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Year 1
Welcome to Year 1!
Meet the team!
Our Year 1 teachers are Miss Olsen and Miss Morrow.
Other members of our Year 1 team are Mrs Riley, Miss Barber and Miss Lonsdale.
Key information
- PE days: PE is now on a Monday for both classes.
- Reading books will be changed every 3rd or 5th day, depending on your child's Read Write Inc book band colour. Please read with your child and encourage your child to read independently every day. It is important to read a book more than once in order to become more familiar with the story and confident with decoding the words.
- Please also ensure that the reading pack is brought into school every day.
Your child will be sent home with a 'reading for pleasure book' every Friday. Please make sure your child returns this book to school on the following Thursday for this to be changed. This book does not need to be brought into school every day.
Spring Term 2 Curriculum Newsletter and Knowledge Organisers
A lovely time was had by all as we celebrated Valentine's Day and Grandparent's Day during our Grandparents and Special Friends celebration. The children wrote their own poems about their special person, learnt and performed whole class poems and songs, and completed handprint pictures for the people they love.
The children have loved exploring hand puppets this afternoon before trying out different joining techniques (gluing, stapling and pinning) in preparation for when they design and make their own Little Red Riding Hood puppet next week. They are very excited!
Spring Term 1 Knowledge Organisers
Autumn Term 2 Knowledge Organisers
Autumn Term 1- Knowledge Organisers
As part of our PSHE learning through The Story Project, 1M have been reading ‘Look Up’ by Nathan Bryon. This week, we went for a walk around our school grounds to see what we could find if we remembered to look up, instead of looking down at devices. We saw different species of birds, birds’ nests, bright blue sky, fluffy clouds, shapes in trees, St James’ Church and aeroplanes, among many other interesting sights.
This week we have been learning about finger spaces. We have written captions linked to our class book 'Oi Frog!' using our neatest handwriting.
We have carefully cut out our turbine and roof nets, folded our turbines and attached them to the windmill structure using a pipe cleaner axle. Then we attached the roof. We think our windmills look wonderful, and we're sure Mr Mouse will enjoy his new houses too!
In geography this week, we have been looking more closely at our school environment, and have worked in groups to create a 'messy map' with objects to represent the furniture and items in our rooms. We thought about the size and scale of the objects we choose, as well as the position they were put into on our classroom plan. We even remembered that maps show us an aerial view!
Following our whole school launch of The Story Project for PSHE, we have begun our first unit by reading Peace At Last by Jill Murphy. In the story, Mr Bear doesn't get enough sleep. 1M discussed the 'superpowers' they are able to use when they sleep well and are well rested. Here are some of their wonderful ideas.
This week, we have been focusing on number recognition, counting to 10 and finding one more or one less. We have been practising our subitising in our Mastering Number lessons too, which we have then started to apply in our provision activities.We have also enjoyed practising our teamwork when putting together number jigsaws.
We are loving learning about windmills. We need to design and make a windmill for our client, Mr Mouse. We have learnt that windmills have a structure, a turbine and an axle. We have enjoyed designing and colouring our windmill nets, before carefully cutting them out. Next week, we will start to assemble them, and we're very excited about this!
In geography, our learning is based around the question 'What Is It Like Here?" This week we have learnt about aerial photographs. We have pretended to be birds flying over Louth, and have spotted features on an aerial photo of our town. We also created our own towns using toys and chalk, before taking our own aerial photos.
We have enjoyed singing 'heads, shoulders, knees and toes' this week, as part of our science learning about the human body. We have named and labelled body parts, created faces using playdough, and coloured faces in the style of Picasso.
We have begun our maths learning by sorting objects by shape, size, colour and initial sound. We have completed a range of activities within our provision, as well as starting to work in our new Power Maths books.
