Year 1 w/b 21st April 2025
Date: 25th Apr 2025 @ 1:25pm
We all have all enjoyed our first week of the summer term together and are delighted to have Mrs Coles and Mrs Marshfield joining our Year One team. They have had a lovely week getting to know all the children!
Finding seaside objects such as boats, shells, lighthouses, fish, and a harbour scene in our class gave us a great clue about our new text, ‘The Secret of Black Rock’ by Joe Todd- Stanton. We explored synonyms for new vocabulary and were introduced to our new model text. We focused especially on the direct speech in sentences spoken by the fishermen and women.
All phonics sounds for Year One have now been taught so this term we are revising and reviewing taught sounds. This week we have focused on e-e (Go Pete and Steve!). This half term, to replace our look, write and check spelling homework we will be sending home real and nonsense words for your children to practice reading. This will be good practice for the phonics screening assessment starting the week commencing 9th June. Children will read some words on sight but for others please encourage them to recognise ‘Special friends, Fred talk and say the word’. This is the language we use in school so to reinforce it at home will be useful. Please revisit words/ special friends your child finds tricky throughout the week.
In maths this week, we have started the unit ‘mass and volume’. In these lessons we have been formally introduced to mass for the first time. We held objects to compare them, using the language of ‘heavier’ or ‘lighter’ and then used balance scales to check our comparisons. Later in the week, we learnt that when a scale is balanced, objects have the same mass. On a balanced scale, the number of non-standard units on one side tells us the mass of the object on the other side.
In D&T we visited our local park to observe, sketch and talk about the designs of the equipment available. We looked at how the equipment had been constructed including the materials each of the items are made from and the strong shapes we could see in the designs. We then returned to school and conducted a survey to find out which item of playground equipment is the most popular in Year One.
In RE we looked at objects related to baptism. We then heard the story of Jesus' baptism by John the Baptist in the river Jordan and looked at paintings of this event offering our opinion about why the painter painted a dove above Christ's head, why light was shining from the clouds and why there were angels in some of the paintings. We enjoyed painting our own interpretation of this event.
In PE, we enjoyed our first athletics lesson. We focused on sprinting and throwing bean bags into different sized hoops. We soon realised that the bigger the hoop, the easier it is for us to throw our bean bag successfully inside the hoop.
In history we focused on real life heroes, and we explored the early life of Florence Nightingale and why she travelled to Scutari and what condition that hospital was in on her arrival.
I hope you all have a great weekend!
Miss Roxburgh
