Year 1: Blog items
Date: 23rd Sep 2024 @ 4:41pm
Today we celebrated the European Day of Languages by holding a special assembly. We talked about why it is important to know about other languages and cultures and how this might help us when we grow up. We discussed the characteristics that you need to learn a language including enthusiasm, curiosity, perseverance and self motivation. We ended with a languages quiz and learned a greeting song in French.
Date: 19th Sep 2024 @ 7:40am
This week in Geography we have used fieldwork to identify the features of our school grounds. We went out into our school environment to explore the main features we could see and identify them on a birds eye view map.
Date: 19th Sep 2024 @ 7:24am
This week we have started to read and learn the story 'The Gruffalo!' We have retold the story in our story telling areas, sequenced the key events and described the features of the Gruffalo.
Date: 12th Sep 2024 @ 6:12pm
Today we read the story ‘The Town Mouse and The Country Mouse’ to support our learning on rural and urban areas. We talked about the different features of each and compared the differences. In small groups, we then sorted a number of pictures into the correct area, talking through our reasoning with an adult and our peers.
Date: 9th Sep 2024 @ 6:06pm
This week in year one we have been grouping and sorting! We have used a number of different objects and talked about what is the same and what is different. We have learnt we can sort by colour, by shape, by type and by size. We have also learnt how to log into our own Seesaw account and post pictures of our learning! We have also been exploring our new classroom environment and completing lots of maths challenges in our provision.
Date: 8th Sep 2024 @ 4:24pm
Today we learnt about the human body. We sang and followed the actions to ‘heads, shoulders, knees and toes’ and played Simon Says to learn about key parts of the human body. We introduced names of new parts of our body and learnt where these are located. We drew around a body outline and matched widget labels to key parts of the outline, as well as adding some more of our own! Finally, we pieced together a mixed up person jigsaw and verbally told the adults in our room the body parts we could identify.
Date: 3rd Sep 2024 @ 7:31pm
We have had a fantastic few days back in our new Year 1 classes! We are very proud of how well our children have adapted to the new routines in school. We have enjoyed hearing about what children have been up to over summer and how much they have been looking forward to coming back to school!
This week we have been getting used to the new routines in Year 1 and settling back into school life. We have also taken part in lots of activites, both indoors and outdoors! We have read 'The Colour Monster,' labelled the characters, retold the story, practised counting and recognising numbers, build models in our construction area and explored different ways to move in our outdoor obstacle course!
Date: 19th Jul 2024 @ 10:40am
Today we spent some of our last day in Year 1 playing collaborative games! We enjoyed having some fun with our friends and celebrating the hard work we have put in this year!
Date: 18th Jul 2024 @ 8:19pm
This half term we have been generating ideas through playful exploration and exploring sculpture. Today we completed our final project and created a sea creature. We used different materials, tools and ideas to work towards our outcome.
Date: 12th Jul 2024 @ 1:46pm
Today we completed some Geography fieldwork at Stanley Park! Despite the weather being wet and rainy, we enjoyed exploring how Stanley Park has changed throughout the seasons and looking at the deciduous and evergreen tree and different types of plants.
Date: 11th Jul 2024 @ 10:48am
Today we were lucky enough to go up to the Key Stage 2 playground and visit Fishers Farm! We enjoyed seeing and learning about all the different animals and talking to the people who look after them. We asked lots of questions to help our understanding and we were very calm and gentle with the animals.
Date: 10th Jul 2024 @ 7:30pm
Today we were introduced to telling the time to the hour using an analogue clock. We learnt the key words ‘o clock’ and that when we use the word ‘hand’ we are referring to the arrow on the clock face. We focussed on reading time to the hour using only the hour hand, before learning about the minute hand and that the hour hand is shorter than the minute hand. We recognised that when the minute hand is pointing directly to 12, we needed to look at the shorter hand to see which hour it is.
Boundary Choral Speaking competition
Date: 9th Jul 2024 @ 2:46pm
This week we held our annual Choral Speaking competition. From Reception to Year 6, year groups learned poems by heart and performed them to the rest of the school. Once again, the standard was extremely high and we are proud of all the children for taking part. This year's winners are Year 3, who will represent Boundary at the Blackpool Choral Speaking competition on Friday.
Date: 4th Jul 2024 @ 2:54pm
Today we enjoyed going back out into the Forest School area to learn about animals and habitats. We talked about how habitats provide things that animals need and the size of their habitat. We all enjoyed exploring the forest school area and seeing how it had changed since the last time we had Forest School in Autumn.
Date: 2nd Jul 2024 @ 11:37am
Together Time
Today we enjoyed exploring materials and tools to connect them together in a playful way. We began by recapping on different ways we can manipulate and change the shape of paper, before becoming explorers and inventors to create a range of sculptures using prompt cards. Our prompt cards asked us to make ‘something which has a seed and grows a root and a shoot,’ ‘a family of something’ and ‘something small enough to fit in your palm.’ We enjoyed sharing our learning with our adults, being creative, using our imagination and creating something unique and individual to us!
Date: 1st Jul 2024 @ 5:19pm
Today we explored the key question, ‘how has the Blackpool Tower Circus changed?' We began by learning about the circus in the past, the year it opened, what acts performed there and how it looked. We looked at both photo evidence and posters, discussing what clues we could see that gave us information about the past. We learnt about how the circus has changed over time and sorted a range of pictures into past and present. We then created a timeline of the promotional posters used. Finally we created our own posters for the present circus!
Date: 28th Jun 2024 @ 8:05pm
Today we all enjoyed dressing in bright and sporty clothes to celebrate 'Elmer Day' and raise money for charity!
Date: 25th Jun 2024 @ 7:14pm
Today we enjoyed a rugby workshop with Josh from Wigan Warriors! Through a range of different activities, we learnt to hold the ball, pass it correctly, run with it and how to score a try! We all had a great afternoon and loved learning new skills!
Date: 24th Jun 2024 @ 7:44pm
Today we enjoyed Sports Day! It was a very warm day but we all showed lots of determination, resilience and team work on each station. We took part in races, archery, speed bounce, bean bag throwing and cup stacking! We all thoroughly enjoyed sharing the afternoon with our grown ups and showing them our sports skills!
Date: 21st Jun 2024 @ 1:33pm
Today we enjoyed Art and Music Day! We learnt about the theme for the day and what the word 'identity' means. We then talked about the different things that make us individual and that contribute towards our identity. We completed different activities to explore our own identities before creating our own self portrait. We looked carefully at our own individual features and the shapes we can use to create our features using pastels and pencils.
Date: 20th Jun 2024 @ 6:03pm
Today, we all enjoyed takeover day with our Year 5 teachers! We were very excited to meet our new teachers and TAs and all tried our very best with everything they asked us to do.
After assembly, we began the morning by reading the story 'More or less' to recap our understanding of how to find one more and one less than a given number. We then used our knowledge to find one more and one less for given numbers within 100, showing our Year 5 teachers how we record our learning independently on Seesaw.
We then learnt how to draw a portrait of ourselves. Mr Ridley showed us a great example of his own portrait and gave us step by step instructions to follow.
We all had a super morning!
Date: 17th Jun 2024 @ 5:09pm
Reception very kindly let Year 1 borrow their ducklings for an afternoon this week. We were all very excited to see the new ducklings and learn a bit more about them! We were all very gentle with the animals and enjoyed them visiting our classroom.
Date: 17th Jun 2024 @ 5:01pm
In RE this week we have learnt the story of Noah's Ark. We read the story together, talking about the characters, key events and the meaning behind the story. We then retold the story together, before creating our own storyboards.
Date: 11th Jun 2024 @ 5:18pm
Today we began our 'moving a robot' work to learn early programming skills. We explored using the individual buttons and commands, identifying what each command for the Beebot does and using them to start to predict the outcome of the robot program.
Date: 10th Jun 2024 @ 12:32pm
Over the past few weeks, Year 1 have been practising especially hard for our phonics screening. We have completed lots of different activities in our provision to recap all our diagraphs and trigraphs and to continue to practise reading real words and alien words.
