Another busy week in Year One. Half term seems like a distant memory now!

We have started our new topic of ‘journeys’. We have fantastic texts we will be focusing on and of course the journey Mary and Joseph took to Bethlehem in the run up to Christmas.

This week we had 6 children represent Year One in a football festival. They had a fantastic time and learnt lots of new skills.

Next week is history week throughout the school. In the run up to the 100th anniversary of World War One we have created lots of exciting and age appropriate activities for the children to enjoy. These will be presented to the rest of the school in an assembly on Friday.

If you are enjoying the fireworks this weekend stay safe and have fun!

The Year One team

On Monday we planted our dinosaur seeds. We couldn’t believe how much it had grown over Monday night. Then we saw something poking out of the soil, it looked like a tail!

We have watched it carefully over the week and to our great excitement we have grown our very own dinosaur! We have made him a bed and given him some water and food. We have written instructions so that other children will be able to grow a dinosaur too.

We did have some dinosaur seeds left over- so the children designed their own seed packets and were each given some seeds to grow their very own dinosaur (these are in their book bags).

You have worked so hard over this first term Turtles and Pufferfish- we are very proud of you. Have a lovely and safe break.

What a wonderful way to start the week. Thank you to everyone who was able to join us in worship, it was lovely to see you all. The children did so well remembering their lines and when it was their turn to add to our world we created.
Well done Year One.

Our amazing dinosaur learning continues…

This we week in English we will be starting our new text- HOW TO GROW A DINOSAUR! It is a fantastic book with beautiful illustrations to really hook the children in. Don’t forget to ask your child about their new learning each day.

In maths  we will be learning to add two amounts together. We will be using all of our maths tools to help us, such as beadstrings, numicon, multilink and counters. If you are counting at home, you can use any objects around the house to help e.g raisins, shoes, lego. We encourage children to draw their objects when counting to help them understand that adding is combining.

Reminder- Tuesday 9th October at 10:00 is Year One’s liturgy. Keep an eye on the blog, if you are unable to make it, we shall post some pictures.

Have a lovely week

The year one team

Another busy week in Year One!

We have started our dinosaur topic and we love it! Some of our dinosaurs escaped on to the playground! So we had to go on a dinosaur hunt to collect them all up. We have been labelling the dinosaurs using the sounds we know and we have even created our own dinosaur. Next week we will start reading Harry and his bucketful of dinosaurs – he may even pay us a visit.

In maths we have been counting dinosaur poo! We are focusing on more and less with number. The naughty dinosaurs also rubbed out some of the numbers on the number line, so we had to work out what numbers were missing. Next week we will be moving on to specifically one more and one less of a number.

On Monday we went to the field and built dinosaur dens.

Have a lovely weekend

The Year One team

wow, what a fantastic start to Year One! We are so impressed with how quickly the children have settled to their learning and adapted to their new environment. Above are some pictures to show what we have been up to.

Next week we will be beginning our dinosaur topic, any donations of plastic dinosaurs would be greatly received.

Reminder- next Tuesday 11th September at 3.30 we will host a welcome meeting in the classroom. Please go to the office at the end of the day and go through that way. We understand that not everyone will be available at this time, so if you are unable to attend we will provide a print out of the information from the meeting.

Have a wonderful weekend,

The Year One Team

We emailed Mr Cunningham on Friday to ask him if we would be able to watch Paddington bear the movie as we have started to learn all about him. We received an email back on Monday and it’s not good news…

Dear Year 1

I am very concerned that you want to watch Paddington at the end of the year.

You may not watch the film!

I absolutely hate bears, in fact I have arkoudaphobia

Paddington is a horrible little bear with rough, brown fur all over his flea ridden body.

He wears a huge red hat and a silly blue coat, how ridiculous for a bear to wear clothes.

He comes from the deepest, darkest Peru, goodness knows where that is or what disgusting germs he might have.

He is ridiculous! Why would anyone travel to busy, bustling London without making proper arrangements about where to stay?

Marmalade sandwiches are revolting! Yucky. It can’t be healthy to eat sweet, sugary marmalade sandwiches every day. He doesn’t even keep them in a cool bag!

Unless you can convince me otherwise, you may NOT watch the film!

Mr Cunningham

We feel Mr Cunningham has completely the wrong impression of poor Paddington bear. It has been our task this week to find out all the true facts about Paddington and prove to him he is in fact a lovely, kind bear. Fingers crossed our writing is persuasive enough to convince him to let us watch the film.

In maths we have been using various coins to buy marmalade and bread for Paddington as this is his favourite food! Next week we will be making marmalade sandwiches and cutting them in to halves and quarters. We will then be exploring the amount of sandwiches Paddington eats and splitting them in to halves for lunch and dinner.

Enjoy the football on Saturday!

The year one team

Thanks to our fire fighters for inspiring us and giving us so much information on Friday. We have used this for some fantastic learning this week.

In literacy we have been creating our own fire safety posters, using all of the key facts we have learnt from the fire fighters and from non-fiction books. Look out for our fire safety posters around the school.

In maths we found that the fire fighters had left pieces of their hose pipe all over the playground! So we decided to collect is all up, measure and compare the different lengths. We used rulers and tape measures and even multilink to measure the different pieces.

Next week we will be introducing Paddington bear to our learning. In English we will be exploring what he is like as a character, what he looks like and his personality.

In maths we will be exploring money with Paddington as he goes on adventures around London- paying for the many attractions he would like to see.

Enjoy the sunshine over the weekend,

The Year One team

wow, what a day we have had! As promised, we asked the experts to come in and help us kick off our learning about the great fire of London! We learnt about the uniform the fire fighters need to have to stay safe. We learnt new rhymes to help us remember to stay safe in different fire situations. We went on the fire engine, some of the children even drove it! We also put out a pretend fire with a real hose and squirt each other too! It was so much fun! Thank you to Hampshire fire and rescue service for a fantastic day!