Year 1 Dunham and Tatton Summer Term.
Welcome back and hope you have had a great Easter.
Below is a brief outline of the areas of learning your child will cover in the Summer Term.
Literacy
This term we will continue to have a strong focus on Reading and Letters and Sounds while looking to develop and improve sentence structure and punctuation. There is a strong emphasis on poems and fantasy tales using capital letters, full stops and other forms of punctuation appropriately when writing. 
Reading
This area will continue to be a focus of Literacy. If possible, we would encourage you to read with your child daily as they look to increase there word bank. However we recommend that children spend time reviewing their books and not simply reading them. Ask your child questions about what they have read or what they think might happen next. There will also be guided and 1-1 reading sessions with your child through-out the week.
If your child has a word book, they are encouraged to practice these words daily in order to become confident when attempting them in class. Once all words are completed they move onto spellings.
If your child has spellings then this will be part of their homework and they will be tested every Monday.
Writing
This half term we will be introducing written comprehension. This will alternate with Big Writing on a Friday and therefore Big Writing homework will come home every other week. Weeks when we do comprehension they will have an extended writing task in another area of learning such as science or geography.
Numeracy
There remains a strong emphasis on using mental strategies for addition, subtraction and introducing simple forms of multiplication and division. We begin to look more closely at number facts, calculating partitioning numbers and shape. The Numeracy homework ties in to our weekly focus.
Science.
Two super topics this term:
Growing plants
In this unit children learn about different plants, plant parts, feeding
plants and what they need to grow.
Sound and Hearing This unit develops children's
become able to recognise and describe different sounds created by different
objects.
Geography
Journeys
Children will use Barnaby Bear to learn about the world around them. They will be locating places around the world via maps and other media technology. We are also hoping to take the children to Delamere Forest to learn about the journey of plants and insects.
History
The history of towns and countries around the world.
br />Any photographs or objects that you think may be useful are always welcome! (This unit looks at how places have changed and how tourism has affected the development of countries.)
ICT.
Postcards
(children learn that a computer can be used to retell information. Again this will link to Barnaby Bear and the children will create an image of a place they have visited and then recount their adventure. The children will begin to learn to type and find letters around a keyboard. They will also learn how to save work and then retrieve it at a later stage.)
Art / D.T.
Plan, Design Sculpture and Evaluate’ This term the children will learn how to turn a plan into a model and then decide how it can be improved for future use. This will be done through designing a chair for Barnaby Bear.
RE
Different faiths and religious prayers.
Music (Mrs Robinson)
Singing and musical games
PE
These days are subject to change over the term!
Monday – Black shorts, white Bollin T-shirt.
Thursday – Multi-sports Black shorts, white Bollin T-shirt. Tracksuit with trainers!
Please make sure your child’s PE kit is in school all term, especially if they do after school clubs that may require them to use their PE kit.
Homework
Please encourage your child to practise their sight vocabulary regularly. We aim to check children’s sight vocabulary in their red wordbooks once a week.
Please try to ensure the book is in your child’s bag every day.
Reading is an important part of your child’s regular homework activities.
Reading books to share with you at home can be changed any day (we suggest twice a week as a guide).
Children must put their book in the orange box in the morning and the Reading Record must be signed by an adult. Homework will be set every Wednesday and should be handed in by the following Monday. Children will have their own folders which they must take care of. At times we will send out other pieces of homework which will link to the topic work in class and which will hopefully enhance their learning further.
If you have any questions or concerns please get in touch.
As the weather improves we would like children to have water bottles in school daily.
If your child brings their water bottle in on a Monday, they can put fresh water in daily and then take the water bottle home on a Friday to be cleaned out. Please ensure names are clearly written on the bottle!
Many thanks,
Mr Liddell & Miss Hammond