Year 1 - Autumn 1 - Week 5

Date: 6th Oct 2022 @ 4:52pm

Wow, another fantastic week here in Year 1, full of laughter and fun!

We continued to look at our topic Harvest in Year 1, and this week we planted our very own vegetables which we will harvest when they are ready in the new year. A new month brings a new Collective Worship value to focus on, and this month we will be looking at generosity. We talked about how our topic harvest links to generosity and how during this time, we give to charities and food banks to help less fortunate than ourselves. We then made our own flowers to give to people around the school as a token of kindness and giving.

In Maths, we continued with out Place Value theme and focused on finding one more than a given number as well as moving up and down the number line. We loved getting active for our lessons, creating our own number tracks and, with our partners, counting on from a given number.

In Geography, we started look at the four countries in the United Kingdom with a specific focus on ‘England’. We looked at what makes England special, its capital city, flower, famous food and even their traditional dance! We absolutely loved having a go at Morris Dancing working with our partner to complete given steps. However, it is safe to say the best activity was eating the scones!

We embarked on our ‘Mini-Marathon’ in support of all the incredible people that completed this fantastic event at the weekend. We look to the playground and completed an epic 4 laps! We have challenged ourselves to do 6 next time. Watch this space! This helped us with building up on stamina in PE, focusing on our breathing, getting our heart going and most importantly our ball skills. We continued to develop our catching, reminding ourselves, and our friends, that we must keep our hands close together when catching. It was, as ever, great fun.

Year 1 Reminders:

• Please be reminded that snacks, if brought to school, must be healthy. Children should not bring chocolate to school.
• Please make sure your child’s clothes are labelled correctly in case they misplace them.
• Parent Teacher Meetings will take place next week on Tuesday and Wednesday, the link for this will be shared on Monday. Please remember to use yours, or your child’s, full name when logging on.