Year 1 - Summer 2 - Week 2

This week has been full of exciting learning, hands-on activities and wonderful enthusiasm across all of our subjects.

In Maths, we continued developing our understanding of multiplication and division, focusing on sharing and grouping. The children explored how numbers can be shared equally into groups and how we can group objects together to find totals. We used practical resources such as counters and cubes to help us see these concepts more clearly, supporting the idea that multiplication involves repeated groups and division involves sharing into equal parts. The children worked hard to understand what it means for groups to be equal, linking this to the Year 1 objective of solving simple problems involving multiplication and division using concrete objects and pictorial representations. It has been lovely to see their confidence grow as they explained their thinking and made connections between grouping, sharing and repeated addition.

In English, we focused on writing our own short poems inspired by our new story, Goldilocks and Just One Bear. We listened carefully to a sound clip of a busy city and discussed the different noises we could hear, such as beeping horns, people laughing and singing, and footsteps stomping along the pavement. This helped us to build a bank of ideas before writing our poems. The children were very creative, using their senses and imagination to describe what they could hear and picture. It was wonderful to see such thoughtful word choices and to hear the children sharing their ideas with such excitement.

In History, we continued exploring our topic on toys from the past. This week, we were very lucky to enjoy a special show and tell session, where children brought in old toys to share with the class. We found the stories behind these toys fascinating and loved hearing about who they belonged to and how they were played with. This helped us to deepen our understanding of how toys have changed over time and made our learning even more meaningful.

In DT, we had a fun and practical lesson learning about fruits. The children worked together to sort a range of items into fruits and non-fruits, carefully examining each one. We discovered that fruits contain seeds, and this is what scientists use to classify something as a fruit. The children were really interested to find seeds inside different fruits and were surprised by some of the results. This hands-on experience helped them to better understand how foods are grouped and where they come from.

Well done, Year 1. You have all worked incredibly hard this week and should be very proud of everything you have achieved.