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Week beginning 1st June 2026
Bucket full of memories
For the second half of the summer term in Year 1 our topic is ‘Bucket full of Memories’
In English our main focus will be stories with a sea focus. The children will be learning about living near the sea and discussing creatures that live under the sea using a wide range of vocabulary. They will be looking at texts in more detail and developing their skills with inference to interpret the pictures and the text. When writing the children will be expected to write sentences using a capital letter, finger spaces and full stops and add conjunctions to make their sentences longer. They will also continue to learn their phonic letter sounds, digraphs and spelling tricky words and try applying these in their writing as well as developing their reading skills.
In Maths the children will continue their learning with money. Children will use their skills of counting in 1s, 2s, 5s and 10s to help with counting different amounts of money. The penultimate unit will be position and direction and movement including whole, half, quarter and three-quarter turns. Our final Maths focus of the year will be learning about time. Children will begin by ordering events and learn about the days of the weeks and months of the year. They will then be introduced to telling the time to the hour and half past the hour using an analogue clock. They learn the language of o’clock and understand the hour hand is the shorter hand and the minute hand is the longer hand. Throughout the children will be challenged with maths problems to check their understanding.
In Science the children will be investigating and sorting properties of materials and developing their investigative skills by solving a range of open investigations.
In Computing the children will continue to learn about e-safety. The main topic focus will be coding. The children will be learning that computer programs work by following instructions called code. They will use object and action code blocks to make a computer program.
Our topic focus, this term is History. The children will be learning about seaside holidays in the past and learning new vocabulary related to this. They will also be learning about a significant person from the past (Grace Darling) and how this person’s actions helped developed the RNLI now.
In Music the children will be participating in a range of musical activities to develop pulse, rhythm and pitch. Our main focus will be composing some music linked to the sea.
We are an active school and we regularly have active/movement times throughout the school day. Our PE lessons this term will focus on cricket, underarm/overarm throwing skills and tennis. In class we will be discussing our health and mental well-being and how general hygiene helps with this.
In D&T the children will be looking at structures used in everyday life. They will be designing and making bridges and boats.
We will continue to use ‘ClassDojo’ as a method to let you know what has been happening in the class and any ways in which you can help your child at home.
All homework must be stuck in the children’s homework book and sent back into school by Wednesday.
