How busy the children have been! We have explored globes, atlases and compasses to explore the places we have visited. The children made maps with different materials and labelled them using their phonic knowledge.

We have enjoyed our first week in our phonics groups. Please keep practising the sounds and books at home and remember to bring them in every day.

We are really looking forward to starting our new dinosaur topic next week!

Sumdogs login codes will be sent home next week so look out for that.

Enjoy your weekend.

Year 1

Wow, we have managed to squeeze in so much this week.

Thank you so much to everyone who came and looked at the children’s books after school this week, we hope you enjoyed looking at their amazing work.

Thank you again to everyone who attended our fathers day liturgy. It was lovely to hear how loved and amazing year Ones daddies are. A special thank you to Miss Keogh for helping us.

ANOTHER thank you for all of the kind cake donations for our Year One cake sale today. We will keep you updated on how much we raise- fingers crossed it will be enough to adopt our very own polar bear!

Looking forward to our carnival day tomorrow, we can’t wait to show off our amazing Arctic learning.

Just a reminder- sports day has been provisionally moved to July 1st.

Have a lovely weekend

The Year One team

In science we have been focusing on life cycles of animals and insects. We have been watching our caterpillars transform through their lifecycle. It has been very exciting! Finally they have turned in to beautiful butterflies. We all waved them goodbye as we released them  in to the air.

In History we have been learning about the great fire of London. We received a history box from a museum full of artefacts and dressing up. We learnt so much from all of the amazing things inside.

We have loved celebrating D-day. We have been watching the planes fly over the playground on their way to Portsmouth and watching videos of the red arrows. We have created medals for all of the brave soldiers who fought for us.

REMINDERS-

Book look- 3pm-4pm Monday 17th/ Tuesday 18th June

Year One Liturgy- Tuesday 18th June at 10:00.

Year One cake sale- Thursday 20th June on the south play ground after school.

Have a lovely weekend

The Year One team

This week in year one we begun our new topic,  London!  We will be learning about London now and in the past. In History we have begun to explore the events of The Great Fire of London. The children have already leant lots of facts and should be able to tell you all about it.

In maths we have been focusing on writing number names and days of the week.  Next week we will be learning about positional language. The children will follow and give instructions using whole, half, quarter and three quarter turns.

Reminders

Our whole school carnival is on June 21st, Year 1 are focusing on the Arctic. Turtles will be Penguins and Puffer Fish will be Polar Bears. Therefore please can Tutle class dress in black clothing and Puffer Fish in white clothing. Please do not buy anything new, clothing with logo’s on is fine.  Watch out for some parent mails about our upcoming cake sale, which will will be holding to raise money for WWF.

Our next liturgy is on 18th of June at 10am, family and friends are always welcome!

The 17th and 18th June are also opportunities for you to come into school to look at all of the fantastic learning that your child has done over the year.

Thank you

Year 1 Team

What a wonderful school trip we had at Marwell zoo yesterday, the weather couldn’t have been better. We were so lucky to see so many animals. We even had the opportunity to touch a real snake and rat! We were really impressed with how brave the children were with the animals.

Thank you to everyone who volunteered and to all the adults in the year group who provided all of the children with backpacks and water bottles, it really did save their hands.

Summer term has begun! We can not believe how fast this year has gone. We have started our new topic- the great outdoors. We will be focusing on a lot of outdoor learning, animals, insects etc.

In English we have started our new text ‘diary of a fly’. We put ourselves in to the shoes of a fly, using prepositions to think about what we could see if we were a fly from up above or down below. We then wrote our own diary entry pretending to be a fly!

In maths this week we have been focusing on 2 digit numbers. We have been looking specifically at the tens and ones within a number- for example 32 is made of 30 and 2.

This term we have our big school trip of the year to Marwell zoo on the 15th May! Please check your child’s bag for the letter to be completed and sent back to us as soon as possible. We have limited spaces on the coach for adult helpers, so if you have filled in that you are able to attend we will be in contact with you to confirm whether  your support is needed. Thank you for your continued support and getting the letters back to us swiftly.

Have a lovely weekend

The Year One team

We are so lucky! We have had the pleasure of hosting Beryl this week and her collection of old toys. Beryl used to own her own toy museum, so over lunch she brought her toys to the classroom and set them up to surprise the children. Some of her toys were as old as 170 years old! Much to our worry she let the children hold and pass around these toys, an experience we would have never had from a toy museum. Thank you so much to Beryl for letting us experience these precious toys.

Thank you to everyone who made the phonics workshop. We really hope it was useful and informative. Phonics is really tricky to teach, if you ever need help or advice you can always ask us. Youtube has lots of helpful videos too- particularly with pronunciation of the sounds.

Remember to ‘wear it wacky’ on Monday to raise money for CAFOD.

Have a lovely mothers day,

The Year One team

We have had a wonderful world book day. Thank you for all of your effort with their costumes- they looked amazing!

Welcome back to another term, we can’t believe how quick this year is going. We have been enjoying learning outside at the beginning of this week in the sunshine!

We have started our new topic- Toys!

In maths we have been weighing toys using balancing scales. We have been investigating which toys are heavier and lighter. We have also weighed the toys using multilink.

In English we have been  creating our own set of lego instructions. We found that lego instructions are quite hard to follow without sentences to help us. We also found that prepositions are really helpful in instructions, particularly lego instructions to tell us where the bricks need to go. Below is a video we have found very funny and helpful when learning about prepositions.

Have a lovely weekend

The Year One team

A big well done to everyone who took part in our Year One poetry competition, the time and effort you have put in to learn your poem off by heart is amazing!

It was really hard to pick just three children to go through to the whole school final- but a decision had to be made.

Congratulations to –

Tommy Dognini – duck weather

Alice Hatter- terrible tickle

Feodora Asiedu- Halfway down