Geography

We will know:

• the four seasons of the United Kingdom
• the weather associated with those seasons
• similarities and differences between the weather of Australia, and the United Kingdom

We will be able to:

• make comparisons between the seasons of the United Kingdom, thinking about weather and plants

Science

We will be able to:

• observe and describe changes across the seasons
• observe and describe changes in weather across the seasons
• observe and describe day length changes

Computing

We will know:

• how to create digital art

Art

We will know:

• more about Diwali divas

We will be able to:

• make our own divas out of clay

We will be adding and subtracting within 10. We will become more confident in:

• knowing number bonds within ten, e.g. 4 + ? = 10
• adding and taking away e.g. 10 – 3 = or 10 - ? = 3
• word problems involving adding and taking away

We will reading The Jolly Postman while learning how to write simple letters to say thank you, or to keep in touch.

We will continue to be more confident in:

• writing sentences that are correctly punctuated with capital letters and full stops

identifying and using effective nouns, verbs and adjectives

We use a knowledge organiser for every project in every year group. It is a helpful way for children and families to see the key knowledge that children will learn. This key knowledge helps the children ask more questions and then find out more information.

It would be helpful to talk with your child about this knowledge organiser. As the project develops, they will be able to share more knowledge. Thank you!

School Day:

Please make sure that Year 1 children are in the Key Stage One playground by 8.35am for an 8.40am start. The school day ends at 3.10pm.

There is free breakfast available in the Studio (in the Key Stage Two playground) from 8am – Year 1 and  Year 2 children must be accompanied by a parent/carer.

PE Kits:

School PE uniform is black shorts (or tracksuit bottoms) with a white t-shirt and trainers. All children will come to school wearing PE kit on their PE days. Year 1 PE days are Monday and Thursday.

Year 1 Home Learning

• Daily reading 
• Weekly phonics
• Half-termly project activities sent out via email or paper copy

Dates

• Monday 25^th November Reception, Year 1 and Year 2 Drama workshop
• Friday 6^th December Winter Fair
• Thursday 12^th December Christmas Jumper Day
• Wednesday 18^th December Nativity
• Friday 20^th 2pm school ends for the term

Can you help?!

If you have any information (stories, photos, experiences, artefacts etc) from the regions on our knowledge organiser, then please contact your class teacher. Thank you!

Please keep in touch – we check these emails everyday before we start teaching:  hydra@greendragon.hounslow.sch.uk   

PHONICS (READING AND SPELLING)

CLICK HERE TO VIEW Our Phonics and READING WEBPAGE

At Green Dragon Primary School, we believe that all our children can become fluent readers and writers. This is why we teach reading through Little Wandle Letters and Sounds Revised, which is a systematic and synthetic phonics (SSP) programme. We start teaching phonics in Reception and follow the Little Wandle Letters and Sounds Revised progression, which ensures children build on their growing knowledge of the alphabetic code, mastering phonics to read and spell as they move through school.

As a result, all our children are able to tackle any unfamiliar words as they read. At Green Dragon Primary School we also model the application of the alphabetic code through phonics in shared reading and writing, both inside and outside of the phonics lesson and across the curriculum. We have a strong focus on language development for our children because we know that speaking and listening are crucial skills for reading and writing in all subjects.

Here is the link to the 'For Parents' section of the Little Wandle website. https://www.littlewandlelettersandsounds.org.uk/resources/for-parents/

The resources on this page will help you support your child with saying their phonemes (sounds) and writing their graphemes (letters). There are also useful videos so you can see how your child is taught at school, to be able to confidently support their reading at home. 

There are two main ways to talk with your child’s teacher.

You can talk at the start or end of the day – remember that teachers have more time at the end of the day!

Alternatively, teachers check the year group email every day so you can contact them here: hydra@greendragon.hounslow.sch.uk

Teachers will respond between the hours of 8:00 and 4:00pm.