Year 1 – Aqua and Sky
Jun 11 2025
Welcome back! It’s hard to believe the children are now in their last half term of Year 1. This week, the children have enjoyed our History topic on the Great Fire of London. The children looked at images of London at the time comparing housing, emineties and living conditions to today. They talked about the …
May 23 2025
This week in English, we had fun setting the scene using some action figures for inspiration and wrote our own Traction Man adventures. We worked on our skills of different sentence types and tried to incorporate a range of end of sentence punctuation: full stops, question marks and exclamation marks. In Maths, we have been …
May 16 2025
In English this week, the children have been very excited to learn the story ‘Traction Man’ by Mini Grey. We have used adjectives to describe his outfits, creating story maps and designing our own action figure dolls. In Maths, we have been learning about the division symbol and consolidating our knowledge of equal and unequal …
May 09 2025
This week in English, we have been reading our new text, The Tiny Seed by Eric Carle. The book explores the journey and growth of a seed through the seasons and how it finally finds a place to settle and grow into a beautiful flower. Our work around the story has linked to our Science …
May 02 2025
This week in English, the children have been having fun creating their own version of our class text, Mr Gumpy’s Outing. They chose their own animals to join Mr Gumpy and wrote sentences using some exciting verbs to describe their bad behaviour! In Maths, we have worked on drawing and linking arrays to the associated …
Apr 25 2025
Hi everyone, Welcome back. We hope you all had a wonderful Easter break. The children have had a great few days and enjoyed exploring the new playground. We have seen lots of smiling faces, as the children have more equipment and materials offering opportunities for creative child initiated play. In phonics, we are revisiting all …
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 …
