Year 1: Blog items
Date: 10th Mar 2026 @ 2:44pm
We began by talking together about the world at the time of Noah. The children learned that the Earth had become a place where people were not making good choices, and God wanted to make a fresh start. However, Noah stood out.
We discussed how:
- Noah was kind and good
- He listened carefully to God
- He always tried to do the right thing
Because of these qualities, God trusted Noah to build the Ark and keep his family—and the animals—safe during the great flood. The children had some brilliant ideas about why being trustworthy and doing the right thing mattered so much.
After exploring the story, we completed a fun activity where the children filled in the missing words in a short retelling of the events. This helped them practise:
- understanding key vocabulary
- recalling important details
- thinking carefully about what happened and why
The children enjoyed showing how much they had remembered, and it sparked lots of great discussions.
Date: 10th Mar 2026 @ 2:40pm
Today, our school was filled with excitement, rhythm, and a whole lot of noise as we welcomed Travelling by Tuba for a fantastic day of music-making!
We kicked things off with a lively assembly, where we were introduced to an amazing collection of instruments from all around the world. From deep, booming brass to unusual instruments we’d never even seen before, every demonstration came with a burst of fun facts, sound effects, and plenty of laughs. It was a brilliant way to discover just how diverse—and entertaining—music can be.
In the afternoon, the fun continued with a hands-on workshop. Everyone had the chance to play a wide range of instruments, each with its own unique rhythm. Working together, we layered these rhythms to create our very own musical masterpiece. The room was buzzing with energy, teamwork, and creativity as we explored how different sounds can blend to make something amazing.
Travelling by Tuba gave us a day full of discovery, laughter, and unforgettable music. We learned that you don’t have to be a professional to enjoy making music—you just need curiosity, enthusiasm, and a willingness to try something new!
What an incredible experience! 🎵✨
Year 1 Science: Exploring Animals and Their Habitats!
Date: 10th Mar 2026 @ 2:34pm
🌧️ The Rainforest
🌊 The Ocean
Date: 10th Mar 2026 @ 2:28pm
Over the next couple of weeks, our focused book is 'Supertato'. This week, we have began to explore the new areas, retold the story of Supertato using items on the storytelling table and sequenced the story accurately. Throughout the next couple of weeks, we will continue to explore the story and describe the characters from the story.
Date: 5th Mar 2026 @ 8:30pm
This week in Beech class we have been learning doubles, we used the stem sentence 'This is a double because... is a part and... is a part.' We identified the difference between equal and not equal. We used the part whole model to recognise the parts that make a whole and to understand it is a double.
Date: 5th Mar 2026 @ 8:05pm
Today, to celebrate World book day we began by carrying out a circle time to tell our friends who we have dressed up as and why we had chosen that character. We then discussed ideas and completed a quiz as a class to guess the different characters from the given facts and images. We then drew our character and labelled the different features. Finally, we created and coloured in our own book mark.
Year 1- Understanding numbers to 50
Date: 5th Mar 2026 @ 5:05pm
This week, we began exploring numbers from 20 to 50. We learnt to count in 10s and that two-digit numbers have tens and ones. First, we explored the patterns of counting and recognising the number of tens and ones to help us recognise the number before we matched representations to the correct picture.
Date: 5th Mar 2026 @ 5:01pm
Today, we celebrated World book day by dressing up as characters from our favourite books. Once we returned from assembly we did a circle time in class to tell our friends who we dressed up as and why we had chosen that character. Then, we drew our characters and used descriptive language to describe them. Throughout the day, we have enjoyed completing reading challenges, participating in quizzes and doing reading themed activities. Well done Year 1- you all looked amazing!
Date: 27th Feb 2026 @ 7:33am
This week in Hazel class we have been focusing on learning our number bonds to 10 and recalling them fluently. We used the rekenreks to see what a number needs to make 10 and learnt this is called a number bond. Throughout the year, we will continue to revisit this learning to ensure we know our number bonds fluently.
Date: 27th Feb 2026 @ 7:30am
The first book we have explored in Year One this half term is Monkey Puzzle. After we had read the book, we thought about who the main characters are, what the book is about and where the story was set. Then, we used our knowledge to sequence pictures from the book and match the correct sentences to the picture. Yesterday, we began to retell the story in our own words and have enjoyed exploring the Monkey Puzzle themed provision around the classroom!
Date: 26th Feb 2026 @ 1:46pm
In RE, year 1 have begun learning about the new religion, Judaism. We then began to discuss the question ‘What is a promise?’ We listened to the dictionary definition and then began to explore why people make promises. We took part in a circle time to discuss the importance of promises and gave examples of promises we have made in our class. We discussed why it is important to be trustworthy and what makes someone trustworthy. We made a class promise together and thought of our own individual promises to focus on ourselves.
Year 1 - Number bonds within 20.
Date: 26th Feb 2026 @ 1:27pm
In Maths, Year 1 have been learning to use number bonds and related facts to add numbers within 20. We have been using ten frames and counters to support our understanding. By applying our knowledge of number bonds to 10, we have been able to make links and solve addition calculations more confidently.
Date: 10th Feb 2026 @ 4:05pm
This half term, our focus has been on Mechanisms. We explored a range of different moving picture books and learnt they move using levers and sliders. Throughout the half term, we have been practicing our cutting skills and we applied this today to accurately make our lever, sliders. Then, we designed a background for our parts to move through and evaluated them for their effectiveness.
Date: 10th Feb 2026 @ 4:01pm
This week we have completed our Design Technology unit of food. We focused on healthy eating and created a healthy fruit salad. First, we tasted a variety of different fruits and described whether we liked their taste or texture. Then, we designed our own healthy fruit salads before following our design to successfully make them. At the end of the day, we evaluated our fruit salads.
Date: 10th Feb 2026 @ 3:58pm
Today, we celebrated online safety awareness by looking at different types of artificial intelligence focusing on voice assistants. We learnt the things a voice assistant does and how it can make us feel in different situations. After we created an online safety plan, we recapped what information we should keep private online and how to keep ourselves safe.
Date: 4th Feb 2026 @ 2:34pm
Today, we used concrete resources to represent a range of doubles. We learnt a double is the same repeated and used ladybird templates to represent this before completing a sorting activity to recognise whether something is a double or not.
Date: 2nd Feb 2026 @ 4:47pm
This week, we celebrated storytelling week with a visit from Dan Worsley. We had a special story-telling assembly where Dan told us a story using props to help him and showing his excellent imagination. In the classroom, we have enjoyed using props in the story-telling area to create our own stories as well as creating our own front covers and creative characters for our stories.
Year 1- The Girl with Two Dads
Date: 2nd Feb 2026 @ 4:42pm
Today, we began our writing journey based on the book 'The girl with two dads'. After we had read and discussed the story, we retold the story focusing on applying our learning so far to use time conjunctions, finger spaces, capital letters and full stops.
Date: 2nd Feb 2026 @ 4:40pm
This week, we have completed our RSE learning. We explored ways in which we are different to each other, how we have changed and become more independent since we were a baby, looked at different family types and learnt the Scientific names for private parts. All our learning was through a story of a child named Jai who had a baby brother and made friends with a new child at School even though they were very different.
Date: 29th Jan 2026 @ 7:40am
This week our focus was Self control and how to manage our emotions. In assembly and in class, we discussed the different things that irritate us and how this can build up into anger that might make us want to explore. We talked about how to recognise that feeling and the different ways we can help ourselves to ensure we don't explode as this might get us into trouble. In our PSHE lesson, we practiced techniques we can use when we feel angry.
Year 1 Looking after the Environment
Date: 29th Jan 2026 @ 7:36am
This half term, our focus is Islam. We have learnt that Muslims believe in taking care of the environment. Throughout the half term, we have explored who is responsible for taking care of the environment and ways in which we can help take care of the environment. Today, we drew ideas to show how we take care of the world around us. This follows on from Mr Galloway visiting us to talk about his role as a 'caretaker' and the jobs he has to do to take care of our School.
Date: 29th Jan 2026 @ 7:32am
This week, we have been continuing with our book The Smartest Giant. Over the last couple of days we focused on using adjectives to describe some of the characters from the story. Then, we wrote our own sentences to describe the character we had chosen.
Date: 29th Jan 2026 @ 7:26am
This week, we began our addition and subtraction unit within 20. We recapped that addition means to get more of something. We all completed the first, then, now task to think about counting on from any given number within 20 when adding a certain amount.
Date: 23rd Jan 2026 @ 7:50am
This half term in Phonics, we have been focusing on alternative sounds for graphemes already taught. Yesterday, we were looking at alternative for 'ee' being 'ey'. We discussed how the 'ey' would typically come at the end of the word and the 'ee' and 'ea' would usually be in the middle to help us differentiate when spelling. We practised reading lots of words with the diagraph in before attemtping to applying our new knowledge to writing.
Date: 20th Jan 2026 @ 4:58pm
