Year 1: What We Are Learning!

 

Year 1: What We Are Learning 

Our Year 1 athletes brought endless energy and bright smiles to this year’s Sports Day! The field was buzzing with excitement as our little superstars tackled a fantastic lineup of events. We saw incredible focus during the walking with a quoit on the head challenge, plenty of laughs and steady hands in the classic egg and spoon race, and fantastic teamwork during the fast-paced relay races. The children also loved showing off their growing coordination, clearing the hurdles with giant leaps, launching foam javelins down the field, and aiming high to throw balls right into the net. It was a wonderful afternoon filled with cheers, determination, and, above only else, a brilliant display of sportsmanship from our youngest competitors! 

This week in PSHE, Year 1 have been learning about how to keep themselves healthy and why it is important to look after their bodies.

We discussed the importance of getting a good night's sleep, taking part in regular exercise, and eating a balanced diet, including 5 portions of fruit and vegetables each day. The children talked about how these healthy habits help us to grow, stay strong, and feel our best.

As part of our lesson, the children completed a sorting activity. They cut out different picture cards and sorted them into three categories: 'Things We Need to Keep Alive', 'Things We Need to Be Healthy', and 'Things We Can Have Occasionally'. This helped them to understand the difference between essential needs, healthy choices, and treats that should be enjoyed in moderation.

The children showed excellent understanding and enjoyed discussing ways they can make healthy choices every day.

This week in Geography, Year 1 explored different types of weather and discussed how weather can change from day to day. The children learned why it is important to wear suitable clothing for different weather conditions, such as coats for rainy weather, hats for sunny days, and warm clothes when it is cold. They enjoyed matching different items of clothing to various weather types and talked about how the right clothing helps us stay comfortable and safe. 

Well done Year 1 for an amazing week - keep up all your brilliant work! 

Year 1: What We Are Learning

 

Year 1: What We Are Learning 

Year 1 have been working really hard this week. 

 In Literacy this week the children have been thinking of questions they would like to know about Year 2. They wrote their questions and remembered to use question marks.

The children have also been working hard in Read, Write, Inc his week. Please continue to read with your children and work on their Spellings with them. Please remember to sign your child's Reading Record Book. 

In Maths this week the children have been learning all about time. They had races and timed them and also made their very own clocks and were able to make different times using them.

In Geography this week the children learnt about extreme weather. They made posters on how to stay cool during a heatwave.

In Science the children learnt about materials. They were able to match and stick the object to the correct material that it was made from.

In PSHE the children sorted images into two categories being what babies need and what babies don't need. In Beech class it sparked a great discussion around whether babies NEED books. Whilst some children argued the point that it is an important part of language development others raised the point that babies would survive without books- great debating!

This week the children took part in their Sports Day and all did amazingly well!

Well done Year 1 for an amazing week - keep up all your brilliant work! 

Year 1 - What we have been learning/Sports day

Another great week in year 1. Our children have really been working hard, even though we only have a few short weeks left

Sports Day!

Thank you to all the parents that attended our sports day on Monday. The children behaved fantastically and it was great to see that so many children were getting involved. It was very unfortunate that that the weather was not on out side but thankfully the children only had 2 races to go! 

We really hoped you enjoyed cheering the children on! 

Forest School

Walnut Class enjoyed Forest School this week, they used clay, stick and different materials to make small models.

Literacy

 To help the children prepare for Year 2, the children wrote letters to a Penpal in Year 2 this week. They started the letter writing about themselves then thinking about questions that they would like to ask. 

Do you learn History?

Are you allowed to play outside?

Do you have fruit? 

Maths 

This week in Math, children have been revisiting Addition and Subtraction. They have been completing words problems which has been tricky but they were asked to highlight the important parts of the questions and read the words carefully to know what to do. Is it addition or Subtraction?