraph. In Let's learn we have been practising blending and segmenting words using our very cool mini washing lines. Maths has been really fun. We have been comparing numbers and deciding if they were greater than, less than or the same. The children used different equipment to show their learning. We are working really hard to improve our handwriting. This week we have been practising writing capital and lower-case letters for x and w. During Let's learn we have enjoyed some Autumn based activities. We have been threading Autumn leaves to create fun Autumn creatures. We had fun mixing 2 of the primary colours ( red and yellow) to create orange. We used pipettes to drop watery paint on to cotton pads and see what happens. We worked as a team to create a ' Perfect Autumn Pumpkin'. We were inspired by Florence Nightingale and Mary Seacole and were being really life heroes in our own animal hospital role play. It was really fun taking messages and treating the patients. We had our final Art session for our 'Super Me! ' theme this half term. We posed for a photo thinking carefully about our expression and the prop we chose to represent something about ourselves, ' A picture paints a thousand words'. We painted dots like Lichtenstein who used 'Ben day dots ' to create a comic book effect and the primary colours (red, yellow and blue). The children thought of captions to represent themselves and the image. We evaluated what we had learnt as artists it was such a great theme. After such a busy half term all the children deserve a rest. Well done to all the children and parents for their support. Enjoy your week ( and an extra day off!

Year 1 consolidation home learning. Set 15.10.25. Due in 20.10.25

It’s been a great week in Year 1. This week as part of our ‘ Super Me! ‘ topic we have been learning about real life heroes. We learnt about Florence Nightingale. ‘ The lady with the lamp ‘. Who are your real life heroes ?

In English we have been continuing to practise writing sentences

adding ‘ ed ‘ to verbs to write about Florence Nightingale and how she helped others. We have worked really hard in our phonics sessions and have been reading and writing 4 letter (cvcc i.e : tent, list ) words. We were really independent writing words in Let's Learn using our phase 2 and 3 sounds.

Maths has been learning how to add 2 numbers together. The children practised saying their number sentence out loud and used their fingers and other resources to add the amounts accurately. We have tried really hard with our number formation and tried hard to not have any ‘ naughty numbers ‘.

In Let's Learn we thought about weather and the different the seasons. As we are in Autumn, we had fun creating 3D paper pumpkins. It was quite a challenge but we were very resilient. We did not give up !

During Art this week, we have used all the skills we have learnt to create our own Picasso inspired self portrait. We used mixed media such as oil pastels, pencils and crayons and collage. It was really fun. We were very proud of the final outcome. Next it's a Lichtenstein inspired self portrait. What will you create. One more week until half term. Well done!

Year 1 Super me quiz. Set 8.10.25 Due in 13.10.25

Year 1 Super Me Quiz

Well what a busy week we have had in Year 1. In English, we have been learning about adding ' ed' to verbs to make them into the past tense; for example play - played or wash - washed. We used our 'ed' words to write sentences, practising saying them aloud before we write. We tried really hard to create ' Super Sentences' with a capital letter, finger spaces and a full stop. We are working hard on handwriting and have been practising our letter formation in class and during Let's Learn in lots of different ways. In Maths we have been exploring number bonds up to 10 using ten frames and other resources. We have been learning a song to try to remember the number pairs for making 10. Can your child remember any ? During Art this week we have been practising some skills using different types of drawing media such as oil pastels, pens and pencils. We explored some of the elements of art (colour, shape and line) to make us even better artists. This was FUN! We zoomed in on our features and did some observational drawing of our eyes, nose and lips using a mirror to look really closely. We then drew our own abstract Picasso inspired features using different shapes. In Let's learn we practised some skills by our other artist Roy Lichtenstein who uses dots and primary colours. We created our own expressive POP Art word using lots of bright colours. Don't they look effective! It's feel more like Autumn now and we have enjoyed creating Autumn trees with our hand prints in the outside classroom and lovely Autumn suncatchers. Can you spot any signs of Autumn on your way to school or an Autumn walk with your family ? Well done on another brilliant week Year 1.

All the children have settled in really well to Year 1. We have been very busy with all our learning and enjoying our first theme ' Super Me!' Last week we enjoyed the nice weather and went for a senses walk in the school grounds. In Art we have been thinking about portraits and looked at our own baby photos. This was really fun guessing who they were! We have enjoyed looking at and talking about portraits by some famous artists and realised portraits are everywhere. Can you spot any when you're out and about ?

In Art this week we looked at work by two famous artists Pablo Picasso and Roy Lichtenstein. They both have really different, interesting styles. Pablo Picasso is an abstract artist, and Roy Lichtenstein creates POP Art. In Let's Learn some of us have created our own Picasso inspired portraits. They were great. In our art lesson we chose our favourite image by one of these and were ' Art detectives ' looking for different elements such as line, colour and shape. We talked about what we liked about them and how they made us feel.

Maths has been really fun this week, we have been practising using the part, part whole model to think about how a number can be made. We have been learning about Super Tato in English and in Let's learn we practised our counting by making play doh ' Evil Peas'. We tried really hard to count accurately. What a fantastic week we have had.