Farsley Westroyd Primary School & Nursery

Year 1

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.

Autumn 1

Week 8

What a brilliant week we have had.

In writing this week we have focused on using capital leters and full stops. We wrote sentenced about family based memories and future plans we woud love to make with our family.

In maths this we week have focused on couting to and from 100, continung to focus on decade numbers.

In art this week we focused on the mixed media artist Brianna McCarthy. We focused on her use of shape and colour within her art, end emulated this in our own self portraits. We continued to focus on pencil controll for both shading and drawing and how pressure can effect the quality.

On Thuursday we had our halloween disco, we danced the night away in a wide veriety of costumes, singing and laughing too.

On Friday we had a Pajama day to celebrate collecting all of our sheep points.

The Spellings this week are:

here
there
where
go
no
love
school
the
are

Week 7

What a fantastic week we have had.

In writing this week we have focused on using capital letters within our sentebnces, for names and the start of our sentence. We continnued to write sentnces about our family, and we started to turn this into a report.

In maths this week we focused on decade number, counting groups of 10. We later focuse don couting up in 10s.

In art this week we continued to be inspired by the artist Klee, creating out very own abstract portraits.

In science this week we focused on the sence of smell,m using our nose to identify a veriety of scents from vinager to ginger.

the spellings this week are:

house
come
we
he
friend
do
so
was

Week 6

We have had a brilliant week this week.

In writing this week we explored a new story called My family, your family. Together we discussed how families can be different for each person, some big and some small. We started to focus on the skill of capital letters and when to use them.

In maths this week we focused on ordering numbers to 20, especially focusing on one more and one less.

In Art this week we explored shading and how to use our pencils to create a block of shading in 1 direction.

In PE this week, we focused on using larger balls, practising our chest pass.

On Thursday we all joined in with the school harvest festival. Together we sang lots of harvest songs to guests and parents.

The Spellings this week are:

and
the
my
I
they
here
our
love

Week 5

What an exciting week we have had.

In writing this week we finished exploring the enormous turnip. We focused on the ending of the story. Using finger spaces and phonics, we sounded out tricky words to retell the ending.

In maths this week we focused on counting forwards and backward to and from 20. We also compared numbers and explored one more and one less.

In history this week we continued to explore life in the past and interviewed 2 very interesting grandparents. We explored old currency, toys, technology and day-to-day life. This was very exciting and interesting.

In PE this week, we continued to explore ball skills with Brad. Together we worked as a team to pass the ball around the square without dropping it – we used cupped hands and underarm throws.

In Science, we explored the sense of taste. We all tasted a variety of foods, from limes to salted crisps and identified what they were; sour, sweet, salty or bitter.

The spellings this week are:

push
pull
come
ask
there
were
once

Week 4

What a lovely week we have had.

In writing this week we have continued to explore The Enormous Turnip. We have focused on the skill of using finger spaces within a sentence. We have applied the skill of finger space and will continue to next week.

In maths this week we have explored 1 more and 1 less. We used resources to make 1 more and 1 less. We also explore number lines, and find numbers missing off the number line.

In Science this we have explored sight, we explored how eyes allow us to see and the different parts of the eye.

In Art this week we explored the artist Paul Klee. Inspired by his use of art, we listened to different genres of music and created different lines.

The spellings this week are:

school
they
house
our
full
love
some
my

Week 3

We have had a brilliant week this week.

In writing this week we have started to explore a new book, the enormous turnip. We have focused on the plot and the charters. In writing we have explored the skill of using finger spaces. We have discovered when to use finger spaces and have been applying this to our sentences.

In maths this week we have explored ordinal numbers, using cars and races to discover first, second and third. We have also explored using zero for counting and what it means.

In art this week we created some amazing sketches of the front of our school. Together we used colour to show the amazing front door to our school.

In Pe this week we explored our ball skills, practising throwing and catching with an underarm throw. We used cupped hands to ensure we didn't drop the ball.

On Thursday we went on a very exciting trip within our local area. We accompanied the local Leeds rangers to Westroyd Park, where we collectively explored different trees and the seeds they dropped.

The spellings this week are:

today
says
are
was
the
is
has

Week 2

What a fantastic week we have had.

In writing this week we continued to explore the funny bones. We worked in small groups to create movements and sequences to perform as a group. We then performed as a group with the rest of the class.

In maths this week, we continued to explore the numbers to 10. This week we explored how anything can be counted, and we also explored counting songs.

In Science, we started to explore the human body. We traced around our friends and labelled as many of the body parts and organs as we could together.

Our spellings this week are:

I
the
do
to
no
go
of
said

Week 1

Hello everyone and welcome back. Our PE days in year 1 are Tuesdays and Thursdays. Spellings will be given out each Friday in a red spelling book. Both a phonics and library book will go home each Friday and need to be returned the following Friday to be swapped.

This week we focused on settling in, we explored the classroom space and settled into our new daily routine.

In writing this week we started to explore the book – Funny bones. Together, we explored the text, adding movements to sections of the story. We used masks to become the characters and created a sequence of movements to retell a section of the story.

In maths this week, we started to explore numbers up to 10, starting by counting both forwards and backwards from 10. We then explored counting different groups to 10.

In PE this week we had a very exciting guest from Leeds Rhinos. Each week Brad will come in to see us, teaching us a variety of ball skills. This week we explored working as a team.

Thank you for a lovely week!