Pluckley Church of England Primary School ‘Enjoying, Learning and Achieving Together.’
Foxes
Welcome to Foxes class!
We are wonderful Year 1 class who enjoy learning together and have fun! Our teachers are Mrs Price and Ms Natella. This is our class page where you can find all the information about our exciting topics and homework. Please don't forget to check our Class Dojo page for other important messages too. We all look forward to working together this year.
Welcome to Term 3!
We hope you have had a lovely Christmas break and the children are all set for this new exciting term. This term will be busy and our topic is "Who is in the book?" In Literacy we will start with looking at traditional tales and investigating the different characters' point of view through more modern versions of the stories. In Maths our focus will still be on the number system to 100, we will consolidate our number bonds to at least 20 and we will be looking at sorting and sharing. This term we will also experiment with materials in Science and watercolours in Art/DT. In History and Geography we are so thrilled to go back in time and explore how our local area has changed and how different the toys were that our parents and grandparents received at Christmas time. Finally in RE we will be learning about the Gospel and Jesus' teachings.
We look forward to a fantastic Term!
Term 4
Welcome back, we hope you had a lovely break!
This term our topic is Meerkat Adventures. In literacy we will start our topic with the book Meerkat Mail by Emily Gravett. We will write non chronological report about meerkats and will read stories from different cultures. In Maths our focus will be first on multiplication and division, we will then work on place value.
Foxes are going to be explorers! they will travel to different places, learning about the 7 continents and the different species of animals. In RE we will be learning about the Easter Story and why it is important to Christians. Looking forward to the new exciting adventures for this term!
Term 5
Welcome to Term 5!
We hope you have had a fantastic Easter break and are now ready for our exciting new term. Our topic is "Famous People, Past and Present". We will be looking at the lives of famous people such as the Wright Brothers, the first woman pilot Amy Johnson and the British Astronaut Timothy Peake. In Literacy we will look at information texts, fact files and will read books by Oliver Jeffers and "The darkest Dark" by Astronaut Chris Hadfield. In Maths, our focus will be on Place Value and the four Operations. Our topic will take us into space, so in Science we will learn about the Solar System and Forces. In RE we will look at different faiths and Foxes will learn all about Judaism. We are looking forward to more fun learning this term.
Ms Natella and Mrs Price
TERM 6
Welcome back to term 6. We can’t believe it’s already the last term of this academic year!
This term our topic is : “UG Boy, Genius of the Stone Age”.
The children will be delving into the past and exploring what life was like in The Stone Age.
In Literacy we will be covering different genres such as non -chronological report, caption and creative writing. We will read the books:
UG by Raimond Briggs
Dinosaurs love underpants by Claire Freedman
Stone Age Boy Paperback by Satoshi Kitamura
As part of our creative curriculum we will look at historical facts from the Stone Age and will be growing our own plants in Science. We are looking forward to make pre historical music instruments in D&T. In RE we will think about the question: What do Christians believe God is like? We will read about God’s figure as a Father, Creator and King. Please have a look at our detailed Topic Web and Homework grid about our fun learning for this term!