Year 1 Class News

PE

For PE today, we used the large apparatus in the hall. This generated a lot of excitement ! The children were able to explore the equipment whilst developing control, coordination and balance. We discussed how to use space and apparatus safely and how to change movements to avoid other children.

What is a noun?

This week, the children have started learning all about nouns. There are two types of nouns.

Common nouns

These are the names of things (places or objects).

Proper nouns

These are the names of a particular person, place or thing. They always begin with a capital letter.

Today, Year One enjoyed doing a noun hunt around the classroom.

Here is a link for one of the activities we used in class. Have a go with your child at home. Or maybe, go on a noun hunt around the house.

What are nouns? – BBC Bitesize

Below are a few sentences. Can your child identify the noun?

There are pretty flowers in the garden.

I like to read a book.

The wood is dark and scary.

The farmer takes his animals to market.

The pig eats lots of food.

Curious Historians

As part of the current history topic – The Great Fire of London – the children have been using historical sources to ask and answer questions about the past.

Questions are tools of curiosity 

In Year One, the children are given plenty of opportunities to ask  questions and these have stimulated some great conversations.

To help develop and nurture the children’s curiosity about the past, we have a dolls house in the classroom. The class can spend time looking inside the house and studying the various items. As well as raising questions, we have been using this resource as an opportunity for writing. Using some of the vocabulary taught in history lessons, the children have been writing about the objects in the house.

Keep asking questions, Year One!

School menu change and Christmas meal

Bringing the fire to life

This week, Year 1 took part in an online drama workshop all about the Great Fire of London.

1,2,3 Who are we going to be?

Here we had to show actions for some of the main people from the Great Fire of London – Thomas Farriner, King Charles II, Samuel Pepys and the London residents.

Save our treasure

We heard about the ‘treasure’ that Samuel Pepys saved from the fire by burying his items underground – cheese, bottles and his diary but what would you want to save?

I would save my favourite teddy.

I would bury my toys.

Chaos on the streets of London

What sounds could be heard while the fire was burning? We created a sound ladder of all the sounds to show what the atmosphere would have been like.

• screams
• crackling from the fire
• cars horses trotting along (well done, Hollie – you remembered there were no cars at that time)
• people jumping out of windows
• people shouting help
• water splashing on the fire
• buildings crashing down
• people giving orders
• children crying

Virtual after-school sport club

Living and learning: anti-bullying week

This week is anti-bullying week and Year 1 have been considering the theme of bullying across different areas of our learning.

Our fluency text, that we read daily, was based on our anti-bullying child friendly policy.

As we read it, we considered words we weren’t sure of.

several = lots of

on purpose = someone meant to do something and it wasn’t an accident

solution = how to sort something out

We spotted the important message of STOP which means two things in our school.

In our Living and Learning lesson, we used our inference skills and our school definition, recently reviewed by our school councillors, when looking at this photo to consider what might be happening and whether this is bullying.

The boys, who are standing up, are laughing at the boy sat down. We can laugh with someone but not at them.

The boy on the ground looks unhappy, upset and left out because his face looks sad and his head is down.

They are hurting his feelings.

We don’t know if this is bullying because bullying is when it happens lots of times (several) on purpose.

We discussed that if this boy is being bullied he should…

Start

Telling

Other

People.

The children then considered who they would tell if they needed to get help or if they were worried about something.

I can tell my family.

I can tell my friends.

I can tell an adult that I know.

I can tell my teachers.

I can tell my cousin.

Thank you to all the families who supported Odd Socks Day. There were all different sizes, patterns and colours of socks on show and it was great that the children could express themselves and celebrate their individuality while raising awareness of bullying. Here’s the Odd Socks Day assembly, led by CBeebies star Andy Day, which prompted lots of discussion within the class.

This years’ song performed by Andy and the Odd Socks is based on the theme of ‘United against bullying’.

We’re excited to see the childrens’ homework based on anti-bullying week. Here’s some we’ve received already. What great messages they are giving!

Austen’s kindness statements

Grace’s anti-bullying poster

Staying hydrated

Tennis

In their PE lessons, Year 1 have enjoyed learning some of the basics of the game tennis. Each lesson has slowly introduced skills required to play a game of tennis. The children have learnt how to hold a racquet securely, how to maintain control of the ball and have developed timings for when the racquet connects with the ball.

Fire Art

What a busy few days Year 1 have had!

On Monday, we continued with our history themed topic and we spent some time looking closely at the colours of the Great Fire against the night time sky. Could we recreate it?

Using marbling inks, the class chose appropriate colours to represent the fire. Patterns were formed by floating the ink colours on the surface of some water. Then, the children used a thin stick to swirl and merge the colours. Finally, paper was laid on top and the colours were absorbed.

Once dry, the houses were created and placed against the background.

The results are simply stunning!