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Welcome to Year 1!

Our Class Teacher is Mrs Burtt

Our Teaching Assistant is Mrs O'Beirne

Year 1 Non-Negotiables for Writing, Reading and Maths

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Welcome Meeting

Meet the teacher 2023

Half-Termly Curriculum Letters.

On Thursday, we went to Hertfordshire Zoo. We got to see lots of different animals, eat our lunch, walk around the dinosaurs and go on the climbing apparatus.

This week we visited Pizza Express. We learnt about the different ingredients, hygiene when cooking, made a pizza and then got to enjoy eating it.

In DT, we have been looking at healthy food and where it comes from. We made potato salad and enjoyed eating it, some more than others.

We thoroughly enjoyed our Community Police afternoon. We saw a police dog, sat in police cars and put on riot outfits.

We had our own Baby Bear’s Birthday party. We enjoyed eating Daddy Bear’s Huff Puffs and Mummy Bear’s jam sandwiches.

We made Daddy Bear’s Huff Puffs.

We enjoyed dressing-up for World Book day.

For World Book Week we read the Mr Wolf and the Three Bears. We wrote what we needed for a party and recipes for the different food Mr Wolf and Grandma Wolf made for Baby Bear’s party.

Today we got to hold the ducklings.

In Maths, we have been learning to double. We used counters and wrote the addition number sentence. Some of us challenged ourselves to show the multiplication number sentence as well.

In English, we had been writing how to make pancakes. We had to write the ingredients, equipment and method but the favourite part was to eat them. They were YUMMY!

In PE, the children used lots of different skills they had been learning in their previous lessons to travel across the apparatus.

The children had a great time in their scooter workshop. They learnt how to stop using the break, how to put on their safety gear and some tricks they could do.

Our GOAL Day, we had bear stories outside, we went on a bear hunt and then made our own bears using natural resources.

In our GOAL day we went on a bear hunt.

In art, we used primary colours and mixed secondary colours to create a piece of artwork.

In computing, we pretended to be robots. We had to give precise instructions (algorithms) to make the robots move.

In Science, we were learning about different body parts. We found our own way of recording what we knew and had learnt in the lesson.

In PE, we have been learning to be rabbits and jump on and off different apparatus safely.

All dressed up for our Christmas performance. We had so much fun acting on stage and singing the songs. Thank you for coming to watch us.

We walked to the post-box and posted our letters that we had written to Santa in English.

In DT, we made our houses that we designed for a teddy bear. They had to have a roof, door and windows.

Dressing the Tree. In Year 1, we made snowmen for our decorations. They had to have a hat, scarf, arms, buttons and a carrot for their nose.

GOAL Day! The children enjoyed being outside completing a range of activities. They went on an autumn hunt, made people using leaves and sticks, leaf and bark rubbing, had biscuits and hot chocolate, made clay hedgehogs and finally sat around the campfire.

On Friday, we had Buddy Reading with Year 4.

We made Poppies for the whole school Remembrance Day display in the hall.

We had a fantastic Pirate Day. We made and ate sandwiches and biscuits and also made Mrs Burtt walk the plank!

Our Harvest song: Dingle Dangle Scarecrow and Here is the Tractor.

Our Harvest celebration song Cauliflower’s Fluffy.

In Science, we had to create a house for the 3 pigs using materials that we thought would be suitable to stop the wolf blowing it down.

The children thoroughly enjoyed their trip to Hudnall Park. We completed many activities and they managed to last to 9.30 before asking when lunch was.

We have been learning many different skills such as how to share, problem solve, work as a team, build and make music.

Mrs O’Beirne kindly brought in her dog called Barney. We learnt that we had to be calm and quiet, ask before we stroked him and how to look after him.

In Science, we sorted materials by their properties.

In Computing, we used the mouse to help us draw pictures.

In English, we have been verbally saying our sentences and then putting them in the correct order to read the sentence.

In Maths, we have been using different resources to help us with our number bonds to 5.

We had a lovely afternoon with Year 2 celebrating Roald Dahl day. We completed lots of different activities linked to the story ‘The BFG.’

We have had a fantastic year in Year 1. All the children have shown they are true CHAMPS. We are extremely proud of them all. Thank you for all your support and the generous gifts. Have a brilliant summer holidays and we look forward to seeing you all in September. The chidREN enjoyed their rocket lollies.

We celebrated Bastille day by re-creating Henri Matisse art work.

Some our work displayed for Open Evening.

In Science, we carried out an experiment to see which biscuit was the best for Mr Barron to dunk in tea.

In Art, we have been learning different ways to make paper become 3D. We then used the skills we had learnt to make our ‘Trees of Life.’

We enjoyed releasing our butterflies into the wild.

In Science, we worked in a group to show the differences between spring and summer.

Music Wow Day! We had great fun making castanets and dancing to flamenco music.

A fantastic sports week had by us all.

We had a great time seeing the birds of prey this morning. They flew over our heads and we got to hold Dotty. We learnt lots about the different owls.

Our caterpillars have got fatter and are starting to move to the top of the pot to start to make their cooons.

In Maths, we went outside looking for 3D shapes.

We got a special delivery yesterday of caterpillars. We are excited to see what happens.

In Science, we have been looking at plants. We turned egg boxes into caterpillars and grew some grass seed.

Our TV advert for the Enterprise sale on Friday 19th May at 3.15. Come and help the bees at Year 1’s Burtty Bee stall.

Some of our posters we designed for our Enterprise Sale.

In PSHCE, we have been learning about what makes a good friend. We made our own friendship potion.

We are all ready to celebrate the King’s Coronation in front of the parents. We thoroughly enjoyed wearing our crowns, waving our flags and singing our song for the King.

We collected natural resources from the woods to make our crowns. Look how lovely they look!

We had a fantastic time with Year 2 at the Radlett Centre watching the Smeds and the Smoos!

We enjoyed holding the ducklings. We had to be really careful and quiet so we do not frighten them.

In Art, we have been learning how to tye dye our t-shirts that we brought in from home.

Shirley spoke to us today about how to cross the road safely. We learnt that we need to Stop, Look, Listen and Think before we cross the road.

Bart Gee came to speak to us about anything is possible even when things might be difficult. We learnt how to hold a pencil using two hands and how to move across the floor when you can’t bend your legs and use your hands.

Happy Mother’s Day to our lovely mummies.

In DT, we have been looking at preparing food so we made potato salad. We loved it!

In PE, we have learning to dance around the maypole.

GOAL Day: In the morning, we made Smeds and the Smoo’s alien biscuits, drunk pink milk, made aliens with year 2 using natural materials. In the afternoon, we completed different activities with year 2, reception and nursery. We made paper rockets, painted aliens, rockets with the bricks, alien drawings and alien faces. We had great fun!

World Book Day: we looked amazing in our costumes. Thank you for making such an effort with your costumes.

Book Day: we created our own planets, dot to dot pictures and salt dough aliens.

Book Week: we enjoyed ‘Buddy reading’ with the other classes in school.

We enjoyed using the different areas to consolidate our learning.

PSHCE: look at our lovely flowers. The leaves show the steps we need to make to reach our GOALS.

We enjoyed working outside finding graphemes we had been learning in the our phonic lessons.

GOAL DAY: GOAL DAY: We went on a honeybee fact finding hunt, we made honey sandwiches, we chalked hexagons on the playground to make a tessellated honeycomb and made our own bee hive for our garden using tin cans, toilet rolls, paper and sticks.

In English, we have been re-writing the story ‘FUNNYBONES.’ We wrote the beginning and end the same but changed what happened in the middle.

In Computing, we pretended we were robots, we had to give precise instructions to make us move across the playground.

In PSHCE, we talked about what makes a good talking partner. We had to work with our partner to decorate our welly boot.

In Science, we have been learning about how we change from a baby to an elderly person. Thank you to the mummies that came into school so we could discuss what we had learnt.

In Maths, we practised addition and subtraction sums, and forming our numbers correctly.

In English, we completed different activities to consolidate our learning.

We had lots of fun in our Christmas performance.

In English, we wrote letters to Santa. We then walked to the postbox to post them. We heard a little jingle when we posted them and saw some elves waiting to collect them.

In Maths, we have been learning to add and subtract 1, 2 or 3 from a given number.

We thoroughly enjoyed the skipping workshop.

In our 'Dressing the Tree' assembly, we sang 'Little Donkey' with Year 2.

Our Fantastic Gade Valley Christmas Tree!

Our Christmas Tree decorations. We had a triangle shape piece of card, we used green string for the pine needles, coloured string for the tinsel and pompoms for the baubles.

We have been reading ‘The Emperor’s Egg.’ We have learnt lots about the penguins habitat, what they eat and how they look after their chicks.

Today is National Friendship Day so we made friendship bands and friendship potions.

We had great fun at our circus workshop. We learnt how to juggle and spin plates.

This week our chairs sent us a letter saying they had quit. The children wrote letters to persuade them to come back but we did have to work on the floor or bend down at the tables. The next day we were very excited to see that the letters had worked and our chairs were back.

Singing our Harvest Festival song- Dingle Dangle Scarecrow.

We enjoyed our Teddy Bear’s Picnic today.

In English, we have been writing an invitation, shopping list and instructions of how to make a jam sandwich.

In Art, we listened to music to help us create line pictures.

Our trip to Hudnall Park, we used our knowledge about materials to help make homes for animals. The children said they loved it all.

In English, we made and ate porridge so we could think of some adjectives to describe what it looked, tasted and smelt like.

We used big paper and highlighters to practise our spellings.

In Maths, we used cubes to make number bonds to 5.

In Science, we went on a material hunt.

We worked together to order numbers 1 to 20.

Here are our portraits of The Queen.

Our Learning Journey 2021-2022

Enjoying the warm weather with an icepop.

In Science and PSHCE, the pupils have been learning about life cycles. We had our own caterpillars that we watched go through the four different stages.

We had a lovely trip to the Zoo. There were so many different animals to see and places to explore.

Sports Week: we have had lots of fun completing different sporting activities and we have shown the Olympic and Para-Olympic values.

In Geography, we found out facts about the four UK countries.

The pupils had a great time completing the water challenge today. They had to work out how to get 10 litres of water from one side of the playground to the other. We worked out that some containers were better than others and it was important to pour the water carefully. We kept going for 20 minutes but only managed to get 1 very muddy litre to the other side.

In English, we have been reading the story 'The Crunching Munching Caterpillar.' We worked in groups to sequence the story,include time words and key vocabulary.

Queen’s Platinum Jubilee assembly.

We read the story The Queen’s Knickers and based our English and Maths on the book.

For the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee celebrations, we made cakes, decorated them and then got to eat them. Even Mrs Burtt enjoyed eating hers.

In Music, we played instruments to the rhythm of the song.

In DT, we used levers and pivots to help Jack climb up the beanstalk.

Goal Day: Year 1 found a letter in the woods, it was from the giant. He needed help to get back to his castle because Jack had chopped it down. We used sticks and wool to make a ladder but we didn't think it would be strong enough so we planted some beans and sunflowers for the giant. We also drew pictures of what we thought the giant might look like.

In English, we have been re-writing the story of Jack and the Beanstalk. We also had to make front covers for our books.

On Thursday we got to hold the ducklings. We thought they were cute, fluffy, fast in the water, tickly and lovely. They made us feel happy and excited.

On Tuesday, we walked to Pizza Express in town. We learnt about how Margarita Pizzas got their name, what ingredients are used, we became pizza chefs and best of all we got to take a pizza home to share with our family.

We enjoyed reading our books during DEAR (Drop Everything And Read)

In phonics, we had to find real and nonsense words using the digraphs we had learnt in the week.

In DT, we looked at different books. We had to find if anything moved in the book and how they moved.

This week we found an egg in the woods. In English, we wrote stories about why and what it could be. Then on Friday the eggs hatched and left lots of chocolate.

Look what hatched in the classroom 🐣🐥

In English, we have been writing poems about our Mums for Mother’s Day.

In Computing, we have been using the Beebots to learn about algorithms and de-bugging.

In Art, we used elastic bands and different equipment to tie into knots on the material and then placed into the colour dye we had chosen.

In PE, we have been using ribbons to make a dance routine up.

GOAL Day: Something strange happened in our playground today. What could it be?

GOAL Day: We had a visit from something from outer space. We had a great day with all the different activities we completed throughout the day.

In maths we have been using different resources to make an analogue clock.

In English, we wrote invitations, recipe that included the ingredients, equipment and method and we had to include imperative verbs. Then on Friday we got to make and eat them. Yum!

We had our own storyteller for Word Book day.

World Book Day in Year 1.

In History, we are looking at inspirational people. We learnt about Mae Jamison and how she persevered to reach her dreams.

In Computing, we had to follow the bee-bot directions.

In e-safety week we discussed how to stay safe on-line and who talk to.

We have been independently practising and applying our phonics to make and write words.

In Science, we drew and labelled the different parts of the body.

In Art, we had to roll and pinch the clay to make a sculpture.

In music we have been learning about the rhythm in the song ‘In The Way We Walk’.

In Art, we were inspired by the artist Andy Goldsworthy to create our own land art.

In PE, we had to change our bodies to make different shapes and positions.

We would like to wish you a very merry Christmas and a happy New Year. We look forward to seeing you back in 2022.

In DT, we have been rolling, joining, sticking and creating snowmen, angels and Santa’s.

In Maths, we had to work as a team to make a snowman then roll the dice to be able to stick the correct accessories.

Thank you for coming to watch our play.

We used clay and different materials to make snowmen for ‘Dress the Tree.’

In English, we wrote letters to Father Christmas and then we walked to the postbox to post them. We heard the Elf’s bells when the letter dropped into the box.

In Maths, we completed a variety of activities to consolidate our learning.

In Maths, we ordered penguins and used the words ‘shortest and tallest’ to verbally describe what order we had put them in.

We thoroughly enjoyed celebrating Diwali. We had to learn a new dance and put ribbons on our hands to show the fireworks.

In Art, we celebrated Diwali. We made clay hands and decorated them, we used 2D shapes and powder paint to make rangoli patterns.

In Maths, we were counting in 2’s we also made group of 2’s. As a challenge, we wrote the number sentence.

In Science, we had to answer the question ‘What would be the best material to make an umbrella for the bear? We carried out an investigation to find an answer to the question. We found out that the cling film and plastic bag would be the best.

In DT, we made our chairs for our bears. We had to choose the equipment we needed and work out how we could join the parts together. We worked on our own or with a partner.

In Science, we chose the items we thought were waterproof. We then carried out an investigation to see if we were right.

In DT, we made sandwiches for our tea party.

We invited the bears to join us at our ‘Tea Party’ and they helped us to eat the sandwiches and cakes we had made.

We had a lovely time on our trip to Hudnall Park. We made sculptures, a mouse house and habitats for other woodland animals. We also saw a video of a badger who had visited the woods.

In English, we re-wrote the story Goldilocks and the Three Bears.

In Maths, we have been solving subtraction sums.

In Science, we went on a material hunt around the school.

Well done for receiving CHAMP and Handwriting certificate.

In PSHE, we talked about what makes us feel safe.

In Maths, we have been learning to write our numbers and order them.

Well done for receiving the Handwriting and CHAMP of the week certificate and for working hard in PE.

We have had great fun learning this week.

Our Learning Journey 2020/2021

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Well done to the children for receiving their certificates this week.

Well done to the children for receiving their certificates in recognition of their dedication to the Olympic and Paralympic Values.

We had great fun in Sport’s Week. We showed all of our CHAMP qualities.

We were very excited today because our caterpillars hatched so we released them.

Butterflies being released.

We worked together to make a boat, a house and seesaws using the building bricks.

Today’s running races. They were all true CHAMPs. Well done!

Relay race.

Welcome Meeting.

Welcome to Year 1 2020.pdf

Well done to the children who received their certificates for reading, CHAMP of the week, handwriting and 100 housepoints.

In English, we went outside to write our own caterpillar story. We then made front covers.

In Maths, we have been using equipment to make groups of 5’s and sharing equal amounts.

Well done to the children who received their certificates this week for Handwriting, CHAMP, 100 House points and reading.

In Maths, we have been sorting odd and even numbers and counting in 2’s.

In English, we have been reading the story Olga da Polga by Michael Bond. We used non-fiction books to find facts about guinea pigs, made a fact poster, we used adjectives, verbs and adverbs to describe her, we used alliteration to describe what food she eats and we wrote a farewell letter from the other guinea pigs to help her with her move to her new home.

Well done for receiving your certificates this week and the Wonka bar.

In Art, we went outside to do observational drawings of plants.

Well done to the children who received their certificates this week and for winning the Wonka.

Today the weather was so nice so we completed our maths outside. We had to find 2-digit numbers, write numbers, use rulers and cubes to measure objects, puzzles and capacity.

In maths, we have been learning about capacity. We had to find empty, half-full and full. We also made magic potions and had to see how many millilitres each potion was.

Well done to the children who received their certificates this week for reading, handwriting, CHAMP and 100 house points.

In English, we re-wrote the Tiger Who came Tea. In Maths, we made sandwiches to show half and quarter.

We decided to have a go at writing our own version of the Tiger Who Came to Tea at home. We had a penguin, dragon and rabbit instead of a tiger.

We enjoyed having our tea party. We ate our sandwiches, we had cakes and biscuits.

Well done to children who received their certificates this week.

We had great fun making our pizzas today and are looking forward to eating them. We talked about the ingredients and where they came from.

In English, we wrote a shopping list and a set of instructions for our pizzas.

In Maths, we have been learning to identify different coins.

In DT, we learnt about levers and pivots. We drew and beanstalk and made the giant or Jack look like they were coming down the beanstalk.

In Geography, we went on a walk to look at our local area. We drew what we could see. We also talked about if it was a physical or human feature.

Well done to the children for receiving their certificates this week.

In DT, we are learning about moving pictures. We drew the scenery and the characters. We then used a lollipop stick to move our character along.

Well done to the children who received their certificates this week.

In Art, we have been learning about the artist Lowry. We mixed white and black together to make grey. We then painted the background on fabric.

In English, we re-wrote the story of Jack and the Beanstalk. We made our story into a beanstalk.

Well done to the children for receiving certificates for handwriting, CHAMP and reading.

Today we started our KS1 gardening project! You may remember that we were inspired to improve an area of our school grounds after reading the story ‘The Secret Sky Garden’. We bought some plants and compost with the money you kindly donated. We can’t wait to see them grow!