St Joseph'sCatholic Primary & Nursery School
Year 1 / Year 2
Welcome to Year 1/2
Mr Fisher
Welcome to Mr Fisher's Class!
This Year we will be supported by Mrs Cook and Miss Cooper.
Below is some key information that you might find useful.
Our Autumn Term Topics are
'What is History?'
and
'Where am I?'
In our Topic lessons the children will learn to…
- Create a personal timeline by ordering three events correctly on a simple timeline.
- Use the vocabulary ‘before’ and ‘after’ when talking about their timeline.
- Recognise what is similar and different between the ‘past’ and ‘now’.
- Talk about three holiday memories.
- Place one holiday memory on a timeline.
- Identify how people spend their holidays differently.
- Describe what photographs tell us about holidays in the past.
- Identify similarities and differences between holidays in the past and now.
- Order photographs on a timeline.
- Ask one question about holidays in the past.
- Find answers to simple questions about the past.
- Identify features of holidays in the past.
- Describe what holidays in the past were like and compare them to now.
- Find similarities and differences.
- Use time vocabulary to talk about their memories.
- Recognise similarities and differences between their lives now and in the past.
- State that the UK stands for the United Kingdom.
- Point to each country in the UK on a map when prompted.
- Verbally identify features within the school grounds.
- Use and respond to directional language.
- State that an aerial photograph is taken from above.
- Recognise some familiar features in aerial photographs.
- Explain that symbols show features on a map.
- Add symbols to a map.
- Identify how places on the school grounds make them feel.
Our science work will focus on :
Year 1
(Materials)
The children will learn:
- What material an object is made from.
- How to name everyday materials.
- How to describe the properties of materials.
- How to compare materials based on their physical properties.
Year 2
(Materials)
The children will learn:
- How to identify and compare the suitability of materials.
- How things move on different surfaces.
- How materials can be changes in shape by squashing, bending, twisting or stretching.
Homework
Weekly Homework Choice Grid
Children to complete 1 activity from the Homework Choice Grid below.
Homework can be recorded using writing, pictures, drawings etc. appropriate to the task.
Each task can only be completed once.
Books will be collected in on a Friday.
Spellings
Spellings are also handed out on a Friday ready for a test the following Friday. Please make sure the children are practicing their spellings every week. 'Little and often' is definitely the best way for your child to learn how to spell new words.
Share a story journal
Every week on a Friday, one child from the class will bring home the 'Share a story journal'. This is a further opportunity for you to read with your child while enjoying a nice cup of 'hot chocolate' (provided by the school). If it is your turn to complete the journal, we ask that it is returned on the Monday so that teachers have a chance to look over any work that has been completed.
PE
PE will be on a Wednesday (Swimming for Year 2 and Multi-Skills for Year 1) and a Friday (Gymnastics Routine). Please ensure your child has the correct kit (including daps or trainers that fit) as there is sometimes the opportunity to go outside.
For Year 2 Swimming we will be walking up to the pool so please ensure you send your child into school with a coat in case of bad weather.
Reading Books
We are continuing to improve children's reading fluency and comprehension. Please continue to hear your child read as often as possible and use the question based bookmarks to support this process. We encourage children to change reading books as regularly as possible. Please ensure you record any reading that takes place at home with a simple comment inside the small blue book (Reading Record). Finished books can be placed inside the classroom crate on a daily basis but they will not be changed unless the reading record has been written in.
Over the course of the term I will continue to update this class page with all the different things that are going on in Year 1/2.
If you have any questions please feel free to email me on the contact details below:
mfisher@sjbos.thedcet.com
Best wishes
Mr Fisher 
HOMEWORK CHOICE GRID
SPELLINGS
BRILLIANT BOOK LISTS
Science - In Science the Year 1 children have been looking at the properties of everyday materials and the Year 2 children have been looking at the suitability of everyday materials. Today we watched a Science video all about magnetic metal. We went outside with the magnets and tested different objects in the playground to find out if they were magnetic or not. The year 2 children discussed why the objects were made out of metal.
Art - Some Rangoli art work using the ipads and the Paintz program.
Maths - Today the children have been using the counters to help them write down some fact families using number sentences.
History - We thought about our holiday memories and made a scrapbook to illustrate them.
Art - Copying the design of Clarice Cliff!
Mastery of Number - Using the ten frames to help with our understanding of 'doubles'.
PSHE - To celebrate World Mental Health Day the children have been thinking about what makes them feel happy. They drew pictures to illustrate their ideas.
Computing - Today the childen have been using the ipads and the painting program PaintZ to create their own picture using the 'paint brush' tool and 'flood fill' tool to help with colouring.
Maths - Using the numicon to practice ordering numbers biggest to smallest and vice versa!
PE - Year 1 Multi-Skills fun!
Year 1 Mastery of Number - Today we were using the rekenreks to help with our understanding of 1 more and 1 less than a number.
English - Today the children followed instructions and made jam sandwiches with the Year 2 children also writing key notes to help them remember the key parts of each instruction. Messy but fun!
Science - Squashy, bendy, stretchy stuff!! The children had an opportunity to handle a range of objects (paper clips, sponge balls, envelopes, old socks and rulers). They have been learning about the properties of materials and whether they can be changed in shape by processes such as squashing, bending or stretching. This was a practical activity with the children recording their findings on a worksheet.
National Poetry Day 2025
RE - The Year 1 children created a zig zag book illustrating 'The Creed'.
History - We interviewed Mrs Cook asking her questions about what her holidays were like.
Art - Colour printing!
English - Live Stream of Julia Donaldson sharing her new book 'Paper Chase'. The children listened to her reading the story before being talked through how to draw characters from the book using the small white boards.
RE - The Year 1 children went on a walk around the school looking at all of God's wonderful creations. We found conkers!!
History - We have been sequencing and discussing the varying events that take place in a day!
Art - Colour mixing when painting!
NEW YEAR 2025-26