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Year 1 News – 27.3.26
27/03/2026 · No comments yet
A Mystery Egg! The children were very excited to find a letter in their classroom from Dot. She left them some clues to follow and they found a beautiful blue egg! They all drew a picture of what they thought might be inside the egg. There were some interesting ideas! They also wrote questions Read More
Year 1 News – 20.3.26
20/03/2026 · No comments yet
English We have continued with our senses booklets. We have completed our pages on the sense of touch and the sense of sight. We have also drawn our front covers! Maths We have started a new unit of work focusing on Place Value. This week, we have been learning about numbers to 50. We Read More
Year 1 News – 13.3.26
13/03/2026 · No comments yet
English We have continued our topic on the body. The children have started writing a non-fiction booklet about the five senses. Did you know that you have three bones in your ear and that one of them is called a hammer? Phonics This week we have learnt about silent letters, including gn – gnome, Read More
Year 1 News – 6.3.26
06/03/2026 · No comments yet
English and Science This week, we have been learning about our five senses and which body part we use for each sense. We had fun tasting, feeling, listening, smelling and looking at various objects. We continued with our work on senses in English. We used adjectives to describe what we could see, hear, smell, Read More
Year 1 News – 27.2.26
27/02/2026 · No comments yet
Science We have started our new topic on the human body. We started the lesson by thinking about what might be inside our bodies. The children drew what they thought might be inside and stuck them onto a human body outline. We then learnt lots about what is actually inside our body, what those Read More
Year 1 News – 12.2.26
12/02/2026 · No comments yet
English We have focused on reading in our English lessons this week. We have done some whole-class reading lessons and have been developing our inference and comprehension skills. Please keep reading lots at home. Maths We have started our ‘Addition and Subtraction’ unit of work. This week we have been adding by counting on. Read More
Year 1 News – 6.2.26
06/02/2026 · No comments yet
English This week we have enjoyed the story Katie’s Picture Show by James Mayhew. In the story, Katie visits an art gallery. The signs on the artwork say ‘DO NOT TOUCH!’ but Katie does and she ends up falling inside one of the paintings. We looked at the painting ‘Winter’ by Zuzana Chalupova. We Read More
Year 1 News – 30.1.26
30/01/2026 · No comments yet
English This week, we have read ‘Katie and the Dinosaurs’ by James Mayhew. We thought about the door that Katie walked through to the dinosaur land and explored the idea of there being a different land through the door. We had lots of fantastic ideas, including a candy land, outer space, under the sea, Read More
Year 1 News – 23.1.26
23/01/2026 · No comments yet
English We have been very busy in our English lessons. At the start of the week, we learnt about where the T Rex used to live and we finished our booklets. The children did amazingly well and the booklets are fantastic. After finishing our factual writing, we got very creative and the children wrote Read More
Year 1 – 16.1.26
16/01/2026 · No comments yet
T Rex on the loose!! After playtime on Monday, our classrooms were a huge mess! Lots of chairs had been tipped over and there were some large footprints. We followed the clues and discovered that a Tyrannosaurus Rex had been to visit us! He asked us to find out lots of facts and write Read More
