Category: Year One

This week we have been preparing for our Harvest service. We hope you enjoy our song ‘Who put the Colours in the Rainbow’.

In English we have continued to learn about different styles of poetry. This week, we learnt how to write a riddle to describe an animal.

In maths we have been learning about number bonds to 10. We made number bond ladybirds to help us remember the different ways to make 10. We then wrote these in part, whole models.

After half term we will be starting our new core text’ Beegu’. This is a story about a little alien who crashes onto our planet.

We will also be starting our geography topic ‘Our Wonderful World’ where we teach Beegu about planet Earth.

We hope you have a lovely time at our Harvest service and a restful half term.

Miss Luetchford and Mrs Sharon 🙂

In English we have explored different styles of poetry. We learnt that some poems can rhyme, some can be silly, some can form shapes but all poems need words.

Some children then felt inspired to write their own poems on a whiteboard.

These are now in our class poetry book.

In class we read the story ‘The Way Back Home’ by Oliver Jeffers. We then wrote a list a poem describing the setting and the character’s emotions.

In maths we have been learning about part, whole models. We then started to use these part whole models to solve addition equations.

In D.T we learnt how to create a moving picture by making a lever or a slider. Here are our amazing products:

Next week we will be completing our history unit about the moon landing and space exploration by learning about Mae C Jemison, before starting our geography unit after half term.

We are looking forward to sharing our song ‘Who Put the Colours in the Rainbow’ with you next week at our Harvest Service.

We hope you have a lovely weekend,

Miss Luetchford and Mrs Sharon 🙂

This week we wrote our information pages to share our fascinating facts about the moon. These are now on display in our classroom.  Next week we will be learning about poetry and reading the book ‘The Way Back Home’ by Oliver Jeffers.

In maths we have been learning to compare numbers using the mathematical symbols < > =. We have also been learning about ordinal numbers. Next week we will be learning how to use a number line.

This week  we went to St Matthew’s Church where Mother Helen and Father Alistair reenacted a baptism to show the children what happens during the service.

Thank you to the  parents who helped us walk to the church and Mother Helen and Father Alistair for inviting us to the church; it was a great way to end our unit on Christian baptism. Next week will start our new unit ‘Who is the Saint of our School?

Congratulations to Duncan and Clemmie who have been appointed as the Faith Champions for our class. Mr Quinn said that they both wrote fantastic letters detailing their hopes for the year.

Next week your child will be able to take home their books from their time in Reception class. Please can your child bring in a named bag on Thursday 14th October to use to carry the books.

We hope you have a lovely weekend,

Miss Luetchford and Mrs Sharon  🙂

This week we started our new book ‘Sidney, Stella and the Moon’.

This a story about twins Sidney and Stella  who love doing everything together – everything except sharing. In the story a quarrel over a bouncy ball creates a moon-sized problem when they accidentally smash the moon into pieces!  The siblings have to work together to solve the problem and find a new moon.

When we finished this story, it got us thinking about fiction and non-fiction. We knew this story must be fiction because the moon wouldn’t be broken by a bouncy ball. This got us thinking about everything else we knew about the moon.

Please quiz us at home about our knowledge of the moon, as we are now ‘Moon Experts’. We can tell you all about what it’s like on the moon, missions to the moon and we have learnt some great ‘Did you know?’ facts. Next week we will be using this knowledge to write information pages about the moon.

In maths we have been  learning how to compare numbers and amounts using the mathematical symbols < > =

In science we have learnt about absorbent and waterproof materials. We conducted an experiment to see which material would be suitable for a bag to  help keep items dry.

In phonics we have been learning the following sounds:

ir (whirl and twirl)

or (shut the door)

There are words containing these sounds for the children to practise available on the Spelling Shed website: https://play.spellingshed.com/#/login

We hope you have a lovely weekend,

Miss Luetchford and Mrs Sharon 🙂

This week we have written a set of instructions to teach people how to make Bob’s favourite cucumber sandwiches. We have learnt that a good set of instructions will include:

• Numbered steps
• Bossy verbs
• Pictures
• Each step will be written on a new line

We then used our instructions to make the sandwich for Bob.

In maths we have been learning to represent numbers using different mathematical equipment.

In science we have been learning about transparent and opaque materials. We have learnt that transparent materials let the light through so we can see through them. Opaque materials block the light which means we cannot see through them and this causes them to form a shadow. We then selected appropriate materials to make a shadow puppet.

In phonics we have been learning the following sound:

air (that’s not fair)

Attached is the link to the Spelling Shed for the children to be able to revise these sounds: https://play.spellingshed.com/#/login

Congratulations to Clemmie and Patricio, who have been elected as our School Councillors.

We hope you have a lovely weekend,

Miss Luetchford and Mrs Sharon 🙂

This week we have been learning how to write a description of a setting. We looked at a strange planet called Pandora and thought of adjectives to describe what we could see. We then wrote these descriptions as sentences in our books.

In maths we have been learning how to count forwards and backwards. We have completed number sequences as numerals and pictures.

In science we have continued learning about different materials and their properties. We helped Bob who needed some new items for his rocket. We told him which material would be best for a: chair, waterbottle, bookshelf and window by describing their properties.

In phonics we have been revising the following sounds:

ar (start the car)

oo (poo at the zoo)

There are words containing these sounds for the children to practise available on the Spelling Shed website: https://play.spellingshed.com/#/login

This half term we are learning about a Christian baptism. We would love to see any photos of the children at their own baptism service to display in our classroom. If you are happy to share these photos, please could the children bring in a copy of the photo next week or email a copy to the School Office.

Thank you to everyone who was able to attend our ‘Meet the Teacher’ session on Wednesday. Below is an attachment of the PowerPoint used to help explain routines in Year One.

Welcome to Year 1 new

Curriculum Map Autumn final

We hope you have a lovely weekend,

Miss Luetchford and Mrs Sharon 🙂

Dear Parents and Carers,

Hello and welcome to Willow Class. The children have settled into the new classroom  and it has been lovely hearing about their summer adventures. We are looking forward to sharing our learning with you each week on this, the year one blog.

This week we have started our topic ‘To Infinity and Beyond’ where will be learning about space explorers. In class we read the book ‘Aliens Love Underpants’ and used adjectives to describe the aliens.  Next week we will start our new class text ‘Bob Man on the Moon’.

On Wednesday 15th September we will have our ‘Meet the Teacher’ meeting. This will be an opportunity to share the routines and learning of year one with you all. Please see the email from Mrs Saunders for more information.

We hope you have a lovely weekend,

Miss Luetchford and Mrs Sharon 🙂