Teachers in Robins Class

Miss Larkins, Mrs Davis & Mrs Welsh welcome you to Robins Class!

Our Vision

Our vision is to create a natural, calm learning environment that promotes children’s independence and their resilience. We want the learning opportunities to be developmentally appropriate which is why there will be lots of opportunities for children to learn through play. When we provide these play opportunities, they will be closely linked to our adult-led teaching sessions and the National Curriculum. Through play, children will have lots of opportunities to practice what they have learnt over and over again to ensure that the learning is being stored in their long-term memory. We want children to have a love of learning and we want to promote their natural curiosity. 

Autumn Term 2 - A Toy Story

Maths

We will be learning about place value and addition & subtraction up to 10.

2D and 3D shapes.

English

In English we will be reading and writing about the story The Way Back Home.

Science

We will be exploring everyday materials and learning about seasonal changes in Autumn and Winter.

History

We will be looking at how toys have changed over time.

Art

Painting and mixed media - primary and secondary colours.

DT

Textiles - sewing teddies

RE

Why does Christmas matter to Christians?

PSHE

Feelings and emotions - jealousy

NSPCC Pants

Music

Dance, sing and play!

Computing

Grouping and sorting

Pictograms

PE

Target games

Ball skills

Important Information:

• Tuesday -  PE with Miss Larkins
• Wednesday - PE with Mr Sinclair & reading books changed
• Friday - Spellings and homework handed in and new homework and spellings will be issued.

Please read with your child daily. Once you have read with your child, please sign and date their reading record.

Thank you!

Phonics

The children are taught discrete phonics lessons everyday following the Twinkl program.  We teach the children the sounds in order for them to read and write with increasing proficiency. At the end of Year 1 (in June) the children will be completing a Phonics Screening Check which is a legal requirement for each child. They will apply their phonic knowledge to read 40 words, 20 of which are real and 20 which are not (we call these alien words).

The weekly spellings that the children receive are linked to the sounds and words that they learn in their phonics lessons. It is important that these are practised at home.

There is more information about the Phonics Screening Check here: 

https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/home/reading-owl/expert-help/the-year-1-phonics-screening-check

Thank you for your on-going support.

 If you have any questions or queries, please come and speak to the Year 1 team or email the school office: schooloffice@livingstoneprimary.co.uk