Year 1 - Spring 1 - Week 1

Date: 7th Jan 2022 @ 10:58am

Welcome back and a happy New Year to you all! It has been so wonderful to see our classroom filled with smiling faces again and we have enjoyed lots of activities to kickstart our new term. In Maths, Year 1 have been busy learning about tens and ones and have been learning how to use Dienes to represent numbers. It has been a pleasure to have been able to share and listen to everyone’s Christmas news and Year 1 have worked hard to create some super writing all about their festivities, in English.

In Collective Worship this week, we began exploring our new monthly value of “Wisdom”. We used our black thinking hats to explore and discuss the meaning of this month’s value. A common idea that the children shared was that owls are thought of as wise and are often used as a symbol of wisdom. We used our yellow thinking hats to reflect on stories that we have read that include owls and made the connection with our value, thinking about the wise words that the owls in the story often shared. We then enjoyed creating our own “Branches of Wisdom”, on which we stood our carefully decorated paper owls that shared our own wise words, for everyone to see.

We had a rather creative end to our first week of term and put on our multicoloured thinking hats to begin creating tiles for our class mural. Inspired by the patterns and symbols on our school building, Year 1 designed a tile to represent our wonderful school. They thought carefully about what school means to them and took their time to choose designs unique to Trinity St. Peter’s and that captured what they enjoy about school. Year 1 were very excited to use modelling materials to bring their tiles to life and used a variety of skills to cut, mould and add texture to clay to create their tile. It was fantastic to see our superstar artists at work and we can’t wait to see how wonderful the tiles look when they have been painted!

Well done for a great start to the Spring term. We are so excited to see what our new term brings. For more information on what we will be learning about this term, please click here. We hope you have a lovely weekend!

Year 1 Reminders

• During Spring 1, PE will take place on a Monday and Wednesday. Please ensure children come to school in the correct PE kit on these days.