Year 1 Curriculum Information
Term: Summer 2 2025
Year 1 Curriculum Information
Term: Summer 2 2025
Class: Y1M Teacher: Miss McCracken
Class: Y1R Teacher: Mr Rhodes
Home Learning
We encourage the children to read for at least 10 minutes each night. We will change reading books and check reading records on Mondays and Thursdays. Please make sure children bring in their reading records and reading journals on these days.
Home learning will be set on Google Classroom on a Friday to be completed by the following Thursday. This will include one piece of either English or Maths (Alternating each week) and their weekly spellings. We will have our weekly spelling test on Thursday afternoon.
PE
In PE our topics are tennis and athletics.
PE will take place on a Tuesday and a Wednesday. Please can children come to school wearing their PE kits on this day. On a Tuesday we will be learning about locomotion and on Wednesday we will be learning about athletics and Tennis.
Our OLM PE uniform is:
- White OLM t-shirt
- Navy Blue shorts or tracksuit bottoms
- Black or white trainers.
Maths
At OLM we use the Maths No Problem scheme. This scheme focuses on mastery of different mathematical concepts. Each child will have their own workbook which is made of different chapters (See below for the current chapters for this half term). At the end of each chapter there will be a review to complete. Your children will bring a blank copy of this to complete as homework. This will inform you on which parts your child is confident in and which areas they may need additional support.
This half term we will be learning about:
- Time
- Money
- Volume and Capacity
- Mass
- Space
Science
This half term we our learning about “Making connections”
This will include:
- Identifying the typical weather with each season.
- Describe animal features.
- Recognise similarities and differences between animals in the same animal group.
- Explain the difference between carnivores, omnivores and herbivores.
History
This half term we our learning about “How explorers have changed the world?”
This will include:
- What is an explorer?
- Where have explorers travelled and when?
- Who was Christopher Columbus?
- Who was Matthew Henson and What did he do?
- How has exploration changed?
- How can we remember them?
English
In Year 1, we use Rocket Phonics. Children start this scheme in Early Years Foundation Stage and then progress on to more complex phonemes and graphemes. The children have their own workbooks, which they fill in each day.
Children read twice a week in school, during small guided reading sessions. We use the corresponding high quality Rocket Phonics reading books. Children also take home two Rocket Phonics reading books a week.
It is really important that children are exposed to a variety of books and to support this we read aloud daily to the children in class. Please could parents support their child by reading aloud to them each day at home so they are exposed to a rich vocabulary of language.
In our writing lessons we are looking at sentence level work around the book “The Egg Box Dragon”. In this unit we will be focusing on using the conjunction ‘and’. We will also be revisiting past tense verbs. At the end of this unit, we will be writing a narrative.
RE
In RE our topic is being Sorry (4 weeks) and Neighbours (4 weeks).
Our CST topic for this half term is the “Dignity”.
