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Welcome to our P1 Page.

 

Below you can see an overview of what we will be learning. This will be updated on a monthly basis. You can also view photos and videos of our learning and fun times together by clicking on the star icons below. We hope you love looking at our photos and video clips as much as we do. ENJOY! smiley

 

Please remember to bring in a painting apron, a raincoat and wellington boots that you can keep in school. We will be using these during our indoor and outdoor Play-based learning.  Thank you. yes

LITERACY

In April we are learning to:

  • recount our own experiences
  • recite rhymes and poems
  • listen to and follow instructions
  • take turns in conversations and discussions
  • recognise the difference between print and pictures
  • use pictures to tell a story
  • demonstrate reading behaviour when handling books
  • understand and use correctly terms about books
  • distinguish between writing and drawing in books and in our own work
  • use a comfortable and efficient pencil grip
  • demonstrate fine motor skills, hand-eye co-ordination and spatial awareness
  • recognise the difference between a letter, a sound, a word, a sentence / a line of writing
  • recognise and write the sounds ‘z’ ‘w’ ‘v’ / ‘qu’ 
  • blend these sounds orally to make simple CVC words
  • make simple CVC words using paper squares
  • Read simple high frequency words
  • Use 'Inference' during reading tasks.
  • Writing genre – Explanations and Instructions.

 

 

NUMERACY

In April we are learning to:

  • Count orally during number rhymes, jingles and stories
  • Recite the days of the week
  • Count forwards from 1, within 8 and beyond
  • Find missing numbers within a sequence of numbers (ascending and descending)
  • Order sets of numbers from smallest to biggest / biggest to smallest
  • recognise, read and write numbers within 8
  • touch count sets of objects within 8
  • match sets to numerals
  • make sets within 8
  • understand one to one correspondence by matching
  • recognise and name an octagon
  • devise our own repeating patterns
  • use money including £1. coins in the context of play
  • understand and use the language associated with size
  • sort, without direction, random collections of materials in a range of ways, talk about the sorting.
  • help to create / complete a graph
  • read information from a graph.

 

 

We will continue to focus on TIME. o'clock and half past on analogue / digital clocks.

 

WAU

Our topic for March / April is: ‘Spring’.

 

PDMU

Our April word of the month is ‘Honesty’.

 

THINKING SKILLS AND PERSONAL CAPABILITIES – Being Creative

In April we are learning to:

  • Work with a focus, ask and respond to questions to clarify the task
  • Select with help, information from materials and resources provided and suggest ways to obtain information
  • Follow directions in relation to a task
  • Begin to plan
  • Identify simple methods to record information

 

 

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