Stick and Tree Adventures

 Hi Year One Families,

We have had such a lovely week back, we’ve certainly made the most of learning outside the classroom this week, with a stick adventure in English and a tree hunt in Science.

We have also launched our new exhibition This is Me, I hope you were as impressed and thrilled with Year one’s amazing portraits as I was!

In English we have introduced our new story, Stanley's Stick. Year one has found their own stick and have begun to write in the first person using ‘I’  to tell us what they do with their stick. We have had some fantastic ideas such as a wrench, double paintbrush, dog and plant cutter! This focus will continue for the next two weeks and will culminate in writing a first person account and letter writing.

In Science and Geography we  have started new topics Plants and Wild World- which focuses on Human and Physical features and continues our exploration of maps.

In Music we have started a new Cultural Capital focus of the musical The Lion King and our focus skill is timbre.

We started a new DT focus, this week we were exploring how best to join materials, we experimented with pins, glue and staples.

PE is on Mondays with Mini Ballers. In Maths we will be starting a new Unit on Multiplication and Division.

I will be saying my ‘see you soons’ to Year One on Monday, and Miss Joy will be looking after them until my return after May Half Term, however I will still be popping in from time to time when I can grab a lift to Dorchester!

Year one are doing any amazing job, please continue to practise Real and Alien words and reading daily at home, this makes such a huge difference to the children’s reading.

See you all soon!

Ms Evans and the fabulous Year One Team.