Nemos | Northwood Broom Academy

Welcome to Nemos!

Here you can find up to date information about the MAGIC learning that your child will be taking part in during their time in Nemos. As a team we are dedicated to providing all children with an exciting curriculum. We hope you enjoy exploring this page and that it helps you to see the wide range of learning that we access. You will find useful links to help support your children with their learning at home.

Meet the Year 1 Team

Mrs Wiltshaw Mrs Powell Miss Salmon Mrs Harley

Miss Clewlow Mrs Cooper

In our class, we encourage the children to be;

Ready

We are always ready to learn.

We are patient and we pay attention so that we can be super learners!

Respectful

We look after each other and the school property.

We take care in all that we do.

Safe

We listen carefully so that we are safe at all times.

We use our kind hands and we follow the instructions all of the time.

This term our topics will be:

Summer 1: Which birds and plants would Peter Rabbit find in our park?

Throughout the half term, we will be developing their scientific skills to identify the changes across the four seasons, observing and describing the different types of weather and day lengths associated with them. We will also be identifying and naming plants, working scientifically to observe and contrast then. We will be exploring a variety of common and wild garden plants including deciduous and evergreen trees, understanding the basic structure of a variety of common flowering plants.

We will be completing lots of fun learning activities based on the stories of ‘Jack and the Beanstalk’ by Gill Munton, ‘Handa’s Surprise’ by Eileen Browne and ‘The Three Billy Goats Gruff’ by Mara Alperin. We will be writing sentences based on our story maps, ensuring we include their ‘Just Do It' rules (including capital letters, full stops, finger spaces, Fred talk to spell and ensuring they read and check their work makes sense). We will also be learning to plan our writing, breaking it up into a beginning, middle and end. This term we will also be looking at how to include appropriate adjectives to our writing as well as using conjunctions (eg 'and', 'but'). After learning to retell each story, we will spend time innovating it and making it our own.

Click the links below to listen to the story.

Summer 2: What do aliens think of life on planet Earth?

Throughout this half term, we will also be studying non-fiction texts to identify a variety of materials, such as wood or plastic, and describing their physical properties.

We will also be completing lots of fun learning activities based on the story of ‘The way back home’ by Oliver Jeffers and ‘The Three Little Pigs’ by Mara Alperin. Again, we will be writing sentences based on our story maps, ensuring we include their ‘Just Do It' rules (including capital letters, full stops, finger spaces, Fred talk to spell and ensuring they read and check their work makes sense). After learning to retell each story, we will spend time innovating it and making it our own.

Click the links below to listen to the story.

Over the Summer Term our mathematicians will learn:

Multiplication, division, halves and quarters, position and direction, numbers to 100, time and money.

You can support your child at home by encouraging them to count in 2s, 5s and 10s, as well as completing their multiplication challenges on TT Rock Stars.

You can use the vocabulary of 'share', 'equal' and groups' as we start to teach them about the concept of division, and how we divide quantities equally between a given number of groups.

Check out these fun videos and games to support your child's maths:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvTcpfSnOMQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0MOigCd4nFk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ftati8iGQcs

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button

https://ictgames.com/mobilePage/doggyDivision/index.html

https://ictgames.com/mobilePage/arrayDisplay/index.html

https://pbskids.org/curiousgeorge/busyday/dogs/

Year 1 Phonics Screening

In Year 1 one, the children will take the statutory phonics screening check in the summer term. Therefore it is crucial that a consistent approach to the teaching of phonics is used. We deliver phonics using the Read Write Inc (RWI) phonics scheme. Please watch the videos below to help explain what this is and how you can best support your child.

https://schools.ruthmiskin.com/training/view/TtWCC5lM/d7CsQTee

https://schools.ruthmiskin.com/training/view/fy4GcxBN/VP4nZneS

https://schools.ruthmiskin.com/training/view/595KrNgg/YcujecMF

https://schools.ruthmiskin.com/training/view/iCFa76p4/V9xAxsWp

To support your child further with their reading skills, please click onto the link below to watch Read Write Inc's engaging phonics videos for the children to watch when learning set 1 sounds. Your child will already be familiar with the routines used in the videos.

https://schools.ruthmiskin.com/training/view/eS0W5iL9/mP24em8J

https://schools.ruthmiskin.com/training/view/073T8mgU/lnp9FIbL

https://schools.ruthmiskin.com/training/view/DuWJA4CP/DPtOgq7a

https://schools.ruthmiskin.com/training/view/bakqoXZq/E8jTF9YT

https://schools.ruthmiskin.com/training/view/ElbFdIh7/dThkvoEC

Please check your ClassDojo for:

RWI phonics, TT Rock Stars and reading homework.

Please don't forget that if you have any questions or

queries then please contact your class teacher via ClassDojo between 8.30am - 4.30pm

Monday to Friday.

Here are a list of educational websites that you might want to use with your children at home. These websites include a range of curricular activities.