🍊Welcome to Orange Class - Year 1

A warm welcome to all our Year 1 children and families. In Orange Class, we work as a team—celebrating achievements , building confidence , and encouraging independence 🌱. Our aim is to create a safe and supportive environment where children can thrive as lifelong learners and enjoy every step of the journey.

 

🏙️ This Half Term’s Topic: Lowerhouses and London

This half term, our learning is centred around Lowerhouses and London. We will explore our local area, identify human and physical features, and compare where we live with the capital city. Children will learn about famous London landmarks, what makes a capital city special, and how Lowerhouses fits into Huddersfield and Yorkshire.

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📅 Year 1 Topics for 2025–2026

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📌 Key Information

• 🏃‍♂️ PE Days: Tuesday and Friday
  Please ensure children come to school in their outdoor PE kit. Earrings must be removed or covered with plasters.

• 📖 Reading Books: Sent home daily
  Please sign your child’s reading log—this earns them vouchers in class.

• ✏️ Spelling Practice: Worksheets sent home every Friday
  Weekly practice helps build confidence and fluency.

• 📄 Parent Info Sheet: Available below with ideas for supporting learning at home.

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📖 What We’re Learning

✍️ English

We are exploring stories with predictable and patterned language, focusing on We’re Going on a Bear Hunt. Children will create their own version by changing the character and setting. We will also look at information texts about London. This half term we are learning to:

• Use exclamation marks and question marks

• Add suffixes –ing, –ed, –er to verbs

➕ Mathematics

Our focus this half term includes:

• Counting to and from 0–100

• Solving addition and subtraction using different methods

• Exploring mass and volume

• Number bonds to 10

🌍 Geography

Our enquiry questions are:

• What are the physical and natural features of Lowerhouses?

• Why isn’t Huddersfield a capital city?

Children will learn:

• Lowerhouses is in Huddersfield, and Huddersfield is in Yorkshire

• Key human and physical features of our school and local area

• London is the capital city of England

• Famous London landmarks

🎨 Art

We will create a London landscape collage and learn about the artist Stephen Wiltshire.

🔬 Science

Our topic is Animals including humans. Children will explore:

• Animal groups

• Body parts of animals

• The five senses and the parts of the body linked to them

✝️ RE

We are learning about making good choices.

💻 Computing

Children will learn how to program a Bee-Bot and give simple instructions.

🧠 PSHE

Our Jigsaw theme is Dreams and Goals, helping children think about aspirations and how to work towards them.

🏃 PE

We will continue developing multi-skills and working with our PE coach.

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🏡 How You Can Help at Home

• Read daily and sign the Reading Log

• Practise weekly spellings

• Talk about what your child has learned

• Read stories with predictable, patterned language

• Discuss different types of animals and their groups

• Explore London and its landmarks (In books or online)

• Practise counting forwards and backwards from 0–100

• Play counting games from 0–100: http://www.primarygames.co.uk/pg2/splat/splatsq100.html
• Practise number bonds to 10: http://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button

Look out for our Parent Information Sheet below!