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

Summer 1

This half term our topic is:

Unity in the Community

What we've been learning in Year 1

Summer 1

Week beginning 20.4.26

In DImensions we thought about a new school club and what belonging to that might be like and designed a badge to represent our new club.  We also learnt about animals belonging to groups and leant some collective nouns for groups of animals - favourites included a dazzle of zebras, a gaggle of geese and a flamboyance of flamingos! We also had a cricket session out in the sun and looked at relay racing in PE

Week beginning 13.4.26

Another busy start to the term with our new book in English, The secret of Black Rock and starting our new topic 'Unity in the Community' with our Year 1 Food Bank donation.  Thank you for your support with this.  We have started athletics in PE and this week looked at sprinting and what our arms and legs need to be doing for speed - we definitely have some potential Usain Bolts amongst us!  In PSHE  we thought about hand hygiene with glitter germs and in RE we learnt about the Good Samaritan and what we could do to be a Good Samaritan.

Spring 2

This half term our topic is:

Never Eat Shredded Wheat

What we've been learning in Year 1 - Spring 2

Week beginning 23.3.26

We have been learning about where our food comes from this week in our topic lessons.  We thought about all the different people involved in bringing different foods to us. such as chocolate and how long it takes for chocolate to reach us - over 200 days!  We completed several activities looking at whether a particular food came from a plant or animal and made a poster to show the journey bread makes from field to fork.  

Week beginning 9.3.26 and 16.3.26

This week we have been learning about soundscapes and graphic scores.  We have thought about the different sounds you might hear on a farm and in a haunted house and how we could recreate these using our voices, bodies and anything else we could find.  These lessons involved a lot of team work in creating the graphic scores as well as practising and performing our pieces!  We have also had a lot of fun creating our own fantasy islands out of junk - there are some budding architects, engineers and designers amongst our classes!

Week beginning 2.3.26

This week in Geography we have been learning about the UK and the continents and oceans, using maps, globes and atlases.  In PE we were looking at all the different ways we can use our bodies to show different balances.  In English we wrote some very descriptive Kenning poems.  World Book Day was filled with adventure - stepping through our red door and writing our own journey stories, swapping classes and sharing books with Puffins and of course having time just to stop and read!

Week beginning 23.2.26

Year 1 have had a lovely start to the new term getting stuck into our new book, Where The Wild Things Are, with plenty of drama opportunities recreating freeze frames of different scenes!  In PE we started our gymnastics topic by learning how to lift and move equipment safely and then create various different shapes with our bodies.  We kicked off our new Dimensions topic looking at maps and compasses, taking our learning outside to find North and then playing the NESW game!  We have also been learning about the countries and sea in the UK.

Week beginning 23.2.26 & 2.3.26

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!