Year 1 Archive

Thank you so much to all the mums, aunts, grandmothers, carers and even some sneaky dads who all came to doing us for our Year 1 Craft afternoon. We hope you enjoyed it as much as we did, the children loved making their cross-stitch hearts, porcelain dishes and tea-light holders for you, though I think maybe the biscuit decorating was equally as fun for the kids!

Here are some photos of our afternoon, we can’t wait to invite you back into class again soon 🙂

Today has been a terribly exciting day!

As we crunched our way through the new soft snow we were filled with anticipation for the day ahead. We were so lucky that Jeremy Strong made it into school and kept us totally enthralled for almost an hour, telling us about his books, reading some and showing us where he writes. then it was time to go and enjoy some of that untouched snow! We had great fun finding out what happens when we put power paints onto snow, showing amazing teamwork to make a snowman, and also helping Mr Leech clearing the snow. – Please just remember to send kids in fully prepared for the cold weather over the next few days!

We look forward to seeing how much snow is left tomorrow . . .

We were over-whelmed with the amazing work our Year One children did at home with parents last term.

Friday was very busy so our new home learning grid will go home on Monday, but here is a copy if you just can’t wait!!

homework grid

We have finished our first week back with an amazing start to our IPC topic – ‘We are What we Eat’.

This afternoon we had some amazing parents who made and brought in their favourite dishes. The children were spoilt for choice, soup, prawns, stew, brownies, sausage rolls to name a few. – Even Mr Dale and Mrs Andrews came down to join in the fun!

The children had a fabulous afternoon and I hope the parents did too, trying new foods – even pickled onions, avocado and gherkins – well done Badgers and Otters for being so brave and enthusiastic.

Here are some photos of our exciting afternoon….

Our topic this term is all about our senses and the food we eat. This is also linked to our T4W English topic based on the story of the Enormous Turnip!

We would like to invite parents / grandparents to share your favourite dishes with our Year 1 children on Friday 23rd Feb!

Please read the flyer below!

we are what we eat letter

We can’t wait to welcome you back on Monday

Year 1 Team

We have been really proud of the writing that Otters and Badgers have done this week. After learning our T-Rex text last week we adapted it to the Diplodocus this week. In order to find out more about the Diplodocus we needed to do some research. The children trawled through dinosaur books and found many interesting facts. Together we added them into or original text and re-learnt it using our T4W actions.

The children then wrote their own facts about the Diplodocus, look at our twitter account for some of our excellent writers.

In Topic we had an exciting delivery! We had an enormous egg. It was the size of a small baby. Some of the Otters thought Miss Common had shrunk and got stuck inside it! We pretended to be palaeontologists and investigate what kind of dinosaur would lay an egg like that!

We even tried to make our own model dinosaurs using lots of different materials and resources.

Next week we are going to be creating our very own dinosaurs… so watch out!

Welcome back!

We have had a busy start to the new term, may we take this opportunity to wish you a Happy New Year and all the best for 2018.

Our school value this term is

We have a short, yet fun packed term ahead of us, the children have already demonstrated perseverance by learning their T4W text for this term.

They have learnt (with actions) the text for facts about the T Rex, this forms part of our literacy and our IPC topic. The text is here if you want to support your child. They will be able to tell you the first two paragraphs.

The T Rex

The children went to tell Abacus Nursery children all about the T Rex this term…. photos coming soon!

We have changed our home-learning format, you should have all received a home learning grid on Friday and resources to help you, please choose one activity each week, if you need help just let the class teacher know. Here is a copy of the grid.

curriculum letter year 1 term 3

The children have enjoyed their last week of term. The children had great fun performing the Nativity to all the parents! We have also been busy making Christmas cards, decorating Christmas biscuits for our Christmas parties and making hats for our Christmas dinner.

We hope you have a fantastic Christmas and a Happy New Year

From The Year 1 Team