Dear Parents,

This week we have been learning all about our new topic book called ‘Katie in London’. The children have enjoyed finding out all about the places Katie visits on her journey. The children have been doing descriptive writing about the characters in the story which they have enjoyed doing. Along with, retelling the story so far using small world people and creating London buildings with junk modelling materials.

We have also been learning about Remembrance Day and being thankful for all the soldiers that fought in the war for our freedom. We created beautiful poppy art work to commemorate those who lost their lives for us.

We hope you have a lovely weekend!

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Weekly writing task: Homelearning Week 8

Miss Sandberg and Miss Nicholson 

Dear Parents,

This week we have been learning all about Guy Fawkes and bonfire night! We learnt some interesting facts about him and created fantastic art inspired for bonfire night. We have also been locating the houses of parliament on a map for geography which the children enjoyed doing in groups.  In maths we have been learning all about 2D shapes (How many corners, how many sides) The children have shown great interest in shapes and have create pictures using a range of shapes.

We hope you have a lovely weekend!

If you are going to bonfire night, stay safe and have a great time 🙂

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Weekly writing task: Homelearning Week 7

Miss Sandberg and Miss Nicholson 

Well done year 1 for completing your first half term!

After half term our topic will be London! For your home learning I would like you to complete a poster on London Landmarks. If you like, you can do this on paper, so that we can put it on display!

Please check EdShed as usual and don’t forget to read daily!

Have a lovely break!

Miss Sandberg and Miss Nicholson

For this week’s home learning please click here: Homelearning Week 6

This week in Year 1 we have been focusing on using our sounds to write independently. We have also looked at different poems and discussed how many have features such as rhyme!

In maths we had a focus on subtraction within 10 and we looked at subtraction stories. The children used the part whole model to help them with this. I have attached an example below, if you would like a blank copy to use at home, please click here: t-n-2546607-partwhole-blank-a4-templates-_ver_4

In RE we learned about the Jewish celebration of Rosh Hashana! The children really enjoyed learning about this celebration and showed a real interest in making a Shofar!

Next week will be science week!

Have a lovely weekend,

Ms Sandberg and Miss Nicholson.

This week year 1 have been reading and learning about a new story called ‘All aboard the bobo road’ . The children have this week been describing the setting of this story using adjectives and also writing an invitation to ‘Big Ali’ from the story to invite him to London. The children have enjoyed learning all about the different places the Bus travelled through in the story.

For maths this week, the children finished off their addition learning and began learning all about subtraction within 10. The children used the ‘counting on’ concept to find the missing number and place this into the whole part model and number sentence.

We have also been looking at the 5 oceans in our world and were locating this on a map and labelling it. The children also enjoyed listening to songs about the 5 oceans to help remember them.

Please bring in any recycling materials you have at home for the children to use for their creative learning next week. E.g. cereal box, washed milk cartoons etc.

Have a lovely weekend!

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Weekly writing task: Homelearning Week 5

Miss Sandberg and Miss Nicholson 🙂

We have had another lovely week in year 1!

This week we looked at the story of Anansi and the turtle! The children loved retelling the story in the role play and they made some fantastic salt dough spiders. We also focused on describing characters in the story and began to look at using adjectives.

In maths we have had a focus on number bonds to ten and we have also started to look at addition by counting on.

In topic this week we have been learning about the different continents and also significant people from history. As we have been learning about Africa, we had a focus this week on Nelson Mandela and we discussed what made him a good leader.

Please click the following link for home learning: Homelearning Week 4

This week in class we have done some great learning around the story of ‘The Feast’. Within this story, the children learned about the celebration Kwanzaa and did some fantastic writing around it. We also had a look at the country Kenya, learned about animals that live in Kenya and created some fantastic safari sunsets.

In maths we have been learning how to order and compare numbers to ten and discussing greater than and less than. Next week we will have a focus on number bonds to ten.

In Re we looked at the story of the Creation! The children really enjoyed it.

Please click the following link for the home learning: Homelearning Week 3

Have a lovely weekend!

We have had a great week learning about the different continents, with a focus on Africa!

The children have really enjoyed the story of the Elephant and the Rain Spirit! They made some great progress in their phonics lessons and are starting to become more independent with their learning,

Please can you ensure that your children’s uniform and PE kit are labelled, they are very young and often misplace things, if we cannot see a name, we cannot ensure they are taking the right uniform home. The children are also starting to be more independent in changing for PE. However, the buttons are a little bit tricky so please keep practising at home!

Thank you for your support with your children’s learning, click the following link for this weeks home learning: Homelearning Week 2

Welcome back!

We hope you had a lovely summer! The children have settled in really well and are enjoying their new classrooms.
You may have noticed you now have a home learning book. Each week we will set a task on a Friday and we will expect the home learning books back in on a Wednesday. We will explain more in the meeting on Monday.

Please click here for the home learning: week 1

Have a lovely weekend!

Dear parents,

This week we have been continuing to write information pages about the ocean and including diagrams and sentences. The children have also been continuing to develop the mathematical concept of more and less with numbers up to 40. Along with, getting creative and making boats using clay in relation to our topic.

Have a lovely weekend! 

Please use the following links to access your children’s online learning:

Weekly writing tasks: Year 1 wk end 15.7.22

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Please continue to practice handwriting with your child using cursive letter formations and encourage them to practice their sounds daily.

Mrs Richards & Miss Nicholson