Summer Term - Pirates

This term our theme is Pirates. Below you will find an overview of what your child is learning/ experiencing this term in Year 1.

Language, Literacy and Communication

· Listening to a range of sea/pirate/island stories including big books,films and CD's

· Jolly Grammar 1- adjectives, adverbs, verbs, plurals, antonyms, speech marks, questions

· Jolly phonics spellings– ew,ou,ow,oi,oy,or,al,nk,er,ir,ur,au,aw

· Illustrated dictionary on theme

· Sequencing stories – beginning, middle and end.

· Read and spell high frequency words

· Handwriting – letter formation

· Re-telling theme related stories (fantasy)

Mathematical Development

• Tables, time 0’ clock and half past, timing

• Grouping and counting in 10’s and 5’s

• 10 more / 10 less

• Adding 10’s and 1's

• In between numbers, ordering numbers to 50 and beyond

• Capacity

• Addition and subtraction facts- making 7, 8, 9 and 10’s.

• Coins, adding and making amounts, giving change

• Odds and evens

• Adding crossing a multiple of 10 by counting on.

• Taking away- 1’s and 10's
 

Personal and Social Development, wellbeing and Cultural Diversity

· Role-play pirate situations – discuss choices characters have made and their effect on others

· Write a Pirate code for role-play area reflecting their values e.g no washing, don’t hog the rum!

· Pirate party – children dress up, play games and dance to sea shanties!

· ‘Relationships’ - Knowing myself. Understanding my feelings. Managing my feelings. Understanding the feelings of others.

· ‘Changes’ – Knowing myself, Planning to reach a goal, Making choices

Physical Development

• Games to develop control of body movements,

• Throwing, catching and striking a ball with accuracy.

• Carrying apparatus safely.

• PESS- Gymnastics - creating sequences of shapes and actions

• Using tuff cam to evaluate own performance.

• Fine motor- drawing, chalking, painting, cutting, and modelling

• Play‘pirate ship’s’ and ‘walk the plank'

• Create pirate obstacle courses

Creative Development

· To respond to a story or theme stimulus – Pirate songs/dance

· Explore instruments and symbols

· Partner pictures- pirate scenes

· Design and make a pirate ship flag - Evaluate own design and improve.

· Make cakes, cookies, sandwiches in the shape of seaside objects for pirate party.

· Create a ‘pirate sea chest’ with individual belongings

Knowledge and Undertsanding of the World

• Identify what they want to find out about the topic andidentify how to find out what they want to know.

• Research famous pirates

• Find out and label parts of a pirate ship

• Research variety of boats/shipwrecks/life at sea

• Create pirate plans and treasure Island maps.

• Use co-ordinates to follow a map

• Be environmentally friendly / aware of the dangers to sea creatures/ know about pollution at sea.

• Investigate making an eye patch and looking at things with one eye

• Investigate using cylinders to make a telescope

• Investigate floating and sinking by testing the amount of loot their boot will carry

 
Welsh Language Development

· Speaking, reading and writing using welsh language patterns covering:

· Greetings

·  Transport

· Clothing – sort and label

· Theme related songs

Easter Bonnet and Egg Rolling

A big thank you to parents and other people who helped us to make our Easter bonnets - they all looked fabulous and it was clear a lot of effort had gone into making them.



We had also spent a lot of time creatively decorating our hard boiled eggs, and had great fun rolling our eggs and cheering on our friends.

Easter Cooking

We were all keen to become chefs and bake easter biscuits. We looked at the recipe to check the amounts of each ingredient, and used weighing scales to weigh each. After mixing and rolling, we chose our Easter shapes. Once they were baked we had lots of fun icing them. They were delicious...even if some bunnies were missing body parts by home time!

PC Daniels Visit

PC Daniels came to talk to us about the people who can help us in an emergency. We talked about the numbers we could ring for help, and practised talking on the phone to the emergency services. PC Daniels asked us all to try to learn our address and phone number.