Welcome to Year 1 - Green Class
Staff
Mrs A Mullen
Green
BA (Hons) PGCE, School SENCO
My name is Mrs Mullen and I am currently one of the Year 1 teachers at Bewsey Lodge Primary School. I am also school SENDCo with additional responsibilities leading PE and EAL.
Miss B Gaskell
Green
PE Day & PE Kit
PE will take place on Thursday.
Please ensure you child comes to school in their PE Kit on that day.
What's New
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Snack Money
Tuck Shop is available after school
on Wednesday and Friday.
Daily healthy snack is available to purchase every day at break time. Snack can be purchased at morning break. The maximum amount snack will cost is £2.50 a week. Children welcome to bring their own snack from home which is less than 110 calories.
Reading Books
Reading Books will usually be changed Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Please read with your child every night and sign their reading record.
Knowledge Organiser
You have been given a Knowledge Organiser and Homework Grid with some tasks relating to our topic.
Homework
Children will get up to 10 spellings per week to learn at home.
Recent Terms Archive
Welcome to Green Class
Overview
Class Topics For Each Half Term
Topic
Themes to be explored
Autumn 1:
Where Do We Live?
This half term, we will be focusing on our geography skills. Our studies will include learning all about where we live, using atlases to pinpoint the United Kingdom, following onto aerial maps to explore our local area. During this topic, we will be taking a trip to our local park to explore human and physical features of geography and use our school grounds to consolidate this learning. As well as this, we will spend time focusing on writing simple captions and sentences about our learning, practising our phonics skills. What a wonderful topic to start the year on, let the adventure begin!
Links to support learning: BBC iplayer Geography
Autumn 2:
Toys Through Time
This half term, we will be focusing on our history skills. Our studies will include travelling through time to explore how toys have changed from when our grandparents were children until present day. During this topic, we will use historical artifacts from Warrington Museum to inform our learning as well as using a range of books such as; ‘Lost in the Toy Museum’ by David Lucas, ‘Dogger’ by Shirley Hughes and many more! We will spend time focusing on writing simple sentences, using adjectives and begin to use question marks in our written work.
Links to support learning: History
Spring 1:
Real Life Superheroes!
This half term we will be completing a study of significant individuals throughout history. Focusing particularly on Florence Nightingale, Mary Seacole, The Wright Brothers and Robert Peel. During this topic we will use different sources to explore the impact these individuals had on nursing, policing and flying planes! Alongside this, we will also be focusing on fictional superheroes, writing instructions and character descriptions using a variety of stimulus.
Spring 2:
Fairytales
This half term, this literacy topic will enable the children to get lost in the magical world of fictional stories, immersing themselves in a variety of fairytales including ‘Little Red Riding Hood’ and ‘Jack and the Beanstalk’ to name just a few! During this topic, the children will continue to build on the early story telling skills, focusing particularly on setting descriptions and sequencing to support their development of creative writing.
Summer 1:
How to catch a dinosaur!
This half term we will be using our scientific and historical brains to find out about famous people from the past, focusing on Mary Anning and her work regarding fossils. The children will group and classify animals by type and understand their different diets. We will investigate where in the United Kingdom dinosaur discoveries have been made and observe changes to the environment from millions of years ago.
Summer 2:
Going to the seaside!
This half term, this history topic will travel through time back to the Victorian days, exploring what life was like living by the seaside. Learning all about bathing machines, Punch and Judy shows and enjoy listening to music people may have performed on bandstands! As well as this, we will continue to develop our geography skills by exploring the human and physical features of life at the seaside using nearby seaside towns such as Formby and Crosby as reference.