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! 

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. 

LITERACY

In May 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 ‘y, x / qu’ 
• blend these sounds orally to make simple CVC words
• make simple CVC words using paper squares
• Read simple high frequency words
• Continue to use ‘Inference’ during reading tasks.
• Continue to help the teacher to write ‘explanations’.
• May writing genre ‘Narrative’.

NUMERACY

In May we are learning to:

• Count orally during number rhymes, jingles and stories
• Recite the days of the week
• Count forwards from 1, within 10 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 10
• touch count sets of objects within 10
• match sets to numerals
• make sets within 10
• understand one to one correspondence by matching
• devise our own repeating patterns
• add '2' to numbers within 10 and beyond
• understand and use the language 'more' / 'less'
• use money including £1. coins in the context of play
• understand and use the language associated with weight, volume and 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 May / June is: ‘Dinosaurs’.

PDMU

Our May word of the month is ‘Acceptance’.

THINKING SKILLS AND PERSONAL CAPABILITIES 

Our focus is ‘Thinking, Problem Solving and Decision Making’.