Welcome to Year 1
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.
Hello Parents and Carers
First of all, we’d like to say a massive thank you to all of the parents who were able to attend our Science Fair! It was an amazing turn out, and your support means so much to us and the children. A special well done as well to Nicholas, Benyas, Aurelia and Dylan who done an excellent job explaining our Science project to the whole school community.
As it has been Science week, we have spent most of our week building our habitats, but we have also been learning about how to compare animal features and how to categorise animals.
In Maths, we had a very successful unit on measuring length and height. We measured using both non-standard and standard units of measure, which was fun for both classes. We will be moving on to mass and volume next week.
In English, we had a final look at recounts before we move on to descriptions next week.
We will be going on our walking trips next week, so please ensure that the children are dressed appropriately as the weather is looking like it may be a bit miserable, and we don’t want wet socks to dampen our spirits.
We hope you have a lovely weekend,
The Year 1 Team
Hello Parents and Carers,
It has been a jam packed week in Year 1!
We have been continuing our look at recounts in English, this week we were looking at a recount called ‘A Walk in the Wind’, which matched the windy weather we have been having!
In Maths, we have now finished our unit in numbers to 50, and will be moving on the measuring length and height in the coming week.
In Science, we have been looking at the features of different animals in different animal groups and placing them in their habitats.
Our key skill in Geography is map skills, and this week we looked at the map of our local area ahead of our local area walk in a couple of weeks.
In preparation for Clean Monday we have made kites for the children to fly for RE, and we also looked at why children receive the 40 day blessing.
This week in PSHE we have been looking at the choices that keep our bodies and minds healthy.
On a final note, for our Science week project next week we will need some cardboard boxes, so if your recycling bin needs a bit of a rest we will happily collect them in on Monday.
Wishing you a lovely weekend,
The Year 1 Team
Dear Parents and Carers
This week in English, the children have been continuing with working towards writing a recount. They focused on planning and writing a recount about their own birthday party and used the ingredients to write a recount.
In Maths, the children were learning to solve missing number problems, to count by making groups of 10 and were introduced to a new topic about counting from 20 to 50 and they did an end of block assessment.
In Science, the children were sorting, classifying animals and placing them into the right criteria.
In RE, the children looked at how we need to be happy to help people in need and we discussed how Jesus helped people when he was alive on the earth.
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.
Dear Parents and Carers
We hope you had a wonderful half term break and are looking forward to hearing about what your child has been learning each week.
This week in English, the children have been working towards writing a recount. They focused on nouns and past tense verbs to create oral sentences suitable for a recount. Then they had at locate and use nouns and past tense verbs to complete sentences.
In Maths, the children were learning to subtract by counting back within 20, wrote the related facts using a part-whole model and were subtracting to find the difference.
In Science, the children were writing what they knew about animals and what they wanted to find out.
In PSHE, our new topic for this term is about ‘Healthy Me’. This week lesson was about being healthy and we talked about what is healthy and how we can keep heathy.
In PE, the children will be learning about badminton and tag rugby.
We hope you have a fantastic weekend!
From the Year 1 Team.
Homelearning Week 1 – 01.03.24