Week ending 30th June 2023

 Hello Year One,

This week we continued to work on fractions. We looked at fractions of shapes. The children could identify halves and quarters of shapes.

We have begun a project on poetry for our English lessons. The children love 'The Owl and the Pussy Cat' and are learning to recite it.

We are looking at rhyming words and how poetry can rhyme.

We continued to explore the primary colours this week and created a colour wheel, exploring how to create secondary colours.

The children have been listening to creation stories this week. They recognise that different religions, cultures and countries believe in different creation theories and stories.

Year One loved taking part in 'The Apprentice!' They enjoyed the build up to the main event. They listened to the pitches and watched the adverts. They had great fun at the main event.

Next Week

Maths

Next week the children will be completing arithmetic and reasoning papers. We will be continuing to explore fractions of quantities.

English

Our poetry sessions will begin with collecting descriptive words to write a poem about an animal. Later in the week we will begin creating rhyming poems.

Science

The children will have a final exploration of the four seasons as we have explored each one in detail now.

RE

The children will order the seven steps of the Christian creation story.

Geography

We missed our geography lesson last week so we will be exploring Africa as planned.

Spellings

Each week the amount of children getting their spellings correct increases. They seem to have taken this on board now and it is great. They are thrilled when they get them all right!

I wish you a happy and restful weekend.

Many thanks 

Ms Davis

Week ending 23rd June 2023

 Hello Year One,

It has been a hot and busy week.  The children were quite tired by this afternoon.

They have been working on fractions for maths and have been finding halves and quarters of amounts.

For English we are currently working on sentence structure. Each week the children are improving! They also wrote book reviews.

In Geography we travelled to Australia. This seemed to be a popular choice. They remembered so much and wrote several sentences about the features and characteristics of the country.

We covered the differences between males and female animals and humans in our PHSE lesson.

For art we explored the three primary colours.

Sports Day

The children loved sports day and had so much fun. 

NEXT WEEK

English

We begin a week of poetry next week. We will be listening to poems, reciting poetry and working on creating rhyming couplets before we begin writing our own poems.

Maths

Next week the children will be learning about fractions of shapes. They will be finding halves and quarters of different shapes.

Art

Last week we explored the primary colours, so we will now create secondary colours. The children will complete a colour wheel using water colour paints.

Geography

We will travel to Africa. We will be exploring the types of animals that live in Africa. We will locate this continent on a world map. We will learn about the features and characteristics of Africa.

RE

The children will be listening to different creation stories and we will be discussing them. 

I hope you have a restful and happy weekend

Ms Davis

Week ending 16th June 2023

 Hello Year One,

This week we have been learning how to tell the time. The children have been taught o'clock, half past and earlier and later. They can do this at home, especially earlier and later as they found this more challenging.

We are working on sentence structure in our English lessons. The children enjoyed the new story and were able to write a character description of 'The Highway Rat!'

We went to China in our geography lesson this week. We explored some of the features and characteristics of China. The children were able to locate Asia on a world map and can recognise the Chinese flag.

For PHSE we learned about different life stages for living things. Next week we will be looking at  body parts and discussing the difference between boys and girls.

The phonics screening has been completed now. Thanks you for all your help and support getting the children prepared for the screening. All the extra effort was worth it!

Every week there is an increase in the number of children getting all their spellings correct. It does make a huge difference when they work on 'look, cover, spell and check' at home. 

The children created beautiful art this week. We looked at the work of Claude Monet and in particular his 'Water Lilly' painting. The children loved using pastel crayons to recreate this scene. They learned how to smudge the colours together, remove lines and borders to model the impressionism style.

NEXT WEEK

English

The children will be continuing their work on sentence structure. They will be writing a book review and creating their own endings for our class story.

Maths

We begin a topic on fractions next week as we start exploring halves and quarters.

Geography

Next week we will travel to Australia. We will explore the features and characteristics of Australia and locate it on a world map.

Art

We will be learning the primary colours and how to create secondary colours. We will be using water colour paints.

PHSE

The children will be learning the human body parts and recognising that there are differences between males and females.

RE

The children will be completing their moral explanations next week as we continue to focus on the story 'The Good Samaritan.'

Sports Day

Just a reminder that Thursday morning will be KS1 sports events. I look forward to seeing many of you there.

I hope you have a restful weekend.

Ms Davis

Week ending 9th June 2023

 Hello Everyone,

We have had a busy and exciting week!

We have been learning division in our maths lessons and we have been finding links between division and multiplication.

For English we have been preparing to write an explanation text. We read a text explaining how to make ice-cream and have been planning a text explaining how to bake a cake. We will finish this next week and also begin a new book. The new story is called 'The Highway Rat' by Julia Donaldson and Alex Scheffler.

For our science lesson we studied the parts of a tree. We went and explored the oak tree in the school grounds and we were able to locate all the parts.

The children were able to record their learning when they returned to the classroom.

Year One are very keen on geography and are enjoying our new topic 'Around The World.' This week they located the continents on a world map. They were able to find The UK and France on a map of Europe. They had great fun exploring the features and culture of France.

The children have waited a long time for the weather to be warm enough for outdoor water play, so were thrilled when we were able to set that up for this afternoon!

NEXT WEEK

Maths

We will be learning about direction and time next week. The children will learn clockwise and anti-clockwise. They will be spending a lot of time exploring clocks and how the hands move. They will learn o'clock and half past the hour. Finally they will explore earlier and later in time.

English

The explanation text will be completed. They should all be able to give you cake making instructions following this!

A lesson will be spent on sentence structure as they write about an event of their choice.

As the week progresses we will begin our new story 'The Highway Rat.' Much of our English work will come from this story. The first piece will be a character description.

Art

The children will be learning about the primary and secondary colours this week. They will explore colour mixing with the primary colours to create the secondary colours.

PHSE

This half-term we will be working on 'changing me.' This is a great topic to end with as the children prepare for the change of class in September.

Our first lesson will be on the changes that occur in living things.

Geography

Next week we will be looking at Asia and will focus on China. The children will locate China on a map of Asia. They will explore the features and culture of China.

RE

The children will hear the story of 'The Good Samaritan.' We will discuss the moral of the story and share experiences of helping others.

I wish you all a happy and restful weekend.

Ms Davis

Week ending 26th May 2023

 Hello Everyone,

We have completed all our projects this week and are ready for a new half-term.

We ended the day with a story outside, which was lovely.

The children have probably told you about the 'Year One Bear,' but I will explain the process.

As an end of year topic the children take turns to look after 'Year One Bear' or 'Bobby' as he is sometimes known.

They can take the bear home and invite him to join in with any activities or trips. The bear is quite happy to experience anything. Your child can take photos of bear throughout the time he is with you and write about the adventures that have been shared. The photos and any written explanations come into school and we make a class book about the experiences. The book stays with the class and in years to come they can look back on the adventures they shared.

We waved Bobby off  today for his first sleep over! We are looking forward to seeing what he has to share with us on his return to school after the holiday. 

Summer Two

English

We will be continuing to explore suffixes as the children become familiar with the term and recognising 'ed, '  'ing'  'er' and 'est.'

We will be learning how to write an explanation text on how to bake a cake.

Maths

The children will be learning division and multiplication by sharing, grouping and solving problems.

Science

We will be exploring the parts of trees. The children will learn the names for the different parts and write sentences to describe them.

Geography

We have a geography project that the children are very excited about beginning. We will begin by learning where the different continents are and then we focus on one each week. The first is Europe and in particular France.

 If the children have anything they would like to bring from home to support this project it would be very helpful. If anyone from your family have any personal experience of a country that we visit it would be so helpful if you could come in and share your knowledge and understanding with the children. Just have a chat with me and we can arrange a convenient date and time.

RE

For the next few weeks we will be looking at faith stories and our understanding of God. The children will be given the opportunity to reflect on their own thoughts about different beliefs.

PHSE

The children will be learning about how we change as humans. We will look at photos of the different stages of life from a baby to an older adult. They will be identifying the body parts of boys and girls and how they are different. They will use the correct vocabulary to name the body parts.

ART

We will be learning about the primary and secondary colours. The children will mix the primary paint colours to make the secondary colours.

I wish you all a happy and restful week.

Ms Davis

Week ending 19th May 2023

 Hello Year One,

I am sure you all enjoyed the amazing performance by Year One this morning. They did so well and were so excited and happy with how it went. They love to perform to an audience!

On Monday it will be sharing assembly. If you have been informed that your child will be taking part it begins at 9am in the hall.

This week we have been learning about 'twice as many' in maths.

 We have been taking photos of our beans and measuring them. Some beans grew really tall. One was 84cm, but some didn't grow at all. We kept a bean diary to monitor their growth and next week we will be writing about that.

A huge congratulations to all the children who learned their spellings for today's spelling test. So many more had spent time doing so and were thrilled when they got them all correct.

In Our English lessons we have been writing lists as we prepare for story writing next week. We will also been recognising and using the suffixes er and est. 

We will be printing with fruit and vegetables next week. The children will choose two colours and create repeating patterns by printing.

The children have been learning about the moral of a story. They will be exploring the Bible story 'Jonah and the Whale' next week and look at the lesson that can be learned from this.

I wish you all a happy and restful weekend.

Ms Davis

Week ending 12th May 2023

 Hello Year One,

This week we have been learning to make and recognise equal and unequal groups in our maths lessons. We wrote about our trip to Willows Farm. The children were really keen to carry out this task and I asked them to focus on sentence structure, which they did. It was great to read about their experiences as they all had such a great time.

The children used their designs to make delicious salads, which I hope you enjoyed.

For history we explored the life of Queen Victoria. The children are always interested in past school life and they loved watching a clip of a Victorian classroom!

Extra Phonics Sessions

As you are aware the  phonics screening is in June, so we have organised some booster sessions for some of the children. These sessions are so valuable as they work in small groups and concentrate on a different sound each day. The children who are attending have explained that they are really enjoying them. If you received a letter inviting your child to the sessions please arrive at 8.25am. It really is worth the early start.

Next Week

Maths

The children will be learning how to find maths in pictures. They will use multiplication to assess how many items are in each picture. They will move on to scaling, finding 'twice as many.'

English

As the children become more familiar with the current story ' Anancy and Mr Drybone' we will discuss the morals of this traditional tale. The children will be creating a list of items they might seek out when going on a journey.

ICT

The children will be taking photos of their plants next week.

Science

The beans are growing, so we will be measuring and comparing them for our bean diaries.

RE

As we explore the Christian story 'Jonah and the Whale' the children will be thinking about the moral of the story and why it is a faith story.

We will also be spending time rehearsing for our assembly, which is on Friday 19th May at 9am.

There will also be a sharing assembly on Monday 22nd May at 9am. If your child has been invited to attend he/she will have been given a slip of paper with a sentence or two to learn in preparation for the assembly.

As you know the children do love music from around the world, so I have sent a couple of photos of them learning a cowboy dance.

I wish you a happy weekend. It is supposed to be sunny and warm!

Ms Davis