And we're off! Year One has begun!

 Hello Year One Families

What a week we have had! The children have settled in so well and have quickly learnt the routines of the day. It has been so lovely to see how well they work together. The Reception Team have done a fantastic job in teaching them the skills they need to be successful learners: teamwork, confidence to have a go, motivation, making links in their learning to name but a few. 

So what have we been up to this week?

In English, we are continuing with drawing club and we have used the story 'Dear Zoo' by Rod Campbell to inspire our writing. We learnt some new and not so new vocabulary: elongated (a firm favourite I hear!), return, captured, disapprove, gift and slippery. There were some great ideas shared for a perfect puppy and a cage to keep an animal in. We are working hard to remember to leave finger spaces between words and to write the word 'the' correctly.

In maths we are working with numbers to ten, focusing on correctly written numbers (0-10), as well as accurate counting of objects. We learnt the word 'represent' and have been 'representing' numbers in different ways; as words, as numerals and in pictures.

In Geography we have started to learn about the 7 continents. We have learnt a song about them - if you ask your child they might remember it! Next week we will focus on Asia.

In science we have begun to learn about animals groups and spent this week learning about reptiles, amphibians and mammals.

In DT we have visited the fruit and veg shop and tasted lots of different things, ready for designing and making smoothies in the weeks to come.

With all this learning happening there is still plenty of time for 'Busy Time' our play-based learning experience too. Lots of the learning links to our curriculum but it is also a great opportunity for the children to develop their own themes and ideas which they are sooooo good at.

                                                             We have painted animals.

                                                            

Drawn pictures of fruit

 Made animal enclosures.

Looked for the hidden animals in the garden and wrote their names down.

Accurately counted the bears into their houses.

And made the most of the good weather to create, imagine and play in the KS1 outdoor learning space. 

We have had a fun-packed first week back at school!

We welcome a new member to the Year One Team: Miss Knight will be joining us 3 days a week as a trainee teacher.

Next week:

Tuesday 12th September at 9am - Parent Information Session in the hall. Come and find out about what happens in Year One.

Timetable changes:

Every Thursday - Forest School

Every Friday PE

Wishing you all a wonderful weekend. We can't wait to see what next week brings!

The Year One Team

Mrs March, Ms Johnson, Miss Knight, Ms Dainton, Mrs Briant, Mrs Cleaver and Mrs Brooker