Ireland Wood Primary School
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Pupils  »  Year 1  »  Autumn

Welcome to Year 1
 
 
Topic
Our Autumn topic is "Let's Go Travelling!". The children will explore how different types of transport has changed through time. They will understand what happened in the past and how that has changed the present.
 
They will also learn about the Wright brothers and how they designed and made the first aeroplane and how that changed transport.
 
 
Maths
During our maths lessons, we will focus on place value (within 10) and addition and subtraction (within 10).
 
Art and Design
This term we will introduce the children to their own sketchbooks. We will use drawing, collage and mark making to explore spirals. During our Art lessons, we will study the famous artists: Molly Haslund and Wassily Kandinsky.
 
Design and Technology
Throughout our Transport topic, we will create a moving vehicle with moving wheels. We will learn how wheels and axels work and try out different axle fixings, exploring their various strengths and weaknesses.
 
Religious Education
During our RE lessons, we will be learning about Christianity and Islam.
We will focus on the following questions:
Which books and stories are special?
How do we celebrate special events?
 
PSHE
This term, children will learn about: personal safety, safety in familiar situations and people who help keep them safe outside the home.
 
Science
During our Science lessons we will be learning about Everyday Materials. We will learn how to distinguish between an object and the material from which it is made. We will also Identify and name a variety of everyday materials, including wood, plastic, glass, metal, water, and rock. Children will describe the simple physical properties of a variety of everyday materials and compare and group together a variety of everyday materials on the basis of their simple physical properties.
 
 
Geography
We will use world maps, atlases and globes to name, locate and identify the four countries that make up the United Kingdom.
We will also use aerial photographs and plan perspectives to recognise landmarks and physical features.
Homework Autumn Term

Please see homework for Autumn term.

Science - Absorbent Material

Today Year 1 discovered which material would be the best to mop up spill in the classroom!

Immerse Learning Day - Let's go travelling!

The children had a wonderful day and using their passports and tickets travelled on a plane for a quick holiday that included in flight refreshments! They also had a wonderful time making aeroplanes and hot air balloons.

Science - Autumn

The children have been learning about autumn in science and today we explored outside to observe and record signs of autumn.

Transport Workshop

The children used drama and roleplay to travel through time and learn about transport in a fabulous workshop.

English - Poetry

Today we started to write a poem about autumn. We collected leaves and made a wonderful collage and talked about all the colours we could see.

English - Instructions

We are writing instructions on how to make a boat in our English lessons so today we had lots of fun making a boat.

History - Transport

In our history lessons we have been learning how transport has changed over time. Today we learnt how Sputnik was launched from Russia and how Yuri Gagarin was the first man to orbit the Earth but Neil Armstrong, from America, was the first man to walk on the moon.

DT - Moving Vehicles

This half term in DT we have been learning how vehicles move using axles and wheels. Take a look at our moving vehicles!