Year 1 Class News

Maths – Counting in 2s, 5s and 10s

Today in Maths, our wonderful Year 1s have been learning how to count in 2s, 5s and 10s. They worked really hard on this and even managed to count to 100 in all 3! They then took part in an activity where they had to write down the missing number between two others while counting in either 2s, 5s or 10s.

Well done Year 1 on another brilliant week (with Friday to come). Next week is the phonics screening check, carry on practising your brilliant reading at home.

Safety week at Moortown

This week our wonderful Year 1s have had Safety Week. They have had a number of visitors this week: from the Police, to D:Side, to the British Military Martial Arts and more! The children all did really well and impressed us with their knowledge on how to stay safe in many different areas of life. Here are some of our favourite photos from the week:

Health and safety – Visitors at Moortown

This week our wonderful Year 1s have had an action packed and exciting time in their lessons. They have had some visitors from the Police come in to teach them about health and safety around the community and at home. It was very fun, but more importantly very educational. They learnt lots of things such as what number to call when there is an emergency (999) and what number to call when there isn’t a serious emergency but you still need help (101). They even let the children try on the uniform! Of course this went down a treat with them and we got some great photos!

Topic – Geography explorers

This week in our learning the wonderful Year 1s have been learning about the world we live in. Over the last two weeks, they have been learning about oceans and continents, and today they carried it on by learning all about the North and South Pole, the equator and the different hemispheres.

They did really well in this and were even able to identify countries from each hemisphere!

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Living and Learning: Staying safe themed week 18 May

Our next whole school themed week, based around Staying Safe, will be taking place from Monday 18 May 2026.  The key message is how to be safe in a range of situations – at home, at school, online and in the environment.

A variety of events and visitors are planned to help us deliver this key aspect of education including road safety (Leeds City Council); water safety (Canal and River Trust and RNLI); fire safety (West Yorkshire Fire Service); first aid; safety in our community (PCSOs), martial arts (BMMA) and drug education (d:side). Some of the events require parental permission and these letters have been sent out separately.

There are also some opportunities for parents and carers, from all year groups, to get involved in the week.

Thursday 14 May from 8:30am West Yorkshire Police bike register event

Pupils are invited to bring along their bikes to be registered at this bike security marking event at school. Registering your bike helps police and retailers identify and verify the legitimate owner of bikes that have been stolen or are being resold.

Tuesday 19 May 3pm – 3:30pm d:side drug education drop in information session (playground)

A representative from d:side, a health education provider, will be available to discuss details of your child’s drug education learning in the themed week.

The themed week is a good opportunity to continue to think about healthy, active and safe ways to travel to school.  Children are encouraged to travel to school in a sustainable way, keeping safe along the way.

For a chance to win one of three £10 vouchers, we’d love to see their active travel staying safe photos, maybe using a traffic crossing or wearing their bike helmet (send photos to moortownoffice@spherefederation.org). Photos should be sent by 10am on Thursday 21 May and winners will be announced on the same day.

Due to the rising costs of visitors to school, this year, we are requesting a voluntary contribution of £2 per pupil to go towards paying for visitors. This can be made on Arbor. Thank you for your support with this.

Finally, can you help? Does your job involve an aspect of safety?  If you are able to support our Staying Safe themed week by coming into school to speak to the children, please contact me via the office or your child’s class teacher.

We will keep you up to date about events during the week on the class news pages on our website.

Thank you for your support to keep Moortown a happy, healthy and safe school.

Science: Plants and their parts.

Since returning from their break our wonderful Year 1s have been learning all about plants, their parts and how to grow them. The children started off by looking at different parts of plants and trees. They were split into groups then classified and grouped the different parts together.  They did really well in this and impressed us with their knowledge on the parts that make plants. After this, they then learnt how to plant a sunflower, planting one inside and one outside. They are now going to observe the changes over time (so feel free to ask how ‘Sun Sun’ and ‘Sunset’ are.)

Summer term after-school clubs

Roundhay tennis opportunities

This week, we welcome Paul from Roundhay Tennis Club who will be running a taster tennis session for Reception and Year 1 classes, giving children the opportunity to try tennis and inspire them to pick up a racket.

DT, Food and Nutrition – Fruit Salads

This week our wonderful Year 1s have been learning about food and nutrition. They have been making their very own fruit salads! Every one in class had a go at this and they all did a great job, but most importantly they were, respectful, ready and safe for their lesson. The children used and learnt some valuable skills to make their fruit salads. One very important skill the children learnt was the claw method. This is used to help us stay safe while cutting or using a knife. Here are some photos from the lesson:

Well done Year 1! Have a lovely, well deserved, break over easter. I hope you enjoy it as much as you enjoyed your fruit salads.

Science – Seasonal Change

Well done on another great week Year 1!

This week in Year 1 they have been learning about seasons, seasonal change and what kind of things we see in each one. The pupils shared some great ideas on things such as what we wear in each season, what we see and what changes there are. They had a lots of ideas to share, especially about winter (Christmas and Santa of course) but on top of this they also shared some great things about spring. One response that stood out was ‘in spring we see lots of things start to grow. Like grass and the trees.’.

Every one in class really impressed us and even made some great mind maps. Here is one that a table worked on about summer.