We have introduced our stewardship project: Everyone is special. The children have been asked to bring in their empty crisp packets so we can can send them off to a charity that makes blankets from crisps packets. These blankets are then given to people who are less fortunate than us, people who are homeless or people who can’t afford to turn on their central heating.
To find out more please visit their website: https://crisppacketproject.com

What a busy couple of weeks we have had! The children have returned to school with brilliant attitude to learning!

For maths we looked at 2D shapes and reminded ourselves what they looked like by storing them. We spoke about the properties of shapes, talking about the number of sides and corners.

We had a pirate visit us and ask us to help find the treasure that has been stolen. The children agreed to help!

We practised getting to role to become a pirate, looking into some vocabulary that we weren’t sure of. Such as stealthy, adventurous and disguise.

Then we found a map had been left for us and followed it to find some treasure we had great fun!

Next Week 

Maths – we will be learning how to share equally between two. You could practise this at home with your child through the week. Can they share out their toys, chocolate or Lego between two

English – we will be continuing on our pirate adventure and learning how to become a pirate!

What a half term it has been! The children have worked very hard these last 8 weeks and we are keen to see them continue their hard work over the second half of the autumn term.

This week for RE we had a look at the liturgical calendar and coloured it in. Most children were able to recall the colours for the special events of the liturgical calendar.

Some children took part in an inter-sport football competition this week and bought back a medal. Thank you so much for representing Year 1 Norbert, Hollie, Erin, Michael, Melody and Emmanuel.

Today we visited the field to see how it had changed since the last time we saw it. The children loved exploring the field and even watched the builders resurface our school car park!

Home learning 

The children have been given some activities to do over half term. This includes looking at the different types of coins, counting to 20 and some phonics worksheets. All children are to do this learning over half term.

Please check your child’s book bag over half term. Remove any bits of learning or letters that have been the book bag during autumn 1.

After half term:

• Maths – Shape. We will be looking at 2D shape and using mathematical vocabulary to describe the shapes, such as ‘a circle has no corners (vertices) and has one curved side’.
• English – Pirates. We will starting a pirate topic and becoming our very own pirates! We will be thinking of questions we may like to ask pirates if we were to ever see one.

We hope you have a lovely half term. We will see you on Monday 1st November.

This week we conducted our first science experiment: does our hoods or hat prevent us from hearing the whistle at play time? We started by listening for different sounds and identifying how they help us. We then spoke about what could prevent us from hearing the whistle at playtime, such as children shouting, children running, wearing ear muffs etc. Finally we had a go at playing outside without our hoods and listening for the whistle and then with our hoods listening for the whistle. Ask your child what the outcome was…

In maths we have been looking at solving problems with our number bonds to 5. The first problem was to work out how many ways they could score 5 when playing a game of skittles. The children loved playing skittles and noting down all the different ways! 

For topic this week, and celebrating black history month, we looked at Claudia Jones who spoke about the right for equality no matter what race or gender people are in the 1950s. She started the Caribbean carnival. It is now known as the Notting hill carnival. The Children had a a go at making a carnival headdress to temper Claudia Jones.

This week the children had a message from the Big Bad Wolf asking them to listen to the story of the 3 little pigs and let him know if it’s the pigs who are mean rather than himself! The children wrote down their opinions. It was rather split and some children believed it was the wolf who was mean whilst others thought it was the pigs! All children gave valid reasons as to why they thought the pigs/wolf was mean.

We then had a go at retelling the story, writing down the repeated phrases. The children loved dressing up and getting into character to write down what they were saying!

We’ve been using the three little pigs to help with out maths. We were using the pigs to find different ways to partition numbers to 5. We even challenged ourself to write down the numbers. Some children took that one step further and wrote a number sentence!

All the learning we have done around our book animalphabet has come to a brilliant end with us creating our very own book! We have worked together to create an alphabet book, each choosing animal and writing a sentence containing an adjective. We tried really hard to remember our capital letters, finger spaces and full stops. Here are a few pages from our book!

This week for maths we have been learning how to partition a whole. We started by partitioning fruit and vegetables and then helped Mrs Layton’s daughter partition her birthday cupcakes. The children enjoyed finding out all the different ways they could partition the cupcakes.

Below are some images of the activities that the children have been participating during the week:

This week the children have been given ordering numbers to 20 home learning sheet. It should be completed at home and stuck in their homework book. The homework book does not need to come into school, but should stay at home.

This week the children took part in their first Mass. They sat very well and joined in singing “Our God is a great big God”. They were even blessed by Mr Cunningham and Father Jeremy.

For English this week we have been looking at our book, Animalphabet. We been exploring adjectives and how they help us describe things. We have had a go at describing pictures from the book ourselves and then matched some adjectives to pictures of animals. We hope to later use some of these adjectives in our writing.

For science this week we learnt about the human body. We spoke about all the amazing things that our body does for us, such as breathing or running, and what body parts are used to do them. We then drew round each other’s body’s labelled the different parts.

This week children have been given a home learning book. The idea is the book gates at home and each week we will provide activities or sheets are to be done in the book.

Enjoy the last of the sun this weekend!

For RE this week we have been learning about God as the creator. We have been exploring what he created. As a class we drew out he created on each day.

Maths this week we have been exploring teen numbers and finding ways to make them.

Have a fabulous weekend!

The Year 1 children have competed their first full week. All the staff in Year 1 are impressed with how the children have adapted and quickly understood the routines in Year 1!

This week we had our first science lesson. The children have started a longitudinal study. We are looking at how the school field will change whilst they are in Year 1. They looked for animals and signs of autumn.

For maths this week we have been focusing on numbers. The children have partaken in numeral and quantity matching, one more and one less as well as number formation.

As weather got worse towards the end of the week and the children bought in coats, we noticed that many children were unable to independently put on do up their own coats. This is something that the children practised in Early Years. If your child is still struggling with this please practise as much as you can at home.

Have a lovely weekend.

From the Year One Team.

Hello from the Year One team!

We have had a good couple of days back and the children have settled in well. Here are some images of the children learning in their new classrooms!

The children have been showing us what they know, using their phonics to help them write what they can see in our classroom or the outdoor area.

Children have been given their new phonics books. Please set some time aside to read the books everyday.

Have a wonderful weekend!

From us all in Year One