This afternoon we have done some learning based around Remembrance and its importance in allowing us to remember and respect the soldiers and animals who lost their lives protecting our country 🪖🇬🇧
I was so so impressed and proud of some of the conversations shared and the knowledge and understanding based around the topic was fantastic. We cannot wait to continue our learning based around this tomorrow with some Remembrance crafts.
Today we have continued with our learning about Remembrance Day and its importance. We have produced some beautiful acrostic poems using the word POPPIES 🪖🇬🇧🌺
We had some fantastic thoughts and ideas and I was so proud of their presentation. Well done Y1 👏 🌟
This morning we have worked really hard to complete our art project from last half term 🎨🖌
They are looking fantastic!!
We have a couple more steps to complete before we can get them up on display and in our art books.
This week in Science we have been looking at different animals and animal groups.
We identified the features of
Amphibians 🐸
Reptiles 🐍
Birds 🐦
Fish 🐟
And Mammals 🧍♀️🧍♂️
And used this knowledge to help us sort them into the correct groups ☺️
We then sorted these animals based on their diets 🍃 🍖
Ask your little learner what carnivores, herbivores and omnivores eat and which animals fit into each category 😀
Yesterday afternoon we started to plan our Paul Klee inspired artwork ready to put it all together using paint and our colour mixing skills 😀 🎨 🖌
They are going to look fabulous!!! 👀
We have had the most wonderful afternoon learning about and recapping the history and meaning behind Bonfire Night and how we can make sure we stay safe during the celebration 🔥🎆🎇
The kids blew me away with their knowledge and understanding and had so many wonderful ideas.
This morning Y1 are designing some Diwali pictures, putting their fine motor skills to great use
Fantastic job everyone ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Woooooooooh our spooky Y1 👻👻🎃
Happy Halloween 🎃🥰
Maths Masters!! ✨️✨️✨️
Today we have been playing a team game with the multilink cubes. We each took it in turns to roll the dice 🎲 and gather the amount of cubes shown on the dice. We then identified who had the most, least and if anyone had any equal amounts 😃
This morning we have met Mr Crocodile 🐊 and he helped us with our maths when looking at greater than and less than 😊
Mr Croc eats numerals and he only eats the biggest numerals to make sure he is full 😋 Thid gave the children an indication to which way the symbol should face when identifying greater than and less than.
Well done Y1 👏
Swedish adventurers. Today in our Literacy session we have been exploring some of the landmarks in Sweden 🇸🇪 😀
We used our knowledge of maps to locate and identify the town and cities whilst using adjectives to describe the landmarks and their features.
We cannot wait to share our knowledge with Paddington bear when we write our postcards to him next week 📮🐻
Also catch our beautiful presentation 😍
☆Lovely writing and letter formation.
☆All of our letters were sat on the line.
☆We used capital letters.
☆And we remembered our full stops.
Everything that puts a big smile on Miss Dooling's face ☺️ Smashing it Y1
Yesterday we channelled our inner artist 🎨
We identified our 3 primary colours 🔴🟡🔵 and discussed how these are used to make our secondary colours on the colour wheel 😀
Our Year ones were absolutely fantastic 👏 Colour mixing geniuses 🖌🎨
We even went as far as making our tertiary colours where you mix primary and secondary colours together 😊 Catch us using our colour mixing skills in our art project very soon 😀
This morning in RE Y1 are learning about Aqiqah , to understand what it means to belong to a Muslim community. We have some fabulous drawings of a Muslim Aqiqah ceremony. ⭐️⭐️⭐️
A wonderful afternoon with Nigel the gaming guy. Lots of fun had by all 😃😄
Our school values were shining bright in the Y1 classroom this afternoon ✨️
🌻Enjoyment
🌻Growth
🌻Resilience
🌻Respect
This afternoon we have taken our learning outdoors. We have identified our five senses and have worked hard to use them and identify something for each in and around our school.
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We also tied in World mental health day🌎 💛 We talked about what makes us happy, sad, excited, worried and how our bodies change dependent on our feelings.
We had some gorgeous answers about what makes us happy and content 😍
'I am happy with mummy she gives me lots of kisses and cuddles'
'I am happy when I go to Elsecar Park with my Nannan and Grandad'
Absolutely gorgeous! Well done Y1 ✨️💛🌻
The human numberline. This week our Y1s have been working hard to order numerals 0 to 20.
They have identified one more and one less, whilst identifying the numerals and using one to one correspondence to count correctly.
Amazing!!!! 😊
What a fantastic week in Year 1!!!
We have travelled to Sweden to bake and try some sweet treats and our grown-ups have visited our classroom 🇸🇪 🎂
We have finished our Paddington narrative focusing on fred talk, fingers spaces, and letter formation and we are now ready to prep these for display 😀
In Maths we have been looking at equal amounts, one more and one less and everyone has tried their very best and have smashed it 💪
In Science we have continued our learning around the human body and today we have started our experiment seeing which exercises increase our heart rate the most and we will compare our findings next week ❤️🏃♂️ 📷
And lots of other things. I am so incredibly proud of everything they are doing ✨️🌻
Our baking antics this morning 🎂🍪🥣😋👩🍳👨🍳
We are super excited for you to come and join us to taste test some of our Swedish delights 😊
We will see you at 2pm at the Y1 classroom door and you can sit with your child to chat about how we made our delicious treats and to do a couple of calming activities 😀 🇸🇪
I am soo super proud of our little lovelies in class Sweden 🇸🇪
They have worked so hard in their Literacy learning this week and they have well and truly blown my socks off 😳 🧦😂
They have used lots of different adjectives to describe two different settings from the Paddington book and they have recorded these absolutely beautifully in their book using fred talk. WOW!!!!!!
This week in our Explore lessons we have been looking at our Planet on a large scale and learning about the world as we magnified closer to home 🏡 🌎 🔎
We looked at our planet, continent, country, county and next week we will continue with our learning to finish our project 😀 ready for display ✨️
Flamenco ready!💃💃
Look how amazing your children are! They danced their little hearts out ❤️
All school values were smashed, repeatedly!!
If you’re lucky they’ll teach you some new dance moves 💃OLAY💃⭐️🥰
In our Literacy learning week we have been looking at perfect sentences. How we build them, write them and what to include in them.
We had some fabulous team work to solve the sentence puzzles based on the pictures they had. Brilliant explaining, idea sharing and reasoning 💡 👏
Ask your little learner what we need to include in a perfect sentence...
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And of course all of our letters need to be correctly formed and presented ✅️
We have kicked off our Science learning this week. Looking at our bodies and the different names and uses for each part 👅👂👃🧠💪🦵
We drew around each other to give us the outline of the human body and then labelled as many parts as we could and dicussed their purpose and use 🌻
We have been working really hard on our handwriting and letter formation this week ✍️
And these four needed a shout out for their hard work. Beautiful writing and presentation keep up the good work superstars 🌟
In our Explore learning this week we have continued to look at our planet 🌍 Focussing on the equator and where the hottest and coldest parts of the world are in comparison to the equator.
We then used colours to show this on our maps.
Ask your little learner if they can remember the rule-
The closer to equator the 🔥 it is and the further away from the equator the 🥶 it is.
Also ask them what the coldest parts are called ❄️
Our Maths learning this week has been based around identifying numerals and representing the amount in different ways.
In this particular lesson we used cubes to represent the numeral and our Year 1's did a fabulous job.
Along side this they have completed their flash back 4's and maths sheets and I am so happy with how they are making links within their learning.
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Our Library Friday’s are back.
Every Friday children in year 1 will have the opportunity to take home a book from our class library.
This is a ‘ love to read’ book that can be enjoyed and shared with an adult at home.
Please return the following Friday
Thank you 📚🏡💚.
This book may be beyond your child's reading level however this book is to promote a love for reading and what better way to do that other than with your loved ones ❤️
This morning in our Literacy we have been using drama and freeze frames to bring the story of Paddington to life 🐻 🥪 We split into groups and talked about the beginning, middle and end of the story, what was happening and which characters were involved and they then discussed within their groups who they were going to be and what action they were going to do. They did super well and I cannot wait for then to go up on our learning wall 🤗
A few more freeze frame pictures. I wonder if they could tell you what part of the story they were freeze framing 🤔 See you all in the morning team Sweden 🇸🇪
We have had lots of fun starting our Literacy learning based around Paddington Bear 🐻🥪
So far we have watched the film 🎥, created our class story map and we have used it to retell the story 📖 We have identified the beginning, middle and end and we have also identified our favourite and least favourite parts of the story using explanations 🤗
This week we have had some choosing time to create gaps and movement breaks between our work. So much thought, care, teamwork and of course great ideas 💡
As a teacher it is so lovely to see your class fully settle into their new classroom and they have all been fab!!!
A busy week is well underway in class Sweden 🇸🇪 😀
In Explore we have been using Google Earth, Globes and Atlases to find and identify where the UK and Sweden are in our planet and where they are in comparison to each other. We have identified the equator and the temperature changes and have put this onto our own maps.
Well done Year 1 ✨️👏
Yesterday's outing for the Tour of Britain 🇬🇧 🚲
How exciting! And our Year 1's were amazing so calm and sensible and soo supportive ❤️
Well that is our first week over in Year 1 and it has flown!! I am so impressed with how quickly they have all settled back into school life 😊 We have had lots of fun and have done lots of things to prepare us for next week when we will start looking at our maths, literacy and explore learning 😊
To partner with our Habitat learning this week we have also looked at different animals and their young. We had to correctly identify which baby belonged to which adult, use their correct scientific name, discuss which animal group they fitted into and decide how the babies grown ups would feed them and why they did this in a particular way. I was so so impressed with how much they already knew and how they carried out the activities. Super stars 💖
Teamwork makes the dreamwork!!! Today in Maths we have been making number bonds to 10 and exploring how many ones are in one ten. Each child was given a tower of cubes and they had to move around the classroom to find their partner, they knew it was the correct partner when the two towers could be added together to make 10.
Super duper proud 👏
Our Science and Exploration learning is well underway. Today we have been looking at different animals and their habitats and the reasons why they are suited to certain environments better than than others. For example Food and water supply 💧 🍽, Shelter, and Predators 🦁🐯🐅
Our next step for our Rainbow Fish Art Project🌈 🐟 Today we have designed and labelled our beautiful artwork. We cannot wait to bring our creations to life 🙌
This afternoon we have had our Artist hats on. We have sketched the Rainbow fish 🐟 ready to label and design before we make it. How exciting. Keep your eyes peeled for the next step 👀👀😁
I am so incredibly proud of our Year ones today we have well and truly hit the ground running. In English we are reading The Rainbow Fish 🐟 They did an incredible job at predicting, retelling and sequencing the story 😀 👏 📚
We love Maths. This half term we are looking at place value within 20. We have been identifying tens and one and representing them in different ways. Superstars ✨️✨️✨️✨️
Some of our maths learning from this week. Show me what shape you can make 💪
Say hello to the bomb disposal squad. All 3 of our visitors have jobs in The British Army in the Royal Engineers and Royal Logistics. We are extremely lucky to have them in school!
🚂 Polar Express Day 🚂
Tickets please!!
GREAT FIRE OF LONDON TAKE OVER DAY!!!!
Here it is our Great Fire of London Monument!!!
We have had the best day 🥰
We have been extremely lucky to access so many activities linked to our learning today. Ask your little learner what information they were able to share and what new learning they saved in their memory boxes 🧠
We rebuilt London after it had burnt and discussed what we would like in it and why 👷♂️
We thought carefully about the structure of new houses to make sure a disaster like this never happened again 🏘
We used some old fire brigade equipment when the first fire brigade was formed 👨🚒
We made our own fire plaques and these needed to be displayed in windows so the fire team knew where to come and back in 1666 you had to pay for these 🔥
This afternoon we worked hard to make our own Great Fire of London Monument.
First we had to make the stone in the quarry 🪨
Then we loaded it on to the boat to cross the River Thames and we even got a little ride 🚢
We then needed to transfer the stone in a cart to the correct location map📍
Where we were then able to start building it 👷♂️ 👷♀️
We then designed the top of our Monument which looked absolutely incredible 👏
Keep your eyes peeled 👀 👀
What a brilliant day here are some more of our activities 😀
Using a poker to knock down walls 🧱
Using a hooker to take down thatched roofs 🏠
Using Gunpowder to create gaps between our tudor houses 🏘
Working as a team to create water lines to put out the fire 🔥
Deciding what we would pack if we were evacuated from London 🧳
Some fabulous activities underway 😀
Writing using a quill and ink ✍️
Using an oven to bake some wonderful treats 😋
Using bayonets to form our own army 💪
Weaving and thatching to build a house 🏠
Plague doctors finding the houses that are infected and making them better 😷
What a gorgeous afternoon spent reading with out nearest and dearest. Thankyou to everyone for coming 😁
Using our gross motor , turn taking, balancing and instructing skills this morning in PE with Mr Rollinson 😁 I love how our class support each other and boost each others confidence ❤️
Thankyou so much for all of your wonderful Christmas decorations and creations our school Christmas trees are looking fabulous 🎄❤️
Lots of fun had by all this morning with Nigel from Imagination gaming 😀 I really enjoyed joining in and seeing the kids problem solve, turn take and work as team 🥰
Yesterday we took part in our sponsored fitness event - Our Y1s did a fabulous job and worked so hard 🤸♀️🏋️♀️🤾🏼♀️🏆
This Morning we have been on a 3D shape hunt. Our Y1s found and identified the 3D shapes amazingly well and explained their features and what made them different from each other. Super work you lot ⭐️
What a wonderful afternoon! Thank-you so much to those of you who made it I hope you enjoyed sharing some valuable learning time with your childs(s). I hope they were able to share some fun facts with you about our learning so far 🥰
This afternoon we have been designing our tudor houses 🏘 Which we are extremely excited to make on Wednesday. So much time and care went into their designs with lots of discussion. We then added details and colour just to bring it to life on the page. Well done Year 1 ⭐️
This morning we have some very special visitors in school. They are telling us all about their job and what they do to keep the community safe.
Our questions have been incredible so far and we are super excited to see some of their kit and have a look at their police car 🚔
Working incredibly hard in our maths this week using number lines to solve our number sentences 😃 Well done Y1 X
This afternoon we looked at some of our antibullying week activities. We discussed what bullying was and how we could perhaps support or help someone who was/is being bullied. We had some wonderful ideas 💡 some highlighted on the pictures 📸
We then talked about making sure our Y1 team was strong and that I would hope no bullying would ever occur in our class even as they move throughout school when adults in the team change. We connected ourselves using string and saying kind things about each other representing our kindness as strength we then talked about what would happen if we used unkind words, hands, feet and gestures and the string broke showing how one unkind thing can effect many especially if you are all on the same team.
It was a lovely calming afternoon 😊
This morning we had some very special visitors at Summerfields 🚒👨🚒🔥 How incredible. We were able to look at all of their tools, kit and water store. Ask lots of amazing questions and of course have a seat in the fire engine. Lots of happy children indeed 😊
We have been discussing how people worked together and put out the fire 🔥 and how that looks different to our modern day society. People from everywhere in London came together to collect buckets of water from the River Thames 💧 They then passed it up the line and the person at the end threw it on the fire and ran back to the beginning of the line to start the process again. Today we practiced this and beat our personal best at 20 seconds. Great teamwork you lot 👏
This week we have started our new Explore topic. How do our actions shape our future? As part of this we are looking at The Great Fire of London 🔥💥 We have looked at how and why it happened and how much damage it caused. We have explored why the fire spread so quickly and this was due to the housing. Tudor houses we close together made of highly flammable materials such as wood, straw and tar.
Today we made some Tudor houses using our fine motor skills 👌 We cannot wait to make them on a bigger scale!
This week we have looked at so much and our conversations, discussions, questioning has been incredible. Keep up the brilliant work year 1 💫
Here are a few pics of us discussing and ordering the acts of Guy Fawkes 😃
Working hard this morning sorting and ordering the events leading up to and after The Great Fire of London. Exceptional team work year 1 🔥💥😊
This week in Maths we have been looking at addition we had so much fun forming and making number sentences in different ways 😀
Number sentence challenges, which involved writing on the table ✍️. Shhh don't tell anyone.
Using number sentence vests to help Miss Dooling master her number sentence skills 👏
And human number sentences 😊
Our Geography work based on the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 We looked at what countries make up the UK and their capital cities. We even had a go at drawing the flags. They look incredible!
Wow wow wow! I am so so impressed with our Year ones this week. Yesterday we looked at coordinates and located different things in our local area. We then put our own twist on it and drew different things using our own coordinates. They did so well at remembering the rule 🌐
Following on from our walk around Royston last week we have spent this week creating our own maps of our local area. They really are fantastic! 🌳🐕🚙🏠
The most amazing walk exploring and talking about our local and seeing what it has to offer. Our years ones we so polite to members of the public and were very considerate as they carried out their normal everyday routine 🤗
We walked and walked and walked and our Year ones absolutely smashed it.
We walked passed the care home 🏡
Identified the playing field ⚽️
Passed the police station 🚔
Went into the library 📚
Went into the swimming baths 🏊♀️
Bought something from the shop 😋
Crossed some busy roads 🚦
Passed the pharmacy and doctors 👩⚕️👨⚕️
Walked through the park 🌳
Passed the church ⛪️
Walked by the post office 📮
Then made our way back to school 🏫
A very busy morning indeed!
World Mental Health Day 🌎
We reflected on what mental health is and if everyone has it. The children were so clued up and knew that everyone had mental health but that it is all different 😁😔😌
We reflected on Mrs Tabbner's book from yesterday and discussed whether it is better to be a bucket filler (someone who does kind things) or a bucket dipper (someone who does unkind things to make people sad). It is safe to say your children are a credit to you.
We looked at the colour monster story and discussed all of the feelings and just look at some of their interpretations 🤗
We then discussed what makes us... Happy, Sad, Angry, Scared, Calm and Loved and we represented these in picture form in our own
feelings jar. Some fantastic work indeed
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So if your feeling are all jumbled up take a breathe and sort them into your own feeling jars 😊
WOW!!! What a week. We continue to write our letters to Beegu in our English sessions which we will be posting at the post office next week ✏️📑📮
In Science we have been learning about healthy and unhealthy lifestyles and how to maintain a healthy balanced diet. 🍌🥦🥔🥩🧀🍿
In Maths we have been mastering our part part whole technique and reasoning. Incredible work year 1 well done!!
And we have enjoyed some reading with our favourite reading buddies. A big thankyou to all of the adults who attended 🥰
Any work for children at home that is put on to class pages will be to print off at home only.
Due to health and safety issues we will not be providing paper copies for children at home.
You can put your answers on a sheet and take a photo to send in or put them onto a word document and email in.
Thanks
Due to updated government guidance we can no longer provide additional reading books for home. Please read the books you have, look at magazines, share stories from your bookshelf and use our online links to support your child’s reading.
Any books returned to school will be left in a box until we can clean them for the safety of staff and pupils. Many thanks for your continued support in these difficult times.