Year 1 - Summer 2 - Week 1

Date: 3rd Jun 2023 @ 6:28pm

And,  just like that, we have started our final term in Year 1 and what an adventure we will have!

We had the most incredible time on our school trip to Tatton Park on Thursday, where we were able to travel back in time to the Victorian Era and experience what life was like back then. We loved donning tradtional Vicotrian clothing and acting out parts of their every day life from school to cleaning, even the teachers got involved! This was the perfect start to our new History topic, ' Is it better to be a child now than in the past?'. As the weeks progress, we will use our experience from this trip as well as aretefacts to compare life now, and then. 

In Maths, we started, and finished, our new topic, Geometry, exploring the postion and direction of various objects describing postitons after they are moved. Next week, we will visit our topic on Place Value, exploring numbers to 100. 

We explored materials and textures in Art and investigated how different one can affect the other. This week, we explored how you can create different patterns and pictures using a range of different medium such as; paper, tissue paper and paint. We are delighted with how our creations turned out.

The summer weather brought with it the summer sports and we absolutly loved getting outside to complete both Athletics and Striking and Feilding. In Athletics, we completed a range of different activities in preparation for Sports Day from running races to the egg and spoon. It was very exciting. As well as this, we practiced hitting, large and small balls, with a variuos bats exploring how the different ones create more power or 'stirke' to move the ball across the field. 

We explored summer in Science as well, comparing our current glorious summer weather to the previous seasons. We discussed we must keep ourselves safe in the sun and identified various items that we shoud used as a result. 

Reminders

- Please can you ensure that children are sent to school with water bottles, hats and suncream. The weather is getting hotter and we do not have the resources to supply the children with the above. Please also note that staff are unable to apply suncream to children so please can you practice with your child at home. 

- Next week the children will complete their Phonics Screen Check, the check itself will be seamless and the children will be unaware of it compared to other assessments. As stated previously, we will not be able to share results with you until the reports due to the government deciding on the pass score. TO support your child, please complete the videos which have been shared with you over School Spider. 

- PE days will continue to be on a Tuesday and Wednesday each week, please ensure children are dress appropriotely for their lesson.