Category: Year 1 – St Bartholomew

And just like that, it’s the half term! What a busy week we’ve had to finish off the half term.

We also started our new book, Send for a Superhero! by Michael Rosen,  a very funny superhero adventure in an exciting blend of picture book and comic book storytelling. We have been describing the villains, Filth and Vacuum and predicting what might happen next in the story. If you would like to share this story at home, have a watch below:

We also performed our class song, Big Red Combine Harvester, at the Harvest assembly this week. Even though we were a little nervous at first, we really enjoyed sharing our hard work with the rest of the school.

We also enjoyed having a tennis session with Mr Curry from Batchwood tennis club. We learnt lots of tricks with the rackets to improve our hand/eye coordination and got used to handling the tennis balls too.

Have a lovely half term and a well earned rest,

Miss Battams 🙂

It’s been another busy week in Year 1! From internet safety in Computing to comparing dogs and humans in Science, we’ve covered it all it seems in Year 1 this week.

We started off the week with some e-safety in Computing. We discussed what information we should share, including personal information like our home address or other information such as our favourite colour. We then worked in groups to sort the information we should share and not share.

In Maths, we have been using part whole models to help us find all the ways to make a particular number (number bonds). We have enjoyed using the models and the counters to help us find these number bonds.

Thank you all for your generous Harvest donations. If you do have anymore donations, please can we have them in by early next week. We have been practising our Harvest song ready to perform in the Harvest assembly next week too.

Miss Battams 🙂

This week we had a belated celebration for St Adrian’s 60th birthday! Even though we did not attend the Mass on the day, we said some special prayers in class and had a popcorn party in the afternoon! We even got to watch a film as a special treat.

We also got to plant some very special flowers around a tree, planted after the special birthday Mass earlier in the week. We really enjoyed being able to be a part of the Mass in our own special way.

Now we have reached October, it means that we can celebrate Black History Month. During every week of October, we will be marking the month with a range of activities from crafts to singing.

Please see the below video to help inform children about the importance of Black History Month: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fnt_0A5ROrs

Miss Battams 🙂

It has been another busy week for Year 1. From a new book English to drawing the human body, it’s been a varied week in Year 1!

We started the week by looking at the human body. We played a game of ‘Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes’ to get ourselves warmed up! Then, we drew and labelled our own bodies! We worked in small groups and drew round a real person, it was so much fun. We then labelled the different parts of the body together.

We also started our new text, Naughty Bus by Jan Oke. This endearing books includes lots of photographs and simple text to describe the adventures of a toy London bus, as a young boy plays with it throughout the day. Have a look at the video below to see the book come to life.

Thank you to the children who have already submitted their home learning via the Google Classroom. Now you all (finally!) have your log ins, I look forward to seeing lots more home learning.

Miss Battams 🙂

It’s been another busy week for Year 1 as we get settled into our new classrooms and routines. We have really enjoyed seeing some of the home learning that has been sent in with the children. Please bare with us as we continue to work with Herts for Learning to resolve the issue with log in details for the Goggle Classroom. We hope to have log ins out to you all next week.

Please see a copy of the Show and Tell rota below. Show and Tell is a great way to develop turn taking, plus speaking and listening skills. We will have time every Friday so please make sure your child is prepared with something to either show or tell.

Miss Battams 🙂

What a great first week back to school and a big welcome to our new Year 1 class. It’s been a fabulous start to the year, with lots of getting to know you activities and finding our new seats and pegs.

We have been enjoying reading our new class book in English, Cave Baby by Julia Donaldson. In groups, we even rearranged some sentences that were muddled up, making sure we had a capital letter at the start and full stop at the end of our sentences.

We have also enjoyed starting our new topic in RE, Families. We have been reading and creating our own psalms about how God loves and cares for us, like our families. We used some actions and signs to learn a psalm about God’s love.

Google Classroom log ins are on their way, in the meantime, please see the information pack your child was given today with further details about the new home learning. Reading books have now also been assigned on the e-library too.

Miss Battams 🙂

It’s the summer holidays! What a hot, hot week it has been. We really enjoyed being a part of the Year 6 leaver’s assembly this week. We wish them luck in their new schools!

I also wanted to take this opportunity to thank all of you for the kind gifts and cards. Teaching Year 1 has been an absolute pleasure. Have a well earned rest over the summer holidays.

Here’s a selection of our favourite photos from Year 1:

Miss Battams 🙂

It’s been another busy week for Year 1, and the last full week too! There have been lots of celebrations this week, from choir performances to talent shows.

We started the week with a teddy bear’s picnic. It was lovely to spend some time all together as a Key Stage sharing stories and our teddies. We also got to watch the Year 6 production, which they had put lots of hard work into. Well done Year 6!

We were also treated to a lovely performance by our gymnasts, Rock Steady and choir groups. It was so lovely to also see their hard work paying off with such confident performances. Thank you for sharing them with us.

There will be no homework set this week. Yet there will be a letter and spellings to practice over the summer holidays. You will also have details about how to access to our fabulous new e-library too!

Enjoy the sunshine,

Miss Battams 🙂

What a lovely week we’ve had this week. We have really enjoyed making smoothies in DT and taking part in Sports Day.

We started the week by focusing on what makes fruits and vegetables what they are. Fruits have seeds and usually grow from flowers. Vegetables can grow in or above the ground. We then taste tested different fruits and vegetables to find out which we would like to include in our smoothies. We really enjoyed the sweet mangoes but weren’t too keen on the bitter spinach! In our final lesson, we learnt how to chop and prepare the fruit and vegetables (carefully and hygienically!) ready to be made into smoothies. The end product was so tasty!

We also took part in a sponsored bounce arranged by our fabulous PTA! Please make sure you get your sponsorship money in as soon as possible. Your child has been sent home with a form and an email was sent out with more details last week.

We really enjoyed our Sports Day this week. We got to take part in lots of activities including throwing, running, jumping and balancing. Thank you to all the parents who came to support us. Here are some picture below from the day.

Well done to our cheerleaders who have worked so hard in their morning sessions. They put on a fabulous show, with pom poms and all. Super stars!

We have also been learning about the country Kenya, as it is a country in the Commonwealth. We used the book Handa’s Surprise to find out more about the country, as is it set in Kenya. We linked our learning about different fruits in DT to Kenya too, as some ingredients for our smoothies are grown there, like mangoes.

Have a lovely weekend,

Miss Battams 🙂