Spring 1 Term 

Year 1 have had a brilliant start to the half term. We have been consolidating lots of our expectations for learning and behaviour. We are really good at following the school values especially with being kind and respectful. We have also worked hard on our independence while we have started to complete whole class learning and have adapted to it very well.

In English we started the term looking at ‘Lost and Found’ by Oliver Jeffers. We wrote what might happen next in the story, working really hard on using simple sentences, remembering to use finger spaces and capital letters and full stops.

In maths we have continued our number work; counting and representing numbers in different ways, such as using objects, pictures, numerals, part whole models or tens frames. We have worked on teens numbers and how to represent these, as well as continuing our work on partitioning, adding, subtracting and using all this knowledge to be able to solve one step problems. We have recently begun work on learning to tell the time. We now know when it is lunch time, as we can tell o’clock and half past times!

Our big question in science has been ‘What is a habitat?’ We have looked at where animals live and how they have adapted to their habitats. We found a range of habitats in the school grounds and looked for animals that lived there. Then we recorded our findings in a table and pictogram.

In RE we have been learning about belonging, linking this to the Easter story. We thought about sadness and happiness and will be relating this to where the parts of the Easter story were sad and then happy.

In art we have been making paper sculptures. We have practised making different types of 3D sculpture such as cylinder and bridges. We have finished our sculpture work by creating our own ‘Tree of Life’ using the paper folding techniques we have learnt.

In history we have been finding out the answer to the question ‘How have toys changed?’ We started by thinking about our favourite toy and then what our parents or grandparent’s favourite toy was when they were 6 years old. We looked at some toys from the past and how some of them are similar to the toys we play with today. We will be moving onto how teddy bears have changed over time. Did you know the first teddy bear was designed in 1902! That’s even older than Mrs Baskerville, Miss Hare and Mrs Keat!

For computing we have been learning how to program a robot. We have learnt that when we give a robot an instruction this is called a ‘command.’ We are really enjoying being able to send the robots around the classroom.

1H have had some soggy woodland school sessions this half-term. When safe to do so, we have been able to explore our school environment, we’ve definitely built our resilience outside. Mrs Taylor has shown us how to use some tools safely which some of us have enjoyed using by practising our drilling and sawing skills. Thank you, Mrs Taylor, for teaching us this half-term and for providing some yummy snacks and hot chocolate.