Year 1 Team: Miss S Law (Class Teacher): Blog items
Date: 7th Jan 2022 @ 10:58am
Welcome back and a happy New Year to you all! It has been so wonderful to see our classroom filled with smiling faces again and we have enjoyed lots of activities to kickstart our new term. In Maths, Year 1 have been busy learning about tens and ones and have been learning how to use Dienes to represent numbers. It has been a pleasure to have been able to share and listen to everyone’s Christmas news and Year 1 have worked hard to create some super writing all about their festivities, in English.
In Collective Worship this week, we began exploring our new monthly value of “Wisdom”. We used our black thinking hats to explore and discuss the meaning of this month’s value. A common idea that the children shared was that owls are thought of as wise and are often used as a symbol of wisdom. We used our yellow thinking hats to reflect on stories that we have read that include owls and made the connection with our value, thinking about the wise words that the owls in the story often shared. We then enjoyed creating our own “Branches of Wisdom”, on which we stood our carefully decorated paper owls that shared our own wise words, for everyone to see.
We had a rather creative end to our first week of term and put on our multicoloured thinking hats to begin creating tiles for our class mural. Inspired by the patterns and symbols on our school building, Year 1 designed a tile to represent our wonderful school. They thought carefully about what school means to them and took their time to choose designs unique to Trinity St. Peter’s and that captured what they enjoy about school. Year 1 were very excited to use modelling materials to bring their tiles to life and used a variety of skills to cut, mould and add texture to clay to create their tile. It was fantastic to see our superstar artists at work and we can’t wait to see how wonderful the tiles look when they have been painted!
Well done for a great start to the Spring term. We are so excited to see what our new term brings. For more information on what we will be learning about this term, please click here. We hope you have a lovely weekend!
Year 1 Reminders
- During Spring 1, PE will take place on a Monday and Wednesday. Please ensure children come to school in the correct PE kit on these days.
Date: 3rd Sep 2021 @ 3:45pm
What an amazing start to our new school year! We have had the most wonderful few days getting to know about our new year group and settling into our new classroom.
We had a very exciting start to Year 1, when we discovered an unusual package tied to balloons which was tangled in our pirate ship! We were eager to find out what was inside and were thrilled to find out it was Disney Pixar’s “Up” DVD. On further inspection, we realised a note was attached to the package. As we read the note, the strange delivery began to make sense and it became clear we had a very important job to do! The characters from the film, Carl and Russell, were in a little bit of bother and asked us to use our school values to complete some special challenges. For each challenge we could complete, they would win a balloon which they could tie to their house to make it float again. Year 1 were very excited about their mission and could not wait to get started!
Over the past few days, Year 1 have had to use their school value of “Serve” and, just like Russell and Carl, had to share ways in which they follow in Jesus’ footsteps to respect others and the world around us.
They used our school value of “Hope” to create some wonderful adventure books that are now full of their hopes and dreams for the future.
Finally, they brought the week to a close using their school value of “Imagine” to create some beautiful cloud pictures. Ellie and Carl loved watching the clouds and making them into pictures in the film and we are sure they would love to see the artwork we have created, inspired by one of their favourite activities.
Each mission was completed to a very high standard and we are confident those balloons will be on Carl and Russell’s house in no time!
It has been a real pleasure to welcome the children back this week. It has been such a wonderful start to the year and we look forward to this year’s learning journey.
Well done for all of your hard work this week, Year 1! We can’t wait to see you on Monday. Have a brilliant weekend!
Year 1 Reminders:
Please note that children may bring a small, healthy snack, such as fruit or a cereal bar, to eat at playtime. Please ensure that grapes and tomatoes are cut in half lengthways.
Children should bring a bottle into school containing water.
PE lessons will take place on a Monday and Wednesday during Autumn Term. The first lesson will be Monday 6th September. Please ensure children come to school in full PE kit.