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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.

Autumn 1 2024

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.

Year 1’s Popping Popcorn. Come and buy some popping popcorn, it’s the best in town.

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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.

Our caterpillars have been munching through their food and have now got a lot bigger.

Look at our hairy caterpillars that we made by using egg boxes and grass seeds.

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 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.

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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.

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Our Harvest celebration song Cauliflower’s Fluffy.

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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.’

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