Year 1 Learning at Home | Irk Valley Community School

Respect

The importance of valuing others, listening to different viewpoints, taking care of belongings, manners, appreciating the diversity which exists in our community and beyond

Excellence

The determination to reach the highest standards, every day.

Aspiration

The desire to grow and develop, achieving the best for ourselves and each other.

Cooperation

The knowledge that working with others, asking for help when needed and supporting others to develop are the foundations of growth.

Happiness

The importance of joy in what we do, discovering our strengths and using them.

Year 1 Learning at Home

Our home learning page will give you links to help you continue learning if you are at home. You can access these lessons on any device: phone, tablet, laptop or PC. Have fun!

Spring 1: What is my place like?

Here is the planning for this term:

Maths

This half term, we will be looking at numbers to 20. We will be learning how to count on, write the numerals and words for each number, compare quantities and order numbers. We will also reinforce our learning using tens frames, number lines and the part-whole model. Here are some lessons to help:

Oak Academy - Numbers to 20

Mathletics

English

Here are links to the books we are looking at in English being read aloud. There are also links to buy them from Amazon.

Lost and Found - Oliver Jeffers

Amazon link Lost and Found by Oliver Jeffers

E-books

Phonics

We are recapping phase 4 in phonics which focuses on words with many sounds in them and recapping digraphs learnt in phase 3. Here are some phonics teaching videos and a game you can play to practice the phonemes.

Phonics teaching videos

Phase 4 Buried treasure - reading words

Geography

This half term we our focusing on learning about our local area and making maps. Here are some videos to support this:

What is a settlement?

Features of where I live

Making a map

Map symbols

Describing locations

Design Technology

We are designing and making a ...

Science

This half term we our focusing on learning about ...

Handwriting

We have an amazing online resource used to promote cursive handwriting in the form of Letter-join. This can be accessed from anywhere using the link below. The schools login details can be found inside the children's reading record.

Letterjoin