Year 1
Welcome to Year 1!
Our Class Teacher is Mrs Burtt
Our Teaching Assistants are Mrs O'Beirne and Miss Christie
Year 1 Non-Negotiables for Writing, Reading and Maths
Welcome Meeting
Half-Termly Curriculum Letters.
In PE, we enjoyed using the apparatus. We had to find ways to travel across, over and under it.
All ready for our Christmas performance. Don't we look fabulous!
In English, we wrote our letters to Santa. We then walked to the post box to post them. We heard the Christmas bell ring when they dropped into the box and saw the elves waiting to collect them.
We had a great time at the skipping workshop. Lots of us said we couldn't skip but by the end we all could.
In PE, we used our bodies to become different animals. We used different equipment to slide like a snake, jump like a rabbit, step over like a giraffe and leap like a frog to touch beanbags.
In English, we have been reading Meg and Mog. We had to write a set of instructions on how to make a spell and descriptive sentences about a witch. To end the week and celebrate all our hard work we had a creative afternoon using lots of different skills. We used chalk to make spooky pictures, children wrote spooky words, made pumpkin lanterns, observational drawing of a pumpkin, made leaf ghosts and made spells using cornflower and food colouring. Finally, we had spooky treats.
We had a dressing-up afternoon.
We had lots of fun on our school trip to the model village.
We have been using cubes to help us with our number bonds.
GOAL day: we played number games, explored the woods, rode the bikes, had to find a way to make the water go right across the playground, painted on big pieces of paper and made food for the birds. It was the best day ever!
We have had a fabulous start to the new academic year. Everyone has settled really quickly. Here are some of our learning so far.
Thank you for being such a fabulous class. We have thoroughly enjoyed teaching you and watching you grow. Glad you enjoyed the ice creams from us. I think by your faces the chocolate sauce was your favourite. Enjoy your summer break and look forward to seeing you in September.
In Science, we carried out an investigation. The children had to work out how to make the apple erupt.
Hertfordshire Zoo: This was our final trip in Year 1. We had a fabulous day seeing lots of different animals.
GOAL day: We had great day enjoying the sunshine.
We had a great time pretending we were at Pizza Express. We got to make our own pizzas and the best part was we got to eat some of it.
The giant left us letters to help us with our own letter writing. To say thank you, he left us a final note with a basket that had a golden egg and some chocolate swish rolls.
In maths, we had an ice-cream parlour to help us with learning about money. We used coins to buy the ice-cream and different toppings. They were yummy.
GOAL Day: We went for a walk to The Old Town and spotted Tudor houses, we went in the walled garden, climbed on the apparatus, rolled down the hill and used the ipads to complete a quiz about what we saw.
VE day celebrations. We made bunting, had lunch on the field, played games, played old fashioned games, made medals, planes, flags and used bricks to make our own planes.
We had lots of fun at our Neon dance workshop.
In RE, we learnt about the festival Diwali. We made rangoli patterns using chalk.
We have enjoyed using our outside area. We have been problem solving, reading, writing and making sculptures in the sand.
In English, we had to write a list for the bear's party, Daddy Bear's Huff puffs and Mummy Bear's sandwiches. We then had our own teddy bear's picnic and got to eat the food we had made.
We had lots of fun at the theatre watching There's a Monster in the Show!
GOAL Day, we had lots of fun drawing and painting monsters, exploring in the woods, making monster biscuits and using the iPads.
We completed lots of fun activities linked to the book - There's a Monster in the Book!
Morning activities to help with our writing and reading.
In DT, we used different techniques to join the material together.
In English, we wrote a recipe for making pancakes so in our maths lesson we used the recipe to help us weigh out the ingredients. We had to work out how many pancakes we would need for each table. We cut each pancake into quarters and shared them with our friends.
In Maths, we have been learning about fractions half and quarter. We used biscuits and icing to show what we had learnt. The best part was getting to eat them after.
GOAL day: we completed lots of activities linked the Big Garden Birdwatch. We made bird feeders, drew birds, went on a bird hunt, used the iPads to answer questions around the school grounds and had biscuits and hot chocolate.
Some of our Take 5 activities.
In Science, we went outside to see if we could answer the question 'How does ice melt?'
The Simply the Best Nativity!
In PE, we enjoyed using the apparatus.
In maths, we used denes to represent the 10s and the 1s in teen numbers.
In English we wrote letters to Father Christmas. After we went to post them at the postbox. We listened really carefully so we could hear the elves.
Football skills workshop, the children thoroughly enjoyed learning different skills they could use with a football. They all persevered as some of them were really challenging.
GOAL day: Children had great fun making groups of 2's and practising writing their numbers when making a hopscotch. They went round the school grounds looking for plaques and matching the number to the letter. In the afternoon, they made maps inspired from the book 'We're Going To Find The Monster! We then used the maps to go and find the tickle monster.
Anti-bullying week: Through play, children demonstrated the importance of using kind words and sharing.
In Science, we decided what materials would make a good house for the three little pigs. From our investigations we identified that the houses made out of the plastic were stronger than the stick houses.
In computing, the children have been learning to use the mouse to drag a picture across the screen.
Sue from Frogmore Papermill came to teach us about how paper is made. We got to make our own piece and completed other activities that used paper.
In Science, we have been learning about different materials. We went on a material hunt around the school.
In maths, we have been learning our number bonds to 5 and 6. We played lots of different games to help us learn them.
In maths, we have been playing games to help us with ordering numbers to 20.
In English, we have been practising writing rhyming sentences.
GOAL Day: we had lots of fun playing in the autumn leaves, making trees, making potions, eating biscuits and drinking hot chocolate.
The Year 6's came and showed us some activities we could play during our lunch break.
GOAL Day: we made our own obstacle races and we had to work as a team to work out how to get as much water from one side to the other.
In Science, we have been learning about summer. We used objects to make shadows from the sun. We learnt that the sun was the light source and the object blocked the sun to make the shadows.
In Maths, we used arrays to help us write multiplication sums.
In Computing, they have been learning how to make their own animations. They had to put in set algorithms to make their characters move.
We planted our sunflower seeds. We remembered what we had learnt in science about what is needed for a plant to grow. Thank you to one of the nans, in our class, for providing us with the seeds, soil and pots.
In maths, we have been learning about money. We walked to Pruden's bakery where we used money to buy a teddy bear biscuit.
In RE, we have been learning about the festival Diwali. We made our own rangoli patterns.
In English, we used ipads to research facts about honeybees. This helped us to write our fact files about them.
In Science week, we had to complete an investigation. We tested which nappy held the most water.
We had great fun in the STOMP workshop. We had to follow a routine just using our hands and feet.
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 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.
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 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!
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.
