Year1-20202022

We have had a great first term together. They have settled in well to life in Year 1 and have enjoyed all our creative learning this term. The children have loved exploring paint and learning about the primary and secondary colours. They have learnt how to create hues of colours and painted some beautiful turnips linked to our story, ‘The Enormous Turnip’. The children also loved retelling their own versions of the story using their own vegetable and characters. Maybe your child will be able to retell their story to you if you ask them. We also had fun this week printing using different vegetables. We recreated a farmer using the prints.

In maths this term, we have been exploring our knowledge of numbers to 10. The children have been finding one more and one less than numbers and they have been learning to make numbers in different ways. We have also been learning to recall all our pairs of numbers to make 10. There is a great game online if your child wants to continue to practice their bonds to ten.

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button

Our next project is ‘Polar Explorers’. To start our project, we would like to invite your child to dress up for the day as an explorer. This will be on Thursday 4th November. Further details will be emailed out to you. Any questions please email the team on year1@stmarksce.org.uk 

Have a super half term. Thanks for all your help with your child’s learning this term.

Year 1 Team

The children have been busy over the last couple of weeks in Year 1. They have been learning about rules as part of our RE learning and thinking about how rules relate to our everyday lives. In maths, they have been practicing their counting forwards and backwards and using different maths equipment to represent the numbers in different ways. The children wrote some amazing poems last week as part of their English, using their senses to help them describe all the things they like. 

They are really enjoying their writing in Year 1 and we look forward to writing a story with them over the coming weeks about a very hungry caterpillar! The children have loved watching our class caterpillars grow and a few of them became butterflies on Friday, which was really exciting! In our artwork, they have been exploring colour and paint. The children have created some lovely pieces of artwork inspired by their knowledge of primary colours.

Google Classrooms: For children who are isolating and well enough to work, there is learning everyday in the Year1-2021 classwork folder. If your child tests positive following a PCR test and needs to isolate, then live lessons can be accessed on Google classrooms. Please check the Year 1-2021 stream for updates about timings for the live lessons. Links will appear just before the start of the lesson on the year1 stream.

If you have any questions or concerns, then please contact the Year 1 team by email on year1@stmarksce.org.uk

Thanks for all your support

Year 1 Team

What a great start to Year 1! The children have all settled in well and are adjusting to all the new routines of Year 1. They have enjoyed exploring our new classrooms and completing our daily challenges through discovery. In maths this week, we have been thinking about our numbers within 10 and exploring different ways of making them. We have also been enjoying our writing by thinking about what we are ‘thankful’ for. 

This term we will be thinking about ‘Sensational Senses’, where we will be learning about our senses and parts of the body. We will also be exploring colour through our art and painting. Further details about our project can be found in the attached knowledge organiser and topic web.

Reading Books:

• Your children should already have brought home a reading book, which will be changed each week when they read with an adult in class. This book is linked to a colour band.
• Today they will bring home a library book to share with you. Please make sure this is in school every Friday so they can change it.
• Next week, they will be given a Read Write Inc reading book linked to their phonics group, which they will have from Monday to Friday.
• Please make sure your child’s reading books are in school everyday so that they can be read with.

We have all really enjoyed our first week with your children and we look forward to the year ahead with them. Please do not hesitate to contact the team with any concerns or questions using the year group email: year1@stmarksce.org.uk

Thanks for all your support

Mrs Carter, Mrs Lee, Mrs Callaghan, Mrs Phillips

2021 Sensational Senses knowledge organiser.docx

2021 Year 1 Sensational Senses Topic web

Year 1 have had great fun being creative in their RE learning and in their art this week. In RE, the children have been learning about the concept of ‘Creation’, where they have thought about how the world around us has been created. They have thought about how special everything is and how we need to look after it. They have learnt about the ‘Story of Creation’ from the Bible and recreated this story through artwork.

The children have also learnt to use the program, ‘sketchpad’ on the computers. They have explored how to use the mouse to use ‘drag and drop’ skills in order to help them create different pictures. They enjoyed creating their own nature picture ready for a mini-beast, which they made from felt.

Continuing with the creativity theme, the children have also been learning to sew at school. They have learnt to sew using a running stitch and also an over-stitch. They then designed their own mini bags to carry some seeds in. The children loved making their bags and they are really excited to bring them home with them next week to show you.

Request: As we near the end of term, could we please ask you to send two carrier bags into school with your child so they can safely bring all their artwork and books home.

Thank you for all your continued support.

Year 1 Team

Year 1 have had a great start to our new project, ‘Flower Power’. We have started exploring our school grounds looking for flowers and seeing if we can name any. The children had great fun creating their own flower inspired artwork using paper, collage, paint and pencils. Please see the attached ‘Knowledge Organiser’ and ‘Topic Web’, at the end of this post, for further details about what the children can expect throughout the project and about their learning.

In maths this week we have been exploring our numbers to 100, continuing to practice counting in 1s forwards and backwards. The children have been ordering their numbers and comparing them, talking about which is greater or smaller and why. We are going to now start using our knowledge of numbers to help us find one more or less than a number and also start thinking about the value of our different coins. Maybe you could explore money with your child at home and see if you can make different totals with 1p, 2p,5p and 10p coins.

Reading and Numbots Challenge: Thank you for all your support with the children’s reading challenge last half-term. The children loved doing it and so we are continuing with it this half-term, where the children can receive a sticker and RP for reading at least four times each week. We have also started a Numbots challenge, where we are challenging the children to login to Numbots and play for 20 minutes over the week. If they achieve this, they will receive a maths sticker and RP. Please contact us if you have forgotten your login details.

Thank you for all the support you are giving your children with their learning. If you have any concerns or questions, then please remember to contact us on Year1@stmarksce.org.uk

Year 1 Team

2021 Year 1 Flower Power knowledge organiser

2021 Year 1 Flower Power Topic Web