Year One

First week back has been a blast. We have started very strong on our space topic, showing so much interest and sharing our knowledge we have already. We have been having loads of fun in literacy lessons writing silly sentences! Finally, in maths we have been...

We have had a very Halloween themed this week. We have been cementing our knowledge of part-part whole models, talking about all the different combinations we could write a number sentence looking at our fact families.  In our continuous provision this week we have...

This week we have been superstar writers as we wrote amazing sentences using our new vocabulary. We completed our Great Fire of London booklets; we are now experts on the subject. In maths, we have been focusing on addition, ensuring to write in full number sentences....

We have moved on to addition in our maths, looking at part-whole models. We talked about the sequence of events of the Great Fire of London and made little books to show what he had learnt. We started a new text in our literary lessons, we have been learning all about...

We have done lots of music this week. We have learnt that the different letters make different sounds on the chime bars. We know that we can go up the scale and down the scale and that we can change the pitch. We had a go at composing our own music and wrote down our...

This week in Year One we have innovated our own story of the baby mouse, some children will be writing about tarantulas, some will be writing about crocodiles and some will be writing about unicorns. We have started looking at greater than, less than and equals to in...

This week in Year 1 has been really fun as we had our computing week. We have learnt how to paint using a laptop and how to use a trackpad.  In literacy we have been looking at tricky words in the story of Baby Mouse. In maths, we have been comparing numbers, deciding...

This week has been very busy, we’ve started our new song ‘hey you’ in our music lessons, explored rolling a ball in PE and discussed materials in Science. In our maths lessons we have been counting forwards and backwards, exploring one more and one less. In literacy,...

Wow, what a start! We have learnt about all the different areas in classrooms, what resources we have and how to use them. We talked about how we complete our busy jobs for our continuous provision and how to take photos using SeeSaw on the iPad! We have already...

This week we have been working on our stories inspired by the Gruffalo, talking about all the new vocabulary we have learnt. We have been practicing our knowledge of common and proper nouns, and started talking about verbs. We did some research this week all about the...

We’re really getting back into it now, getting back into routine has been lovely. We have been super busy this week with our computing block for the term. We have been learning how to control robots, understanding what an algorithm is and how robots use these...

The last week of term before Christmas, only means one thing…. Party games and meeting Santa!

Yet another amazing week. We truly embraced this terms value of courage, as evidenced by our two nativity performances this week. We did such an amazing job and made all our adults very proud! We have had a lot of Christmas fun this week and have been very arty. We...

Wow… what a week. We performed our nativity to a live audience and were amazing! This week we are consolidating our maths knowledge, revisiting addition and subtraction. We have boxed up our text of the 3 billy goats gruff, correctly sequencing the story. In our...

This week has been extremely busy! We have been practicing our nativity lots making sure our show is as special as possible for all our grown ups. We had an amazing visitor come in and speak to us all about science! We have learnt lots about shapes in maths. We have...