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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Year 1 – Aqua and Sky
Oct 18 2024
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 …
Oct 11 2024
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 …
Oct 04 2024
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 …
Sep 27 2024
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 …
Sep 20 2024
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 …
Sep 13 2024
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 …
Sep 06 2024
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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