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 2

This half term our topic is:

Going Wild 

What we've been learning in Year 1

Summer 2

Week beginning 15.06.26 & 22.06.26

A busy two weeks with our Phonics Screening Check and end of term assessments.  We have continued with our topic and have been busy learning about animal types with the highlight being a visit from Foxglove Meadow! 

Week beginning 01.06.26 & 08.06.26

We started our final book in English, The Last Wolf, with some footage from the Bridgetown CCTV cameras that captured a lone wolf in our school over half term.  Luckily there have been no more sightings since...  We are enjoying our extra PE sessions this half term with SDH focussing on cricket skills and we have enjoyed creating our own PowerPoint presentations all about our pets or dream pets!

Summer 1

This half term our topic is:

Unity in the Community

What we've been learning in Year 1

Summer 1

Week beginning 18.05.26

Lots of DT this week looking at how to join different materials together using a flange joint, L brace and slots.  We have also designed, made and evaluated our own houses.  More long jump in PE and PSHE lessons all about our bodies and recognising that some parts of our bodies are private.

Week beginning 11.05.26

Week beginning 04.05.26

Week beginning 27.4.26

We've been busy in computing learning all about algorithms by making jam sandwiches and programming robot mice.  In PE we continued with our relay practice, this time using batons and we also started thinking about throwing in athletics.  We have been learning about Cesar Manrique, the artist, architect and sculptor from Lanzarote and have made two different wind toys inspired by his wind sculptures on the island.  We also had a special visitor from Stratford Food Bank who came to thank us for our donations and to explain where the food would go.

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