A busy start to a busy term!

 Hi Year One Families,

I am delighted to share with you what a wonderful first week back we have had.

We've started so many new areas of learning, it's going to be a lovely half term!

In English we have started a new story telling focus based on the book I Want my Hat Back. We will be exploring dialogue, question marks, and contractions (I am I'm) throughout this three week focus.

In Maths we have started a new unit on Part Whole Models within 10. This is a shorter unit than our first and we should move onto Unit 3 Addition within 10 shortly.

Our Humanities focus this half term is History- We are learning all about The Victorians- this week we started our learning focusing on the life of Queen Victoria. I wonder if the children can tell you why she wore black?

We also started our Sculpture focus in Art, we will be working on this for a number of weeks and we are looking forward to our exhibition in early December.

On Friday we had the most wonderful Diwali inspired Dance workshop exploring the story of Sita and Rama- the children were incredible!

I am looking forward to the week ahead, where we will explore jobs children had in The Victorian Era, start a new focus in Music with our Cultural Capital exploring the music of John Williams and continuing to make our sculptures.

If you have anything you would like to discuss please don't hesitate to get in touch.

Ms Evans and the Year One Team.

A fabulous and busy week in Year One

 Hello Year One Families,

What an absolutely smashing week Year One had!

We thoroughly enjoyed our time with Zoo Lab on Wednesday, the children displayed their knowledge regarding animal classification, asked curious and inquisitive questions and bravely touched, held or stroked a variety of animals.

We have started a new book focus in English- Dragon Post and we will be learning the key features of a letter this week- by the end of the unit we will be writing letters to the Fire Service for advice on how to manage a fire breathing dragon living in our homes!

In Geography we have completed our focus on the continents and have explored the five Oceans this week- The children blew me away on Friday when they correctly named all five oceans and all seven continents- Fantastic work year one!

In our Quest time we have been exploring building animal homes, British wildlife, animals of the ocean and designing dangerous animals! 

We have continued our focus on Numbers to ten in Maths and have introduced the symbols < > = Greater Than, Less Than and Equals to, we will continue to explore this area this week.

Year One have thoroughly enjoyed their time in Music this half term and all children have worked hard to understand pulse and rhythm and they all know so many facts about our cultural capital composer Vivaldi- perhaps try listening to The Four Seasons at home!

Over the next two weeks, we will be exploring the different layers of the ocean with a fantastic submarine adventure, completing our letters in English and starting a new Art focus on Printing!

Year One have a trip to Thomas Hardy on Wednesday and a trip to Maiden Castle Farm next Thursday. We celebrate the end of this first half term with our Harvest Celebration.

I am looking forward to discussing your child's progress with you at Parents Consultations on Tuesday and Wednesday of this week.

I am very pleased to introduce the newest member of the Year One team Mr Cooper. Mr Cooper has joined us as he completes his teacher training. We are delighted to have him come on our Year one Adventure until early March. As someone who spent some of their initial teaching training in Year One at The Prince of Wales I know what a valuable experience this can be for both children and the adults in class.

As ever please do get in touch if there is anything you would like to discuss.

Ms Evans and the Year One Team.

Year 1: Marvellous Marwell!

We had an absolutely amazing trip yesterday to Marwell zoo. The children were fantastic and were able to talk about the animals and whether they were mammals, amphibians, reptiles and birds. All the adults were very proud of how the children behaved and we even got a comment from the staff about how courteous they were. Well done amazing Year 1! Thank you to all of the parents that supported us on this trip. Here are some photos of our day 😍

Have a lovely weekend everyone!

🦒Mrs Thorpe and the Year 1 team 🐯