Year 1

Welcome to Year 1

Blackbirds and Starlings

Blackbirds:

Mrs Hughes (Class Teacher: Monday, Tuesday & Wednesday pm) 

Mrs West (Class Teacher: Wednesday am - Friday)

Mrs Vale (Teaching Assistant: Monday pm, Tuesday - Friday) Miss Bell (Teaching Assistant: Monday am)

Starlings:

Mrs Lloyd (Class Teacher)

Mrs Dobroaia (Teaching Assistant Monday - Friday excluding Wednesday pm)

Miss Bell (Teaching Assistant: Wednesday pm) 

Please note:

Books: Reading diary, phonics book and choosing book to be returned to school and changed every Wednesday.  They will then be sent home on Thursdays.

PE: Wednesday morning

Forest School: Alternate Wednesday afternoons with Mrs Bishop

Spring 1

This half term our topic is:

Come Fly With Me! Arctic Circle 

What we've been learning in Year 1 - Spring 1

Week beginning 5.1.26 and 12.1.26

What a busy start to the new term!  We are enjoying tour new Topic all about the Arctic which we began with a challenge to see how long we could keep an ice cube frozen by wrapping in in different materials.  We have looked at where the Arctic is, the weather and climate, thinking about what it would be lie to experience the Polar Night and Midnight Sun! This week we have learnt about some Arctic animals and how they survive in the freezing Arctic environment by carrying out an experiment showing how blubber works!  In English we have started our new book, Hermelin the Detective Mouse, and used 'hot-seating' to take turns to interview Hermelin!  

Autumn 2

This half term our Topic is 'Tudors. 

What we've been learning in Year 1 - Autumn 2!

Week Beginning 15.12.25

This week we have enjoyed lots of different Christmas crafts - photo frames, wreathes and salt dough decorations. We also loved watching the magic of snow form in provision. Blackbirds created Christmas pictures in Computing, using careful mouse control and choice of colours. In Art we were inspired by the artist Clarice Cliff, who created the 'Circle Tree'. 

Week beginning 1.12.25

Our trees are up and we're beginning to feel festive!  A busy week in Provision re-telling the Christmas Story and independently writing sentences about the events in the Christmas Story.  We have also been practising our cutting skills by making spiral snowmen, penguins and Christmas decorations out of lollypop sticks to adorn your trees!  In Drawing club, we have watched a Christmas advert about a snowman and writing about the shadows he could make, as well as thinking of ways to stop the snowman melting! 

Maths Morning!

It was so great for the Blackbirds and Starlings to share the love and joy of Maths with their grown ups! From snakes and ladders, to Numicon, to part-whole models and lots more, we hope you enjoyed seeing learning in action and your children having fun. 

Week Beginning: 24.11.25

The creativity in Art has continued - this week looking at different shades of green! We used more blue paint to make the shade of green darker and more yellow paint to make the shade of green lighter. We painted the fingers and palm of a very green hand!

Week beginning 17.11.25

This week we have been continuing to develop our IT skills by using 2simplpe software to create our own firework inspired art and in Art we have been using Lego bricks to print patterns.  We have also been Road Safety Spies learning all about how to stay safe when we are out and about on the roads.  Provision has allowed us to further our understanding of number bonds to 10, make our own Pingus' and have a go at writing about penguins.

Week beginning 10.11.25

Busy in provision building the tallest spaghetti towers, poppy art, working on our one armed robot letters, re-telling the Three Billy Goats Gruff and practicing our maths with dominos. We also learnt all about rich Tudors this week, being History detectives to look for clues in Tudor portraits and leant just how much food they ate at Henry VIII's banquets!!

This week in Art we watched the 'magic' happen as we mixed primary colours together to make secondary colours. It was a bit messy but very exciting!

Autumn 1

This half term our Topic is 'Super Me'. 

What we've been learning in Year 1 - Autumn 1!

Week Beginning 13.10.25

Our Art work this week was inspired by the artist Brianna McCarthy. We carefully thought about the shapes, lines and colours used to create portraits in her style.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zww87v4 

Science was super TASTY! We focused on our sense of taste, learnt about taste buds and tried foods with a sour, sweet, savoury, bitter and salty taste. 

Week beginning 7.10.25

This week we have been continuing our learning with comparing numbers in Maths, exploring the world of The Trapdoor in Drawing Club and inventing a new  character for Trapdoor from clay, creating some Paul Klee inspired portraits and investigating the sense of touch in Science and practising our handwriting in provision.  

Week Beginning 29.09.25

In Maths we have been using inequality symbols to compare numbers and amounts (<,>,=).

In Art we have used lines and shapes to create portrait drawing - firstly tracing the shapes and then drawing them over the top of our own faces. 

In Science we have used our sense of hearing to listen to the sounds of the classroom and the outdoors. 

Week beginning 22.9.25

A busy week in Year 1!  Learning about the sense of smell in science and testing our noses with a variety of smells - good and bad! Ball skills in a sunny PE lesson, learning how to log on to a computer in IT, joining lines in art to create a picture, making a timeline of our life in Topic and thinking about the Golden Rule in RE.

Week beginning 15.9.25

We enjoyed learning about 4 important keys on a keyboard in Computing, found a comfy spot in the Library to enjoy a story with our friends and let music lead the way in our Art lesson when drawing lines. 

Week beginning 9.9.25

We have enjoyed drawing around a child and labelling different body parts in Science, practising to throw and catch in PE, learning about different types of lines in Art and exploring new Provision activities. 

Week beginning 1.9.25

We have enjoyed exploring the classroom, learning in Provision and connecting with our friends after the Summer Holidays!

Spring 1

This half term our Topic is 'It's a child's life'. 

What we've been learning in Year 1 - Spring 1!

Spring 2

This half term our Topic is 'Amazing Animals'. 

What we have been learning in Year 1!  

Spring 2

Summer 1

This half term our Topic is 'Tudors'. 

What we have been learning in Year 1!  

Summer 1

Summer 2

This half term our Topic is 'Seasides'