Silkstone Primary School

Welcome to Class One

In Class One, the children will be working with Mrs Underwood and Mrs Kay. Our priorities are for your child to feel happy, comfortable and safe in order to help them make the most of their learning.

We will work hard and follow the school rules and our class room rules. By following these the children will be rewarded individually through class dojos and postcards home, along with the occasional treat!

To support your child at home with their learning it is really important to listen to them read at home and complete the phonics sheets that are sent home each week. There are also lots of wonderful online resources such as Oxford Owl, Numbots, Ed Shed and Purple Mash.

Throughout the year we will take a walk around the village looking at Silkstone, this supports our drawing of maps in Geography. We also go to Wigfield Farm to see the animals in connection with our Science and Geography topics.

We look forward to spending the year being our best selves... learning, creating and having fun!

Curriculum Map for Autumn 2025

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Academic Year 2024 - 2025

Curriculum Overview for the Summer Term

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World Book Day

We enjoyed dressing up on World Book Day and sharing our favourite books with our friends in Year 5.

We are Mathematicians

We have been working hard in maths so far this term with a focus on numbers 0-10. We have used tens frames to support our learning and we have been looking at these numbers in a systematic way. This has been done in groups and independently, the children have done a great job. We have also had some fun on Numbots!

We are Writers

We have been working extremely hard during our daily handwriting sessions.

Our Curriculum Map for the Spring Term

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We are artists!

In Art our end of term goal is to make a bird. We have been looking at the detail we need when drawing a bird with a focus on feathers. We then looked at how we could make a 2D drawing 3D by crushing the paper and making it stand or cutting and sticking parts together. The children are really enjoying this!

We are Mathematicians

We have started to look at parts of a whole in class one. We have been working with our friends to find a whole and split the whole into parts.

We are Geographers

Class one have been learning about the locality of Silkstone. We have been looking at the differences between villages, towns and cities with the use of maps. We looked at a map of the school and then followed the map to find different spots around the school. We then looked at the difference between a map of the school and a map of the village. We used Lego to each create a house, shop or school and we put them together, making our own Lego village.

We are Scientists

Class one have been experimenting in our Science lessons over the last couple of weeks! We have tested different materials to see if they are transparent or opaque. We had also experimented with different materials to see which material would be waterproof to make an umbrella.

Mile Run for Epilepsy Action

We ran a mile around the school to raise funds for Epilepsy Action - we should all sleep well tonight.

We are artists!

In class one we have been exploring the work of Molly Haslund during our art lessons. We have used her work to inspire us to be artists.

Learning in Maths

In maths we are learning all about numbers to 100. We have been working in groups counting to 100, we have been using numicon to match our numbers along with the number blocks to count to 20.

Curriculum Map Autumn Term 2024

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Academic Year 2023 - 2024

The Mini Mudder

We had a marvellous and muddy time raising money in our sponsored Mini Mudder.

Sports Day

We enjoyed taking part in all the races and cheering on our friends.

Curriculum Overview Summer 2024

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We are Artists!

We enjoyed working with Fabric Lenny. We created continuous line face drawing in pen and then painted with water to create a watercolour ink effect.

We are Artists

We did rubbings with feathers and leaves and then cut them out and put them on a group piece of art that we had created together using oil pastels as part of our printing pathway.

Learning in Maths

We have been enjoying our learning in maths. We have been creating number lines, using part / whole models and making eight in different ways.

Curriculum Plan for the Spring Term

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Father Christmas

We all enjoyed having a chat with Father Christmas when he came to visit us.

We are Scientists

Class begin their first lesson about our new science topic ‘Materials’. They talked about what they thought materials meant in talking pairs and then had to go and find things around the classroom that matched the word cards.

We are Readers

The children read their phonics books in class every day before taking them home.

We are Mathematicians

We are learning all about the numbers to 100. Some groups are using a 100 square to find missing numbers while other children are using Numicon to make numbers to 20.