Year 1 Class Blog 23.09.22 'And I think to myself what a wonderful world’

‘And I think to myself what a wonderful world’

This week we have started our class story ‘Supertato’. We have only started reading the first 2 pages so have been making predictions about the story and discussing the characters we have met so far. We have been thinking about how they are feeling and what has happened to them. We loved our drama session Miss Liddell was Mrs Carrot then a few children wanted to be Mr Broccoli. We had to think of questions and if we were Mr Broccoli then we had to think of what he would say. The children though of some excellent questions and I was impressed with Mr Broccoli’s answers, well done!

During R.E. lessons this week we have begun to explore our understanding of ‘God’s Great Plan’. The children have been thinking deeply about all of the beautiful things God had made in our world. I wonder if they can spot any more beautiful things over the weekend? 

In Maths we continued grouping different objects, counting objects from a group of 10. Finding 5 in the numbers 6,7,8,9 and 10 and representing numbers in different ways.

We have loved our different continuous provision challenges this week, this is a great chance to develop our independence and practise skills taught in our lessons.

Let’s Celebrate

Well done to our last week awardees for being a Kiki Chameleon and being creative with our Maths grouping, by putting the objects in groups of 5.

Copper Crab- Well done Jude for setting a great example to the rest of the class as he always listens and makes good choices.

Todays awardees are a Lizzy Ladybird for a super week reflecting on themselves and working hard and Bobby Bee for being enthusiastic in her learning this week, well done :).

Henry the Dog

Each week a different child who has worked hard, will get to take our class dog home to look after over the weekend. Henry loves going on lots of adventures. We hope you have a lovely weekend with Henry, we can’t wait to hear what you have been up to :).

Class Councillors

Congratulations to our Year 1 Class Councillors. This is a big position of responsibility; I have no doubt that you will both rise to the challenge! Well done to all of the children who put themselves forward and spoke to the class about why they would like to be a Class Councillor too, we were very impressed with all of the speeches, the children then voted.

 

Have a brilliant weekend,

Miss Drummond, Miss Liddell and Miss Johnson

Year 1 Blog 16.09.22

We have had another busy week, in English we tasted different fruit and vegetables and described them using our senses.

We then used our word bank to compose our own fruity poem, we created our own actions and performed it.

In Maths we have been continuing focusing on 5, how we can make it using different resources and how many more we need.

Today we started sorting objects into different groups, we were impressed with how creative some of the children were when grouping their objects. We will contine this next week.

 

Induction Evening

It was lovely to meet so many parents on Wednesday, thank you for coming. It was great discussing the year ahead and the learning journey the children will go on in Year 1.

 

Certificates:

 Well done to our last week awardees for being a Cooper Crab and concentrating on the carpet, and a Bobby Bee for enthusiasm in Maths.



 

Thank you for those who have already filled in the forms, if you haven’t please fill them in over the weekend.

 

Have a lovely weekend, we look forward to seeing you on Tuesday

 Miss Drummond, Miss Liddell and Miss Johnson

Welcome to Year 1

Dear Year 1, 

Welcome back, I hope you have had a lovely summer holiday.  Miss Liddell and I are very excited to meet you all again and we have a busy half term planned for the children. Next week we will focus on settling in and learning about each other. Our induction evening will be on Wednesday 14th September at 6pm. We are looking forward to welcoming you into our classroom. 

Here are a few important reminders: 

Our PE days are on Mondays (outside) and Fridays (inside) we will start our PE sessions on Friday 9th September. Please come into school in PE kits on PE days. If your child wears earrings, please remove them before they come to school on these days.  

To ensure everything comes home, please label everything that comes into school. All items of uniform, coats, PE kit, lunchboxes, water bottles, wellies etc. 

Please send your child in with a bag with spare underwear, socks, tights, trousers, skirt/pinafore etc. in a named plastic bag just in case of any accidents. They will be kept on your child’s peg.  

 

Art sessions will be every Friday, please can you bring in an old oversized T-shirt to keep in school. 

 

Finally if you have any spare underwear, socks etc. we would be grateful if you could donate them for our class.  

If you have any questions please do not hesitate to ask.  

 

Here’s to a super year ahead!  

 

Miss Drummond 😊  

“Send her victorious, happy and glorious, long to reign over us, God save our Queen”.

It’s been a wonderful first week back and a very exciting start to our final half term in Year 1!

On Wednesday, we had a fabulous day celebrating the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee and it was wonderful to be able to celebrate together as a whole school. Our playground was a magical sea of red, white and blue and the children thoroughly enjoyed being together. Our amazing kitchen team prepared fantastic jubilee lunches, the sun was shining and we were able to enjoy a special picnic together outside. In the classroom, we did lots of activities to mark this very special occasion.

What have we been learning this week?

In Maths, we have been exploring numbers from 20 to 100. We have been deepening our understanding of those numbers, the relationships between them and how they are made. When counting, we have begun by grouping the amounts into 10’s and counting on.

In English, we have begun our new unit, ‘How to train a train’. This week we have been discussing different animals and pets and the children have worked in teams to research and write about their findings.

Hip-Hip-Hooray!

Certificates:

Focused Cooper Crab: Lena!
Lena, you have been so focused and have done some fantastic independent writing this week. You have been thinking of ways to make your writing even better and have taken on challenges with a big smile and positive attitude. We are really proud of you Lena, well done!

Co-operative Roger Robin : Fletcher!
Fletcher, you are always thinking about how you can be a positive role model for others by setting a good example in everything you do. You always try to be a supportive learning partner and caring friend. Well done for being such a good role model for our class and our school.
 Well done Fletcher!  

Sports Day

We are very excited for our Year 1 sports day which will be on Tuesday 14th June 13:30 - 14:45.
Grown ups are welcome to come and watch and we look forward to sharing a fun afternoon with you!

Ready, Steady Go…!

Notices

  • This term the children will need to wear their PE kits on Monday, Wednesday and Thursday.

  • As always, if you have any questions at all, please don’t hesitate to email me s.hartley@ourladystarofthesea.lancs.sch.uk

    Have a wonderful weekend,

Mrs Hartley and the Year 1 Team

"Let your roots grow down into Him and let your lives be built on Him."

This week Year 1 had a surprise visit; I wonder if you can guess who it was…
He has two floppy ears, a twitchy nose and a new blue jacket with beautiful brass buttons. That’s right, it was Peter Rabbit!
He was very mischievous and squeezed under the gate of our outdoor classroom but he didn’t come for carrots and radishes, instead, he left some clues which led us to the words he had hidden outside!

Being the enthusiastic Bobby Bee’s that they are, Year 1 used these words to write some super sentences. The were so focused and had so many fantastic ideas they just couldn’t stop writing! They were so proud of their work and can’t wait for grown ups to see it during our book visit next week.

What have we been learning this week?

In Maths we have been exploring measurements and had great fun measuring different objects around the classroom using both standard and non-standard units of measure. We wrote comparative sentences to compare the objects we had measured and noticed that the language we uses changed depending on if we were describing the height or the length.

In Science we have begun our new ‘plants’ topic and started with a hunt around our school to see what different plants we could find. Then we looked closely at different types of plants and thought about the similarities, differences and how we can describe them.

In RE we listened to the story of Jesus travelling to Jerusalem. We thought about what we would do if someone special came to our school and how we would make them feel welcome. We talked about the story together and discussed what Jesus’s followers did to make him feel welcome.

Hip-Hip-Hooray!

Certificates:

Enthusiastic Bobby Bee’s: Congratulations Year 1!


This week it was too difficult for Mrs Hartley and Miss Liddell to choose just two children to receive the certificates. We were blown away by how focused Year 1 were during their English lesson on Thursday, everyone produced a fantastic piece of writing; they were so focused and wrote with great enthusiasm and determination. Therefore, we decided that the whole class deserve the certificate this week and have displayed it proudly in our classroom!

Huge congratulations Year 1, we cannot wait to see what you achieve next!

Walk for Hunger

Year 1 continue to be so determined in their mission to support Walk for Hunger and have not let the rainy weather dampen their space walks! We have had some wonderful class discussions about how we can show our gratitude for the things that we have and what we can do to help others.

Notices

  • A polite reminder that on Friday 25th March you are invited to come into school to look at the children’s learning in their books. If you would like to come in, please book this through the ‘Response to Learning Invitation’ button which can be found on Miss Hornby’s blog from last week.

  • As always, if you have any questions at all, please don’t hesitate to email me s.hartley@ourladystarofthesea.lancs.sch.uk

    Have a wonderful weekend,

Mrs Hartley and the Year 1 Team