Our final topic for the year is…. LONDON!

We will be finding out about the Great Fire of London and Samuel Pepys diary. We will also be exploring fire safety (perhaps we may get some experts in to help us) and of course Paddington Bear will feature in our learning.

Today has been a particularly fun learning day! It was STEM day. So we investigated and explored the conditions that plants need to grow. As part of our science learning, the children had the opportunity to go on a plant hunt and plant a pea seed. We will be observing our growing plants over the next few weeks.

Have a lovely and safe weekend

The Year One team

What a wonderful trip to Marwell zoo! We were so lucky to see so many of the amazing animals. Look at how close the leopard came to us! Our workshop made us even closer to the animals- we held a snake and a rat! A lovely way to end the half term and our topic the great outdoors.

We have sent home a phonics worksheet pack that the children may want to do over the half term in preparation for phonics screening the second week back after half term.

Have a lovely break

The Year One team

Lots of fantastic learning has taken place this week as usual in Year One.

In maths we have been learning to use positional language. Below is a link to a song we have used to help us learn and have found particularly funny!

Next week we will be moving on to 3D shapes. We will be making models using 3D shapes at the end of the week. Any clean recycling- boxes, tubes, pringles tins, pyramids etc that you have at home that we can use for our models please bring them in over the course of next week, thank you.

In English we will be writing a recount of our trip to Marwell on Monday. We will be using time connectives such as next, after that, then etc.

It is looking like changeable weather for our trip on Monday, please make sure your child is in the most appropriate school uniform for the temperature of the day, hats if sunny, coats if wet and put sun cream on in the morning if needed. We will not be able to take sun cream with us but an application in the morning will last well. Remember your children will also be provided with a school packed lunch and drinks so water bottles will not be required for the trip.

We are really looking forward to our trip on Monday, thank you to all of the adults who volunteered to help us. We were overwhelmed with how many volunteers we had. We will put lots of pictures up here next week so you can see what we got up to.

Have a lovely weekend

The year One team

We have really enjoyed our learning this week! Continuing our work on what the lady bird heard. In English we have been writing noun phrases to describe the robbers. Next week we will be putting ourselves in to the robbers shoes and writing a sorry letter to the farm for trying to steal the fine prize cow.

In maths, we have been continuing to count in 5s. We have been buying various vegetables and gardening tools for the secret garden, counting in 5p coins. We have been using arrays to show our working out. Below is an example.

Reminder- Tuesday 8th May at 10:15 is our Year One liturgy- all are welcome to join us in worship.

We have sent out letters for our upcoming trip to Marwell zoo on Monday 21st May. Please ensure you reply with permission for your child.

It’s looking like a lovely (maybe hot) bank holiday weekend! Enjoy and stay safe.

The Year One team

It has been lovely to see all of the children back and ready to start learning. They have settled back in to school so well! We have been making the most of the sunshine and have been trying to get outside for our learning as much as possible.

Monday we went out on to the field for a mini beast hunt, we collected so many! We brought them in to the classroom and made observational drawings.

We have also taken our maths learning outside. We have been focusing on the place value of numbers and making higher numbers using maths equipment. We played snakes and ladders to help generate the higher numbers. The children had to make the numbers they landed on using maths equipment.

With the hot weather in mind, please ensure all children have a named water bottle in school.

Have a lovely weekend and stay safe in the sun.

The Year One team

Well done Year One another term completed!

Thank you for bringing in and sharing your favourite toys this week, it was lovely to see the variety of toys you brought in.

And thank you for all of the money you have raised over Lent for CAFOD.

We hope you enjoyed visiting our toy museum, we have been working really hard on our writing this term.

Our exciting topic for next term is…

THE GREAT OUTDOORS

Hopefully with better weather we will be making use of our secret garden, growing a variety of vegetables and plants. We have really exciting new texts to explore too. In the first week back we will be looking at common exception words for Year One as a focus in our writing. And in maths we will be focusing on the place value of numbers- exploring a lot bigger numbers then we have before.

If you want to do any home learning over the break then remember you have the new phase 5 cards and list of games. Lots of reading and Easter craft would be lovely too.

Have a wonderful, fun and safe Easter break.

The Year One team

Another busy week in Year One! In Maths we have been focusing on halves and quarters of shapes. Next week we will be moving onto halves and quarters of amounts. We will be using  a bar model to help us.

On Monday the 26^th March please can your child bring in one of their favourite toys. Please do not send in anything too valuable, precious or electrical.

We will be using these toys as a writing stimulus for their information page. We will be displaying these in our ‘toy museum’ in our classrooms.

We would like to invite all parents to view our toy museum from 3 O’clock on Thursday 29^th March.

   Well it has truly been a crazy, busy week in Year One! It started off by finding a map in the classroom on Monday! We weren’t sure where the map had come from or what we would find but it was certainly exciting! We generated some ideas of what we could find, then got out the shovels and spades, followed the map to the X and started digging! We couldn’t believe it, we found buried in the mud a very very old toy. It had a note from the little boy who buried it and information about the toy buried. In English next week we are going to create our own information page about a toy just like the little boy did.

On Tuesday we had the phonics workshop. Thank you to all parents who attended. We hope everyone who wasn’t able to attend received the powerpoint slides. You will also find in your childs bag phase 5 red flash cards and a list of potential games and activities you can use to do.

Also on Tuesday we had 6 children from our year group who took part in a racket skills tournament. Out of all of the other schools who attended… St Peters won!!! We are very proud of the team we sent to represent us. Well done Year One!

And last but not least, we have ended the week with a very special visitor. We have been very lucky to have Beryl, who used to own her very own toy museum bring in her collection of toys! It was such a surprise to the children who came back from assembly to find the classroom had turned into an old toy museum. Some of the toys that Beryl brought in were around 150 years old. She even let the children hold and play with these precious old toys! We are so grateful for her bringing them in and sharing them with us. Most people will never hold and play with such old and precious toys so we are very lucky.

It was lovely to hear and see pictures of Year Ones adventures in the snow over the weekend.

Thank you to everyone who made it to parents evening this week. It was lovely to share what fantastic progress every single child has made in Year One so far.

This week our story ‘the way back home’ by Oliver Jeffers comes to an end. Tomorrow we will be writing our own versions of the story. Some children have changed the moon in their story to a star or even Hawaii! Others have changed the plane to a rocket and even a jet pack!

Something to practice at home- this week in our writing we have been using question marks accurately- you could practice writing questions about anything- as we know they like to ask  lots of questions! We have also been focusing on using ‘and’ to join our sentences together.

Next week in English is very exciting- we can’t give too much away. Ask your child on Monday what they have found.

In maths we have continued counting on a number line but this week focusing on subtraction. Next week we will be moving on to mass. We will be weighing different toys and using balance scales to help us reason which toys are heavier/ lighter.

Reminder- we have the phonics workshop on Wednesday 14th March at 10:30. It will start with a talk with Mrs Knight about the phonics screening  check and then you will be able to come down to the classroom to experience some of the phonics activities we do in school with your child.

Have a lovely weekend

The Year One team