Welcome to Dolphin Class

On this page you will find weekly updates about what the children are learning in literacy, maths and phonics so you can support at home. Our termly curriculum maps provide an outline of what the children will learn across all subjects.  More detailed information for a particular subject can be found in the curriculum area of the website.

Our PE days this term will be Tuesday and Wednesday. Please make sure all your child’s clothes are clearly named.

For lots of resources about our topic and everything else visit the Espresso website. Parents have their own log in to use:

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Please keep remembering to read with your child at least 5 times a week so that Orlando the owl will hopefully come and visit us!

What's on this week?

In Year 1 this week:

Week Commencing 4th December

A very busy week ahead-

Tuesday 5th December - Class Photos

Friday - Year 1 Nativity Performance am & pm

Literacy:

We are beginning to look at Non-fiction texts in literacy and are focusing on instruction writing. This week we will be making jam sandwiches and writing instructions including bossy verbs. 

Phonics

We will be continuing with phase 5 this week and focusing on:

- ue - cue, rescue, argue

- Revisiting oy, ir, ue, ue

Maths

In maths this week we are revisiting equality and inequality and how these are written in the symbol form.

E.g 5 < 10  - (5 is less than 10) and 3 > 1 - (3 is more than 1)

We look forward to seeing you at the Nativity performance this week:)

Week Commencing 27th November

This week is assessment week:

We are taking this opportunity to asses prior learning to ensure all children have understood the learning we have completed. This will help us to plan and re teach any aspects that are not understood fully in the following week.

Literacy:

We are continuing to write our own version of a fairy tale story. We are also beginning our new literacy topic based around instruction writing. 

Phonics

We will be continuing with phase 5 this week and focusing on:

- oy - toy, oyster, boy

- ir - girl, stir, skirt

- ue- glue, true, clue

- ue - cue, rescue, argue

Our new common exceptions word this week is:

 - people

We will be continuing to practise our Nativity performance and would much appreciate you practising the songs at home.

Many Thanks

Week beginning: 20th November

*Friday 24th November - Non School Uniform Day (Donations for Winter Fair)*

This week we will be focusing on:

Phonics

We will be starting Phase 5 this week and focusing on:

- ay - play, Sunday, crayon

- ou - out, loud, about

- ie - lied, pie, tie

- ea - leap, meal, cream

We will be learning the common exception words:

- oh

- there

We will be learning the days of the week too!

Maths

In Maths we are looking at:

- Consolidating our learning by revisiting counting forwards and backwards to 10 and matching numerals to their written number names

- Identifying where numbers lie on a number line between 0 and 10

- Recognising and explaining what numbers within 10 are odd and which are even, as well as being able to explain the differences between them

Literacy

In Literacy we are looking at:

- Completing our second and third shared/guided writing paragraphs making changes to the repeated words and verbs in the example text

- Starting our independent write which will involve us writing our own version of a fairy tale with a good character who is trapped somewhere by a bad character and how they manage to escape!

Week beginning: 13th November

*Friday 17th November - Non School Uniform Day (Children in Need)*

This week we will be focusing on:

Phonics

We will be assessing the children's phonics knowledge this week to ensure our interventions and phonics lessons are filling in any existing gaps and preparing them for Phase 5.

Maths

In Maths we are looking at:

- Counting objects and matching the numerals to the number names (0-10)

- Representing the numbers 6-10 using a '5 and a bit' structure i.e. 5 need 3 to make 8, 5 needs 1 to make 6. We will do this using part part whole models, tens frames, rekenreks and bar models, as well as exposing the children to other ways in which this can be represented pictorially. 

Literacy

In Literacy we are looking at:

- Developing our understanding of sentence starters.

- Analysing and annotating our example text to search for adjectives, nouns, repeated words, capital letters and punctuation.

- Creating a shared plan to make changes to a known text.

- Completing our first shared/guided writing paragraph making changes to the adjectives in the example text.

Week beginning: 6th November

This week we will be focusing on:

Phonics

We will be revisiting a range of digraphs/trigraphs and common exception words this week, to prepare us to move forward onto phase 5.

Maths

In Maths we are looking at:

- Counting objects and matching the numerals to the number names (0-10)

- Representing the numbers 6-10 using a '5 and a bit' structure i.e. 5 need 3 to make 8, 5 needs 1 to make 6

Literacy

In Literacy we are looking at:

- Writing sentences to describe the bad character (the witch) from our book 'Rapunzel' using adjectives to talk about her inside characteristics and her outside appearance

- Adding 's' or 'es' to root words to make plurals

- Analysing and annotating our example text to search for adjectives, nouns, repeated words, capital letters and punctuation

Week beginning: 30th October 

Phonics

We will be revisiting a range of digraphs and common exception words this week, to prepare us to move forward onto phase 5.

Maths

In Maths we are looking at:

- Recap on one more and one less

- Focusing on 3D shapes

- Identifying 2D shapes within 3D shapes

Literacy

In Literacy we are looking at:

- Beginning to immerse ourselves into our new book focus 'Rapunzel'.

Week beginning: 16th October 

Friday 20th will be Play Morning - Please remember to send you children into school in old clothes that you do not mind getting wet/dirty. They will need to bring their school uniform into school to get changed into before lunch.

Phonics

We will be revisiting these adjacent consonants :

- sc - scrap, scrunch

- th - thrust, throat

- shr - shrink, shred

- nch - lunch, branch

We will be revisiting the common exception words:

- when, out, what

Maths

In Maths we are looking at:

- Investigating tetromino arrangements (four squares joined together at the sides)

- Investigating pentomino arrangements (five squares joined together at the sides)

- Investigating ways that four of five cubes can be used to compose different 3D models

Literacy

In Literacy we are looking at:

- Finishing writing our first independent piece of writing linked to our book (Major Glad, Major Dizzy)

Happy Half Term! 

Week beginning: 9th October 

Phonics

We will be revisiting these adjacent consonants :

- sc - scalp

- sp - spend

- sk- skunk

- sw - swift

- tr- trunk

- tw- twist

Polysyllabic words - 

thinking

We will be revisiting the common exception words:

- little & one

Maths

In Maths we are looking at:

- Repeating Patterns 

- 2D shapes - polygon or not a polygon (polygon is a shape with three or more straight sides)

- Tangrams

Literacy

In Literacy we are looking at:

- Continuing to plan and write our first independent piece of writing linked to our book.

Week beginning 2nd October 

We have a very busy week ahead of us:

Monday 2nd October - Alice in Wonderland Performance during the school day

Thursday 5th October - Whole school Poetry day

Friday 6th October - First Aid sessions for Year 1 & 2

Phonics

We will be revisiting these adjacent consonants :

- sk - desk

- ct - object

- pt - swept

- gl - glint

- gr - grand

- nd - grand

- pl - plump

- pr - prank

We will be revisiting the common exception words:

- were, there & little

Maths

In Maths we are looking at:

- Bar model partitioning - splitting the number 5 systematically

- 2D shapes - naming and identifying

Literacy

In Literacy we are looking at:

- Beginning to plan and write our first independent piece of writing.

Week beginning 25th September 

Phonics

We will be revisiting these adjacent consonants :

- bl- blink 

- br - brain

- cr - crust

- sk - desk

- ct - object

- pt - swept

- gl -glint

- gr - grand

We will also be looking at polysyllabic words including:

- farmyard, hunting, umbrella

We will be revisiting the common exception words:

- were & there

Maths

In Maths we are looking at:

- Ordinal numbers

- Finding parts of a whole 

- Looking at and revisiting one more and one less of a number.

- Discussing and identifying how many objects are in a set.

Literacy

In Literacy we are looking at:

- Continuing to immerse ourselves in our new book 'Major Glad, Major Dizzy' through: sequencing a story, identifying and matching nouns to adjectives, adding adjectives to sentences and creating story maps.

Week beginning 18th September 

Phonics

We will be focusing on these adjacent consonants :

- lk - milk, silk

- lp - help, yelping

- xt - text, next

- st - start, stars

- sm - smell, smash

- sn - snail, snarl

- fr - froth, frown

- fl - fluff, flower

We will also be looing at polysyllabic words including:

- twisting, sandpit, clownfish, shampoo, thundering, sandwich, softest

We will be revisiting the common exception words:

- so, do, like, some

Maths

In Maths we are looking at:

- Comparing amounts using the equality and inequality symbols: more than >     less than <     equal to =

- Explaining that a whole can be split into parts - knowing that the whole is always more than the part of a whole.

Literacy

In Literacy we are looking at:

- Continuing to immerse ourselves in our new book 'Major Glad, Major Dizzy' through: writing accurate sentences about an object using adjectives; using the plural 's'; and using synonyms (words that have the same or similar meanings).

Week beginning 11th September 

Reading certificates will be given out on Friday this week to those children who have read at least five times.

Phonics

We will be focusing on these adjacent consonants :

- nt - faint, point, paint

- st - boast, toast, roasting

- ld - elder, Matilda

- lf - himself, selfish, shelf

- dr - droop, dressing, drill

- cl - cloth, cloak, clubs

- bl - black, bloom, blushing

We will be revisiting the common exception words:

- have, said, like

Maths

In Maths we are looking at:

- Explaining that items can be compared using length and height.

- Explaining that items can be compared using weight/mass and volume/capacity.

- Counting a set of objects.

- Comparing sets of objects.

Literacy

In Literacy we are looking at:

- Immersing ourselves in our new book through exploring objects linked to the text; making suggestions and predictions about where the items have come from and who they belong to; using nouns and adjectives to describe what we can see; saying and writing a sentence independently based on what we can see from a page in the book.

Week beginning 4th September 

This week will be a ‘getting to know you’ week to settle the children back into school and into the new routines and structure of year one. 

There will be no reading certificates given out this week - we will be starting these again next week. 

Phonics

We will be focusing on these adjacent consonants :

- ft - shift, swift, soft

- mp - stamp, stump, shrimp

- lt - quilt, melt, spoilt

Maths

In Maths we will be recapping previous learning and playing maths games to see what skills and knowledge the children can share. 

Literacy

In Literacy we are looking at:

- Writing descriptive sentences about our summer holidays