Dear Parents and Carers,

We are delighted to invite you to join us for our special Year 1 Creation Celebration of the Word!

Our Year 1 children have been learning about the wonderful story of Creation and exploring the beauty and wonder of the world around us. They are excited to share some of their learning, creativity and reflections with you.

Date: Tuesday 13th October 2026
Time: 10am
Location: Hall

We would be delighted to have you there to celebrate this special moment with the children.

We look forward to celebrating together!

Warm wishes,
The Year 1 Team

We have had a busy week in Year 1. We have continued our ‘Three Bears’ unit in Music and have enjoyed learning the lyrics to ‘Teddy Bear, Teddy Bear’. We explored high and low sounds and created actions to each line. The children had great fun!

In PE, we have continued to practise our Fundamental skills. We have been developing our core strength and controlling how our bodies move.

The first few weeks have been very exciting in Year 1! The children are continuing to settle well and are adapting well to new classrooms and staff. We have been working hard revisiting some key learning from Reception and are beginning to build upon these foundations.

Phonics

The children are now in their phonics groups and will have phonics lessons daily. A reading book will be sent home every Monday and will be changed weekly. Please ensure you read with your child at least three times a week and sign the reading record book.

English

We have introduced our first traditional tale to the children which is The Three Little Pigs. The children enjoyed trying to guess what the topic was from the different objects and materials we gave to them. We have begun working on simple sentences and using our phonics to help us spell.

Maths

We have re-introduced numbers to 10 and have begun exploring numbers to 20. Children have been making numbers practically using a range of resources and have been learning one more and one less.

In English, we wrote an invitation to our favourite teddy bears inviting them to a teddy bears picnic.

In DT we designed, taste tested, cut and created our very own fruit kebabs and shared them with our teddies.
We had a wonderful time!

We have been shopping a lot in maths. Learning about the value of coins and using them to buy items from the shop. We have used our counting knowledge of 2s and 10s to buy things with 2ps and 10ps.

We have also been practicing for our liturgy. All our welcome to join us in worship, this Tuesday 5th May at 10am at St Peter’s school. We would love to see you there! Here is a sneak preview of what’s to come…

We have been very busy the past few weeks in Year One!

Making puppets-

Making more music!

Lots of maths learning –

We have been learning about our local area in geography and creating maps. We had to identify the physical and human features around us.

Look out for an invite to our next Liturgy on Tuesday 5th May 10am in the school hall.

It has been a very busy couple of weeks in Year One.

First of all we would like to congratulate Mrs Conlon on the safe arrival of her baby boy, Ezra Joseph Conlon!

And welcome to Miss Shaw starting in Turtle class Thursdays and Fridays.

We started off the month with a visit from a dental nurse and learnt a lot about how to look after our teeth.

We have also started music lessons (Turtles first, Pufferfish after Half term) learning tuned percussion.

The children performed a fantastic nativity for their families and friends.

The children enjoyed wearing their Christmas jumpers and taking part in the Santa Dash run.

In RE the children created their own advent wreaths.

In maths the children have been partitioning teen numbers. They have used dienes to identify tens and ones.