Year 1: Blog items
Year 1 Visit from Reverend Thompson
Date: 2nd Oct 2025 @ 4:00pm
Today we had a visit from Reverend Thompson. He came into our classroom to tell us about his job and talk to us about baptism. Reverend Thompson shared information with us about his daily practice and how it is his job to be a teacher, to lead services and to share Gods message. He also visits those who are ill and are not able to physically visit the church. We revisited our previous learning about baptism with Reverend Thompson and the important artifacts, such as the font, candle and water. He also told us the important part the Godparents and vicar play in a baptism ceremony. Reverend Thompson showed us how he conducts a baptism and explained to us that new members of the congregation are also given a candle as a symbol of light.
Date: 29th Sep 2025 @ 7:31pm
This week, we continued our learning about the body and our 5 senses by exploring our sense of smell. We smelt a range of items and thought about how we could describe the smell using key vocabulary including: smoky, rotten, fresh, spicy and others. We also thought about whether we recognised the smell and what we thought it might be. Some smelt really nice but others were strong.
Date: 29th Sep 2025 @ 5:56pm
Today we read our new story, 'Handas Surprise.' We discussed the characters, the setting and the key events, before sequencing the story ourselves. We also accessed different related tasks in our provision, including retelling the story in our storytelling area, ordering numbers 1-10 and creating a fruit basket for Handa.
Year 1- School Council Elections
Date: 24th Sep 2025 @ 7:45am
This week, the whole School have been preparing manifesto's as to why they should represent the class as a member of the school council. As part of our Reading into Writing, we carefully thought about why we would be a good councillor and presented them to the class to encourage them to vote for us. On Thursday, we went into the hall and confidentially placed our votes for who we believed would be the best person to represent us.
Well done to our newly elected councillors!
Beech- Kevin
Hazel- Myla-Gray
Date: 24th Sep 2025 @ 7:38am
This week in Year One, we have explored different ways of representing numbers as well as using multi-link cubes to show counting on from any given number within 10. This is helping us develop a more secure knowledge of numbers within 10. We noticed that when counting on, we needed one more cube each time and the towers got one bigger.
Date: 16th Sep 2025 @ 7:13pm
Today we explored using our whole body to create spiral drawings. We used chalk, pens, pastels and pencils to create these spiral drawings – first outside with large-scale drawings and then on paper in the classroom. We also practised making spirals to music; talking about how the music made us feel and how we could use this to create spirals that reflect our emotions and mood. We created quiet spirals and LOUD spirals!
Date: 15th Sep 2025 @ 2:40pm
This week our story is 'The Gruffalo.' Today we have read and discussed the story, the characters and the setting, before completing Gruffalo related tasks in our provision. We have been writing captions, ordering numbers 1-10, retelling the story at our story telling table and matching number to quantity.
Date: 12th Sep 2025 @ 7:16am
This half term, we have began completing sensory circuits in a morning. This is made up of 3 sort tasks design to alert us, help us organise before grounding us again ready to learn. This half term, we have hopped for 1 minute to become more alert, focused on throwing and catching a beanbag to help us organise ourselves before grounding ourselves with deep breathing exercises. We have been enjoying this and it's helped us concentrate more.
Date: 11th Sep 2025 @ 4:49pm
This half term we are focusing on our fundamental skills. So far we have explored different ways of travelling, looking to find space when travelling and travelling with a partner.
Date: 11th Sep 2025 @ 12:55pm
This half term, our focus in Computing is on grouping data which links nicely to the Maths curriculum of sorting objects. In our first two lessons, we learnt to understand that objects have lables and experimented sorting a variety of different objects into groups seeing where they best fit. We have grouped items by: the object they are, their colour, shapes and sizes.
Date: 11th Sep 2025 @ 12:50pm
Over the last two weeks, Year One have been immersed in the catchy song, 'Find The Beat' during our music lessons. They’ve picked up the essential musical vocabulary—words, pulse, rhythms, and pitch—enabling them to actively Listen and Describe Music. This week, the children truly shone as they learned and performed the song, complete with actions, singing in unison with great enthusiasm. What a wonderful start to our music journey! We can't wait for what’s next!
Date: 8th Sep 2025 @ 6:22pm
Year 1 have read and explored the story 'The Colour Monster' as their first text this half term. We have practised our oracy skills to discuss the characters, their emotions and how we can relate to each feeling. We have also been retelling the story in our story telling area, labelling the monsters/sentences about the different characters and completing lots of colour monster themed activities in our provision.
Date: 8th Sep 2025 @ 6:09pm
Today in RE we learnt about baptism. We talked about how a baby being born is a very happy time and some of us shared how we have celebrated this time with our families. We learnt that different people and different religions have special ways of celebrating the birth of a baby. We then watched a short video all about baptism. We learnt that this is when a baby is welcomed into the Christian faith and the parents and godparents make promises to help the baby. We learnt about the different parts of the baptism and practiced using lots of new key vocabulary.
Date: 8th Sep 2025 @ 5:05pm
This week, both year 1 classes have began our Mastering Number sessions. We have started by looking at composition of numbers, making our own collection of objects and identifying the '1 and another 1' within them. We have practised using our stem sentences to support our learning.
Year 1 Phonics Screening Information
Date: 7th Sep 2025 @ 11:42am
During our meet the teacher session this week, we shared information about the Year 1 Phonics Screening.
Please find further information detailed on the below letter.
We hope that you will be able to join us for a short meeting on Monday 29th September at 8.45am. This will include a short presentation to help you understand more about the screening and give you the oppourtunity to ask any questions.
Date: 4th Sep 2025 @ 8:26pm
This half term, in Science, Year One will be learning all about the human body. Today, we began our learning journey by labelling some of the basic body parts including: head, arms, legs, feet, fingers, toes, eyes, ears, nose and mouth and discussed why these body parts are important/what their purpose is. We completed a jigsaw puzzle which we then correctly labelled.
Date: 4th Sep 2025 @ 8:19pm
This half term, Year 1 will be exploring place value to 10. During this unit, we will deepen our understanding of numbers to 10, building on our pre-existing knowledge learnt in Reception. This week, through provision and teacher led tasks, we have complete a range of tasks looking at representing numbers in different ways, ordering numbers to 10 as well as counting a range of objects up to 10. We look forward to continuing our learning in the coming weeks!
Date: 4th Sep 2025 @ 7:54am
We have had a fantastic first few days back at school. Our new Year 1 children have settled into their new classroom environments very well and we are proud of how well our children have adapted. Miss Kay and Miss Duckworth have enjoyed hearing about what children have been up to over summer and how much they have been looking forward to coming back to school!
This week we have been getting used to the new rules and routines in Year 1 and settling back into school life. We have taken parts in lots of different activities to explore our new environments. We have read 'The Colour Monster,' labelled the characters, retold the story, practised counting and recognising numbers and built models in our construction area.
Date: 3rd Sep 2025 @ 8:28pm
Welcome back! We hope you had a wonderful summer!
Here is some information which was shared during the Meet the Teacher session this week.
- Overview for the year has been attached.
- Read at least 3 times a week with your child, this will help them grow in confidence as well as supporting them accessing all areas of the curriculum.
- Homework is set on Seesaw every Friday and needs to be completed by the following Thursday (Find login details in your child's reading diary).
- In Summer, your child will undertake the statutory Phonics Screening Check. It is helpful to read regularly with your child to help them with their fluency of phonics knowledge. Further meetings will be scheduled to help you best support your child for the screening.
- Whilst Year 1 does look different to Reception, all children still have access to continuous provision to learn through play following on from the EYFS framework.
- Complete BLT tasks (please find attached) and bring them in once completed so we can share them with the class and display them proudly outside Miss Moyes office.
- Practice this half terms KIRFS with your child working on their instant recall of key mathematical facts (please find attached).
Thank you for your continued support. We look forward to working with you throughout the year!
Date: 17th Jul 2025 @ 6:48pm
Over the past few weeks, Year 1 have enjoyed our second set of Forest School sessions. We were very lucky with the weather and made the most of our last sessions this year. Through the sessions, we learnt about different types of birds and made nests using different natural resources, we made mud creations in the mud kitchen and explored the pond area and found frogs. We even enjoyed a campfire in our last session.
Date: 17th Jul 2025 @ 6:33pm
Year 1 thoroughly enjoyed our visit to the farm on our Key Stage 2 playground. We talked about what animals we know live on a farm and what we hoped to see before our visit. We also talked about the importance of handwashing and being hygenic around the animals. During our visit we had lots of opportunities to ask questions, stroke the animals, brush them and learn more about them.
Year 1 Telling the Time to the Hour
Date: 11th Jul 2025 @ 10:07am
This week we have began to learn how to the tell the time to the hour. We learnt the difference between the hour hand and the minute hand and spent lots of time practising making o'clock times on our individual clocks.
Date: 9th Jul 2025 @ 2:54pm
Over the past few weeks, we have enjoyed the nice weather by spending time reading in our outdoor area. We have enjoyed reading some new stories and revisted some of the stories we have read throughout Year 1.
Date: 8th Jul 2025 @ 5:56pm
Alongside the rest of the school, Year 1 have spent lots of time over the past few weeks perfecting two poems for our Boundary choral speaking competition. Today, we perfomed 'Crabby' and 'Rumble in the Jungle' for the rest of our school. We impressed the judges with our beaming smiles, clear pronunciation and Makaton signs!
Date: 3rd Jul 2025 @ 4:41pm
For our heritage work, year 1 explored the question 'how has Blackpool Tower Circus changed?' We shared what we already knew about the circus, before looking at different sources to explore what the circus was like in the past, comparing this to the present day. We completed a past and present sort and created a timeline using a range of circus posters which gave us further information about the circus. We ended our day with creating our own circus posters for the modern circus.
