Year 1 Curriculum Handbook 2019 - 2020
TERM DATES MICHAELMAS TERM 2019 First day of term - Thursday 5 September Half term holiday - Monday 21 October to Friday 1 November Last day of term - Friday 13 December (finish at 15:30) LENT TERM 2020 First day of term - Tuesday 7 January Half term holiday - Monday 17 February to Friday 21 February Last day of term - Wednesday 1 April (finish at 15:30) TRINITY TERM 2020 First day of term - Monday 20 April Bank Holiday - Friday 8 May Half term holiday - Monday 25 May to Friday 29 May Last day of term - Friday 3 July (finish at 15:30)
Contacts Since your child is known best by their classteacher, this is the first point of contact; this includes notes regarding illness, sport, music lessons dental appointments etc. Joanne.Hamilton@hullcollegiateschool.co.uk Hannah.Rowley@hullcollegiateschool.co.uk
For more serious matters, the Phase Leader can be contacted: Mrs J Hamilton Joanne.Hamilton@hullcollegiateschool.co.uk For all other enquiries, please contact the Prep Office staff: Mrs D Fawcett-Ward Diane.Fawcett-Ward@hullcollegiateschool.co.uk Miss E Brownlee Emma.Brownlee@hullcollegiateschool.co.uk
DAY 08:45 09:00 09:50 10:40 11:00 11:20 12:00 13:10
Registration Period 1 Period 2 Break Assembly & Interventions Period 3 Lunch Registration
13:15 14:05 14:15 14:50 15:30
Period 4 Break Period 5 Period 6 End of day
Encouraging High Standards of Behaviour It is the School’s policy to nurture and encourage self-discipline amongst pupils. We encourage all pupils to adhere to the ‘I CARE’ Core Values: Innovative: to seek ways of improving and enhancing all that we do to develop enquiring minds and a lifelong love of learning in preparation for life in the 21st Century. Confident: to ensure that we provide opportunities that allow pupils to develop their confidence through learning and co-curricular opportunities. Aspirational: to prepare for the future, always seeking to improve, and approaching each challenge and opportunity with energy, optimism and a growth mind-set. Respectful: to encourage self-respect, care for others and have an active interest in the world beyond the school. Enthusiastic: to embrace new challenges and enjoy the opportunities afforded to pupils by being part of the school community.
Our Golden Rules are: • We are kind, polite and helpful • We listen • We are honest • We work hard • We look after property
Keeping Healthy - Snacks and Water Bottle We encourage children to keep their hearts and minds healthy by being active, eating a balanced diet and sleeping well. Children may bring a healthy snack such as fruit, crackers, cereal bar, popcorn or a bread bun (no sweets, chocolate or crisps) to enjoy at morning break time. Children should have a bottle of water (named) at school every day.
Parent Information Sports Kit, Homework and The Hub Sports Kit
The logistics of homework are as follows:
All sports kit must be labelled with the child’s name. It is unlikely that items of kit,
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Each child will have homework books for Maths and English.
which are clearly named, will go missing. We urge parents to do this to help us and
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Will be given each Friday to be returned the following Wednesday.
your child look after their possessions. It is also important that your child is aware
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The amount of time allocated for each piece of homework will vary according
of the kit they need, to help them start to take responsibility for packing their
to the nature of the homework, but should typically take between 20-30
games bag. Kit bags should be brought on the first day of term; it can be taken
minutes for each task.
home at weekends to be washed and returned to school the following Monday.
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Daily reading is expected (a minimum of four times weekly) and all is recorded/ signed in their liaison book and returned to the classroom each day.
Homework
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A weekly spelling list will be sent home on a Friday and should be practised ready for an informal test the following Friday.
We believe that homework supports the development of independent learning by encouraging and extending learning beyond the confines of the classroom and
The Hub
timetable. It is our aim to provide regular and appropriate homework tasks which will consolidate and reinforce skills and understanding, particularly in the core
The Hub is operated by Firefly. It is the school’s chosen online platform that brings
skills of English and Maths. We will be starting to use ‘The Hub’ on occasion to set
together teachers, students and parents. It allows teachers to set work, track
homework tasks.
progress, share resources and engage with parents. The Firefly Parents Portal allows parents to view up-to-date information about their children’s progress as well as
We value, support and welcome active co-operation and communication between
keeping them informed about many other aspects of school life.
home and school, please email staff with any questions or concerns or write a short message in your child’s reading liaison book.
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Attendance
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Reports (for download)
Homework aims to nurture good independent working habits, encouraging a love
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Make parent evening appointments
of learning and developing learning beyond the classroom.
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Pay for school trips/activities via their Parent Pay account
Parent Information First Aid and Standards of Dress First Aid and Injury/Illness
term (weather permitting), straw boater hats will continue in Pre-Prep. After October until the May half term pupils are expected to wear the winter uniform.
First Aid in school is provided for injuries incurred in school. If you need to send your child to school with medication to take during the day, please clearly label
Due to the nature of OPAL playtimes, children will need to bring to school
it, accompanied with the Pupil Medication Request Form, and hand to the Prep
wellingtons and water proof trousers for playtimes. Please ensure that your child
School Office or First Aid Room.
has their coat and their blazer with them everyday and ensure that all items of clothing are clearly labelled.
Children should not be sent to school unless they are healthy enough to go outside to play and take part in PE and Games lessons. If a child has an injury that
Hair
forces them to miss Games, a note/email should be sent to their classteacher. In the interest of health and safety, hair should be kept clean and tidy and should If your child has suffered infective sickness or diarrhoea (e.g. the norovirus), they
not hang over the face. Long hair should be tied back securely for practical lessons.
should be kept at home for 48 hours following the last episode (Health Protection
Hair bands and slides, if worn, should be discreet and in one of the school colours –
Agency guidelines). Although a child may appear well, they are still infectious for
navy blue or maroon.
this 48-hour period.
Jewellery, Watches and Make-up
Any medical enquiries or concerns about your child’s health/illness or return to School should be addressed to the First Aiders who will be happy to discuss this with you at any time. The First Aiders can be contacted on Hull.Nurse@ hullcollegiateschool.co.uk or on 01482 579121.
Standards of Dress and Appearance Pupils can continue to wear their summer dresses up to autumn – October half
Pupils are not permitted to wear jewellery in school (except in exceptional circumstances). Only discreet, stud-type earrings are acceptable and must be removed for sports activities. Watches should be unobtrusive to support the pupil to tell the time. Simple analogue black or navy watches are suitable. Any colour smartwatches/Fitbits are also permitted.
Year 1 Curriculum Overview 2019 - 2020 Maths Maths
never good at Maths at school” - your child may start to think like that themselves.
A Mastery style of teaching of Maths is consistent throughout the Prep School.
Number Bonds: In Year 1, these are the foundation for number operations in Maths.
Children are supported through 3 different levels of challenges each lesson:
Children must be able to recall them quickly and accurately. Children will be given a log in
Challenge 1 is a fluency level, Challenge 2 problem solving and reasoning and
for the app Maths Shed where they can practise recalling them quickly and in a random
Challenge 3 is mastery and greater depth. Number Bonds and early times tables
order whilst competing for points.
knowledge are at the heart of Year 1 Maths learning; children are expected to know their number bonds to 10 by heart and to be able to count in 2, 5 and 10s. These
There are a variety of different museums or educational centres you could visit to support
are regularly practised in lessons to ensure children are fluent and can recall facts
our learning this year, these include: EUREKA – Halifax, Magna – Rotherham, The Museums
quickly. Please practise these at home to aid recall.
Quarter – Hull Museums, Normanby Hall - Scunthorpe, The Natural History Museum – London, Dino Star – Hull , Yorkshire Museum - York.
To read our calculation policy, please visit The Hub.
How parents can help at home? Point out the Maths in everyday life. Include your child in activities involving numbers and measuring, such as shopping, cooking and travelling. You can add up digits on number plates – anything where you child is mentally holding numbers in their head. Children will learn to tell the time when they need to know the time for a purpose; e.g. how long until a programme starts on television or how long until lunch. If they have a watch, it is best if it is an analogue one with a readable face. Above all else, be positive about Maths. Try not to say things like “I can’t do Maths” or “I was
Year 1 Curriculum Overview 2019 - 2020 English English
How can parents help at home?
To start the academic year, children will be studying the text, ‘Traction Man’ by Mini Grey, which is a wonderful adventure book about an action figure. Children will create their own adventure for him and look closely at the language used in narratives. They will also be story mapping ‘Funnybones’ and thinking about speech in the book, ‘Owl Babies’. Alongside this, children will be focusing on phonics, developing handwriting and answering comprehension questions about different texts in guided reading sessions.
Reading: Reading with your child, at every age, is vital. Research shows that it’s the single most important thing you can do to help your child’s education. It’s best to read little and often, so try to put aside some time for it every day. Let your child see you reading a book so they get into good habits. Reading extensively will improve your child’s awareness of punctuation and sentence structure; it will also enhance their vocabulary which can be used in speech and creative writing.
In the Lent Term, children will be studying letters, diary entries, narrative stories and descriptive poetry using the text, ‘Dear Dinosaur’. After half term, children will be studying traditional tales, with a twist. They will be thinking carefully about the story structure of a traditional tale and creating their own versions based on the story, ‘Little Red Reading Hood’. In the Trinity Term, children will be studying non-fiction style reports and developing their narrative skills further through a range of pirate related texts including ’The Pirate Cruncher’. Alongside texts, children will be focussing on suffixes ‘ed’, ‘ing’ and plurals and developing more complex sentences using adjectives and adverbs. Children will continue with the phonics programme completing the Year 1 phonics screening in June.
Spellings: Each week the children will be given a set of spellings to learn. Please go through these with your child each day so that they are committed to their long-term memory and, thus, used correctly in their written work. Writing: Encourage your child to write for a pleasurable purpose, this might be: writing a letter; sending a postcard from your holidays; keeping a diary; making a shopping list; compiling a book review etc. Finding any reason for your child to write for pleasure will make writing an everyday occurrence.
Year 1 Curriculum Overview 2019 - 2020 English At Hull Collegiate School, we follow the Collins Big Cat Reading Scheme. The books in each band contain high quality reading books covering a variety of genre. As children get older these books will become longer and more demanding and are designed to aid the children’s ability to use deduction and inference to gain understanding. Books will also become progressively more complex in terms of syntax and vocabulary. Books will include non-fiction and fiction books. Children will be encouraged to read regularly to progress through the scheme towards the Black Band books (in Year 2). Children will also be able to read their own or library books in parallel with their reading scheme book. Below is a table identifying the book bands
Follow the link in the QR code for a list of exciting texts for your child to read or enjoy together, how many can you read before the end of Y1?
Year 1 Curriculum Overview 2019 - 2020 Science, RE/PSHCE Science from spring to summer, comparing observations taken from last term. They will In the Michaelmas Term, children will be looking at their own bodies, specifically
discuss the importance of how to stay safe in the sun and produce posters to
naming bones and joints. They will be experimenting with senses and how each
display about this.
plays an important role for their daily lives. After half term, as the nights get darker, children will be thinking about light and dark, shadow puppets and investigating
RE/PSHCE
light patterns. In the first half term, children will be thinking about themselves and how to In the Lent Term, children will be studying animals and their habitats, with a focus
maintain a healthy lifestyle. They will also be studying different behaviours for
on different types of dinosaurs and what they ate, where they lived and how they
learning to celebrate their strengths and weaknesses. In RE, children will be
may be related to animals today. After half term, children will study materials and
studying different places of worship and festivals in the autumn and winter
their properties, including investigations about temperature and how different
months. This will link this with the Nativity story in the lead up to Christmas.
materials are used for different everyday objects and why. Alongside this, children will also be looking at the seasonal changes between
In RE, children will be focusing on caring for the world and studying Christianity
winter and spring, thinking about the weather, animal habitats and looking for
and festivals towards Easter. Alongside this in PSHCE and assemblies, children will
signs of spring.
be thinking about relationships, feelings and emotions and valuing difference as well as recognising the responsibility of keeping themselves safe online and about
In the Trinity Term, children will explore plants and growing. They will be
who looks after them and their family networks. Children will also be thinking
identifying different plants, labelling them and planting a few of their own to use
about good and not so good feelings to describe their feelings.
in a special cooking project. Children will also be investigating how they grow, examining the inside of a plant and how water travels around it.
In the Trinity Term, children will be studying Hindu traditions and festivals and how
Alongside this, children will also by studying the changes in the seasons
to make informed choices to improve their learning and maintaining a healthy lifestyle. Children will think of the how their needs change as they grow older.
Year 1 Curriculum Overview 2019 - 2020 Humanities & Languages Humanities
Languages
In the Michaelmas Term, children will be studying life 100 years ago, finding out about and looking at differences in the home, schooling, toys and transport. The topic will be brought to life with the visit to the Wilderspin Museum and spending the day as a Victorian school child and becoming archaeologists when discovering old objects.
Children will be learning how to greet people and have basic conversations in different languages. They will discover more about cultures around the world and traditions. Children will be focussing on France in the Michaelmas Term, Spain in the Lent Term and Germany in the Trinity Term.
In the Lent Term, children will be transported to the prehistoric era and studying dinosaurs. They will study a timeline of different events from this era, creating their own and learning about the different types of dinosaurs. They will learn about the life of Mary Anning, a famous fossil hunter and female palaeontologist. In the Trinity Term, children will learn about the four countries of the United Kingdom. They will talk about traditions and learn about England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. Children will also create a case study looking at similarities and differences with the coastal town of Whitby as well as the life and adventures of Captain James Cook. Children will visit Flamborough Head to study the coast.
Year 1 Curriculum Overview 2019 - 2020 Art & Design, Computing Art & Design
Computing
In the Michaelmas Term, children will be developing their sketching skills and investigating light and dark shades using pastels and paint. As it gets closer towards Christmas, they will be creating a variety of different Art and DT crafts to take home.
In the first term, children will be focusing on digital literacy, using the computer to create their own designs and developing their mouse control and touch-typing skills. They will be linking these themes to their topic work. They will also be developing their confidence when using the school’s network.
In the Lent Term, children will be focussing on prints and animal prints, using different media to create winter pictures and developing their fine motor skills with some dinosaur sewing. Children will be studying treasure chests and boxes. They will develop their use of tools including scissors, saws, drills and glue-guns. Children will also be studying plants and flowers, creating their own masterpiece to be displayed in the Prep School Art Exhibition.
In the Lent Term, children will be looking at Augmented Reality Technology and creating their own dinosaur movies using iMovie. They will use simple programming skills on iPads as well as create an e-book about Little Red Reading Hood. In the Trinity Term children will be learning how to open and save work successfully on the school network and developing publishing skills through Microsoft Publisher. Children will also be programming an online ‘turtle’ thinking carefully about position and direction, and algorithms they need to follow to instruct an online object.
Year 1 Curriculum Overview 2019 - 2020 Games & PE, Music Games & PE In the Michaelmas Term, the children will learn to support their body weight creating balances. They will create different ways to travel on the floor apparatus, using different body parts to create shapes under, over and through apparatus and travel in different directions. They will finish by putting together a short sequence using the skills they have learnt. In the Lent Term, children will be practising for the inter-house crosscountry championship in February and developing their gross motor skills and ball skills with the emphasis on Football and Netball. Children will also be developing water skills in swimming lessons. During the Trinity Term, children will explore running, jumping and throwing activities and take part in simple challenges and competitions. They will experiment with different ways of travelling, throwing and jumping, increasing their awareness of speed and distance. In Games lessons, children will learn how to hit or strike the ball into spaces, so that they can score runs in different ways. When fielding, they learn how to work together to keep the batters’ scores down. In all Games activities, children will be thinking about how they use skills, strategies and tactics to outwit the opposition.
Music In the Michaelmas Term, children will explore different sounds and their durations. They will have the opportunity to use a variety of tuned and untuned percussion instruments to recreate familiar sounds. In the Lent Term, children will explore pulse, rhythm and pitch, linking their own compositions to seasonal changes. Children will have the opportunity to develop an understanding of basic written notation, following a simple score. In the Trinity Term, children will have the opportunity to explore instruments, symbols and timbre, tempo and dynamics, building on their understanding of scores from the previous term. They will also be learning songs for the end of year summer show.
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