Year 1 - Spring 1 - Week 3

Date: 18th Jan 2023 @ 2:04pm

We have had a busy week again here in, Year 1!

We started our week doing our coats and taking a trip to the local, family run coffee shop, Kiosk Coffee, where we learnt all about what it takes to run the shop and how best to serve customers. We found out that each day they make fresh cakes and grind the coffee beans down to make coffee powder, after, we were lucky enough to sample some of their delicious brownies and juice. Back at school, we applied this newfound knowledge to our own role play coffee shop. We have never seen such good customer service!

In Maths, we have been focusing on developing our understanding using concrete resources as well as taking it outside, in our new learning environment. We started by cementing our knowledge of numbers up to 20, connecting our learning back to last week, and focusing on the model of ten and a bit with regards to our ten frames. We the focused on the number 20 itself. We quickly identified that to make 20, we needed two full ten frames, and set off to find objects from our outdoor area to fill it, some of us even chose snowballs as an object. To help us, we discussed with our partners how many more we needed each time. Later in the week, we connected our learning back to September, and focused on finding one more and one less than given numbers up to 20 using number tracks.

In Phonics, we continued to explore our new stories, in our groups, working hard to develop our sentences ensuring we are remembering our punctuation.

In RE, we listened to the bible story ‘The Calling of the Disciples’ after which, using role play, we recreated the story using a net and some beanbags. We then reflected on why Jesus chose his friends like this, and how they might have felt when he spoke to them and what makes a good friend. Together, we wrote words and drew pictures on our own person to depict a ‘good friend’.

This week in Geography, we were incredibly fortunate to link our new country, China, to special and unique annual celebration, Chinese New Year. We learnt about some of their unique traditions and customs whilst also sampling food and creating our own fortune cookies, with the help of Year 4!

In PE, we continued our Gymnastics journey, developing our understanding of balances from last week and working together to make a sequence using movement and balances.

A huge thank you to all the parents that attended our Parent Teacher Meetings this week, it was wonderful to see you all.

Reminders

• Please can I direct parents again, to the school uniform policy, it is important that children are wearing the correct uniform each day.
• Book bags and folders need to be returned to school on Thursday ready to be swapped and returned to you by Friday afternoon. If your child does not bring their book back, we are unable to issue them with a new one.