Year 1 Archive

The children had great fun at the KS1 Christmas Disco last Friday. They looked gorgeous in their party outfits, and definitely taught the teachers and staff some new dance moves…

We are very proud of our Year 1 fishermen who won these trophies for catching a Bass and Cod in a local competition.

As you can tell they were really excited to tell the children all about their win!

We wrote our letters to Santa, telling him about what we have done this year to ensure we are on the ‘nice list’ and asking for a present. We then went to Sandra and bought our stamps to stick on our letters. Finally we went to the post office and posted our letters.

In literacy we watched this video looking at what happens to our letters after we’ve posted them. The children then wrote instructions about how to post your letter and a recount about the journey our letters go on.

This week we began reading the Christmas Jolly-Postman.

One of the characters inside the story is Humpty Dumpty, who we had to send a card to because he was in hospital.. again. Miss Durham lead an exciting experiment that enabled the children to use what they’ve learnt about material properties this term to test which would be the best material to stop Humpty from getting hurt again. The children had to then test their materials and explain why it worked – or in most cases didn’t!

 

 

 

Well, what a week we have had!

Our topic this term has been ‘A Day in the life’ and this week we explored this topic in relation to jobs that people have. We were lucky enough to visit La Vinci. Lehel’s dad kindly invited both Badgers and Otters class to visit his restaurant. He told us all about the job he does, how he has to continue to learn and train and do tests on H&S, then he told us about how he shops for the ingredients, prepares them and finally makes the pizzas. All the children loved making their own pizzas – and enjoyed eating them even more 🙂

If that wasn’t enough we were also lucky enough to have a visit from New Romney Fire Brigade.

They bought in the fire engine and explained in detail all the equipment they had, and how they used it. They let the children hold some items and we were even allowed to go into the cab too! Thank you so much, we had such a great afternoon. The children then did some lovely writing about their experience.

This week we looked at 3D shapes, we hunted around the school to find shapes and created our own using lots of different methods!

The children showed lots of perseverance as they tried to make cubes and cuboids out of play-doh and spaghetti.

This week has been all about 2D shapes, we have been on hunts and learnt lots about different shapes, how to sort them and explain why!

We used lots of different methods to learn about shape, from finding them in the environment to using bee-bots to describe and name them.

This week has also been road safety week, we made different houses from the Jolly Postman and then learnt about how to cross the road safely.

This week we were lucky to have a visit from Maddison’s dad, who came to Year 1 to tell us all about his current job as a nurse and previous career as an illustrator.

To make this visit even more exciting he told us about his visits in the community, how to clean wounds and protect himself. But he also taught us about our hearts, how they pump blood around our bodies to spread oxygen, but even more amazing… he bought in a cows heart!!! It was enormous and an amazing experience for the children!

Thank you so much 🙂

We can’t believe it’s only two weeks into term. Thank you so much for all your kind donations towards the home-clothes day, raising money for the Year 5 project on our playgrounds!

This week:

In maths we have been learning about the inverse, making the links between addition and subtraction. We are as always using our manipulatives to help us for example:

In English we have been learning how to ask questions, we have linked this to our work on the Jolly Postman. The children wrote questions that they’d like to ask the Jolly Postman, and on Friday they wrote postcards, like the one that Jack wrote to the Giant in the story.

In topic/science we have looked at the houses linked to the Jolly Postman and thought about the different materials that they were made from. Next week we will be looking into materials more closely!

The children loved the firework pictures they completed on the laptops  – they will be on display outside our classrooms, so keep an eye out for them when you are next in school. Here is one example from each class:

Next week we are going to have some visits from parents to talk to us about their jobs, this links to the children’s topic ‘A Day in the Life’ we can’t wait to find out about some of the jobs, and if you feel you can come in and talk to the children about what you do please contact Miss Common (scommon@st-nicholas-newromney.kent.sch.uk) – the more the merrier.

Don’t forget that Tuesday is -odd socks day as part of anti-bullying week, and on Friday we will be wearing our own clothes to raise money for Children in Need.

Have a great weekend 🙂

Miss Reynolds and Miss Common