Year 1: Blog items
Year 1 Understanding Teen Numbers
Date: 15th Jan 2026 @ 2:39pm
This week in maths we have been developing our understanding of teen numbers. We have learnt about the value of tens and ones in numbers within 20 and made numbers using base 10, numicon, tens frames and counters.
Date: 8th Jan 2026 @ 3:50pm
Today, we thought about who is special in our lives. We discussed what makes them special to us and respected we all have different people who are special to us for our own personal reasons. Finally, we drew our special people and labelled them.
Year 1 Understanding 10, 11, 12 and 13
Date: 8th Jan 2026 @ 3:45pm
This half term, we have began to explore numbers to 20. Throughout the week, we have looked at teen numbers and the composition of them. Yesterday, we sorted numbers whether they showed 10 or not and today we looked at a range of representations and had to sort them whether they were representing the number 11, 12 or 13.
Date: 6th Jan 2026 @ 7:16am
Today we began to discuss our key question in RE, ‘How might beliefs about creation affect the way people treat the world?’ We began by learning the name of the religion we will be learning about and that Muslims believe there is only one God – Allah. Today’s lesson involved learning about how we should treat the environment, why it is important and whose responsibility it is. We did this through looking at images and real life nature examples. We went on a nature walk to collect lots of natural resources and we then used these natural resources to create transient nature pictures. After this, we looked at a number of images and decided which are examples of looking after the environment and which are not. We sorted them together, verbally discussing and justifying each example.
Date: 6th Jan 2026 @ 7:14am
To begin our half term our focus is Lost and Found. Over the last few days, we have enjoyed reading the story and discussing the key parts, characters and settings. Yesterday, we sequenced the key events of the story and retold it using key vocabulary and today we focused on writing short captions for characters speech and labelling characters and objects from the story. Over the next week, we will enjoy exploring the areas including themed motor skills tasks, maths tasks and telling stories in our story telling area.
Date: 16th Dec 2025 @ 2:57pm
This week, Year 1 took on a range of challenges as a circuit with the aim of raising money for Brian House and the Trinity Hospice. We had elf/christmas accessories and undertook a range of fun games including snow ball toss, reindeer races and present races.
Date: 16th Dec 2025 @ 7:35am
To celebrate the end of Autumn term and Christmas today we had our Christmas party. We played fun party games, wore our best outfits and even had a very special visit from Father Christmas. We loved celebrating all our hard work throughout the term by dancing with our friends.
Date: 16th Dec 2025 @ 7:33am
Today, we used our knowledge of Christianity to produce a picture of the key characters in the nativity. We used pastels on a dark background to make the characters stand out. Some of us drew Mary, baby Jesus, Joseph and the star shining brightly above the manger.
Date: 16th Dec 2025 @ 7:32am
This week, we have been writing letters to Santa. We told him why we thought we deserved him to visit our houses and politely asked for what we would like for Christmas. We made sure we used our learning from throughout the half term to use capital letters, finger spaces, full stops and correct letter formation in our letters.
Date: 10th Dec 2025 @ 7:33am
This week, we have began to explore shapes. After we successfully named a variety of 3D shapes, we sorted them into which shapes they are.
Year 1- Letters from the Stick man
Date: 10th Dec 2025 @ 7:24am
The past couple of weeks, Year 1 have been exploring the book 'The stick man'. We have thought about all the adventures he has had and how he has felt at different parts. Today, we wrote a letter from the stick man to his family telling them all about his adventures and how much he misses them.
Date: 9th Dec 2025 @ 7:37am
Lots of our Year 1 children attended our Christmas disco this week! The children had a fantastic time and enjoyed playing games, dancing and eating some party food!
Year 1 Christmas Jumper Day & Christmas Dinner
Date: 9th Dec 2025 @ 7:18am
Today, Year 1 enjoyed coming to school wearing our Christmas jumpers! Everyone was in the festive spirit and enjoyed a fantastic Christmas lunch with all the trimmings!
Date: 1st Dec 2025 @ 6:41pm
This week Reverend Peter from St Marks Church visited us to talk about the important message in the Christmas story. We told him everything that we have learnt about Christianity so far. Reverend Peter then read the nativity story to us and we all joined in with different parts. He taught us about the key messages in the story and the roles of different characters. We then had some time to ask questions about the Nativity story and the Christian faith.
Date: 1st Dec 2025 @ 6:37pm
Today we learnt to recognise the symbols used on an Ordnance Survey map. We learnt that these maps are used to help people find places of interest in an area. We then looked at different map symbols together and worked out what each meant. We learnt that symbols are used to save space on a map and clearly show where different things area located.
Date: 1st Dec 2025 @ 6:31pm
Over the next week, Year 1 will be reading the story 'Stickman' and completing lots of different activites relating to this story. Today we began with an oracy session, to learn more about the characters, setting and key vocabulary. We then ordered the story, focusing on the key events and retelling the story with our peers.
Date: 26th Nov 2025 @ 2:54pm
Date: 25th Nov 2025 @ 6:28pm
This half term, Year 1 have continued to work hard in phonics lessons to learn new sounds and apply them in our reading and writing. We are doing lots of activities to help us remember our tricky words and to read words containing phase 3 and phase 5 diagraphs.
Year 1 Hazel Class Together Time
Date: 24th Nov 2025 @ 8:24am
Today, we welcomed our parents into the classroom to complete some learning together. We used our knowledge of the Christmas story from our learning in RE to create a piece of art representing the star shining over baby Jesus in his manger. We used a range of mediums including: collaging with tissue paper and pastels to create a colourful representitive piece of art. Thank you to all who joined us- we thoroughly enjoyed it!
Year 1 Beech Class Together Time
Date: 24th Nov 2025 @ 8:23am
Today, we welcomed our parents/carers into the classroom to complete some learning together. Firstly, we showed our grown ups how we complete our mini me activities. We then used our knowledge of the Christmas story from our learning in RE to create a piece of art representing the star shining over baby Jesus in his manger. We used a range of mediums including: collaging with tissue paper and pastels to create a colourful representitive piece of art. Thank you to all who joined us- we thoroughly enjoyed it!
Date: 24th Nov 2025 @ 8:21am
Today, we began to explore our new topic of our local area. We began by reading 'The town mouse and the country mouse' thinking about the differences between where the mice lived before moving on to learning about human and physical features of our local area. Next, we began to look at map skills and took an ariel view of the playground outside and tried to identify some of the things we could see in the playground and show them on the map. Lastly, we made our own messy maps on the classroom using resources to show the different areas of our classroom. We look forward to continuing our learning in the coming weeks.
Date: 17th Nov 2025 @ 6:27pm
Today we began our History journey by developing our understanding of what toys are like today. Together, we worked to distinguish old and new toys and sorted them by colour, shape and material. We then thought more indepth about our favourite toys, how they work and why we enjoy playing with them.
Date: 17th Nov 2025 @ 6:19pm
In Year 1 this week we are reading the story 'Leaf Man.' We began the week by unpicking the key vocabulary in the story, learning the meaning of any new words and retelling the key parts of the story. Throughout the week we have then printed our own leaf character and written sentences to describe where our leaf character may travel. We have also completed lots of different activities in our provision, including creading AB patterns, matching numeral to quantity and accurately counting within 10.
Date: 13th Nov 2025 @ 7:22pm
Today we enjoyed raising money for Children in Need. Lots of us changed a part of our uniform to something spotty or stripy and donated money to charity. We learnt more about Children in Need in our Friday assembly and how the theme for this year is helping to raise funds.
Date: 13th Nov 2025 @ 9:13am
This week, we have celebrated anti-bullying week. We began the week with an assembly by Mrs Clarke who gave us some scenarios and we discussed what we could do to be an upstander rather than a bystander. We understood that if we see someone being bullied we need to act and get help from a trusted adult. On Friday, we celebrated our differences by wearing odd socks and completed our PSHE lesson, looking at the difference between being unkind and being bullied. We know that bullying is when something is intentional and repeated behaviour and how to get help.
