Maths

This week, Year One have been doing some Maths quizzes! We had lots of questions to answer on place value and addition and subtraction. We did so well, what a great bunch of mathematicians!

Phonics

We have been continuing our learning of the /oe/ sound this week. In one of our phonics lessons, the children volunteered to say the sounds and read the word and recognised which spelling of the /oe/ sound was in the word. The children then sorted the words into the correct spelling category. We are over the moon with the children’s progress and phonics skills!

Computing

The children have been learning about online safety and how to keep ourselves safe when online. Recently, we explored messages that may be dangerous and discussed the SMART way to stay safe and understood that it is always important to tell an adult if anything upsets you online. We have also learned that any work that we create online (and on paper!) is owned by you and the best way to show that it is is by making sure your name and the date is on your piece of work. The children’s task on Wednesday was to create a self-portrait on the laptop using paint and to name and date their work to show that they owned it. We had lots of fun learning how to type using the keyboard, how to use the mouse and which buttons to press to help us draw, colour and type words. We had a great time!

Music

To prepare for our Nativity, the children have been doing lots of singing practice. On Thursday, the children learned what a melody was and identified pitch and tempo of the different songs we have been learning. One child even said, “This song has a high pitch because we have to sign high!” We understood that we need to keep our bodies nice and straight to help us get lots of air in our lungs to help us sing confidently!

Have a lovely weekend everyone! Love Miss Walker and Mrs Days x

We have had such a busy week in Year Four – we have even surprised ourselves with how much we have learned!

We wore odd socks on Monday to promote the message that everyone is different but equal. Our two school council members, Libby and Grace then presented to the whole school an anti-bullying assembly. We learned how ‘one kind word’ can make a difference to someone’s day. They also shared these important messages with us:

Later in the week, we spent a morning with Mr. Adderson, our sports coach, playing games, working as a team and supporting one another. Afterwards, our e-cadets told us about how to stay safe online. They also reminded us that we have a right to feel safe on the internet but that we also have a responsibility to treat others correctly on the internet. Here are some of the online tips that they shared with us:

In our maths, we have been working out the perimeter of shapes. In English, we have become familiar with the Roman legend, Romulus and Remus and finally, in art, we have been developing our sketching and accuracy skills whilst trying to draw the colosseum. Here are some examples of our fantastic work!

Finally, today we are dressed up for Children in Need. We cannot wait for our dance on the spot-athon and, along with the whole school, we hope to raise lots of money for those who are less fortunate than ourselves…good luck everyone!

Anti-bullying week

On odd socks day, the children talked about anti-bullying and what that means. We then talked about how to treat other people and to respect that everyone is different. The children understood that the world would be a very boring place if everyone was exactly the same so we need to celebrate our wonderful differences!

Maths 

The children have worked hard to find the difference in sums this week. On Wednesday, the children used cubes to visually see the difference between two numbers and then worked out the difference using subtraction on a number line.

English

In relation to anti-bullying week, the children have been reading ‘Ruby’s Worry’. As a class, we have been discussing what a worry is and shared some common and personal worries. On Tuesday, we discussed ways to cope with worries and understood that it is not useful to keep worries bottled up inside, like Ruby did in the beginning of the story. These are Lizzy’s wonderful ideas she suggested that might help you to overcome worries and to help you relax:

-Tell a parent about your worry

-Have a good sleep

-Go on a run

-Tell a sister

-Have a massage

Science

Year One have started a new topic this week all about ‘animals including humans’. Our first lesson was all about sorting different animals into the correct animal group. The children had lots of pictures which they then had to sort into either birds, amphibians, mammals, reptiles and fish.

History

Mrs Days and the Year One children have been studying changes in living memory. Jensen and his family made a wonderful file filled with lots of pictures and memories. Jensen even made a lovely timeline to show key events in his lifetime so far! Thank you to all families for sharing their wonderful pictures and family trees with us – the children have thoroughly enjoyed sharing these with the class!

Well done Year One for all of your hard work this week! Have a lovely weekend everyone! Miss Walker and Mrs Days x

Good morning everyone!

Remembrance Day

Earlier in the week, the children learned all about Remembrance Day and why we celebrate on the 11th November every year. We discussed the bravery shown by men and women who are fighting or have fought for our country. To pay our respects, the children took part in a minutes silence on Remembrance Day to remember all of those who have died fighting for our country. After our minutes silence, Year One read a very moving book called ‘Where the poppies now grow’ which was about childhood friends Ben and Ray who find their innocent war games become real as the Great War ages around them. The children also made their own poppy wreaths together as a symbol of respect.

The children used their senses work from last week to write a firework poem earlier in the week. The children really enjoyed writing their first poem in Year One and what a wonderful job they did! Well done to Alby, Oscar, Dana and Hannah for their lovely writing this week.

Phonics

On Wednesday, the children continued to impress Miss Walker with their wonderful Phonics skills. As an additional activity, the children thought of a range of words that contain a range of spellings fot the ‘ee’ sound that we have been focussing on this week. All of the words written on the board were given by the children, some even realised they have an ‘ee’ sound in their name!

On Thursday, the children played a game called ‘Four in a row’ where the children had to say words with the ‘ee’ sound to gain their square and try and be the first to get four of their colour in a row. We had great fun!

Another wonderful, hard-working week. Have a lovely weekend, Year One! Love, Miss Walker and Mrs Days x

Maths

In Maths this week, we have been continuing practising our comparison and addition skills. Earlier in the week, the children looked at additions and compared them using less than, more than and equal to signs. We also looked at whether number sentences were correct or not. We then moved on to writing in our Maths books by writing out number sentences and our answers by making sure we wrote one number per square – just like KS2!

RE

On Tuesday, the children explored the special sacrament, Baptism. The children learned who is involved in this sacrament as well as people and objects you might see during the service. Year One then helped Mrs Days to label our RE display. The next day, Year One were joined by Reception to explore Baptism even more. We looked at videos of a baptism, what is involved and who is involved. We then had some of the children act out a baptism in the classroom with baby Lilly. We finished the lesson off with a quick quiz to see what the children could remember. Well done Reception and Year One for your excellent listening skills and knowledge!

Geography

Year One have finished their topic all about the United Kingdom. On Wednesday, we had a look at famous landmarks in the UK and discovered where we could find them such as the Angel of the North, the London Eye, Snowdon, Loch Ness and the Giant’s Causeway. We then worked hard with Miss Walker to match the landmarks to the countries within the UK on a map – just look at their excellent work! Later, Miss Walker quizzed the children to see who could put the landmarks in the right area on the map on our display – they have done a wonderful job!

Year One have made Miss Walker and Mrs Days very proud over this half term and wish them and all of the children and staff a lovely half term break!

Good morning everyone!

Maths

In Maths this week we have been continuing to work hard using the part-whole model and focussing on number bonds. The children have really impressed Miss Walker and Mrs Days with their wonderful work in their books and their independent work in our provision areas in the classroom.

English and Phonics

As promised, Year One continued to focus on a much loved book called ‘Meet the planets’. This week we focussed on labelling a fictional setting with descriptive words. We have also been writing factual lists about the sun. Just look at Lucas’ and Edward’s wonderful work. The children have also explored the /ae/ sound in Phonics this week and found lots of ways of spelling this sound!

Geography

In Geography this week, the children have continued to learn about the United Kingdom. On Wednesday, the children explored Google Maps and were fascinated to see the names of places where they live as well as our school on the screen! We have also been using a globe and an atlas to locate Durham, Newcastle and Lanchester on a map, we were very good at spotting them! The children have also been looking at the similarities and differences between a town or city and the countryside and sorted pictures using a venn diagram. In our Geography area, the children have also enjoyed presenting the weather forecast this week. They loved using Miss Walker’s pointer and a mini microphone to present to their audience to show the weather in different countries of the UK. The children demonstrated excellent Geography and Science skills!

Another fantastic week for Year One, we are so proud! Have a lovely weekend everyone. Love Miss Walker and Mrs Days.

English

As it is Space Week, Year One have loved reading our new book called ‘Meet the Planets’ by Caryl Hart. The book was all about a young girl who travelled with her dog to explore the Solar System. She met the eight planets in our Solar System and found out that some planets are hot, some are cold, some are red, some are blue and some even have volcanoes! The children learned that the stars in the sky are not sparkling sequins after all, but can be planets, moons or even suns! The children’s work based on this book has been amazing, just look at Arlo’s, Luke’s and MJ’s work! We will continue to focus on this book next week – Miss Walker and Mrs Days can’t wait to see more fantastic work from the children!

Phonics

Year One continue to work hard in Phonics. We have been focussing on two letters that make one sound and learning how to spell many words with these digraphs. We have also explored new tricky words, ‘there’, ‘their’ and ‘these’.

Space 

As it is Space Week, the children have been learning about the eight planets in our Solar System. We watched a fun video about Space and learned many interesting facts such as how the Sun is a star and that the Moon does not give off its own light as it is reflected from the Sun. The children loved singing a planet song to help them remember the order of planets in our Solar System! We then talked about climate change and how we need to look after planet Earth. Dana was inspired by our discussion and made her very own planet Earth!

Maths

We moved on to Addition and Subtraction in Year One this week. The children learned a new method that we use lots in Maths called the part-whole model. The children practised making this model outside on Monday and have continued to work hard on this tricky concept in class. Lots of children have completed part-whole models independently and have completed excellent work in our Maths books. We are so proud!

RE

In our Judaism topic, the Year One children learned all about Abraham and how God promised he would have many descendants, even as many as the stars in the sky. We discussed what this meant and thought about how God thought Abraham was a very special person. The children thought about the special people in their lives and wrote their names on a star. We have used these stars to create a night sky to show Abraham’s promise on our RE display. The children also learned about how God asked Moses to help the Jewish people in Egypt as they were unhappy and were not safe. We discussed how brave Moses must have been to stand up to the Pharaoh and to put all his trust in God to help the Jewish people to flee Egypt.

Geography

We have been learning about the United Kingdom and the countries and capital cities that make up the UK. The children looked at an Atlas to look at England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. We also used an Atlas to find the capital cities in each country. We also looked at each country’s flag and used our Atlas to colour, cut and stick the flag in the right place on a map.

On Monday we celebrated European Day of Languages. Year One celebrated Spain and came in wearing the Spanish flag colours. We really enjoyed learning Spanish phrases, watching flamenco dancing, learning anout famous landmarks in Spain and tasting a range of food from Spanish culture such as chorizo and ham, tortilla, olives and manchego cheese. We had some mixed reviews during our tasting session!

In Phonics this week, we have been exploring new sounds such as ‘sh’ and ‘ch’. We did really well finding all of the ‘sh’ words in a big text on Thursday!

In Maths, we finished our Place Value unit. The children have done really well in the topic and are now ready to add and subtract numbers!

In English, we have been writing lots of super sentences! We have been remembering to include our finger spaces, capital letters, full stops and our fantastic sounds.

In Science, we wrote down what we already know about seasons. We had some wonderful ideas! Next, we wrote down what people may wear in Autumn and how the trees change.

English

In our English lessons this week, Year One have been writing a short diary entry while imagining they were the dragon teacher in our class book, ‘Who’s our new teacher?’. The children had to write what happened in the dragon’s day at school. Check out Dana’s amazing work!

At the end of the week, the children were introduced to a new book called ‘Aaaarrgghh. Spider!’ and discussed who the author and illustrator were of our new book. The children read the first few pages and absolutely love the story so far! The children’s task was to predict what they thought would happen next in the story and explaining their reasoning. Have a look at Arlo R’s fantastic prediction!

Maths

In Maths this week, the children have been learning how to compare numbers by using less than < and greater than >. We watched an excellent video about Mr and Mrs Alligator and learned that the alligator always chomps at the number that is greater! We practised this concept by chomping at the larger number to show which numbers were less and more than. All of the children fully grasped this idea and did a lot of their work independently. We are particularly proud of Oscar’s Maths work this week so did this completely on his own!

RE

We have continued our topic on families in RE this week. On Thursday, we went outside to explore all of the things God loves and cares for. The children came up with lots of great ideas such as trees, plants, flowers and even themselves! We then came back to class and drew our ideas and will be making a class collage for our RE display. The children have also explored psalms and understand that these are prayers that are often sung in church. We looked at a special psalm this week which was all about thanking God for lots of things. The children wrote a bedtime prayer thanking God and expressing how God makes them feel. Look at Arlo W’s lovely example.

Art

Mrs Days and Year One have continued their art topic all about self-portraits. Last week, the children drew a self-portrait in the style of Picasso. This week, the children then had to make their drawing bolder so it was more visible and explored colours that can show different emotions. Next week, the children will be adding different colours to their drawings to make an abstract portrait – we can’t wait! Ivy’s work is simply fantastic!

Well done Year One for another wonderful week! Miss Walker and Mrs Days are very proud of you all! x