Category: Year 1 – St Bartholomew

This week in Year 1, we celebrated Number Day. As we have been looking at shapes in Maths this week, patterns fitted in nicely with our learning. We made lots of different patterns using things around the classroom, patterns which included both different shapes and colours.

In English, we have sadly finished our book ‘I want my hat back’ by Jon Klassen, writing some excellent stories with our own innovated versions. Next week, we will be starting our new book, ‘Billy and the Beast’ by Nadia Shireen.

Thank you for the children who have handed in their RE homework. If you haven’t already, please could it be handed in by next Friday (11th February).

Have a restful weekend,

Miss Battams 🙂

This week has been another busy week for Year 1. In PE this week, we played our first ever game of dodgeball. It was great fun and we enjoyed putting our throwing skills into practice.

In RE we have been finishing off our topic of Special People. We have been learning who were special people for Jesus and why he was also a special person. We will be moving onto our next topic, Meals in preparation for Lent. Keep your eyes peeled for the updated RE blog post soon.

In Science, we have been describing how materials of objects we have found around the classroom feel. We have been using lots of exciting adjectives such as ‘squishy’, ‘bendy’ and ‘stretchy’. This has then linked nicely to our learning about 3D shapes in Maths this week. We have been looking for different 3D shapes in everyday objects around the classroom.

As we have a lovely parent reading volunteer now starting with us in Year 1, most of the children’s reading books will be changed on a Monday. Please discount the stickers that have been stuck in your child’s reading records about book changing days. This does not apply anymore. The rest of the class will change their books throughout the week with Mrs Ruffell.

Have a restful weekend,

Miss Battams 🙂

We’ve really enjoyed returning to school after the Christmas break! Yesterday was the Feast of Epiphany, when the Wise Men or Magi visited Jesus. To celebrate the Epiphany we read stories, made crowns and reenacted the reactions of the Magi visiting God’s own son.

Please make sure children have their PE kits ready for Monday as they will have their first PE lesson of the year. With the colder weather, please pack a pair of warm jogging bottoms and a hoodie for the children to wear with their PE tops.

We are also starting our new RE topic, Special People. Read more about it here and don’t forget to complete the new RE homework too.

Miss Battams and Mrs Brunt 🙂

It’s here, it’s Christmas time! We have had such a festive week. We started by watching the dress rehearsal of the EYFS production, which we really enjoyed. We then had our own dress rehearsal and performance. We were a little nervous but we think it went well. Well done to all the children for being such superstars!

We then had a visit from Father Christmas himself! We were so excited, we each got a present from him too.

There will be no homework set this week as it is the Christmas holidays next week. In the meantime, please find a copy of our updated curriculum overview ready for the Spring term. We will be focusing on materials in Science, printing in Art and aerial photos and large scale maps in Geography. If you have any books or artefacts you’d like to share with the class, please bring them in.

Have a peaceful break and a lovely Christmas.

Miss Battams and Mrs Brunt 🙂

What another busy week in Year 1 . We have really enjoyed practicing our Christmas play and are really looking forward to sharing it with you this week. Please find below a letter that went out on Friday regarding costumes and timings.

We have also been busy recapping our numbers to 100, counting forwards and backwards. It would be great if you could continue practising this at home too and playing games, such as Snakes and Ladders, which involve counting.

This week, we will be focusing on our RE learning and the theme of ‘Waiting’. We will explore some of the Joyful Mysteries such as the Annunciation of the Angel Gabriel and the Visitation of Mary to Elizabeth.

Miss Battams 🙂

It’s been another busy week in Year 1 this week. Our Christmas play rehearsals are in full swing and we look forward to practicing on the stage in the hall next wee. If you have any outfits or props that we could borrow, please feel free to send them in.

We have also really enjoyed making lots of creations for our new display area, using junk modeling. If you have any recycled materials/junk modelling you could share with us at school, we would be most grateful.

Don’t forget to check out the updated RE blog here for our latest RE homework task. Well done to the children who have already completed it 🙂

Have a restful weekend, Miss Battams and Mrs Brunt

This week, we have really enjoyed emerging ourselves in our learning about superheroes, thanks to our new book in English, ‘Send for a Superhero’. We have been writing question sentences with question marks and using adjectives to describe our own superheroes that we created.

In Maths, we have been focusing on subtraction. We have been acting out subtraction stories and then writing them up, using pictures/drawings to support our learning.

In PE this week, we focused on the season Summer in our dance learning. We studied a video of waves on a beach and recreated it within small groups. We had to work in unison to ensure we completed each move together, at the same time. We also worked as a class to use the canon effect to recreate the motion of a wave, which was a little tricky but fun to practice!

Please see the updated RE blog here as we move our focus on to Waiting as part of Advent.

Have a restful weekend,

Miss Battams and Mrs Brunt 🙂

This week has been a week of weeks. We started the week with anti-bullying week. The theme this year was ‘one kind word’. We discussed different words that we could use that were kind such as love, care, smile, helpful. We chose a word and wrote it on a strip of paper to construct a kindness paper chain, which is hanging beautifully in our classroom.

It was also other faiths week in RE this week. We focused on the religion, Islam. We learnt about how the Prophet Muhammad was the messenger for Allah and wrote the Islamic holy book the Quran, from the teachings sent by the Angel Gabriel. We also learnt what sort of person Muhammad was by listening to stories about his life. We realised that Muhammad was kind and caring but also a wise Prophet who was very helpful.

Today, we enjoyed dressing up in something spotty for Children in Need. Well done to the class for going dotty! Thank you for all of your kind donations too.

Have a great weekend,

Miss Battams and Mrs Brunt 🙂

This week kicked off with a bang! We have enjoyed starting our new History learning about Guy Fawkes and the gun powder plot. We even made our own fireworks by twisting different layers of materials around a straw, securing it with tape. These looked fantastic!

We have sadly come to the end of our learning about the Naughty Bus but we are looking forward to starting our new book, Send for a Superhero by Michael Rosen next week. It really is a super book.

Next week in RE, we will be focusing on Islam and the story of the prophet Mohammed. If you have any artefacts (a prayer mat, a copy of the Quran etc.) linked to Islam at home, it would be great for the children to bring them in for show and tell next week.

Finally, if you have any costumes you could share with the class for our Christmas play, that would be great. Anything from a Mary and Joseph outfit to a star costume, anything nativity related would be very helpful!

Have a lovely weekend,

Miss Battams and Mrs Brunt 🙂

Welcome back Year 1 after the half term break. It has been great to be back as a whole class once again 🙂

This week, we have continued our learning about the story Naughty Bus. We have started to plan our stories using our own toys and will be writing up our stories next week. Thank you for fulfilling my last minute plea for brining in favourite toys!

Just a reminder, we have PE on Mondays and Wednesdays, kits should have been returned and on pegs ready to go.

Thank you for the great efforts with Travelling Ted, it has been great to see Ted travelling around our local area. He made it to the park and to church and even to Sainsbury’s! Well done everyone.

Next week, we look forward to starting our History learning about Guy Fawkes and the gunpowder plot.

Have a restful weekend,

Miss Battams 🙂