Category: year1

Year 1 – Aqua and Sky

Run, run as fast as you can!

Hi everyone, We have made it to the end of the first half term in Year 1, and it’s been a long one – 8 weeks!! Your children have been amazing! They have settled in and adapted to the routines and expectations of Year 1.               This week in …

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10 things I can do to help my world

This week in English we have been looking at the book ’10 things I can do to help my world’ by Melanie Walsh. We started by looking at the vocabulary and discussing the ideas before we wrote a sentence about something we could do to help our world. We then made posters about the different …

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Our five senses…

For Science this week we have been learning about our five senses sight, touch, smell, taste and hearing. We have been doing experiments to see if we can correctly identify different smells, correctly identify different tastes and also guess what we are feeling in the feely bag! In English, we have been publishing our writing …

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Our Amazing Bodies!

This week in Year 1 we have continued reading our class text, Here We Are by Oliver Jeffers and have been thinking all about our bodies and how important they are.   We explored the names and wrote labels for each part of the body while discussing how amazing our bodies are! In English, we used …

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What a wonderful world…

This week in Year 1, we have been learning about our planet and all the wonderful things we have on Earth. We have been using the text ‘Here we are’ by Oliver Jeffers and listening to the song ‘What a wonderful world’ by Louis Armstrong. We started by writing what we thought was wonderful and …

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Spirals!

Hi everyone, The children have had a wonderful week. In English, we have been writing sentences using capital letters, full stops and finger spaces. The children have been writing about an animal of their choice, the classification group it belongs to and some of the key features of that group. To develop their understanding of …

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This week in Year 1…

Hi everyone, It’s been another fantastic week in  year 1. The children have coped well with the new routine and being back at school. In Maths, we have been looking at ordinal numbers,  we have practiced this with the children ordering their arrival in the mornings alongside learning about floors in a building and places …

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Welcome to Year 1!

Hi everyone, Welcome to Year 1! This week we spent time settling the children in and getting them used to their new environments and changes to their daily routines. They are all copying really well and it is lovely to see so many racing to get into class in the morning and keen to get …

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