Phase One

This week we have started reading our core text ‘Bob Man on the Moon’.

We learnt about Bob’s day on the moon and all of the jobs he has to complete inside his rocket.  We then wrote a set of questions we would like to ask Bob, to find what it is like to visit the moon. We look forward to reading his replies next week.

In phonics we have learnt the sounds ‘ee’ (what can you see?) and ‘oa’ (goat in a boat). We have also been reviewing our phonics knowledge by playing the game ‘Obb and Bob’. https://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/PicnicOnPluto.html

In maths we have been learning how to count and sort objects and numbers.  We sorted a variety of objects in different ways:

“We have sorted them into colours”

“We have sorted them into groups of three.”

 

We then used objects and numicon to represent a number:

We have begun to identify if a number is odd or even by singing our odd numbers song “Odd numbers it’s time to shine, they end in 1,3,5,7,9.”

In science we have started our topic ‘Materials’. We looked at different materials and began to describe their properties. We then sorted the materials using the vocabulary we had generated.

This week we wrote our class prayer:

Dear God,

Thank you for the world you have given us, our friends, families and school. We thank you for the love you give us every day.

Please help us to do our best and try our hardest in all we do.

We will always try to be kind to each other and love each other.

Amen

 

Congratulations to Toby who was awarded the Good Manners Cup in assembly. He has worked very hard this week and remembered to show good listening on the carpet as well as being helpful to the adults; well done Toby.

We enjoyed the Roaring Rocket’s Show and Tell items this week. George told us all about his wombat ‘Scruttle’,Toby showed the class his lovely alien picture and Nicky spoke about her space pictures.   Next week it is the turn of the ‘But Martin!’ table for Show and Tell (Marcus, Nicole S, Matilda, Finn, Albie and Sean).

Please remember to bring any empty yogurt pots for Miss Barnam’s exciting R.E lesson in two week’s time.

We hope you have a lovely weekend,

The Year One Team

What an exciting first week we’ve had in Year 1!

This week we have started our topic ‘To Infinity and Beyond’ where we will be learning about Earth and space. We talked about what we know about space and each child wrote one thing we would like to find out. Next week we will start learning about the Space Race between America and the USA.

We read the story ‘Alien’s Love Underpants’ and thought of adjectives to describe the cheeky aliens. We then wrote these adjectives as sentences in our brand new Year 1 Topic Books.

In maths we have been practising writing our numbers in our new Year 1 Maths Books, remembering to write the numbers inside the squares.

Miss Barnham will be teaching R.E to the children throughout the year. She has requested any spare yogurt pots and empty toilet rolls that you might have to donate, for a a very exciting R.E lesson in  two week’s time.

Next week we will be starting Show and Tell. In Year 1 each group will be given a turn for Show and Tell. They have the whole week to bring in an item that they would like to share with the class.  Next week it will be the turn of the Roaring Rockets table: Toby, Ranga, George, Eddie, Nicky and Elizabeth.

We look forward to seeing you next week for ‘Meet the Teacher’.

We hope you have a lovely weekend,

The Year 1 Team

This week we have been learning how to read and record time on an analogue clock. We each made a clock face to help us learn how to read o’clock, half past and quarter past the hour. We then recorded various times on an analogue clock face.

In science we have learnt how humans change and grow. Using our baby photos, we looked at how our bodies have changed and discussed what we couldn’t do as a baby and what we can do now. We then thought about how we will change when we grow into adults.

 

On Monday we will be celebrating our school’s French Day. The children need to come into school wearing the colours of the French flag: blue, white and red.  Please can the children bring a donation of £1.00.

Next Thursday we will be sending the children’s books home. Please can they come into school with a named plastic bag so that the children are able to carry their books home.

We hope you have a lovely weekend,

The Year One Team

This week Mr Grinling needed our assistance to help train a new lighthouse keeper. We have written a guide explaining what a lighthouse keeper does, described their uniform and written sentences detailing some of the jobs that you need to do as a lighthouse keeper.

In maths we have been learning about money. We have learnt to identify and explain the value of each coin. We have the investigated the different ways you can make a total.

On Monday we watched the School Council’s ‘Off By Heart’ poetry competition. Miti represented our class and read his poem beautifully for the audience. Well done to the Year Two children who were the overall winners.

On Friday afternoon we received some exciting post! It was a letter from Prince Charles thanking the children for their letters detailing the plastic pollution facing our oceans.

As the letters arrived Friday during going up time, we will hand the letters out on Monday.

We hope you all have a lovely weekend,

The Year One Team

This week we have  been busy bees! On Monday the children wrote their diary entry as Mr Grinling describing the catastrophic day when he locked Hamish in the lighthouse. We were so impressed by the descriptive details the children included in their writing.

In maths this week we have been reviewing our learning by completing our termly maths assessments. These are a way to review our learning and help us get ready for Year Two.

In science we have been learning how animals produce offspring that grow into adults. We have looked at various animals and drawn a life cycle of a butterfly. Below is an example of the children’s work by Lily D.

Over the next two weeks we will be looking at how humans grow and change. Please could the children bring in a photograph of them as a baby or toddler to share with the class.

Congratulations to Miti who has been chosen to represent our class in the School Council poetry competition on Monday. He will be performing the poem ‘Nobody Loves Me’. Well done Miti.

Please note that next week will be the last week we will be sending out books.

We hope you have a lovely weekend,

The Year One Team

This week we have read the story ‘The Lighthouse Keeper’s Catastrophe’ where poor Mr Grinling loses the key to the lighthouse. We have sequenced the key events of the story and next week we will be writing a diary entry as Mr Grinling recounting the day.

In maths we have been reviewing partitioning by identifying the place value of each digit in a number including zero. We have then developed our reasoning skills by solving worded problems.

This week we have started getting ready for Sport’s Day by practising the different events.

In R.E we have been learning about symbolism in the Jewish faith. Miss Barnham showed the class various objects that are important to the Jewish faith and the children learnt about their symbolism.

 

The School Councillors are organising an ‘off by heart’ poetry competition which will take place on Monday 2nd July. The children have been given  two poems to choose from which they can practise at home. The two poems the children can choose from are:

I Think I’ll Go and Eat Worms

Nobody loves me,

Everybody hates me,

I think I’ll go and eat worms.

Great big fat ones,

Long thin skinny ones,

And the gravy goes

SLURP, SLURP, SLURP, SLURP.

or

Witch, Witch

“Witch, witch, where do you fly?”                                                                                         “Under the clouds and over the sky.”

“Witch, witch, what do you eat?”                                                                                           “Little, black apples from Hurricane Street.”

“Witch, witch, what do you drink?”                                                                                     “Vinegar, blacking and good red ink.”

“Witch, witch, where do you sleep?”                                                                                    “Up in the clouds where pillows are cheap.”

 

On Monday 25th June we will be performing these poems in class, with one child (or pair if the children have decided to perform it as a pair) being chosen to perform it in the competition.

It is with great sadness that we heard of the passing of Alex Merriman, our Chair of Governors. Mother Helen spoke to the children this morning in assembly where we read a prayer for Alex and his family. Our thoughts and prayers are with everybody during this terribly sad time.

We hope you all have a good weekend,

The Year One Team

 

 

We hope you enjoyed the children’s assembly all about the seaside. The facts about the animals were taken from the children’s work as were the descriptions about the sounds at the seaside. The children have worked really hard to remember all of the songs and poems and should feel extremely proud about how clearly and confidently they spoke.

This week we have written our set of instructions to teach Mr Grinling how to make the seaside salsa. We then followed our set of instructions and made the salsa in class. We enjoyed eating it!

In maths we have been revising place value and have looked at the different ways we can represent numbers. We will be continuing with this learning next week.

Next week it is the turn of the jellyfish table for Show and Tell (Benedict, Megan, Lily V and Erin).

We hope to see lots of you at the Summer Fair.

Have a great weekend,

The Year One Team

Welcome back to our final half term in Year 1. We hope you all had a restful and sunny break.

This week we have continued learning about the seaside and have started our new core text ‘The Lighthouse Keeper’s Lunch’. This is a story about a hardworking lighthouse keeper called Mr Grinling and the adventures he has at work.

In English we have been learning how to write a set of instructions. On Tuesday we each followed a set of instructions to make a ‘rainbow fish’. We then used this experience to help us decide ‘what makes a good set of instructions’.

   

We are going to write a set of instructions for Mr Grinling to teach him how to make a ‘seaside salsa’. On Friday we helped Miss Luetchford make the salsa to learn each of the steps required to make the dish.

In maths we have been learning about position and direction. We have used the language of ‘left, right, quarter turn and half turn’ when describing the direction of an object. We then created a class map and used co-ordinates to locate the position of an object.

In phonics we have been revising the sounds we have learnt this year. Below is a website which has a selection of phonic games that the children can play at home ready for our phonics quiz next week.

https://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/

Next week we will be performing our class assembly all about the seaside. The children have been given a letter describing their costume for the assembly. Please could the children arrive at school wearing their costume the day of the assembly with their school clothes packed in a carrier bag. If you have any questions about the costume, please come and ask a member of our team.

Next week it is the turn of the shark table for Show and Tell (Edward, Aaron, Lily D, Bella and Sofia).

We hope you have a lovely weekend,

The Year One Team

What an exciting week we’ve had in Year 1. This week we have been participating in our school’s Book Week with the theme of ‘magic’. On Tuesday we met Pippa Goodhart  who has written the ‘Just Imagine’ series and some of the Winne the Witch books. She told us about her life as an author and shared some of her stories with us.

On Wednesday we participated in a ‘Shakespeare’ workshop where we learnt the story of ‘The Tempest’. We then performed the story as a school in the hall.

On Wednesday we also had a special visitor in the form of a baby condor! It was really exciting to learn lots of facts about condors and to see one up close. A huge thank you to Leon’s dad Mr Bloch for organising.

In class we have read the book ‘Flotsam’ by David Wiesner. In the story a young boy finds an old camera discarded on the beach. He decides to develop the photographs and when he looks at them he realises that the camera has taken photographs of magical underwater worlds.

We used various materials to make our own magical underwater setting. We then used Miss Luetchford’s old polaroid camera to take a photograph of our setting.

   

   

Using the poem ‘The Sound Collector’ we imagined what sounds we would hear in these magical settings. We then wrote our own version of the poem.

In the story ‘Flotsam’ the boy finds various items left on the beach. We investigated which items would float and which items would sink.  We then conducted an experiment to learn about density. We poured washing up liquid, honey, oil and water into glass and observed carefully what happened to the liquids.

In maths we have been learning about how to divide a shape into a fraction. We have learnt that fractions is the same as ‘equal pieces’.

Tomorrow we will be participating in a whole school activity day to close our exciting Book Week. The children need to arrive at school wearing their P.E kit.

We hope you have a lovely half term,

The Year One Team.

This week we have written letters to Sir David Attenborough and Prince Charles to tell them our ideas on how to reduce our plastic waste. We learnt the key features of a formal letter and are hoping to receive a reply soon!

In maths we have been learning how to halve and divide amounts. We have learnt that divide means sharing equally and have drawn pictures to help us solve a division equation.

In art we have been learning about the artist Lowry and his seascape paintings. We used pastels to create our own Lowry inspired sea side picture.

This week the children earned their class treat for all of their hard work and enjoyed a tasty ice-cream in the classroom. Well done Willow Class.

Next week is our ‘Book Week’ where we will participating in various exciting activities.

Next week it is the turn of the merpeople table for Show and Tell (Harry, Harrison, Miti, Chris and Levi).

We hope you all enjoy watching the Royal Wedding at the weekend. Today we enjoyed learning about the Royal Family tree.

Have a lovely weekend,

The Year One Team.