Year 1: Blog items
Date: 2nd Nov 2024 @ 8:02pm
In todays lesson we explored what an object is and what materials are. Working together, we explored our classroom and school environment to find and name different materials. We shared our own experiences and knowledge of materials and where we have found them.
Date: 2nd Nov 2024 @ 7:59pm
This week we have read the story 'Room on the Broom.' We began the week by talking about the characters, the setting and the key events, before ordering the story. Throughout the week we have then labelled the characters, composed sentences about the witch and the dragon and written speech bubbles, thinking about what different characters may say at different parts of the story.
Date: 17th Oct 2024 @ 9:07am
This half term in Music, we have been learning all about finding the steady beat in the music that we have been listening to. We have learnt lots of new musical vocabulary to help us when discussing what we can hear. We have had lots of fun playing a variety of notes on the glockenspiels and learning about one of our composers, Mozart. Our favourite lesson was learning how to play Twinkl, Twinkle Little Star on the glockenspiels.
Date: 15th Oct 2024 @ 10:44am
This week we brought all our learning about spirals and lines together to create a new snail shell for 'Normal the Slug with the Silly Shell.' We read the story together, before designing our own spiral shells for Norman, using pastels and chalk.
Date: 10th Oct 2024 @ 12:32pm
Our Year 1 children were very excited to recieve our Dazzle pack today! We are looking forward to reading our new books.
Date: 8th Oct 2024 @ 5:26pm
For our final lesson in our current Christianity unit of work we talked about our own identities as part of a family and part of the school community. We talked about where we each belong, and recorded this through the use of widget. We also discussed how we would show a new child in our school that they were welcome and how we could help them to feel like they belong.
Date: 8th Oct 2024 @ 5:19pm
Today we looked closely at some different parts of the body, noticing the different parts that make up one body part, e.g. on our hand we have our fingers, nails, knuckles and thumb. We discussed the key parts that make up our hands, legs, ears and eye, before trying our very best to draw these key body parts, including the key features and detail. We began to understand the important role different body parts play and to orally explain what the main parts of our body do.
Date: 3rd Oct 2024 @ 6:49pm
Today we began our spiral journey! We looked at examples together first, talking about what we could see in different examples of spirals, before going outside and practising ourselves! We used lots of different resources including chalks, pastels and pencils, to create both big and small spirals.
Date: 2nd Oct 2024 @ 11:15am
This week we have been reading 'Handas Surprise.' We have completed lots of writing activities in our provision, including ordering the story, writing lists of fruit, labelliing animals and describing the characters.
Date: 26th Sep 2024 @ 6:27pm
Today in Year 1 we voted for our class school councillors! This week we have been learning about democracy and what it means. We learnt that in Year 1 we get to make important decisions, such as who we want to be our class representatives for the school council. Children who wanted to be considered delivered their manifestos. We are all looking forward to finding out the results!
Date: 25th Sep 2024 @ 7:07pm
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. 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: 24th Sep 2024 @ 6:17pm
Today we explored another of our five senses. We learnt about the sense of smell and which part of our body we use to smell, before exploring new key vocabulary. We applied this new vocabulary together to match smell pots in small groups. We had to match the pots to find the one with the same smell, answering key questions such as ‘what are the smells?’ ‘are they nice of unpleasant?’ and ‘have you smelt this before?’ In our outdoor area we also explored different smells and scents to create our own perfumes.
Date: 23rd Sep 2024 @ 4:41pm
Today we celebrated the European Day of Languages by holding a special assembly. We talked about why it is important to know about other languages and cultures and how this might help us when we grow up. We discussed the characteristics that you need to learn a language including enthusiasm, curiosity, perseverance and self motivation. We ended with a languages quiz and learned a greeting song in French.
Date: 19th Sep 2024 @ 7:40am
This week in Geography we have used fieldwork to identify the features of our school grounds. We went out into our school environment to explore the main features we could see and identify them on a birds eye view map.
Date: 19th Sep 2024 @ 7:24am
This week we have started to read and learn the story 'The Gruffalo!' We have retold the story in our story telling areas, sequenced the key events and described the features of the Gruffalo.
Date: 12th Sep 2024 @ 6:12pm
Today we read the story ‘The Town Mouse and The Country Mouse’ to support our learning on rural and urban areas. We talked about the different features of each and compared the differences. In small groups, we then sorted a number of pictures into the correct area, talking through our reasoning with an adult and our peers.
Date: 9th Sep 2024 @ 6:06pm
This week in year one we have been grouping and sorting! We have used a number of different objects and talked about what is the same and what is different. We have learnt we can sort by colour, by shape, by type and by size. We have also learnt how to log into our own Seesaw account and post pictures of our learning! We have also been exploring our new classroom environment and completing lots of maths challenges in our provision.
Date: 8th Sep 2024 @ 4:24pm
Today we learnt about the human body. We sang and followed the actions to ‘heads, shoulders, knees and toes’ and played Simon Says to learn about key parts of the human body. We introduced names of new parts of our body and learnt where these are located. We drew around a body outline and matched widget labels to key parts of the outline, as well as adding some more of our own! Finally, we pieced together a mixed up person jigsaw and verbally told the adults in our room the body parts we could identify.
Date: 3rd Sep 2024 @ 7:31pm
We have had a fantastic few days back in our new Year 1 classes! We are very proud of how well our children have adapted to the new routines in school. We 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 routines in Year 1 and settling back into school life. We have also taken part in lots of activites, both indoors and outdoors! We have read 'The Colour Monster,' labelled the characters, retold the story, practised counting and recognising numbers, build models in our construction area and explored different ways to move in our outdoor obstacle course!
Date: 19th Jul 2024 @ 10:40am
Today we spent some of our last day in Year 1 playing collaborative games! We enjoyed having some fun with our friends and celebrating the hard work we have put in this year!
Date: 18th Jul 2024 @ 8:19pm
This half term we have been generating ideas through playful exploration and exploring sculpture. Today we completed our final project and created a sea creature. We used different materials, tools and ideas to work towards our outcome.
Date: 12th Jul 2024 @ 1:46pm
Today we completed some Geography fieldwork at Stanley Park! Despite the weather being wet and rainy, we enjoyed exploring how Stanley Park has changed throughout the seasons and looking at the deciduous and evergreen tree and different types of plants.
Date: 11th Jul 2024 @ 10:48am
Today we were lucky enough to go up to the Key Stage 2 playground and visit Fishers Farm! We enjoyed seeing and learning about all the different animals and talking to the people who look after them. We asked lots of questions to help our understanding and we were very calm and gentle with the animals.
Date: 10th Jul 2024 @ 7:30pm
Today we were introduced to telling the time to the hour using an analogue clock. We learnt the key words ‘o clock’ and that when we use the word ‘hand’ we are referring to the arrow on the clock face. We focussed on reading time to the hour using only the hour hand, before learning about the minute hand and that the hour hand is shorter than the minute hand. We recognised that when the minute hand is pointing directly to 12, we needed to look at the shorter hand to see which hour it is.
Boundary Choral Speaking competition
Date: 9th Jul 2024 @ 2:46pm
This week we held our annual Choral Speaking competition. From Reception to Year 6, year groups learned poems by heart and performed them to the rest of the school. Once again, the standard was extremely high and we are proud of all the children for taking part. This year's winners are Year 3, who will represent Boundary at the Blackpool Choral Speaking competition on Friday.
