Year 1 - Tomorrow Morning...

Hello everyone,

Tomorrow morning we will be having a Maths focus when you come into school! This week we have been learning how to use a part-part-whole model and tomorrow there will be the opportunity for your children to show you how well they have been doing! We always encourage the use of objects and tools to help us so these will be on tables for you to use too. 

Please feel free to stay with your children for a bit longer tomorrow if you are able to do so as we will be coming to the carpet at a slightly later time to allow for more maths!

See you all tomorrow! 

Year 1 team

Year 1 - Big Write!

Hello everyone,

As we approach the final few days of this half term the year 1 class will this week be showcasing their fantastic writing abilities in our Big Write! A Big Write is a half termly piece of writing that the children aim to complete with as much independence as possible. This half term our Big Write will be centered around our trip to Marwell Zoo last week! We will be asking the children to write a recount of the trip!

Before the independent stage however, there is lots of discussion and planning that goes on! In school we will be planning together and having a go at drafting. 

Coming home on Monday will be a further planning sheet to share with your child. These are not compulsory but having a discussion and writing a few notes together can help to prepare children for the Big Write on Wednesday! There are a few questions and pictures contained to give a rough direction.

If anyone has any questions please let us know. 

Year 1 team

Year 1 - Marwell Zoo

Hi everyone,

We've had a great day at Marwell Zoo today with the year 1 class! The children were superb on the journey and during our entire visit to the zoo! We saw SO many animals so please make sure you ask your children about what they saw and anything that they might have learnt throughout the day. 

Tomorrow morning there will be a little booklet out for children to come in to school and have a little look at about our day yesterday. 

I'll pop more photos up of the day in the classroom tomorrow morning! 

Thank you to everyone for ensuring children were at school earlier this morning and for picking up at the slightly later time! 

Year 1 team

Year 1 - Marwell Tomorrow!

Hello everyone,

With the weather looking pretty good for tomorrow we are going ahead with our rearranged Marwell trip tomorrow! 

As per the trip letter stated, could we ask for all children to be at school tomorrow morning by 8.15am in school uniform. We would also ask that you please bring a coat and jumper to keep warm through the day. 

If your child does not have a hot school dinner please could you send them in with a packed lunch for the day.

Whilst we aim to be back between 16.00-16.30pm we will keep you updated on our return time through Marvellous Me so please be sure to check.

Thank you for your support with this trip... WE ARE NEARLY THERE! 

Year 1 team

Year 1 - This Week!

Hello everyone, 

We have had an amazing Farming Fortnight that culminated in a wonderful Harvest Celebration assembly on Friday! I'm sure you will all agree that the children's singing was a joy! I set them a challenge to find / eat a turnip so I apologise if one slips into the shopping trolley over the coming weeks!?

This Wednesday is the rearranged Marwell Zoo trip! We are desperately hoping for some good weather for the day but we will keep you updated as it draws nearer. The plan is still to leave school at 8.30am so we are asking for children to be at school ready for 8.15am to get seated and comfortable. 

Hopefully you all received your Mathletics logins and are up and running with that. If you have any questions about this please don't hesitate to come and speak with us. 

In our Power Maths this week we will be moving on to the addition and subtraction unit that covers number bonds to 10, part-part-whole model and using tools to help add/subtract.

As we now only have 2 weeks left of this half term that means you only have 2 weeks left to hand in the home learning project for this half term! This is contained within your Knowledge Organisers that were sent home at the beginning of the term... it asks you to make a short film talking about an animal of your choice! This can be your pet, model, picture, ANYTHING! Thank you to those already handed in, they are amazing and the children are like young David Attenboroughs! 

Year 1 team

Year 1 - Mathletics!

Hello all,

Tomorrow morning we will be starting our morning off with a Mathletics session! There will be Chromebooks out on the tables tomorrow morning for you and your child to log on to with their log in cards! We will also be there to answer any questions anyone might have.

We will then be sending home your child's Mathletics log in cards for you to use at home! 

We recommend using Mathletics for 15 minutes a day to support Mathematical fluency. 

Year 1 team

Year 1 - Fun At Maiden Castle Farm!

Hello everyone,

We enjoyed a lovely afternoon of weather for our farm trip today! We got to see lots of different animals and learn the names of males, females and babies! As well as walking through some pretty impressive puddles! 

Massive thank you to Hazel and Maiden Castle Farm! 

In regards to our trip to Marwell, we now have 2 additional spaces that have opened up for adult volunteers for the trip so if you are free on the 16th October and would like to help please come and speak to us! 

Year 1 team