Welcome to Year 1
Hello Parents and Carers,
Children have settled very into their second half term!
The children have started a new book in English called Katie in London. We have been working on writing descriptive sentences using adjectives, capital letters and full stops.
In Maths, the children have been continuing their learning of Addition and Subtraction, and we have been specifically focusing on subtraction within 10.
In History, we have started our new topic of Transport: Old and New, and this week our key focus was the different modes of transport that we use today. In Art, we used forks to print our own firework displays.
Our focus in RE was prayer and how we talk to God. We took time to reflect on the things that we thank God for and the things that we need to ask God for help with.
Lastly, in Science we have been looking at the different materials that things in our classrooms are made of.
We hope you have a lovely weekend and enjoy the fireworks!
Miss Rashti and Miss Weithers
Hello Parents and Carers,
Year 1 have had a fabulous end to their half term. We are so unbelievably proud of all of the progress they have made in such a short amount of time, and it makes us so excited for the all the amazing things to come.
The children have continued to work on their addition skills in Maths, and have been looking at vertebrates and invertebrates in Science.
In English, the children learnt a poem all about Kwanzaa and how it is celebrated as it linked to our final folk tale ‘The Feast’ which is one of the stories read around Kwanzaa.
In History we closed off our topic of Mary Seacole by comparing the treatment of Florence Nightingale and Seacole when they returned to the UK.
We hope you have a lovely, restful week off!
From
Miss Rashti and Miss Weithers
Hello Parents and Carers,
It has been a lovely week. We have been focusing on the folk tale called ‘The Gift of the Cow Tail Switch’, and have used our English sessions to tell our peers about the the special gifts that we have been given.
In Maths, we have been using our knowledge of addition and subtraction to learn about partitioning numbers and different number families.
In Geography we focused on the continent of Africa and all of the amazing food, animals and landscapes that are there. And in Science we looked at living and non-living things and the different features of a living thing.
Wax resistant painting is the focus of our Art topic, and we have been creating our own wax resistance art.
We also had a lovely workshop on Thursday that was all about kindness and how we can make the world a happier place. During this workshop we made some art for someone that we wanted to feel happy, so look out for some of the art work that has been sent home today.
You will have seen that there are new poem books in your children’s bags, these are to read with your child and they can decorate these poems and bring them in by Wednesday.
We hope you have a lovely weekend,
Miss Rashti and Miss Weithers
Hello Parents and Carers,
This week has been a very interesting week! We started our week with St Cyprian’s Day, and had a small Mass on Tuesday to celebrate our name saint.
In Maths, the children ended our topic on Place Value by looking at how we compare and order numbers and we finally looked at how we use number lines. Our next topic will be Addition and Subtraction within 10, so if you can start using some of those key words at home so the children are ready to learn their new topic on Monday it will be much appreciated.
In English, the children have focused on the folk tale ‘The Elephant and the Rain Spirit’, and have even written their own version of the narratives from the point of view of a different character.
The children have learned about hibernation in Science this week, and learned about why animals hibernate and where they choose to hibernate. In History, we learned about the amazing achievements of Mary Seacole and even became investigators to find evidence of Mary’s eventful life and in Geography we looked at the many amazing wonders of Australasia and all of the animals that live there.
We hope you have a lovely weekend!
Miss Weithers and Miss Rashti
Hello Parents and Carers,
We hope you have all had a lovely week! This week in Maths we have been making comparisons and identifying less than, more than and equal to. In English, we have continued our focus on Folk Tales, and the story of the week has been Rama and Sita. The children have been retelling the story through direct speech and even recreated the story as a class! In Science we have looked at the changes that happen to the trees in each season and the children took on the role of scientist comparing and categorising different leaves.
In Geography the children learned about the continent of Europe and all the interesting landmarks that the worlds second smallest continent holds. In History, the children learned about the amazing life of Mary Seacole and how her work changed our society today as part of our Black History Month topic.
We will be sending phonics books home in the coming weeks, but in the meantime, children will be taking home a book from the library to read. We do not expect the children to read these independently as we know this is very far outside of their scope of capability right now, so please read this book with them.
We hope you have a lovely weekend!
Many thanks
Miss Rashti, Miss Weithers and all the Year 1 team
Dear Parents, carers,
This weekend is Yom Kippur, the holiest day in the Jewish calendar and the children for English, looked at the biblical story of Jonah and the Whale. The children role played the beginning of the story, they used adjectives to describe Jonah when he was in the belly of the whale and wrote a simple sentence telling Jonah what he should do. In Maths, the children had to represent numbers as words, learnt how to count on from a given number and how to count one more and one less within 10.
In Science, we looked at the four seasons and the changes that takes place during each season. In PE, they are being taught the skills for cross country and hockey. In RE, we focused on the Jewish special event of Yom Kippur, why Jewish people celebrate it and how they celebrate it. As we are approaching Black History month, starting in October we talked about the importance of Black History month and why it is important to celebrate the achievements of black people who have made a difference and contributed to our society and others. Lastly, In PSHE, our topic for this term is ‘Being Me in My World’ and this weeks lesson was all about ‘Rights and Responsibilities’ in the classroom.
Have a wonderful weekend!
Miss Rashti and Miss Weithers
Dear Parents and Carers,
We hope you have had a lovely summer! The children are settling in well to the new school year.
This week in Maths we have been focusing on counting and number recognition within 10. In English we have been looking at a folk tale called ‘ Why the Evergreens keep their leaves’ from America, and have even written our own versions of the story. In Science and Geography we have been focusing on the changing seasons and what autumn looks like around us. Please see attached the home learning for this week, the Edshed logins have been stuck into their reading records so you should be able to log on. Reading books have also been sent home so please encourage children to read for at least 10 minutes a day.
Wishing you a lovely weekend,
The Year 1 team
Dear Parents, Carers,
This week in English, it has been Poetry Week. The children first looked at what rhyming words were and had the task of underlining the rhyming words in a poem. Then they had to write rhyming words to describe an animal and write a sentence for each rhyming word. They also had the opportunity to look at two different types of poems, an Acrostic poem (JUNGLE) and a Shape poem. In Maths, we started to look at multiplication, for RE. the children learnt about another New Testament story called Jesus healing the daughter of Jairus and for PSHE on our Healthy Topic, the children looked at keeping safe when crossing the road.
The children had a lovely surprise on Wednesday morning. They had a Circus Day, where they were able to use various equipment, like balancing a peacock feather on their hand, walked a tight rope and tried having a go at walking on stilts. What an amazing time they had!
Weekly writing task:Homelearning Week 37
Maths/phonics: https://www.edshed.com/en-gb/
Miss Nicholson & Miss Weithers 
Dear Parents, Carers,
This week in English, the children were introduced to ‘modal’verbs’, such as will, should, could and might. They first had to choose a modal word of their choice and then put it into a sentence. Then we looked at persuasive language, continued with using modal verbs and then focused on how we can persuade people to save our tigers. For grammar, the children looked at the suffix ‘less’, adding it to some root words and then wrote a sentence with the new word, for example use – useless, home – homeless.
In Maths, the children continued with time, ‘o’clock and half past’ for the first half of the week. Then we started a new unit ‘Division’, the children worked in pairs where they had to take a number make that amount using either cubes or counters and then share it among 4 plates. In RE, the children looked at the feast of St Paul and St Peter and had to sequence the story of Joshua and the Walls of Jericho.
In Topic, the children focused on writing facts about tigers for their persuasive writing and in PSHE, the children looked at how medicine can help us, when to take them, who gives them to us and what happens when we take too many too soon.
Weekly writing task:Homelearning Week 36
Maths/phonics: https://www.edshed.com/en-gb/
Miss Nicholson & Miss Weithers
Dear Parents, Carers,
Reminder: On the 30th June the children can come to school dressed up as a Jungle/Rainforest animal or in the colours of the animal as this links to our topic this term. We will also be doing spellings each week, which will be sent home to practice at the weekend.
For English this week, the children continued with our topic book for this term, ‘There’s a Tiger in The Garden’ and focused on describing the characters, describing the story setting and sequencing a story board. In Maths the children were taught telling the time and we focused on O’clock and Half Past the Hour and they had fun creating their own clocks using a paper plate and decorating it.
For RE, we continued looking at the life of Moses, in the Old Testament and focused on the story of the Red Sea and how God can do the miraculous with ordinary people and objects. In the New Testament, we looked at the story of the ‘The Good Samaritan’, learning about how God wants us to be kind and to help anyone in need not just our friends or those we know.
In Art, the children created a lovely picture of a tiger and used one of their hands to make the body and tail, and in PSHE, our topic is ‘Healthy Me’ and we looked at being clean and healthy.
Have a wonderful weekend!
Spellings: Week ending 23.06.23
Weekly writing task: Homelearning Week 35
Maths/phonics: https://www.edshed.com/en-gb/
Miss Nicholson & Miss Weithers