Welcome to Year 1
Dear Parents and Carers,
This week in English, we focused on nouns, pronouns, capital letters and full stops. Towards the end of the week the children planned and wrote a narrative.
In Maths this week, we focused on 1 more, 1 less of a given number, compared different numbers, had a lesson on practical activities and a lesson on recognising coins and notes.
In Design and Technology, this term, the children’s task is to design and make a puppet, based on the story of ‘kai and The Monkey King’. So this week they started to design a puppet, learnt how to thread a plastic children’s needle and sew a basic stitch.
In place of Science and Geography the children continued with making their puppet, as this would take them a while to get use to threading, sewing and to make the various parts of their puppet such as the eyes, ears, hair etc.
In PE, the children continued with the next lesson on Rounder’s and Athletics.
Have a wonderful weekend!
The Year 1 Team.
Dear Parents and Carers,
This week in English, the looked at what a ‘Narrative’ is and it features. They focused on the story of ‘The Big Box’ and looked at nouns, past tense verbs and had to plan and write their own narrative by the end of the week.
In Maths this week, we focused on counting from 10’s to 100, counting from 50 to 100, using a number line to 100 and partitioning into 10’s and 1’s.
This term we will focus on Geography and our topic is ‘What is it like to live in Shanghai. The first lesson was based on teaching the children about the difference between Human Features and Physical Features.
In Science, our new topic is ‘Investigating Science Through Stories’. This week the children used data to answer a question, ‘Do taller tress have wider trunks?’ and then they went outside with a measuring tape to test their answer.
In PE, this term the children will be focusing on ‘Rounders’ and ‘Athletics’.
Have a wonderful weekend!
The Year 1 Team.
Dear Parents and Carers,
This week in English, the children continued learning about the new text ‘Procedure’ and this week the text was on ‘How to Make a Bear Spoon Family’. They discussed the text, looked at nouns and verbs and had to plan and write their own procedure text.
In Maths this week, we focused on describing turns, left, right, forward and backwards, describing the position above and below and ordinal numbers.
In History, the focus was to describe a significant person called Mae C Jemison and design a coat of arms for her.
In Science, the children continued with ‘Introduction to Plants’.
In PE, the children were taught the next lesson on Basketball and Fitness.
Have a wonderful, fun filled and restful week!
The Year 1 Team.
Home reading – you can make a difference this half-term!
Dear parents/ carers,
Your child has made super progress in their reading this year.
Let’s keep them reading this half-term for maximum success in the Phonics Screening Check after half term.
The plan
- Set aside 10 minutes to watch films with your child each day.
- Find a quiet space for your child to watch the film on a laptop or tablet.
- Praise your child as they join in with the lesson.
Listen to your child read every day
You will find Read Write Inc. Storybooks in their bookbag for your child to read to you.
Choose a quiet time when they are wide awake.
Help your child to:
- read the sounds and words at the front of the book, before they read the story
- sound out any new words as they read the story.
Read back each page to them, after they have read it.
If the child has enjoyed the story, encourage them to read it again on the next day to increase their fluency.
Most importantly…do it all with patience.
Your support matters!
Dear Parents and Carers,
This week in English, the children started a new text called ‘Procedure’ and the text presentation was based on ‘How to Use a School Crossing’. The children were also taught about the features of a procedure and were able to plan and write their own procedure text.
In Maths, the children were learning about half of an object, half of a quantity, quarter of a shape and quarter of an quantity.
In History, the children looked at the similarities and differences between Dame Ellen MacArthur and Christopher Columbus.
Last week Sunday was Pentecost Sunday and in RE the children learnt why it was a special celebration. They also were taught what happened on the day of Pentecost for the 12 disciples and that the birth of the Christian Church was created on that day.
In Science, they had the task of observing different types of seeds, predicting whether they were a plant or fruit and learnt that observations do not always match predictions.
Have a wonderful weekend!
The Year 1 Team.
Dear Parents and Carers,
In English, the children have continued looking at Information Report and their topics were based on being ‘Show Animals’ and ‘Leaves’. They have focused on high frequency words, sentence structure and building upon the word and sentences that they have written.
In Maths, the children were learning to about arrays, doubles. equal groupings with sharing, and and equal groups with grouping.
In History, as this term is ‘Explorers’, the children learnt about Christopher Columbus life and then had to record his events on a timeline.
In PE, the children continued learning about ‘Basketball’ and ‘Fitness’.
In RE, we talked about how God wants us to share and that it is important to share with those in need and less fortunate than us.
In Science, as our topic this term is ‘Plants’, the children had the task of drawing a plant and labeling the four parts of a plant and wrote what each part is used for.
Have a wonderful weekend!
The Year 1 Team.
Dear Parents and Carers,
The children have enjoyed this weeks learning and have quickly settled back into school life.
In English, the children have looked at an Information Report text, the topics being Bikes and My School. They have focused on high frequency words, simple sentence structure and building upon the word and sentences that they have written.
In Maths, the children were learning to count on in 10’s , 5’s and 2’s.
In History, the children were introduced to our new topic ‘Explorers’ and we talk about what they thought an explorer is and they learnt about a few explorers from the past.
In PE, the children were introduced to the new topics, ‘Basketball’ and ‘Fitness’.
In Science, our topic this term is ‘Plants’. The children first discussed what they knew about plants and then did a ‘Bean Investigation’ where they will be watching and collecting data to see if a bean needs water or not in order to grow.
Have a wonderful weekend and enjoy the lovely sunshine!
The Year 1 Team.
Dear Parents and Carers
This week marks the start of Holy week in our school, and so we have been very busy in RE learning about Jesus’ journey into Jerusalem and his miracles that he performed along the way. We also made Lazarakia on Thursday to celebrate Lazarus being risen from the dead.
In Maths we have been revisiting learning that we struggle with earlier, and started on number bonds to 20 and subtracting by finding the difference. This will be our main focus for home learning this week, so please log on to Edshed and complete the assignments if you can!
Year 1 have been writing descriptions about people important to them in English, and we have been trying to use more ambitious adjectives.
In PSHE, the children spoke about the healthy choices that they make for themselves and how they can be healthier.
In Geography we made maps of our playground using all of a map’s key features.
We hope you have a lovely weekend!
Many Thanks
The Year 1 team
Dear Parents and Care
This week in English, the children have continued focusing on ‘Description’ writing.
In Maths, this week we focused on the unit ‘Mass and Volume’. and looked at comparing capacity and measuring capacity.
In PE, the children continued with the next lesson learning about Badminton and Tag Rugby.
In Science the children learnt about carnivores, omnivores and herbivores and the types of food that they like to eat.
In Geography, the children creative a ‘Key’ for a map of the local area. They used different colours to represent the things that they saw last week on their walk.
Unfortunately, the homework is unable to upload on to the blog, will try on Monday to send it.
We hope you have a fantastic weekend!
From the Year 1 Team.
Dear Parents and Carers
This week in English, the children have been completed their writing on recount have started a new writing on ‘Description’.
In Maths, this week we focused on the unit ‘Mass and Volume’. The children were comparing the mass of objects and had to measure and describe the mass of an object.
In Geography, the children went on a walk around ‘our local area’ and recorded a tally chart of what they saw (shops, restaurants, buses etc).
In RE, the children learnt about how a child joins the church through baptism. They role played the part the priest plays in baptising a baby or child, and role played what the godparents, family and friends do
In PE, the children continued with the next lesson learning about Badminton and Tag Rugby.
We hope you have a fantastic weekend!
From the Year 1 Team.