Welcome to Year 1
Dear Parents and Carers.
This week in English, the children focused on looking at the features of a postcard and in Maths we concentrated on consolidating areas of learning where they needed to be secure in.
In PSHE, we looked at ‘Celebrating Difference and Celebrating Me’. The children talked about the ways they are different from their friends and we talked about how these differences make us all special and unique.
In RE, the children learnt about the birth of Jesus and why Christmas is a very special event for the Christians and in PE, the children completed their dance movements and enjoyed the dodge ball activities.
We will be having our Christmas party on Tuesday 19th December, any contributions you would like to make this day memorable will be much appreciated. Please can we ask that we avoid any nuts or pork products (and dairy products in Cyprus) as we have many dietary requirements within the year group.
We hope you have a wonderful weekend!
Miss Rashti and Miss Weithers
Dear Parents and Carers,
This week in English, the children have been focusing on writing questions and using the question mark.
in Maths, we are now consolidating the topics that we have done so far, ensuing that they are secure and confident.
In Science, the children did an investigation, testing different materials to see what material would be appropriate to make an umbrella for Ted who kept getting wet when it rained.
In PSHE, we looked at knowing how to make new friends by thinking about the qualities and behaviours that make a friend. They then had to write or draw what they thought made a good friend on a Friendship Token.
In RE, the children learnt about St Nicholas as it was St Nicholas day on Thursday.
We hope you have a lovely weekend.
Miss Rashti and Miss Weithers
Hello Parents and Carers
We have had a lovely week in Year 1, and are feeling the Christmas spirit all around!
In English, we have been looking at exclamation marks and all of their different uses.
In Maths, we have finished our unit on Shapes and are now recapping all of the maths that we have done so far in the year.
In Science, we were comparing and identifying properties of objects. In History, we have been looking at the timeline of transport so far.
As we know so many of us will be busy with the Christmas fair this evening, we have kept the home learning nice and short.
A special reminder to Skiathos class, our trip to the Science Museum is on Monday and we are leaving at 9:00 so please be in nice and early so that the children can be settled for our scheduled setting off time.
We hope you have a lovely weekend,
Miss Rashti and Miss Weithers
Dear Parents and Carers,
In English, the children have started a new book called ‘Katie and the Sunflowers’. They had to predict what will happen next in the story, describe how Katie was feeling and had to write sentences describing a particular picture (the Cafe Terrace), in the story. In Maths, the children learned to recognise 2-D and 3-D shapes, as well as making patterns with both shapes to solidify their knowledge of shape properties.
For PSHE, the children attended an ‘Anti-Bullying’ workshop and discussed what bullying in class. In RE, the children learnt about the different people who serve in the Divine Liturgy, such as the Priest, the chanter and the altar boys. In Science we continued with our topic Materials and the children had to describe the physical properties of everyday materials by testing different objects.
In PE, we have been continuing our lessons on ‘Dance’ and ‘Dodgeball’, and are showing increasing confidence in the skills that they are learning!
Finally, in Computing the children used the Paint Tool software to explore the different tools available to draw a picture of their choice.
Have a wonderful weekend!
Miss Rashti and Miss Weithers
Dear Parents and Carers,
For this week’s learning, in English, one of the activities the children had to do was to correctly use a capital letter and a full stop in a sentence. Another activity was for the children to label a picture using nouns and to label a picture using adjectives. The children were introduced to the term ‘noun phrases’ (a noun phrase is a sentence that describes a noun) and had the opportunity to write some noun phrases.
In Maths, the children revisited 2-D shapes, by naming the shapes and looking at their properties. In PSHE, we continued with our topic ‘Celebrating being Different’, looking at identifying differences between people in the class. In Science, the children took a deeper look into materials and their properties and in History, we continued with our topic ‘Old and New Transport’ and the children learnt about how different modes of transport worked in the past and now, for example either by horse and carriage, by people, steam or fuel power.
On a separate note, could you please check your child’s PE kit and make sure that they have all the correct items as we have had some parent’s reporting that they child’s kit has been misplaced or lost.
Also, we have noticed in our weekly spelling tests that children are making the same mistakes, could you please make spelling on Edshed a priority this week.
We hope you have a lovely weekend!
Miss Rashti and Miss Weithers
Hi parents and carers,
This week we have centered some of our learning on around the festival of Diwali and have looked at the rituals that surrounds the festival of Lights. In English, we have been focusing on using exclamation marks through our book Katie in London.
In Maths, we took a further look into subtraction and explored different approaches to subtraction problems. In Computing, we continued looking at E-Safety and discussed who are trusted adults are. In History, we looked at some of the transport that has been used in the past and deciphered which transport was old or new. In Science, we have also been looking at the properties of different materials.
In PSHE, this half term term, we will be looking at ‘Celebrating being Different’. We encourage you to discuss the difference in society that the children notice in the world around them.
We hope you have a lovely weekend!
Homelearning Week 2 – 10.11.23
Miss Rashti and Miss Weithers
Thank you to all the parents that attended the parent meeting last week on reading.
Please find the slides from the meeting attached:
Parent Workshop for Key Stage 1
Thank you,
KS1 Team
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