Lowry-Year 1

Welcome to Lowry - Year 1!

Welcome to Lowry Class - Year 1!

The learning in Year 1 Lowry Class is led by Miss Church with Mrs Johnson and Mrs Francis. Mrs Kilby teaches us on Friday afternoons.

Welcome back to the Summer term! A term that is filled with sunshine (hopefully…), fun and continued learning outdoors. We will be focussing on your wonderful children’s transition to Year 2; their excellent learning behaviours are a great first step in this.

Our key concept this half term is choice.

During our Entry Hook, we will be explaining our understanding of the concept of choice via some shared activities. We will be linking this to the Save The Children Wonderbook The Girl With A Book. Children will bring in their favourite toys and we will engage with what these choices tell us about ourselves and our history.

RE learning focusses on Understanding Christianity - God. This topic includes thinking about what Christians believe God is like. We will identify what a parable is and give simple accounts of what the stories from the Bible mean to Christians. Children will think, talk and ask questions about what we can learn from the stories.

Our curriculum is underpinned by our concept choices and contains other topics. The children will broaden their understanding of our wonderful world in our plants Science topic. In History, we will be comparing and contrasting modern and historical toys. In DT, we will design and create a fruit kebab and packaging to provide Baby Bear with a new breakfast. During PE, we will be enjoying improving our tennis skills. Our second weekly PE session will see us hone our attack and defence strategies and techniques in different sporting games. In Computing, the children will start to learn how to create and debug algorithms whilst using BeeBots and PurpleMash. Our RSHE focusses on our physical health and wellbeing. To start our German learning, we will encounter vocabulary for greetings and simple responses. Learning to use tuned percussion when we create our own tunes will be the foundation of our Music topic this term.

A heartfelt thank you for all of your enthusiasm for your children’s learning: our concept entry days, festival days, school trips, own-clothes/costumes days are made all the more enjoyable and memorable thanks to your support. We are having a great deal of fun in Lowry Class and we can see how excited your children are to share this with you all.