Welcome to Year 1VH with Mrs Holt and Miss Pemberton.
We hope to have an enjoyable year with lots of fun and exciting learning activities. We will apply the skills that we have already learnt in Early Years to support our learning journey and become independent learners.
Your support is valuable in extending your child's learning. We would be grateful if you could spend a small amount of time each day to help them with their set homework or reading with them.
The homework we give supports the learning we are currently doing in class. We try to make it quite practical so that it is enjoyable for the children and provides an opportunity for you to talk about what they are doing at school.
Useful weblinks
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize
Through this topic, the children will explore different materials and their properties. They will carry out investigations to find out which is the best material for a given task. Our core story will be The Elves and the Shoemaker, where they will also look at the materials that the shoemaker used. This will feed into our design technology work about textiles. The children will explore ways of joining fabric together and will then design, make and decorate shoes.
We will look at toys from the past and compare them with modern toys. We will also look at how toys move. In Design Technology, we will explore wheels and axles to make a moving vehicle and in Computing we will learn how to use algorithms to program a floor robot.