In English we have been writing animal fact books. We compared fiction and non-fiction books first, then wrote about our chosen animal's appearance, animal group and diet. We then went to share these with Reception. 

In maths we explored length and height. We began by measuring with cubes then used rulers to measure objects as well as lines. 

In geography, we have been looking at our local area. We thought about our home, town, borough, city, country AND continent! We are very much looking forward to our local walk at the end of the week too. 

In science we have continued our topic of animals and this week we have been making the most of our school grounds and went pond dipping. So far Hedgehogs and Otters have been successful finding a range of animals including newts. Moles are looking forward to their turn tomorrow. 

We also enjoyed singing to you all this afternoon! Have a lovely Easter break.

This week we have started our poetry topic in English. So far we have explored and performed nursery rhymes and rhyming poems. We have learnt how to perform poetry in an exciting way through using actions, sound effects and changing the tone of our voice. In Maths, we are recapping our knowledge of subtraction, and we have been looking for the missing number using part whole models, number lines, and pictures. In music, we are creating our own aquarium- sounding music. We have used a range of instruments including, a glockenspiel, tambourine, drum and maraca. In geography, we are learning about rural and urban areas. We will be exploring the different features we can find in a rural and urban environment. In science, we are continuing to learn about animals. This week we have learnt about carnivore, omnivore and herbivore diets. 

This term, we have started a range of exciting new topics across the curriculum. In English, we have begun whole-class lessons, and our new text is Where the Wild Things Are. We started by exploring the story through role-play and freeze frames to help us become familiar with the characters and events. In maths, we have started a topic on place value to 20. This week, we have focused on numbers 11–19, learning about tens and ones and why they are important. In history, we are learning about the history of flight. We are exploring some of the earliest flying machines and inventions, and we also designed our own flying machines. In science, we went on a winter walk where we looked for signs of winter and discussed the seasonal changes we will be experiencing over the next couple of months.

In English we created our own monster. We then used adjectives to describe our monsters. We have now also learnt about verbs and have been writing about our morning routines. 

In maths we have been continuing to add and subtract numbers using tens frames, number lines and resources to help us. We also leant about fact families using part whole models.

We have begun our new history topic all about explorers! We thought about what an explorer is and what they do, we then drew ourselves as explorers. We have learnt about a significant explorer called Ibn Battuta and how he travelled for nearly 30 years!

In science we have been enjoying exploring a range of materials and describing their properties. This week we tested which materials were transparent and which were opaque. 

In art we have been working together to create a piece of artwork using different types of lines using oil pastels, pencils and pens. 

This week in DT we made our moving pictures using sliders or levers. We were all very happy with our end result!

In maths, we have been learning about addition fact families using part whole and bar models. We have also been learning our number bonds to 10 and wrote them systematically so that we didn't forget any!

In science we have learnt about our sense of taste! We did a blind taste test of five different foods ranging from sour, spicy, sweet and bitter. We have also been observing some seasonal changes and went for an autumn walk around the woodland trail. We noticed the changing colours of the leaves and enjoyed seeing the huge pumpkins!

In RE we explored humanism and how humanists believe the word was created through the Big Bang.

We hope you enjoyed our harvest assemblies and have a lovely half term. 

Year 1 team.

This week in carousel we have been exploring our sense of smell to continue our science topic about parts of the body. We enjoyed a walk to the sensory garden to explore the scents of different herbs. We have also been learning about Australian aboriginal dot painting, and have had a go making our own dot painting of a snake!

In maths, we have begun learning about part-whole models. We have explored the part-whole model using a variety of resources and then practised combining parts to make a whole.

In geography, we have continued learning about the continents. This week's focus was Australasia, and we learnt and wrote lots of facts about Australia and put them together to make a class fact file!

In PSHE, we have been learning about safety. This week, we explored safety around substances and discussed things that are safe/ not safe for our bodies.

Have a lovely weekend!

The Year 1 team. 

In maths, the children have been learning to represent numbers in different ways and to compare groups through matching.

In RE, they explored the creation story, learning how the world was made in seven days.

Meanwhile, in Geography, they discovered the seven continents and the five oceans of the world.

In PE, we have been exploring different ways of moving safely to avoid obstacles.

Last week in history we went for an archaeological dig around the school grounds and found some interesting artefacts. We have also been learning about Edward the Confessor and made our own decisions about who we think would make a good King of England after him. 

In English we have enjoyed learning about superheroes linked to Supertato. After describing Supertato we have then created our own fruit or vegetable superhero! Children have been very creative and we have had all sorts of wonderful creations from Magnificent Mango to Powerful Pickle! 

In maths we have continued learning about position and direction and how to describe where objects are using left, right, above and below. We also explored quarter, half and full turns using clockwise and anticlockwise. This has also linked into our PE where we have been orienteering using a map of the school.

In computing we have been using the BeeBots and had a lot of fun programming them to get to different places. 

In English, we have continued our topic of traditional tales. We have learnt about the suffix -ing, and used our knowledge to write sentences about Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. We will now be creating our own dwarf and describing them!

In Geography, we have been learning all about weather. This week, we explored climate and the equator, and how different countries have different climates. We coloured and labelled our own map to show this!

In maths, we have continuing learning all about fractions. We have already learnt about half, and this week we have begun learning about quarters! We have explored folding shapes into quarters, and finding a quarter of a quantity.

In Science this week, we have been learning all about fruits and vegetables! As part of our plant topic, we closely observed different fruits and vegetables, and learnt about the difference between the two.

We enjoyed a lovely assembly this week all about Bees! We learnt all about the importance of bees for our environment and food, and enjoyed a delicious lunch all associated with food from bees!

The year 1 team.

In science, for our topic on plants, we have been looking at the trees in our playground and carefully observing the leaves to decide whether they are deciduous or evergreen. We also combined our maths skills to measure the leaves using cubes (please see pic above!).

In art, we used our paper sculpture skills to create a ‘Tree of life’ (It appears to have been a very tree themed kind of week!)

In our English lessons, we have continued our topic on traditional tales with a focus on the ‘Hare and the Tortoise’.  With this, we have looked at the prefix ‘un’ and the suffix ‘er’ and included these in our sentence writing.

Finally, in maths, after a unit on multiplication, we have started division and have practised sharing objects in equal groups. We then moved on to representing the objects by drawing counters and groups.

We are also looking forward to our trip to Hobbledown on Friday to support our science learning (animals). Only one more sleep to go! Have a super weekend.

The Year 1 team.

In DT, we have been designing and making our own fruit salads! We used our chopping and peeling skills to make the salad, and tasted them afterwards. Yum!

Over the last few weeks in English, we have been reading the story ‘Beegu’. We acted out the story and created story maps, and then used our inference skills to write about how a character is feeling. We have also practiced writing sentences using the conjunction ‘because’.

In maths, we have been learning about doubles and near doubles, and have used numicon and tens frames to practice these. We have also practised subtraction within 20 by counting back and using our number bonds!

In history, we have been finishing our topic ‘The history of flight’. This week, we looked at the future of flight, how aircraft might change in the next 100 years. We then designed an example of how aircraft might look in 100 years!

We have had a great first half of the spring term. We hope you have a lovely half term break!

The Year 1 team.

In English, we have started reading ‘Room on the ‘Broom’. We have loved making our own potions in carousel!

In History, we have been looking at significant explorers. This week, we learnt about Neil Armstrong and the children loved making their own rockets!

In maths, we have been learning all about shapes. We explored lots of different shapes and did a shape hunt around the classroom, finding rectangles, squares, circles and triangles.

In science, we have continued our topic ‘materials’. This week we learnt all about what a waterproof material is and conducted our own experiment for choosing the best material for an umbrella.

We have loved singing our Christmas songs too! Have a lovely Christmas holiday!

The Year 1 team.

This week in Maths we have explored mass. We have used scales and practised using key vocabulary such as: heavier, lighter, balanced, greater than, less than. Next week we will start to look at multiplication and division.

In English, we have started our new topic of Traditional Tales. The first two weeks of this term we are reading the story of Goldilocks and the Three Bears. We will be learning about the features of a letter and telling the truth. This links with our living value for this term - Honesty.

In geography, we are learning about weather and seasons. We are going to learn how to measure the weather using weather equipment. We will be making our own rain gauge next week!

We have started our new science topic for this term - Plants! We are going to learn the difference between wild and planted flowers. This week we are going on a plant hunt around the school. We are going to learn how plants grow and what they need to survive. 

We have lots of exciting things planned for this term and can't wait to start!

This week Year 1 have been learning about onomatopoeia and alliteration in poems. They have exceeded our expectations and writing some amazing alliterative sentences and a poem about the seaside packed full of onomatopoeia! In maths, we have been learning to partition numbers into tens and ones. They have used the dienes, drawn examples in their books and worked out some word problems. In science, we have learnt about carnivores, herbivores and omnivores, and this week we went pond dipping finding newts and much much more. 

We are really looking forward to our trip to Brooklands on Thursday. We can't wait to tell you all about it!

In our science lessons we are now looking at animals and have started sorting them into different groups (please see the pic above!) by looking at similarities and differences. This topic will continue for the rest of the spring term. In maths, we have continued with subtraction using our mental maths skills and different written methods. We have also been using different maths vocabulary each lesson. How many different ways can you think of to say ‘subtract’?

We are also really enjoying our new class text ‘Beegu’ and we have been reading, acting and writing a character description with a focus on using adjectives. We are looking forward to welcoming you into class on Friday so that we can share all of our fabulous learning!

This week we have finished our work on the story of "Where the Wild things are". We planned a wild rumpus to celebrate the end and bought in a party snack from home. We have continued our learning on addition in maths looking at patterns and links with the number bonds. In Religious Education we have learnt all about synagogues and draw some really colourful ones in our books. In Art we have learnt about the different types of crafts and we have wrapped wool around card and sticks and learn how to weave using colourful paper and card.  Finally in history we have been learning about early types of planes and comparing them with jet planes that we travel on today.