Thank you to everyone who made it to our Year One liturgy this week, we really enjoyed worshipping with you.

In English this week we have been thinking about things from the wolfs perspective. How does he feel? Would he describe himself as dangerous? We wrote letters to Mr Cunningham as the wolf to explain our annoyance at not being accepted for the job.

Next week we will be focusing on words ending in ‘ed’ with the help of Goldilocks. Her tummy rumbled at the smell of porridge. Her legs ached and she needed to sit in one of the chairs.

In maths this week we have been learning about the days of the week. Below are two of our favourite songs we have learnt.

Next week we will be focusing on telling the time. In Year One we focus on o’clock and half past.

REMINDER- parents evening times are now available to book on scopay for the 5th and 6th March.

This week we received a letter from the Big Bad Wolf!!!

We can not believe it! We DO NOT want the wolf to work here. We are very concerned, so have written letters to Mr Cunningham to persuade him not to employ the wolf. Fingers crossed our letters are convincing enough to not employ him.

We have been so successful counting in 2s and 10s over the past couple of weeks we decided to transfer these skills to counting in 2p and 10p coins. We went shopping for ingredients to make gingerbread men. We only had 2p and 10p coins in our purse so had to count carefully.

Next week in maths we will be focusing on days of the week/ months of the year. We are sorry if the children come home singing lots of different songs to help them remember the order!

Reminder- Tuesday 5th February at 10:00 is our Year One liturgy. All family members welcome.

Have a lovely (maybe snowy) weekend.

The Year One team

We have started our new book ‘the true story of the three little pigs’ by John Scieszka.Did you know the wolf was framed?! He actually had a cold and that’s why he blew the houses down- it was just a sneeze! We have been investigating this story this week and what we think the wolf is really like. Next week we will be receiving a very concerning letter from the wolf…

In maths we have been investigating counting in 10s. Only 10 gingerbread men will fit on a baking tray, so we have been using our knowledge of counting in 10s to see how many gingerbread men we can bake if we had 6 trays for example. We have used the same models from last week – part, part whole, bar model and arrays. Next week we will be using our knowledge of counting in 2s and 10s to count 2ps and 10ps for gingerbread ingredient shopping.

Reminder- Tuesday 5th February at 10:00 is Year Ones Liturgy. All family members welcome to join us in worship.

Have a lovely weekend- wrap up warm!

The Year One Team

Another week of fantastic learning and we are really starting to understand multiplication. As we said last week, we made Lego houses over the Christmas break. The children had to estimate how many bricks we used, whoever had the closest answer would win a Lego prize. On Monday, we counted in 2s the amount of Lego bricks we used. In Miss Shaw’s class Grace Collins had the closest answer. In Mrs Layton’s class, Mathew Walsh had the closest answer – well done!

On Tuesday, one of the three little pigs wrote to us and told us how annoyed he was that his house had been destroyed by the wolf. He now wanted to build his house out of Lego bricks but needed our help counting- so we did! We have taught the children how to use various maths tools to aid counting in 2s physically and taught various models to record it. For example-

 This is an array.

This is a bar model.

 This is a part part whole model.

In English, we have rewritten the story of the three little pigs. It was some of the best and neatest writing we have seen from the children- well done! On Wednesday, we took our stories to show the new librarian Mrs Porter- she was very impressed. Next week we will be starting our story ‘the true story of the three little pigs’ We wonder how it will be different to the story we have just read…

Welcome back! After a lovely 2 week break it is great to have everyone back in to school and straight in to their learning. We have started our new topic ‘a tale to tell’ based around fairytales.

In maths we have launched a LEGO competition! Over the holidays Miss Shaw and Mrs Layton built their own lego houses. The children have guessed how many bricks they think we used. Whoever has the closest guess will win a lego prize! We have been learning to count in 2s to help us count the bricks quicker. When we have learnt how to count in 2s we will reveal the winner! Ask your children to show you a bar model and a part part whole model and get them to explain how it works.

In English we have started our new text- the three little pigs. We have been retelling the story, remembering the well known key phrases. Next week we will begin to rewrite the story.

Date for your diary- Tuesday 5th February at 10:00 will be our liturgy. All family members welcome.

Have a restful weekend after a busy first week back!

The Year One Team

We have loved Christmas jumper day today- who knew there were so many different types of jumpers!

Thank you for all of your support with the nativity this week, it was lovely to see you all. Photographs will be posted next week!

Have a lovely weekend

The Year One team

Another wonderful week in Year One is coming to an end. Meaning Nativity is just around the corner!

Our performances are Monday morning and Tuesday afternoon next week and you must have a ticket to attend. Thank you for all of your support with the nativity, all tickets are now allocated.

We are having a final rehearsal this Friday, so please ensure all costumes are in tomorrow. If you are still struggling with costumes, please let us know so we can help sort this asap. We are looking forward to seeing you all and showing you how hard the children have worked on the performance.

In English this week, Mr Crozier has asked us if we could write a Christmas poem that we could perform on the stage. We jumped at the chance! Our poems are being written over the next week and we will be performing them the week after.

Maths started with a visitor on Monday- the naughty Hare! Miss Shaw and Mrs Layton had their backs turned when the naughty Hare came in to the classroom and stole some of our carrots! So we have used this to help us learn the meaning of ‘taking away’ and how that looks in maths.

Thank you to everyone who walked with us to the church on Tuesday, we are so grateful. We hope your leg have recovered!

Have a lovely weekend, see you next week.

The Year One team

Nativity practice has started this week, it is really starting to come together already, it is not easy to organise and plan 120 children!
Costume letters have been sent out to inform you of your child’s role. If you do not have this letter please let us know. Please do not feel the need to go out and buy new costumes, use items from home, borrow from friends, wear a glittery party dress for a star (for example) etc. If you are really stuck we have some bits of costumes at school and will be happy to help.
Nativity tickets are also available now. Letters to request tickets can be collected from the office. We have 2 perfomances-
Monday 10th December at 10am
Tuesday 11th December at 1.30pm

Reminder, this upcoming Tuesday and Wednesday is parents evening. Please book in at the office if you haven’t booked an appointment online.

On Thursday we were invited over to Oaklands chapel for our RE lesson. We learnt about different prayers and meanings. We discussed different prayers for different times of the day. Thank you to Miss Keogh for having us.

What a wonderful Friday we had. In science we have been learning about the properties of materials. We have been testing if materials are waterproof. With our new knowledge of waterproof materials, we designed and created our own boats.

After lunch, we tested our boats to see if they would float. We couldn’t believe how many of our boats did indeed float!

We have absolutely loved our history learning this week. It is so important to remember everyone involved in the war and all that they did for us. We have learnt about the importance of the poppy and created our own poppy wreath. We learnt about the other colours of poppies people wear at this time and what they represent.

We designed our own medals and learnt about why our brave soldiers were given different medals.

We listened to war time music. We talked about how the music made us feel and that the songs were created to make the soldiers feel happy. As we played the music the children had to draw the images in their head the songs made them see.

It has been a really insightful week for the children, learning lots about various aspects of the war. They have really enjoyed it.

Have a lovely and safe weekend,

The Year One team