St Adrian's Catholic Primary School
To learn, to love, to live
Dear parents and carers,
If your child needs to change their tricky words in their reading folders, please have a look at the below list of tricky words for Year 1. Please tick off the words your child is confident with and practice the words they are finding tricky.
This should be completed in addition with reading the colour banded books in your child’s reading folder too.
Please let me know if you have any questions,
Miss Battams 🙂
Our RE topic for the next four weeks is based around the theme of Waiting.
We will be considering the big questions:
How do you feel when you are waiting for something you like?
What do you find difficult about waiting?
What can you do to make waiting easier?
How can we best prepare for Christmas?
Advent is a time when we appreciate the love in our lives and prepare to celebrate love becoming a reality in the person of Jesus. Christians at Christmas celebrate the gift of Jesus, given by God as a sign and expression of God’s love. Giving and receiving reflects the truth that all life is given by God and life is given meaning through the gift of Jesus.
Word of God
“This is what love is: it is not that we have loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the means by which our sins are forgiven. Dear friends, if this is how God loved us, then we should love one another. No one has ever seen God, but if we love one another, God lives in union with us, and his love is made perfect in us.” (1 John 4: 10-12)
Prayer and reflection:
Today a Saviour is born!
In the stillness of the night God enters human history
through the birth of his only Son.
He is our peace and hope.
In him we praise God for his
goodness to us in giving us so great a gift. Amen.
We shall be focuses on the following scriptures:
| Luke 1: 26-31, 38 – God’s Story 2 page 55 Luke 1: 39-45 – God’s Story 2 page 56 Luke 2: 1-7 – God’s Story 2 page 58 Luke 2: 8-20 – God’s Story 2 page 59 |
Key words for the topic are:
| waiting, preparing, messenger, visit, celebrate, Advent, Jesus, Mary, Elizabeth, Joseph, shepherds, angels, Christmas, Bethlehem, manger, worship, wreath |
RE home learning:
Play ‘hide and seek’ inside or out – discuss how it feels to be the person who is waiting. You could write these feelings down, accompanied by a picture.
Another busy week for Year 1 this week. We took part in National Fitness Day this week. We used our PE lesson to complete as many minute long activities to help improve our fitness as possible. We completed hopscotch, circle leg in the air, hula, flap your arms like a bird, crab walk, dance, sit down and stand up all for a minute each. We had a lot fun!
Please don’t forget that the orange spelling book and blue homework folder are due in every Wednesday. This then gives us time to stick in the new homework for the next week.
We’ve also created a borrow box for books the children can take home and read with their adult as an extra reading challenge. There is also a handy prompt bookmark with each book with questions you can ask your child before, during and after reading the story. Please don’t forget to sign the books in and out using the log, found in the basket.
Have a restful weekend,
Miss Battams 🙂
I hope that you all had a happy Christmas and are looking forward to the year ahead.
Thank you so much for the kind Christmas wishes and lovely gifts.
This term, we learn what it is to be part of a community in RE. Check out the RE Learning post from the menu for more information.
In science, we learn about the changing states of materials and about the work of significant scientists and inventors.
We learn about the features of the earth in geography, whilst our history learning focuses on the Roman empire and its impact on Britain.
In DT, we will be designing our own book covers and in art, we will be learning about printmaking and the work of William Morris. Our learning in music will help us to understand how music improves our world and helps to teach us about our community.
I am looking forward to seeing you all again and welcoming you back for the start of the new term.
It’s been another busy week for Year 1 this week. We really enjoyed today’s Mercy mass, putting all our hymn practice into… practice! Thank you for everyone who joined us and for the picnic afterwards too. The weather was kind to us!
Thank you again to parents who attended the parent morning on Tuesday. If you were unable to make it, the slides and curriculum overview should have been sent out to everyone. I have also popped a copy of the curriculum overview on our Google classroom.
Please don’t forget to accept your child’s invite for the Google classroom to access the assigned homework. Thank you to the parents who have let me know about any issues so far, we will get these sorted. If you do not have access to a printer, please see me for a copy of the handwriting homework.
Have a restful weekend,
Miss Battams 🙂
What a wonderful first week we have had in Year 1! It been a tiring week but a week of learning and getting into our new routines. Well done to all the children for trying their best this week.
We now have PE every Monday and Wednesday, please ensure your child has brought in their PE kit ready for these lessons.
Parents, don’t forget the Year 1 parent morning on Tuesday 14th September at 9am. It will be held in the classroom and you’ll be able to find out what we’ll be getting up to in Year 1. It’s also an opportunity for you to ask any questions about the up and coming year.
Have a restful weekend,
Miss Battams 🙂
We started this week with an unusual discovery: a strange silver object on top of the PTA container on the field. Once we had brought it back into class, the children speculated on what it might be. Thankfully, the answer to the question, ‘Is it a bomb?’ turned out to be, ‘No.’ but it certainly got us thinking before we started to read ‘The Iron Man’ by Ted Hughes in English.
In maths, we have been learning about numbers to 10,000, counting in steps of different sizes and getting to grips with place-value and ordering numbers.
In other subjects, we have been learning about the geography of Europe in relationship to other continents and designing our own slingshot cars in DT. In RE, we are learning about families as an introduction to learning about the ancestors of Christ.
The children have made a great effort through their first full week of year four and I am looking forward to the weeks ahead.
Have a great weekend!
It was great to welcome the children back to school and to year four this week. Whilst we are still encouraging plenty of hand-washing and ensuring lots of ventilation through the classroom, much of what we have missed during the pandemic has returned and school is getting back to normal. The children have really enjoyed going out to play without the barriers and bubbles! It’s also lovely to have the children working in groups rather than sitting in the rows of desks of the last eighteen months.
This week, we have learnt about strategies for learning and reflected on what our school mission statement and our golden rules mean to us. We’re looking forward to our full timetable in the week ahead and beginning swimming lessons on Thursday.
The children should each have brought home their school reading book today. I would encourage them to read this alongside their own choice of book from home/ the library/ the class library, etc. and invite them to use their reading record as diary of their reading. It would still be great if the children had the chance to read with someone at home and talk about the books they are enjoying too.
We will start our formal home learning via the Google Classroom next Friday.
What a busy couple of days we have had settling into our new classroom. We have really enjoyed seeing our friends again and getting to know our new teachers, Miss Battams and Mrs Brunt.
Thank you to the children who have brought in their PE kits already. Please make sure you have your kits with you next week as our PE days are Monday and Wednesday.
If you also have any reading books or records at home, please bring them in so we can updated them.
Have a great weekend and keep your eyes peeled for more information on the Year 1’s parents’ morning.
Miss Battams 🙂
What a day we had! We really enjoyed Sports Day yesterday and made the most of the all activities organised for us. From rocket javelin to a quoit toss, we really embraced Sports Day this year, even if it was most unlike any usual Sports Day. Here are a few photos from the event:
Miss Battams 🙂