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Year 1 News – 28.11.25
English In our English lessons, the children have written a recount of our trip to Temple Newsam. They did a fantastic job of using time connectives such as first, next, then, after that and finally in their writing. Phonics We have continued to revise all the phonemes that we have learnt so far. Please Read More
Read newsYear 1 News – 21.11.25
Temple Newsam The highlight of our week has been our trip to Temple Newsam. The children were thoroughly engaged in the Great Fire of London workshop and enjoyed looking around the farm. Thank you to all the parents who came with us. We hope you enjoyed it too. 1GC at Temple Newsam 1H at Read More
Read newsYear 1 News – 14.11.25
English In our English lessons, we enjoyed the story Vlad and the Great Fire of London. The story followed the tale of a flea called Vlad through his experiences of the fire. The children thought about what they might have seen, heard, smelt and felt if they had been alive during the times of Read More
Read newsYear 1 News – 7.11.25
The children have had a very exciting first week back. We started our topic on the Great Fire of London and a lot of our lessons have focused on this. Geography We looked at where London is in the United Kingdom. We talked about capital cities and we learnt about some of the landmarks Read More
Read newsYear 1 News – 24.10.25
English We have learnt the poem ‘Leaves are Falling’. Both classes did a great job of performing the poem. Phonics This week, we have learnt the phonemes au/ey/a-e/e-e. Please keep practising all the phonemes they have learnt so far. This video tells you how to pronounce the Phase 3 phonemes: This is the video Read More
Read newsYear 1 News – 17.10.25
English Our English lessons were all about rhyming this week. We read lots of stories that rhyme and the children selected objects that rhyme and created rhyming soup! The children did a fantastic job of reading their rhyming soup aloud to the class. In handwriting, we practised forming the curly caterpillar letters c, a, d, g. Phonics We Read More
Read newsYear 1 News – 10.10.25
English We have had a second week of fruit-filled fun. The children designed their own fruity characters and wrote some brilliant sentences about them. We also had our first whole-class reading lesson. The children enjoyed meeting the reading dogs and finding out what they do. This week, we used Predicting Pip to make a Read More
Read newsYear 1 News – 3.10.25
Kitchen Disco! What an exciting week we have had! On Monday, some fruit were having a disco in our classrooms! They left us a book to enjoy. We have also really enjoyed listening to this song. Throughout the week, the fruit enjoyed their stay in our classes and got up to lots of mischief Read More
Read newsYear 1 News – 26.9.25
Oliver’s Vegetables We arrived at school on Monday to find some vegetables in our classroom and a book and a letter from a boy called Oliver! Oliver asked us to visit the school farm to harvest some vegetables to make vegetable soup. We also enjoyed seeing all the animals! We looked at various pieces Read More
Read newsYear 1 News -19.9.25
Phonics We have been busy revising the phonemes we learnt in Reception. The children are trying hard to read and write them. Next week, they will start to learn the phase 5 phonemes. English The children have all written about themselves this week. They tried hard to use capital letters, finger spaces and full Read More
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