Indigo Class / Year 1

Welcome to Indigo Class 

Indigo Class Timetable Autumn 2024

Indigo Class Timetable Spring 2025

Spring 2025 Newsletter 

Knowledge Organisers

Have a look at our Knowledge Organisers to find out what we will be learning each term:

Autumn 1

Science - Everyday Materials

Geography - What is it like around our school

RE- Christianity - Belonging 

Autumn 2

Science - Seasonal Changes

RE: Judaism - Why is learning to do good deeds so important to Jewish People?

Spring 1

Science: Animals, including humans

Science - Seasonal Changes

RE: Christianity: What are the best symbols of Jesus’ death & resurrection at Easter?

History: What is History? What were toys like when our parents and grandparents were young?

Spring 2

Science: Animals, including humans

Science: Seasonal Changes: Spring

RE: Hinduism: How does a Hindu celebrate devotion to a deity at the festival of Holi?

Summer 1

Science: Plants

History: Seaside holidays in the past/ Who was Queen Victoria?

RE: Judaism: Blessings 

Summer 2

RE: Christianity: Prayer and Worship

Learning in Indigo Class

Spring 1 2025

In DT the children have been exploring different ways to make sliders and levers. 

In Art the children have been learning to mix colours to make secondary colours, to use an artist rag and to create artwork like the Artist Jasper Johns. They also created their own collograph blocks and created a range of prints.

In History the children have been learning about toys in the past. They have enjoyed being Historians and finding out what toys their parents and grandparents used to play with. They have found out about how toys have changed over time using books, the internet, pictures and through conversations with people.

In Computing the children have been learning about online safety. 

In English the children have learnt how to write informal letters and a recount linked to their personal experiences. They learnt to use the personal pronoun 'I', to write in the past tense and to write exclamation sentences and questions.

The children also created posters about visual impairments and looked at Braille.

Autumn 2 2024

In DT the children created a model of their house using a cereal box. In English they wrote a set of instructions to tell someone else how to make a model house.

In Science they learnt about winter and went on a winter walk around the school field.

In RE they learnt about good deeds which are called Mitzvahs in the Jewish faith. They also learnt about caring for the world and others around them which is called Tikkun Olam.

The children worked extremely hard and put lots of effort into their Nativity performance of Barmy Bethlehem. Then in Computing they created self portraits using the brush tool, shape tool and text tool.

Autumn 1 2024

In Indigo Class this half term the children have learnt about the first black woman to go to space called Mae Jemison, what happens at a baptism/christening, how children are welcomed into the church family, to name the four countries and capital cities in the UK, how to draw a map, to identify and name a range of homes, to name the features of homes, to identify and name a range of materials and to identify the materials objects are made from and their properties. 

During the Vision Day the children thought of words they could use to describe Jesus and they drew picture of ways they they could be kind, thoughtful, compassionate, friendly, supportive, respectful and helpful.

In Art the children used different tools and materials to represent the three houses in the traditional tale of The Three Little Pigs.

In Science the children identified a range of signs of Autumn while they were on a walk around the school field.

In English they have learnt to use capital letters, full stop spaces in a sentence , to identify nouns, to identify verbs and how to write a poem about Autumn with 6 syllables in a line using their senses. 

In Maths they have learnt how to write the numbers 0 to 10 in words, how to write addition and subtraction number sentences using the commutative law to write a fact families of eight facts and to use a number line to find one more or one less.