Year 1 - Summer 1 - Week 2
Date: 29th Apr 2022 @ 2:54pm
Yet another fantastic week, here in Year 1! The children continue to develop their knowledge and understanding of measurement and, this week, learnt how to use balancing scales to measure mass. Never without their multicoloured thinking hats, Year 1 have thoroughly enjoyed further exploring “Toys in Space”, by Mini Grey, and have been working hard to write excellent character descriptions and diary entries. The children have been making our Sentence Superheroes proud, using capital letters, full stops, finger spaces and, of course, our special Year 1 joining word, “and”. As well as all of this, Year 1 have had lots of fun taking part in an Ultimate Kids games session, working on their teamwork skills as part of our Young Leaders Award and putting our dancing shoes back on in PE.
In RE, wearing our black thinking hats, our wonderful Year Ones used all their new knowledge of baptisms to take part in a baptism themed, “True of False”, during which they had to identify if the pictures they were being shown were a real baptism or not. They then took part in a whole class discussion to share what they think would make a baptism special to them. The children put on their multi coloured thinking hats to design their perfect day, including the guests they would invite. They enjoyed sharing why their chosen people are so important to them and, wearing their green thinking hats, explained how it would make them feel to have their loved ones there.
Year 1 are continuing to develop into the most wonderful Young Leaders and this week they faced a challenge to test an extremely important skill, teamwork. They were challenged to work together as a team to build a spaghetti and marshmallow tower. When the time was up, we shared how we got on and discussed the following questions:
- Was the challenge difficult?
- How did you work together as a team?
- What would you do differently next time?
- Did working with someone else help you to complete the challenge?
From this challenging but fun activity, we have learnt that every member of a team is important and when working together, great things can be achieved. The lesson was a true reflection of our motto, ‘Leaders are better together’!
As always, well done for all of your hard work this week. Have the most wonderful bank holiday weekend and we look forward to seeing you on Tuesday!
Year 1 Reminders
- During Summer 1, PE will continue to take place on a Monday and Wednesday. Please ensure children come to school in the correct PE kit on these days.
- Children should bring only a small and healthy snack, such as fruit or a cereal bar, to have during their morning break time. Please ensure that grapes are cut in half.
- Love Reading have chosen their 'top book picks' for April and May. More, highly-rated children's reads, from a variety of authors for different age ranges, are shared with us all to enjoy.