For the last two weeks, in our Living and Learning lessons, Year 1 have been getting to know the 8Rs for learning (responsible, risk taking, resilience, resourceful, ready, responsive, remember and reflect). These are eight characteristics to promote good learning behaviour and of course, these are referred to throughout the year across all subjects. The parent’s guide to the 8Rs can help to reinforce this at home.
The children were given different scenarios and they had to match them up to the correct 8R or complete the missing R in a sentence. Ask your child if they can remember the answers.
Saavi has her white board and pen on her table for phonics.
Evie changes her number 2 after Mrs Taylor asks her to check her numbers.
Nate puts his hand up to answer a question even though he is not sure if it is right.
Talha uses the hundred square to check his number formation.
Grace _______________ her spellings because she had been practising them at home.
Austen took __________________ for his belongings because he put them all back in his pencil case.
Erica was _______________ as she kept trying until she could write the letter y in handwriting.
Rico ________________ on his maths learning and tries to put one number in one box in his book.
Resilience has been one of the themes of the After the Fall book we have been learning about in our topic lessons. We thought about what messages we might send to Humpty Dumpty as he tried to climb back up the wall again.
Don’t look down.
Keep going up.
Always keep going.
You can do it.
Don’t give up.
We’ve got you.
Take a risk.
Be resilient.
We’ve been talking about the 8Rs across other lessons and here are some more examples of Year 1 using the 8Rs.
Being resourceful in maths
Being responsive by checking number formation
With such a great start to the year, we are sure Year 1 will continue to use the 8Rs across all areas of their learning.