Steeple Morden Church of England
Primary School
Year 1 - Robin Class
Welcome to Robin Class!
A huge welcome to Robin Class - Year 1 - at Steeple Morden Primary
We have 18 children in Robin Class and our teachers are Mrs Bowmer and Mrs Andrews. Mrs Bowmer teaches Monday-Thursday and Mrs Andrews teaches on a Thursday afternoon (covering Mrs Bowmer’s PPA time) and Friday.
Mrs Carter is the class Teaching Assistant 3 days a week on Monday – Wednesday.
Mr Brown is our Teaching Assistant on a Friday morning.
Mrs Dibling and Mrs J Brown continue to support a child in a 1-1 capacity.
In Robin Class we work hard to become ‘the best we can be’ – choosing to be kind with our hands, feet and words, trying our best and being brave when we find something more difficult.
In Robin Class we work hard to become ‘the best we can be’ – choosing to be kind with our hands, feet and words, trying our best and being brave when we find something more difficult.
During the first week back in September our work was based around the book The Colour Monster – looking at how we felt about returning to school, talking about our emotions and thinking of strategies to help us when we feel worried or sad or anxious. For the rest of this term, we are looking at the book ‘Who am I?’ and will focus on the questions, ‘Am I my name?’ and ‘Am I my emotions?’, etc. thinking about who we are and our place in the world, which fits well with our Topic.
We will be learning some British Sign Language in Year One this year, learning to use our hands to communicate. This will continue throughout the year, including learning some songs, numbers, animals and basic vocabulary.
Please see the documents below which will help you support your child and understand what we are learning in class:
Year 1 Yearly Overview 2023-24
Year 1 Timetable 2 Autumn 2023
Autumn 2023
Our Topic this term is ‘This is Me’. We will be thinking of all the amazing things our bodies can do and will explore our senses. Although we know that we can see, hear, touch, taste and smell, there is a lot to learn about how these senses help us to find out about the world around us…
We will also move on to thinking about where our school is and where we live. We think about Steeple Morden’s place in the world by looking at maps. We use and make plans and maps of stories and begin to think about how maps work so that we can draw simple plans of our homes, the school and the journeys we might take.
Spring 2024
This Spring Term, our topic is ‘Terrific Toys’ where we will be learning all about how toys have changed over the years. Over the coming weeks we will discover how we are able to find out about things that happened before we were born (and even before our parents were born!) Our science topic links materials and the toys we are looking at and we will have a go at developing our own investigating techniques. We will also try our hand at making some more traditional toys and writing instructions using our first-hand experience of creating our own marionettes. We hope to be able to create our own Toy Museum, for which we will write the exhibit cards for items sent in by our families and will endeavour to invite parents and carers in for a visit.