Year 1 – Aqua and Sky
Apr 04 2025
Hi everyone, We are at the end of our spring term and the children are ready for break. They have all worked so hard and enjoyed the topics covered and books read. In maths this week, the children have revisited the 2, 5 and 10 times tables. They have practised saying them aloud, learned some …
Mar 28 2025
Hi everyone, In English this week, we read the Julia Donaldson book Cave Baby. The children used the text to identify adjectives. They wrote sentences using adjectives to describe the animals in the story. This led into writing descriptive noun phrases using comas, e.g. The loud, fierce tiger. In maths, we revisited subtraction, The children …
Mar 21 2025
Hi everyone, This week in English, the children created a non chronological report about the life and discoveries of the paleontologist Mary Anning. Learning about Mary Anning linked with our history focus of significant people and the influence their work has had on our lives today. In maths, we have been exploring capacity and volume. …
Mar 14 2025
Hi everyone, It was lovely to catch up with you all at Parents Evening this week and share your children’s amazing work and achievements with you. Children enjoyed learning about Mary Anning the paleontologist and fossil collector, whose discoveries included the first correctly identified ichthyosaur skeleton, when she was twelve years old. They discussed her …
Feb 28 2025
Hi everyone, We hope you had a good break. This week in English, the children read about the life and work of Amelia Earhart who became the first woman to fly an aeroplane across the Atlantic. They created a story map detailing key points in her life and role played her story. The children discussed …
Feb 14 2025
In English this week, the children have been learning all about instructions; where we find them, why we need them and how they are written. We have been reading instructions and begun to understand the importance of a bossy (imperative) verb! When we followed some instructions, we made a strawberry jam sandwich and everyone enjoyed …
Feb 07 2025
This week in English, we have been working on writing a diary linked to our class text, The Lighthouse Keeper’s Lunch. The children used their knowledge of the days of the week to record the hilarious events of the journey of the sandwiches. In Maths, we have been exploring different ways to total the same …
Jan 31 2025
This week in English, we have been exploring our new text, The Lighthouse Keeper’s Lunch by Ronda Armitage which tells the story of a busy lighthouse keeper and his troubles with the scavenging seagulls who keep eating his lunch! The children have loved the humorous events which take place over the course of a week …
Jan 23 2025
This week in Literacy, we have written our own stories. First, we designed our own alien characters and described them using adjectives. Then we began to think about our storytelling language and wrote our stories about an alien that gets lost and needs to find their way home (this was not easy for our little …
Jan 17 2025
This week in Maths we have been learning the days of the week. We have been sequencing the days as well as using our vocabulary to talk about the day before and the next day. During the week, this has developed into learning the months of the year and exploring the associated seasons. In English, …