Year 1: Blog items
Date: 27th Jun 2025 @ 12:23pm
Year 1 have enjoyed completing lots of health week activities! We came to school in our sports wear, designed new football shirts and medals, created semantics sentences and played balloon race games!
Date: 26th Jun 2025 @ 12:31pm
As part of health week, we thoroughy enjoyed a scooter workshop with Elanor! Firstly, we prepared ourselves by putting on our knee pads and helmets. We listened carefully to how to ride the scooters and even learnt some new tricks!
Date: 25th Jun 2025 @ 4:41pm
This week we have revisted comparing numbers, now exploring numbers within 100! We recapped on the comparison symbols < > and = and what these mean, before using base 10 to make and compare numbers. We explored comparing numbers with the same tens, before moving onto comparing any two numbers.
Date: 19th Jun 2025 @ 12:30pm
Today our Year 1 classes were taken over by Year 5 teachers! We enjoyed meeting our new teachers and TAs first thing this morning, before listening to our new head teacher during assembly time. We then spent the morning exploring Beebots, what their buttons do and how to make them perform commands we want to give them.
Date: 16th Jun 2025 @ 6:54pm
This week, Year 1 had a very exciting visit from our local nurses, who came to talk to us about sun safety! We impressed the nurses with what we already knew and helped them tell a story about how to keep safe when the weather is warm.
Date: 16th Jun 2025 @ 6:10pm
Today, Year 1 were lucky enough to meet the ducklings that have recently hatched in Reception! As it was a nice day, we made the ducklings a little pool outside and spent some time observing them swimming, playing and asking questions to learn more about them.
Date: 12th Jun 2025 @ 5:09pm
This week we have continued learning about numbers within 100 and today we practised describing these numbers in terms on tens and ones. We continued to use Base 10 to make each number and support counting in tens.
Date: 10th Jun 2025 @ 12:19pm
This week we have been reading 'Snail and the Whale.' We began by talking about the key events in the story and created a story map to help us retell the key events. We have also completed lots of activities in our provision relating to the story, including retelling the story at the story telling table and labelling the key characters.
Date: 20th May 2025 @ 5:19pm
This week in PE we played some games to develop our teamwork and listening skills. We focused on our spacial awareness and reaction to others movements aswell as developing our own tactics and sportsmanship skills.
Date: 20th May 2025 @ 2:45pm
This week, we have been exploring 2D and 3D shapes. We have identified and matched shapes, sorted shapes into categories and created 2D and 3D shape patterns.
Date: 15th May 2025 @ 2:27pm
Today we explored doubles using practical resources. We recapped on what doubling means and how to work out the answers using base 10 and counters. We also practised writing number sentences to show each double.
Date: 12th May 2025 @ 2:28pm
Today we began to learn about repeated addition to help us record how to add equal groups. We worked practically and from pictorial representations to identify the number of groups and how many items in each group.
Date: 9th May 2025 @ 1:04pm
Our Keystage One pupil have enjoyed working together, developing their communication and teamwork skills while building a boose out of loose parts. This developed into a role play activity which everyone enjoyed being part of. Super work !
VE Day - 80th Anniversary Celebrations
Date: 8th May 2025 @ 5:28pm
Date: 8th May 2025 @ 2:56pm
Alongside the rest of the school, today we learnt about VE day. We began the day with our online assembly, before enjoying a lovely themed lunch to celebrate!
Date: 7th May 2025 @ 3:40pm
This week we have read our new story, 'Zog.' We have read and discussed the story, created story maps, labelled the characters, written sentences to describe key events and completed lots of related tasks in our provision.
Date: 7th May 2025 @ 12:32pm
This week we have began to explore counting in 2s, 5s and 10s. We have looked at the patterns made on hundred squares to support our understanding, listened to lots of counting songs and completed different activities to develop our ability to count in 2s, 5s and 10s!
Date: 30th Apr 2025 @ 5:18pm
Today we looked at the use of Murti in Hindu worship. We learnt that Murtis are often colourful and bright and that Hindus give offerings to them. We then looked at lots of different examples of Murtis, including both Gods and Goddesses, and looked at why Hindus may worship them.We then chose a Murti to represent using salt dough, thinking about why Hindus may choose this Murti to worship.
Date: 28th Apr 2025 @ 7:09pm
This week, we have revisited partitioning numbers in our maths lessons. We have completed lots of practical work to partition numbers into tens and ones, orally stating stem sentences to support our understanding.
Date: 24th Apr 2025 @ 8:25am
Our first story this half term is 'How to Catch a Star.' This week we have read the story, drawn our own story maps to help us retell the key events, labelled key characters from the story and written speech bubbles. We have also completed lots of activities related to the story in our clasroom provision.
Date: 22nd Apr 2025 @ 2:26pm
We began our new half term by reading the story 'The Dot.' We talked about the message in the story and the characteristics the character shows. We then painted a background on our circles, before creating two different dots. One showed a self portrait of ourselves and on the other we created a pattern dot using oil pastels and felt tips.
Date: 10th Apr 2025 @ 6:17pm
Today Year 1 thoroughly enjoyed a very sunny day at Blackpool Zoo! We saw lots of animals including elephants, monkeys, lions, wallabies, giraffes, sealions and penguins! We enjoyed observing the animals in their habitats and looking at/reading the signs to find out where the animals originate from and their diet. It was a very busy day at the zoo and we were all very well behaved and represented our school brilliantly.
Date: 9th Apr 2025 @ 6:53pm
Our Easter Disco was enjoyed by lots of our Year 1 children! We enjoyed wearing our party clothes, dancing and playing party games!
Date: 8th Apr 2025 @ 6:46pm
We began No Pen Day with reading the story of 'The Blind Men and the Elephant' in our RE lesson. We discussed our understanding of the story together, before completing two missing word activities to revist the story, the key parts and the meaning behind it. In Maths, we then worked practically to find the difference between two given numbers. We used cubes to make two amounts, before lining up the cubes carefully to find the difference between the two numbers.
Date: 7th Apr 2025 @ 12:40pm
These are some of our Year 1 entries for our Boundary Easter Egg competition. Well done to all the children who entered and we are looking forward to finding out the winner!
