Welcome to Year 1!

Each week we'll be keeping you up to date with our weekly blog. In addition to this, please read our half-termly curriculum map to find out what will be happening in Year 1. 

Important information

PE - Tuesday and Thursday. Please come to school in your PE kit on these days and these days only. 

Books - Change books Friday. Your child will come home with 1 new Library  book and a Phonics book every Friday. An Ebook will also be assigned each Friday, a login for this can be found in your child's reading record.   Please make sure you have been reading at home at least three times a week. Please record any reading you have done in your reading diary. Your reading diary must always be in your bookbag so that we can read with you in school. 

Spellings - New spellings will be sent home every Friday. Please make sure your child's spelling book is in their bookbag on Friday so that the new ones can be stuck in. Please use your spelling book to practice them. If there is evidence of practising, your child will receive a green point. Please also check which spellings have been marked as incorrect as these will still need to be practised.

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Autumn 1

Week 1

What a fantastic week we have had settling into our new classroom.

We started getting into our new classroom routine and exploring the area. We started by exploring our new provision areas. We especially loved being in the role-play area as doctors- linking to our science topic of the human body.We started to look at our new writing book, focusing on the book- The funny bones. We met our new phonics teachers and started settling into the new phonics groups. We even experienced a fun singing assembly – learning lots of exiting songs ready for the Harvest festival.

Thank you all for a fantastic first week! You were all so brave and confident.

Week 2

What a brilliant second week we have had. We have continued to settle into our new routine and started to enjoy our new learning. In maths this week we have started to focus on numbers to 10 – learning new and exciting counting songs. We explored the concept of 1 more and 1 less. In writing this week we have been extremely busy practising writing who/what/where sentences also practising our finger spaces and capital letters for sentence starters. In Science, we traced around one of our friends – labelling their body. We also explored being doctors in the role-play area. In art this week we explored mark making to different music – we discovered how different music made our lines drastically opposite.

The Spellings this week are:

• puff
• fluff
• doll
• kiss
• fizz
• back
• and
• the
• were
• to

Week 3

What a fantastic week we have had.

In writing this week we found exploring the book The Funny Bones, retelling an aspect of the story ensuring to use capital letters and full stops. In Maths, we continue to explore numbers to ten. We practised using zero and ordering small groups of numbers, starting with the smallest and ending with the greatest. In History we asked of how do I explore my history? We explored the importance of asking questions and looking back at photographs. In PE we practised the skill of rolling a ball, working in pairs to roll to one another, playing lots of fun games involving rolling too.

The spellings this week are:

• bank
• pink
• think
• skin
• kick
• basket
• are
• were
• his
• you

Week 4

What a fantastic week we have had.

In writing this week we started to explore a new text – The Enormous Turnip. We explored what a verb is and how to use it successfully in a sentence. We also practised using capital letters at the start of a sentence. In maths we started to explore numbers up to 20, exploring counting forwards and backwards – applying our knowledge of 10 when counting to 20. In music this week we continued to explore the menu song, tapping along and using our bodies to keep the beat. In PE this week we continued to develop our ball skills and practised aiming into a target by throwing a bean bag into a hoop of different sizes.

Our spellings this week are:

• fetch
• witch
• match
• kitchen
• switch
• batch
• his
• has
• you
• your

Week 5

What a brilliant week we have had.

In maths this week we have continued to focus on numbers to 20- this week identifying the largest and least within a group. In writing we have continued to focus on the book – The Enormous Turnip. We identified verbs and used them within a sentence. We made sure to use capital letters at the start of the lesson. In art this week we took inspiration from Klee, and created our own abstract self-portraits. In science this week we explored the sense of taste. We tried lots of different food and identified the taste. In history this week we interviewed some of our grandparents about what their childhood was like.

The spellings this week are:

• churches  
• foxes
• dishes
• flowers
• boxes
• dogs
• frogs
• and
• are
• his

Week 6

What a brilliant week we have had this week. In writing this week we continued to tell the story of the enormous turnip. We continued to retell the story using verbs to describe the story. In maths this week we explored making 1 more and 1 less, also matching images to 20 with the numeral. In PSHE we explore what makes us feel calm, we also explore how to make others feel calm. In Art this week we created self-portraits using colour and chalk. In science this week we explore the sense of touch, learning to describe different textures. In computing, we explored using the mousepad to create lines and images on paint.

 

The spellings this week are:

• looked
• buzzing
• helped
• jumped
• looking
• buzzed
• helping
• be
• me
• we

Week 7

What a fantastic last week of term we have had. This week we had a special Halloween movie night to raise money for our class pot. We even decorated biscuits to look like monsters. In writing this week we started to explore a new book, called My Family, Your Family. We wrote sentences using capital letters for nouns, describing our family members. In maths, we continue to explore numbers up to 100, this week focusing on ordering numbers when a number is missing, crossing the tens' boundary. In History this week we explored time capsules, discussing what we would add to our own one. In PE this week we practised our throwing and catching skills when using a small tennis ball. On Thursday we had a Halloween dress up day as we collected all of our sheep points by working hard as a team! Well done everyone. 

The spellings this week are:

• fresher
• higher
• unfair
• undo
• unhappy
• darkest
• longest
• some
• they
• two