Year 1: Blog items
Date: 20th Nov 2022 @ 6:52pm
During Anti-Bullying week, Year 1 explored different types of bullying. We read the story 'Carrot Club,' which reminded us not to judge others by their appearance and to think positively about healthy eating! We discussed what we thought bullying is and learnt the thorough definition. We then learnt about different types of bullying, including physical, verbal, cyber and indirect.
'Indirect bullying could be leaving people out of games'
'Cyber bullying is when people use messages to upset someone'
We discussed lots of examples together and then moved on to talking about what we could do in certain situations.
'You can tell your trusted adult'
'You can be kind to the person being bullied and help them not to feel alone'
Date: 16th Nov 2022 @ 7:40pm
Today we began to read, discuss and understand the Christmas story and the message behind the story. We read the story together, identifying the characters and key events witihin the story. We then independently ordered the story, using pictures/captions to support our learning.
Date: 16th Nov 2022 @ 7:10pm
We began our history topic with reading the story ‘Too Many Toys.’ We read and discussed the story, talking about other children’s favourite toys, before moving onto identifying our own favourite toys. We found out what Miss Kay’s and Mrs Websters favourite toy were and listened to the reasons why, before contributing our own thoughts and ideas. We became confident using the phrase ‘My favourite toy is ___ because ___’
'My favourite toy is Lightning McQueen because it has flames and can go fast'
'My favourite toy is a ukalele because it can make music'
'My favourite toy is Elsa because she has long blonde hair and ice powers'
Date: 3rd Nov 2022 @ 7:36pm
This week we began to explore the term part and whole. We worked practically to investigate how to identify a whole number and split it into different parts. We realised that we could split the whole number into two (or more) different parts and that these can be shown either way around, e.g. 3 and 4 make the same whole as 4 and 3. We have also continued to complete place value and number activities in our provision to support our knowledge of numbers!
Date: 3rd Nov 2022 @ 6:44pm
Today we enjoyed our first forest school session in Year 1! This week our learning was based around birds. We made birds nests, pretended to be birds to play a game collecting seeds and looked at pictures of birds eggs. Throughout the session, we also made two different types of bird feaders, created mud masterpieces in the mud kitchen and enjoyed having some time outdoors in the sunshine!
Date: 31st Oct 2022 @ 6:22pm
Today, we began the start of our new half term by enjoying a DT day!
Firstly, we looked at existing products to explore the different mechanisms and moving parts in a range of picture books. We talked about how the moving part moves, how it works and what effect it has.
We then began to make two prototypes, a lever and a slider. We linked each mechanism to a story to create a moving picture for each. We all talked through the safety points and watched our teachers make an example, reading through the instructions together and spotting where they went wrong! We then each had a turn to follow the instructions, read them carefully and make our two prototypes.
We verbally evaluated our desgins, talking about what had gone well and what we could improve next time.
Date: 19th Oct 2022 @ 8:25pm
This week in PSHE we have focused on understanding different ways to keep our body healthy, including hygiene. We discussed basic hygiene and why it is important. We then took part in the soap experiment. We orally followed instructions to complete the experiment to find out why soap works and why it is better than using just water to wash your hands!
Date: 18th Oct 2022 @ 7:34pm
This week Year 1 have been reading the story 'Funnybones.' We have focused on sentence structure by reading and ordering mixed up sentences. We re-read each sentence to ensure it made sense and had capital letters and full stops in the correct places. We have also been writing our own sentences about characters in the story. In our provision we have also completed lots of independent writing and reading tasks relating to the story.
Date: 15th Oct 2022 @ 6:58pm
This half term Year 1 have been learning all about our local area. As part of this learning we went on a local area walk around Grange Park. Prior to leaving school, we explored photos of past and present Grange Park and discussed what we thought we might see. Whilst on our walk, we observed different types of houses, spotted physical and human features and talked about the current changes taking place. We we're also lucky enough to visit @thegrange, where we we're shown around the gardens, read a book in the library and told all about what @thegrange has to offer.
Date: 10th Oct 2022 @ 7:23pm
This week we have enjoyed learning how to use Beebots! We began the day by learning some important new key words and their meaning. We then learnt about codes and instructions. We found out the importance of following instructions carefully and giving instructions in the correct order. Then it was our turn to create a code for our friends by ordering a set of instruction cards. We tried very hard to be robots and only follow the given instructions! In the afternoon, we we're then ready to put this learning into place to complete a number of Beebot activities. We explored the Beebot app, gave Beebots instructions to follow a maze and worked pracitcally to debug instructions.
Date: 10th Oct 2022 @ 7:11pm
In PE this half term we have explored jumping in a variety of different ways. We have learnt to work safelty within a defined space, bend out legs when landing and to drive our arms upwards. We have practised running skillfully to negotiate space within our warm ups and how to work effectively within a team. We have enjoyed learning these skills with Mr Williams and our class teachers.
Date: 5th Oct 2022 @ 7:37pm
This week we began our new art pathway, which is all about spirals! We started by looking at different examples of spirals, including those in nature. We then drew 'whole body' spirals outside before bringing this learning inside to create our own spiral drawings using chalk and pastels. We focussed on drawing our spiral from a centre point and creating clear lines that curve round.
Year 1 School Council Elections
Date: 29th Sep 2022 @ 7:29pm
This week in Year 1 we have taken part in our whole school councillor elections. We spent time thinking about what would make a good school councillor and the school characteristics a good councillor would show. Lots of children then delivered a manifesto in front of their peers and did a brilliant job! Throughout the week, we discussed the importance of Democracy and that we vote to ensure a fair result.
Year 1 are proud to announce their School Councillors for 2022/23 are:
Beech - Charlie
Hazel - Isaac
Well done everyone!
Date: 27th Sep 2022 @ 6:45pm
Today we worked practically to count forwards within 10 from any given number. We found given numbers on our number lines and learnt how to use them to find the number after, stating the oral sentence, ‘the number after __ is __.’ We looked at different representations, including number lines and tens frames, to find missing numbers and explain the mistakes.
Date: 26th Sep 2022 @ 7:29pm
Today in Science we focussed on our sense of taste. We learnt about the different parts of our mouth and what these are used for. We also learnt new vocabulary to describe how things taste. We then tasted a range of foods, using these new key words to explain what we could taste and to enable us to categorize them.
Date: 22nd Sep 2022 @ 7:41pm
In our Mastery In Number sessions this week, Year 1 have been exploring ways to make 5. We have spent time learning how to use our Rekenrek correctly and investigated number bonds to 5 with this resource. Later in the week, we also used cubes to show how to work systematically. With a partner, we used STEM sentences to verbalise our findings, e.g. I have 2, you have 3, together we have 5!
Date: 20th Sep 2022 @ 6:22pm
Today we learnt about the Christian belief that the Church community is like a family and considered why it might be important to welcome new people into the Church family. We listened to the story ‘All Are Welcome’ and discussed the different ways the characters were made welcome and how we make new children feel welcome in our classroom.
We learnt that parents ask for the child to be baptised so that it can belong to this family and develop a relationship with God. We discussed the importance of Christians making new members of the church family welcome. We then completed a task in groups to recognise and name basic artifacts and practices of a Christian baptism.
Date: 15th Sep 2022 @ 7:41pm
Today we began to explore our five senses by naming each sense and the part of the body that is to do with each sense. We then focused specifically on our sense of touch. We recapped on the different parts of the hand, including thumb, palm, skin and wrist. As a class, we then discussed what is touch? What happens when we touch something? And is it only our hands that we touch with?
‘We touch with our skin!’
‘Your sense of touch tells you if something is hot or cold.’
We talked about what is safe and unsafe to touch, completed ‘I can feel’ sheets, labeled the properties of these objects, and completed a mystery box feely activity.
Year 1 Human & Physical Features
Date: 12th Sep 2022 @ 7:10pm
In todays lesson we worked to explore the question, ‘what are the main features of our school grounds?’ We firstly had to understand some new key vocabulary; human features, physical features and birds eye view. We learnt what these new words meant and created an initial mind map of examples of both. We then explored our school environment. We worked to identify the features of our playground, the forest school area, the Key Stage 2 playground and our classroom outdoor area. We found lots of different features we were able to identify!
Date: 8th Sep 2022 @ 7:27pm
We began our learning in Geography by beginning to answer the question, 'what sort of area do I live in?' We learnt and discussed the meaning of new key words, including urban, rural, village, town and city. We then read the story 'The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse.' This story included lots of different features of urban and rural areas and we were able to discuss these together. We then worked indpendently to sort a number of photos into urban and rural areas. We talked about the similarities and differences between the two whilst working and compared these to our local area. We then evidenced our learning on Seesaw!
Date: 8th Sep 2022 @ 7:18pm
This week we began learning about Christianity by exploring families and belonging. We explored the fact that all families are unique and discussed who is in our family. We thought about different relationships and about how they might be similar and different to others. We learnt that Christians believe that God is like a father who guides them and helps them. We then created our own family portrait, sharing our ideas with others to two key questions. What makes a good family? How do families look after each other and look after children?
Date: 8th Sep 2022 @ 7:06pm
Our first week in Year 1 has been extremely busy! We have been exploring our new classrooms, getting used to our new rules/routines and learning inside and outside the classroom. We have used our phonics skills to read and write captions and sentences, practised ordering numbers and learnt how to evidence our own work on Seesaw!
Date: 19th Jul 2022 @ 6:49pm
This week we completed our DT journey to make a fruit salad. Firstly, we designed our fruit salad, dicussing the ingredients and tools we would need to create our end product. We then learnt two safe ways to cut our fruit, the 'bridge' cut and the 'claw' cut. We practised these using play dough until we were ready to cut our ingredients. We designed our fruit salad using six fruits and a fresh fruit juice. We then use our skills to cut our fruit into bite size pieces to create an appealing fruit salad. It was then time to eat our lovely fresh fruit salad! Finally we evaluated our fruit salad, discussing things that had gone well and any improvements we would make next time.
Date: 13th Jul 2022 @ 7:19pm
Today we learnt about the festival of Sukkot. We learnt that it is a festival which celebrates the harvest and the gathering in of the crops. We also learnt that during Sukkot Jews rememeber the years in the desert and they thank God for providing them with food and water and thank God for the harvest. To get ready for Sukkot, people start to build a sukkah. We learnt what this means and the different criteria for a sukkah. We then discussed and designed our own, before making them out of a range of different materials. We followed the criteria to ensure our sukkah had three walls, a roof made from something natural and decorations of things from the harvest. We worked successfully as a small team to plan and problem solve with our group members.
Date: 11th Jul 2022 @ 4:36pm
Today we explored different coins and their value. Through completing a number of sorting activities we were able to identify the features of different coins, including their size, shape and colour. We also completed a coin-rubbing task to match each coin to its correct value.
