Moving pictures!

This week, we had a task of making moving animals! We have been focusing on the book, Handa's Surprise. The Reception children told us that they wanted the book to be more exciting, so we thought carefully about how we could achieve this and came up with the idea of moving pictures!

We experimented with different materials and equipment, but decided to join card together with split pins! A super effort from all of Year 1, Well done! 

Welcome to Year 1 2015 - 16

Thank you to all our families for helping their children to settle so well to Year 1. They are very independent and have made a super start.

Week 2

In Maths this week we have revisited place value and used our knowledge to order one, two and three digit numbers. This has been tricky at times, but we have persevered! In English, we have begun writing a sequel for the Lighthouse Keeper's lunch story. We have used adjectives, lots of description and story openers to make it more exciting! We also enjoyed a visit from a lady who talked to us about keeping our bodies healthy. I am sure Year 1 can tell you lots about how to keep healthy!

Well done to these children:

Citizens of the week: Archie Barrow and Toby Bradley-Barrett 

Writer of the week: William Hatton

Speaker of the week: Lewis Clough

wb. 18th May 2015

What we have been up to this week...

This week in Maths we have been continuing to practise subtracting numbers and developed strategies to help us recall subtraction facts quickly. In topic, we have continued to learn about the Royals. The highlight of the week was definitely our trip to Abbey House Museum where we learnt more about Queen Elizabeth and compared her to Queen Victoria! The next day, we wrote some informative and excellent recounts of what we did for Mrs Simpson to read. Enjoy the holiday, Year 1. 

Here are some pictures from the trip:

Our week...

In Maths this week, we have begun learning about money. We have bought objects off each other, and ensured we had the correct coins to pay for it. We have also learnt how to give change. In topic, we have been continuing to learn about India. This week, we received a letter from a pupil in a school in New Delhi who wanted to find out what it was like in her school compared to our school. We looked at the pictures she sent us, and made some good comparisons about school life. Another good week, Year 1. Well done!

Citizens of the week: Isaac Khan and Evie Barrow

Writer of the week: Lily M

Speaker of the week: Keeley S

wb. 29/9/2014

What a busy week we have had in Year 1! As well as continuing our daily Read Write Inc and Maths sessions, we have been discovering more about Great Preston’s past and researching information to find out what Mining was like 100 years ago! In Science, we have been learning about the five different animal groups including mammals, reptiles, fish, birds and amphibians and have worked together to sort out lots of different animals into the correct groups. We have also been designing our own fruit salads in preparation for making them next week. Well done Year 1!

Speaker of the week: Evie Barrow

Writer of the week: Isaac Khan

Citizens of the week: Harrison Dibb and Jaxen Smith

Week 5 - 22.09.2014

What another busy week! In Year 1 we have enjoyed doing more tricky maths with Mr Tricky Toucan, and practising our number bonds to 10 and 20, and counting in 2s and 5s! In topic, we have found out more information about our past, the past of people in Great Preston village and the toys children use to play with by inferring old photographs. We have also been busy preparing products for a fruit salad in our quest to make school lunches healthier!
Well done to our Citizens of the week: Isabel Lock and Baylee Brown

Speaker of the week: Charlotte Nottingham, for speaking confidently in class discussions.
Writer of the week: Cerys Coolican, for excellent writing when inferring photos from the past.

2014-15 NEW ACADEMIC YEAR

Thank you so much for helping the children to settle in so quickly. They have coped well with the change from reception class to Year 1.
Miss Paynes

Looking after our environment

Year 1 made some thoughtful and eye-catching posters this week. Keep an eye out around school for these reminders of how to look after our environment. My personal favourite - Keep Your Cloakroom Tidy! :)

Fantastic story writing this week Year 1, well done! We've been thinking about special people today - those we see every day and some we haven't seen for a while and miss very much!! We send our happy thoughts to the lovely people who help to make our class a special place.

Well done to our gardeners for braving the weather today! Keep your onions wrapped up in the dark compost until the weather gets a bit warmer and then you can plant them in the ground with their tips peeping out. Let me know how your Narcissi are getting on!

Fabulous fruit

Years 1 and 2 joined forces on Wednesday and we had a fabulous time tasting some unusual fruits as part of our writing topic. “Delicious”, “scrumptious”, “slippery” and “astonishing” were some of the wonderful words the children thought of. I was so proud of them as they all tasted something new – even some of the fruits they really weren’t at all sure of...passion fruit are very surprising!

African Drumming Day

Wow! What a wonderful day we all had with the drums. There was lots of learning across the day with your art work too. Perhaps we could show it to Mrs Simpson?

I am so proud of your behaviour and lovely manners that you showed across the day. Well done Year 1!!
Mrs Milton

Mrs Milton

We have enjoyed a lovely afternoon working on our topic with Y2 class. We have been looking at the Zambian artefacts that were sent into school by Charli's Grandma in Y1. Thank you for sharing them with us the children really enjoyed looking at them.

Y6

Y6

Hungry

but happy

Year 6 breakfast and sandwich making

Sandwich making...can you see this mum?

Even doing your hair in the morning can be about team work!

Y6 Residential from Mrs Simpson

Performance Week!

What a brilliant week we have had! If you managed to make it to our performance I'm sure you will agree that the children were brilliant! Thank you for your help and support with costumes, songs and line learning. I was very proud of all the children and their hard work! We have been busy with lots of Christmas problem solving this week and we have looked at more of our science work. We decided on suitable materials based on their properties to help the elves make their workshop. If you have any old newspapers at home, please could you bring them in for Monday? Thank you.

This week!

This week we have been learning all about shape in maths. We first looked at 2D shapes and labelled and compared them. Some of us also went on a shape hunt around the school and found lots of different shapes. We then looked at 3D shapes and described the properties of them by playing different guess the shape games. In PE we developed our throwing skills by aiming into a net. I was very impressed with how accurate everyones throwing was. We have still been practising writing our surnames. Maybe you could have a practise writing your full name at home?