Author: Mrs Thompson

Yesterday, we were lucky enough to travel back in time to the Stone Age! We were even luckier that the weather stayed dry and the skies remained (mostly) blue.

On our trip we got to make shelters, watch how people in the Stone Age made fire, learn more about Stone Age tools, make a Stone Age ‘salad’ using kale, rosemary and mint, gather a range of wild plants and we even go to go hunting using our practice spears!

Thank-you very much to the parent helpers and to all of the parents for your support.

Miss Costello

It has been a fantastic half term in year 1 full of engagement and progress. Thank you for your continued support, working with the children at home with their learning.

Please continue to encourage your children to read as often as possible in varied contexts. I would love to hear about the adventures you get up to over the half term. Please support the children to write about something they do or see during the week.

This week the children performed their interpretation of Farmer Duck from the farmer’s perspective. We continued to develop our computing skills to open a document and type text and ended the week painting self portraits.

Thank you for all your kind words at parents evening.

I wish you a very happy half term.

Miss Perry

With our current topic in Geography for this term being Our School, we went around the school to complete some fieldwork.

The children used all their senses at different areas of the school and recorded this information.

Next lesson, we shall be using this information to create an aerial map of the school.

Have a lovely weekend,

Miss Perry

This week saw the end to our first English topic on a book of poems ‘What I like’. All children worked very hard over the last few weeks, building a variation of techniques to create their own stanza based around the poem ‘Noises Off’. We went to various locations around the school to see what different things we could hear to support our writing.

On Wednesday, after reviewing our work, the children performed their poems to each other and the whole class.

Well done year one for all the hard work you put in!

Today, we created a piece of art using leaves and twigs from the playground. Throughout the year, the children will be learning about the different seasons. With the definite change of weather this week, we learned about how autumn is different to the other 3 seasons and then created trees using leaves.

We saved the slug that wanted to be a new member of year 1 back to it’s habitat!!

Please can I remind you to record in your child’s reading record once you have read with them. Thank you.

Have a joyful weekend!

Miss Perry

Thank you for all the junk modelling resources your children brought in. In Geography, our topic is Our School. During this topic, we have been looking at school and classroom maps. In groups, the children have planned what the classroom would look like from an aerial view.

Using various resources, we created ‘Messy Maps’ of the classroom imagining what the classroom would look like if we were a big giant looking down into the classroom. They had many amazing ideas how to make various equipment and furniture. Here are some pictures.

I am afraid we were unable to change reading books due to Mass being set up in the hall. Please practise the high frequency words with your children that are in their book bags.

Have a lovely weekend.

It was lovely to meet so many of you on Tuesday 17th September at the ‘Meet the Teacher’ meeting. I have attached the slides from the meeting below for you to refer to.

In the mornings, we have been focusing on letter and number formation. It would be great if you could spend some time practising this to reinforce their learning.

I hope you all have a relaxing weekend.

Miss Perry

Thank-you to all of you who were able to attend this mornings presentation. For those who couldn’t make it or for those who would like to look at it again, I have uploaded the presentation for you to look at.

If you have any further questions please do not hesitate to ask.

Miss Costello

Our RE topic for the next four weeks is based around the theme of Families.

We will be considering the big question Who is in your family? Why do you have a family?

The children will learn everyone belongs to the family of God.  It is in the love of a family that Christians first experience the reality of Church . By the end of the topic the children will have knowledge and understanding of; the love and care shown in the family and God’s love and care for every family.

Key words for the topic are: family, belong, different, love, care

For their RE home learning, the children have been asked to bring in a picture of their family to share with the class and prompt discussions throughout the topic. Alongside this, please could the children create a poster, model or creation of their family to bring in by 16th September. The children may bring this in before if they wish. 

The class have had a fantastic week and have settled in to year one amazingly! We started this term discussing all the amazing adventures the children got up to over the summer and finding out what they would like to learn this year. Turns out we have a lot of future divers in the class!

PE will be on Monday and Tuesday afternoons so please make sure your children have the appropriate clothing for these sessions.

We have golden time every Friday after lunch. This allows the children to bring one toy in from home to play with.

Please make sure you pay via the office if you wish for your child to have milk at break time.

Sharing Friday begins again on Friday 13th September if you wish to join us after school. ‘Meet the teacher’ for Year One will be on Tuesday 17th September at 9am. This is last for approximately 30 minutes. I look forward to seeing you all then.

Any questions, feel free to speak to me before or after school. If you wish for a longer meeting, please arrange through the office.

I am really looking forward to an exciting year with your children.

I hope you have a relaxing weekend.

Miss Perry