Year 1 - Summer 2 - Week 5
Date: 8th Jul 2022 @ 1:35pm
And so, our penultimate week in Year 1 has come to an end and what a brilliant week it has been! As always, our little authors have written some wonderful stories and used their multicoloured thinking hats to inspire some truly creative ideas, based on the story, “Goldilocks and Just the One Bear”, by Leigh Hodgkinson. Year 1 have been working hard to learn how to tell the time and, this week, have been applying their new knowledge to tell the time to the hour and half past the hour. In addition to this, the children have enjoyed creating some beautiful collages, inspired by their trip to the farm last week, and have been busy writing kindness postcards, to send to the elderly residents of Formby, as part of their Young Leaders Award.
In Collective Worship, we discussed our new monthly value of “Responsibility”. Having used our black thinking hats to share our existing knowledge of the value, we then used our yellow thinking hats to reflect on the responsibilities we have. Many fantastic ideas were shared such as looking after our belongings at school, putting our rubbish in the bin and tidying our bedrooms. We then enjoyed taking part in a craft activity, to share the responsibilities we have when we are at home. We designed and decorated our own houses, before opening them up to write our responsibilities inside.
This week, Year 1 began their Design and Technology project, for which they were set the challenge of designing and making a healthy drink. Year 1 began their project by conducting some market research and they gathered data about the class’ favourite fruits. They then spent time taste testing a variety of fruits, to help them choose their ingredients. From then on, the children began carefully designing their delicious healthy drinks. They thought about their favourite flavours and took part in some excellent discussions about the flavours that may or may not work together. We are looking forward to bringing our designs to life next week and to hopefully enjoying our delicious creations!
Well done for a great week, Year 1! Have a lovely weekend and we look forward to seeing you on Monday.
Year 1 Reminders
- In preparation for the next academic year, please also read the 'Y2 Successful Start' PowerPoint, which can be found attached.
- Last day of term - Friday 15th July, 1:00pm
- National Book Tokens are running a competition where the lucky winner will win £1000 of book tokens for their chosen school and £100 book vouchers for themselves! Please click the link below to quickly enter and nominate our school for the win! Thank you!
National Book Tokens Competition
- This week the children enjoyed a visit from Sarah from Formby library who informed the children about this year's summer reading challenge.They were all very excited! We hope they will be able to enjoy the reading challenge and celebrate this with us when they return to school in September.