Year 1: Blog items
Year 1 Similarities and Differences
Date: 30th Jan 2025 @ 12:45pm
This week Year 1 have learnt about similiarities and differences between ourselves and others. We have done lots of work to help us understand that we are all different but can still be friends with people who are different to us. We used Tilly our talking teddy to help us to work together and take turns. We also listened to the story 'It's ok to be different' by Todd Parr and drew a friend with characteristics that are different to our own.
Date: 28th Jan 2025 @ 11:12am
This week, Year 1 have been reading the story 'The Girl With Two Dads.' We have been talking about the main characters in the story, their families and how they are different. We have talked to each other about our own families and completed different activites in our classrooms to celebrate our similarities and differences.
Date: 27th Jan 2025 @ 6:54pm
This week we created moving pictures to bring a bit of a story to life! We have been reading the story 'Lost and Found' by Oliver Jeffers and chose different key parts of this story to inspire our creations. We began by looking at existing products, before learning how to make a lever and a slider mechanism. We then created our design and made a prototype, before creating our final product!
Date: 23rd Jan 2025 @ 5:44pm
Today we were lucky enough to work with Travelling by Tuba. In our whole school assembly, we were taken on a trip around the world, where we listened to different pieces of music played on lots of different instruments. In the afternoon, we were then lucky enough to take part in a workshop where we all learnt to play an instrument. We learnt the rhythm and how to play each instrument, before coming together to perform our final piece!
Dan Worsley's Storytelling Assembly
Date: 21st Jan 2025 @ 8:03pm
Today the children in EYFS and Key Stage one participated in a special storytelling assembly led by one of our school's favourite author's Dan Worsley. During the assembly, Dan put on the superpowered storytelling waistcoat and used a variety of props to perform one of his weird and wacky ‘Impossible Tales’. The children were engrossed while Dan took them on an adventure meeting the 'Boss Pirate' and enjoyed thoroughly enjoyed participating at different of the story . All the children listened carefully and were an absolute credit to Boundary.
Date: 14th Jan 2025 @ 10:50am
This half term in our PE sessions we are learning about different types of movement and linking these to dance. We began todays lesson by listening to a piece of winter music and thinking about all the changes that occur in winter and how these make us feel. We then began to think about movements that could be linked to these changes/feelings.
Year 1 Mastering Teen Numbers!
Date: 14th Jan 2025 @ 10:41am
This week, Year 1 have been learning about the composition of teen numbers. We have learnt about tens and ones, what they are and how to identify how many are in a number. We have worked on counting accurately, identifying and writing teen numbers. We have also used lots of different resources, including Numicon, Base 10 and tens frames to make each number and deepen our understanding.
Date: 8th Jan 2025 @ 6:03pm
Today we began to discuss our key question in RE, ‘How might beliefs about creation affect the way people treat the world?’ Our lesson involved learning about how we should treat the environment, why it is important and whose responsibility it is. We did this through looking at images and real life nature examples. We went on a nature walk to collect lots of natural resources and we then used these natural resources to create transient nature pictures. After this, we looked at a number of images and decided which are examples of looking after the environment and which are not. We sorted them together, verbally discussing and justifying each example.
Date: 7th Jan 2025 @ 7:00pm
We were all very excited to come back to school after the Christmas holidays! We began today by reading our new story 'Lost and Found.' We learnt about the characters, the setting and the key events within the story. We then ordered the story, labelled the key characters/objects, retold the story in our storytelling areas and made cut and stick penguins!
Year 1 PE with Blackpool Football Club
Date: 18th Dec 2024 @ 10:04am
We have been very lucky to work with Gaz from Blackpool Football Club this half term. He has helped us to develop our fundamental skills through lots of activities and games. We have had lots of fun!
Date: 18th Dec 2024 @ 9:57am
We were all very excited for our Christmas Party this afternoon! We enjoyed dancing, playing games and eating party food! We had lots of fun and are all very excited for Christmas!
Date: 18th Dec 2024 @ 9:52am
This week we completed some RE art to show an important event in the story – the birth of baby Jesus. We used pastels and black paper to create our own art work showing the stable, the manger, baby Jesus and other important characters in the story.
Date: 11th Dec 2024 @ 6:00pm
Lots of our Year 1 children enjoyed coming to our Christmas Disco after school! We came back to school dressed in our party clothes for lots of fun, games and party food! We are all looking forward to our Christmas party next week!
Date: 10th Dec 2024 @ 7:53am
In music this half term, we have been learning all about Jack & the Beanstalk through songs. We have been working on finding the quick rhythms in songs and identifying these by clapping, singing high and low notes with our voices and working on playing and singing in unison. We used a variety of percussion instruments to play the rhythms to the song, ‘And He Went Higher’, but our favourite song was ‘Fee Fi Fo Fum’.
Date: 9th Dec 2024 @ 7:12pm
This week we visited St Marks Church to talk to followers of the Christian faith about what the important message in the Christmas story is. We met Reverend Matthew and told him everything that we have learnt about Christianity so far. Reverend Matthew then read the nativity story to us and we all joined in with different parts. He taught us about the key messages in the story and the roles of different characters.
Year 1 Christmas Jumper Day and Elf Run!
Date: 9th Dec 2024 @ 12:25pm
We were all very excited to come to school today dressed in our Christmas jumpers ready for our Elf Run and Christmas lunch! We enjoyed raising money through our run, making our Christmas crowns and eating a yummy lunch!
Year 1 Santa's Grotto Storytime
Date: 5th Dec 2024 @ 5:48pm
Today Year 1 visited Santas Grotto for our storytime. We were very excited to read our new story 'What the Ladybird Heard at Christmas' in the magical grotto! We loved looking at the different lights, talking about Christmas and sharing our experiences.
Date: 4th Dec 2024 @ 7:41am
This week Year 1 have been reading and exploring the story 'Stickman' by Julia Donaldson. We have sequenced the story, used semantics to create sentences about the characters, written speech bubbles and explored lots of different related activities in our outdoor area.
Date: 28th Nov 2024 @ 7:24pm
Over the past few weeks, Year 1 have enjoyed our Forest School sessions. We have looked for shapes in nature, made leaf characters, learnt how to make 'dragon sparkles,' played in the mud kitchen, found animal footprints and even enjoyed some hot vimto! Even though it was very cold during our sessions we wrapped up warm and had lots of fun!
Date: 27th Nov 2024 @ 12:49pm
Today we spent no pen morning building houses for the three little pigs! We listened to the story, talked about the different materials the pigs use and the pros and cons of each. We then collected different materials from around the classroom and our outdoor area to build our houses.
Date: 26th Nov 2024 @ 5:50pm
Today in our PE session with Mr Ratcliff we learnt how to use some of the gym apparatus in the hall. We learnt how to climb and land safely and why this is important.
Date: 25th Nov 2024 @ 6:16pm
Today Year 1 enjoyed together time with our parents and carers. We had a great time showing them around our classrooms, completing our mini me tasks and using Seesaw to evidence our learning. We showed them everything we had been learning about recently and introduced some of our new 'Stickman' related activities.
Date: 20th Nov 2024 @ 6:43pm
Over the past few weeks, Year 1 have been reading, creating and writing about 'Leaf Man.' This story involves using lots of imagination to spot the leaf characters in the pictures and think about where they are going! After reading the story, we printed our own leaf man, found him in our forest school area and completed lots of different writing activties relating to the story.
Date: 20th Nov 2024 @ 6:36pm
Year 1 enjoyed using pastels to create our poppy drawings. We talked about the different shapes we needed to use, the colours on a poppy and how to use pastels effectively.
Date: 15th Nov 2024 @ 12:39pm
Today we came to school dressed in an item of spotty or stripy clothing to raise money for Children In Need. We enjoyed collaging Pudsey masks and taking part in our superman dance in assembly!
