Last day of term!

 Hello Year One,

I just wanted to say what a wonderful class of children you have been. You have worked so hard and been so helpful, kind and caring. I will miss you, but you will only be next door and we will be doing many activities together when you are in Year Two.

Thank you all so much for the very generous gifts and kind words in the cards you gave me. You know my favourite shop!!

Have a great Summer break and I will see you in September.

Ms Davis

Week ending 8th July 2022

 Hello Year One,

What a busy week we have had! The Apprentice was a huge success this afternoon and the children loved visiting the stalls and spending their money!

We have been learning how to tell the time in our maths lessons this week. This is an easy one to practise at home.

For English we have been writing poems that have rhyming couplets and listening to different styles of poetry. The final activity was to write a poem about Summer and I will share this one with you.

Juicy water melon

Dripping ice cream

Yummy juice

Fun in the sun

Coconut sun cream

Sunny sun

Spotty bikini

Swimming is fun

Salty sea

Pool is cool

By Lily Creswell

For our geography lesson we travelled to The USA this week and learned about the climate and features of some of the states. 

The children learned and labelled all the body parts in our science lesson this week. 

NEXT WEEK

English

As it will be our last full week next week the children will be writing about their experiences in Year One and their hopes and wishes for Year Two. 

They will be creating a 'friendship hand' whereby they write different qualities about each other on hand drawings. This is a lovely ending activity for children as they recognise the qualities they have been known for during the school year by their peers.

Maths

Next week we will continue to learn how to tell the time.  This will be followed by benchmarking and solving worded maths problems.

Geography

We will be travelling to Brazil next week and will be focusing on The Amazon Rainforest.

Science

The children will be learning about the five senses.

PSHE

Our PHSE lesson will be about identifying differences between male and female animals. They will be identifying the parts of the body that make boys and girls different. They will be learning the correct names for these parts of the body. 

Transition

Next Thursday the children will be spending time in their new Year Two class. This helps them get to know their new teacher and become accustomed to the classroom environment.

In the evening there will be two sessions of 'meet the teacher' at 4.30 and 5.30 for you to meet the new class teacher and be updated on what to expect for the coming year.

Have a lovely weekend 

Ms Davis

Week ending 1st July 2022

 Hello Year One,

The children enjoyed role play this week! For English we are exploring poetry and we listened to the poem 'The Owl and the Pussy Cat.' This was a popular choice and I was surprised by how quickly they were able to recite the poem and use role play to enhance their understanding and develop their creativity.

We have been working on multiplication in our maths lessons and travelled to Kenya for our geography lesson. The children can name the continents now and are becoming aware of some of the countries within the continents. 

For science we continued to research animals and their habitats. The children are becoming familiar with some of the animal classifications now.

NEXT WEEK

English

We will be beginning a poetry project and the children will be reciting poems, using rhyming couplets and finally creating their own poems.

Maths

The children will be learning to tell the time on the hour, half hour and quarter hour.

Geography

We will be travelling to North America next week and will explore the characteristics and features of the USA.

Science

Our topic leads us to study humans as animals and we will be exploring our senses.

The Apprentice

On Friday afternoon the children in Year Six will be raising money for Cancer Research. There will be stalls available to buy products from such as small toys, a hair dressing salon and a group selling smoothies and fruit kebabs. The children will be able to go to the different stalls. We are recommending spending money of between £3 and £5.

I hope you have a restful and enjoyable long weekend and look forward to seeing you Tuesday!

Ms Davis

Week ending 24th June 2022

 Hello All,

A great week! We loved sports day and had so much fun!

We have been writing an adventure story and this week the endings came together. They were dramatic and exciting. When you attend parent's evening you will get a chance to read them!

The children wrote the story of 'Jonah and the Big Fish ' this week and they are remembering the morals to these faith stories.

We learned a lot about Australia and had so many items come in from home! We even had a didgeridoo!

The children learned the primary and secondary colours this week in their art lesson and were able to mix the colours themselves.

As the weather was sunny the children were also able to play outside and use the water tray!

The boys are making lots of models and asked me to share this with you.

The children are enjoying our PSHE lessons about growth and change and were so happy to share their baby photos and write about how much they have changed.

NEXT WEEK

English

Next week we will be working on suffixes and prefixes. The children will carry out a comprehension activity and we will begin our project on poetry as we listen to 'The Owl and the Pussy Cat.'

They will use role play to demonstrate their understanding of the poem and develop their creativity.

Maths

We start a topic on multiplication next week. You could work on this at home or when you are shopping.

Geography

We will be travelling to Africa next week and our focus country will be Kenya. If you have anything at home you feel may be useful please bring it in to school.

Science

The children will sort animals into categories. These will be mammals, insects, birds, fish and amphibians.

PHSE

We will continue to learn about growth and change.

I am looking forward to meeting with you all next week.

Until then have a great weekend.

Ms Davis

Week ending 17th June 2022

 Hi Year One,

It has been a hot week, so we made good use of the water tray to cool down in the afternoons. 

We had a great English project this week. We read the story called 'Not a Stick' again and began by role playing using our changing stick in different situations. We followed this by going and searching for special sticks and using our imaginations to change our sticks into wonderful, useful objects!

We took the sticks to the outdoor learning area and used role play to show how we would use our changed sticks. We had drummers, sword fighters, magicians, artists and baton twirlers!

We went back to class and wrote about our changing sticks. 

Next week we will be writing an imaginative story about being lost, finding a stick and explaining how the stick changes into something useful that will help us.

We learned about Asia in our geography lesson. Our focus was China and the children were able to give clear explanations about what they would do and see if they went there for a trip.

In maths we have been making equal groups and sharing within groups. 

The children learned about animal diets and were able to sort into three categories using a venn diagram. They learned the difference between herbivores, carnivores and omnivores.

For RE we read the story of 'The Good Samaritan' and learned the moral behind this story. The children we able to write excellent recounts of this and all remembered the moral to the story.

NEXT WEEK

English

The children will continue to write and improve upon their stories. They will use adjectives and have a clear beginning, middle and ending.

Maths

We will be sharing in unequal groups and recognising remainders next week.

RE

The children will hear, role play and write the Christian story of Jonah and the Whale.

ART

The primary and secondary colours will be our art focus next week.

Geography

We will be travelling to Australia next week, so if any of you have anything from home that the children could bring into school that would be great.

Science

Animals will be grouped and their habitats will be recognised.

PSHE

The children will be learning about their changing bodies this term. Next week it would be great if they could bring in a photo of when they were babies as they will be recognising and drawing the changes that have occurred.

I wish you all a restful weekend.

Ms Davis

Week ending 10th June 2022

 Hello Year One,

We have had a very busy week! The children have been revising their phonics this week.

We have begun our new Geography topic called 'Around The World' and they are really enjoying this.

We learn about a different country each week. Last week was France and many children said they had been to France or their parents had visited the country. If there is anything that is related to the country we are studying please send it in to school. The children learn so much when they share with their peers.

Next week we will be going to Asia and China will be our focus.

We have been counting in 2s and 5s and next week we will start counting in tens and looking for patterns. We will also look at counting with the 2p, 5p and 10p coins.

The next maths project will be multiplication and division as we begin by sorting items into equal and unequal groups.

The children will be reading a book called 'Not a Stick,' by Antoinette Portis. This will create imaginative story writing.

For science we will be learning about animals and we start next week by sorting animals into groups according to their diets.

For RE next week the children will hear and recount the story of 'The Good Samaritan.' They will learn about the moral of the story.

Our PSHE lessons will focus on 'changing me,' as the children recognise changes in their feelings, physical bodies and emotions.

We will begin our new art project the following week.

I hope you all have a restful and happy weekend.

Ms Davis

Week ending 27th May 2022

 Hello Year One,

What a wonderful way to end this half term!

The children have loved this celebratory week!

They have drawn portraits of Queen Elizabeth and designed Jubilee hats for her to wear.

The cake making was not as successful as I would have liked but they enjoyed the process!

They loved learning the lyrics to 'happy' especially as it is Year One's class song. They hear this song when we need motivating or cheering up and it works! They change for PE to 'Happy' and sometimes we just have a good old dance!

The children were very proud to decorate Jubilee plates and I am glad they have a souvenir from this special time in history.

We have done lots of research on Queens, especially Queen Elizabeth 2nd and as it is her Platinum Jubilee week the children wrote about why the country will be celebrating over the coming week, some facts about Queen Elizabeth and how we would be celebrating at school.

The children designed fruit and vegetable prints and chose the colours they wanted to use. The final prints have been sent home and I am sure you will enjoy them. We even talked about what type of clothing the design could be used on as they are so pretty and colourful!

We have been learning the value of coins this week. The children can find values up to 20p using different coins, so if you go shopping maybe they could have a go!

Please ask your children to read as much as possible during the break. They have all changed their books and taken a couple of extra books home for the holiday.

If your child was give a phonics sheet please practice with them as often as you can. You can use other words or make up alien words with the specific digraphs. 

I hope you all have a lovely restful break and look forward to seeing you on Tuesday 7th June.

Ms Davis