Year 1

Friday 11th October 2024

Another busy week in Year 1 has seen us start two new units of learning in our English and Maths. The children have loved our start to English, helped with our PTA fun-draiser for Space Week where we have dressed up as Aliens and Astronauts. We introduced the book ‘Welcome to Alien School’ and will be exploring this further over the next three weeks to develop their use of adjectives and use of personal pronouns such as ‘I’ in their writing. In Maths we have begun addition and subtraction and have been looking at part-whole models and pictorial representations of the whole to support their learning. As geographers this week we went on a mini expedition of the playground to complete a map using symbols and learnt how symbols and keys can help us to locate things more easily when on our travels. In Design Technology this week the children have continued with constructing their moving storybooks. We hope to finish these in our next lesson in two week’s time.

Next week will see us continue with addition and subtraction in Maths as well as continue with our History. We are hoping to explore memories further and invite someone to talk with us about their own memories of their past.

Friday 4th October 2024

We have been really busy in Year 1 and can’t believe we are already 5 weeks in to our Autumn term. This week the children have been working really hard during our English lessons, rehearsing sentences before writing. We’ve also been developing our resilience and independence, learning to use our classroom environment to support us such as learning walls and word mats. Meanwhile, in Maths the children have been using practical activities to demonstrate their understanding of one more and one less and we have used number lines to support us. We also learnt new vocabulary such as greater than, less than and equal to. Elsewhere, we have continued with learning about the seasons in science, observing changes over time and we are excited to create our own weather reports next week. History has seen us talking about memories and remembering past birthdays and how we celebrate these. To make sure we are as active as possible, our two PE lessons this week have seen us develop our ball skills further, using beanbags to support our balance whilst our second lesson of the week developed our jumping.

Next week we will be exploring a new text in English which will lead to us writing a short description using personal pronouns as well as beginning addition and subtraction in Maths.

Friday 27th September 2024

We started the week as scientists and discovered how many daylight hours there are in each of the four seasons and then created our own pictograms. We enjoyed drawing an aerial map of the classroom as part of our Geography lesson. We have also been really busy designing our moving storybooks for Design Technology and are looking forward to constructing them in our next lesson. We've continued to learn about pulse and rhythm in Music this week and have been brilliant at identifying the difference between the two. It has been a very busy week in Year 1!

Friday 20th September 2024

In Year 1 this week we have been busy creating a joint art picture using lines to make waves in the style of Zaria Forman; learning new ball skills in our PE lessons; and retelling The Perfect Fit using puppets to support us.