St Oswald's Catholic Primary SchoolYear 1: Blog items
Date: 24th May 2023 @ 5:34pm
English
We continued our learning through the story of The Enormous Crocodile. We discussed the story and expressed our opinions about the story. We wrote a book review, taking care with our spelling, handwriting, full stops and capital letters.
We made a card to say thank you to all the staff at Martin Mere for our fabulous trip last week. We wrote some lovely messages and produced some beautiful pictures.
We planned and wrote our own version of The Enormous Crocodile using some of our own very imaginative ideas.
Phonics
Some of us learned ere as in hemisphere. Some of us continued to learn about split digraphs, such as a-e in cake.
Split a-e song Split e-e song More phonics songs
Maths
This week Miss Forshaw taught us our last lesson learning about positional language. Then we started some new learning about telling the time, starting with o'clock . Practise telling the time with your child.
We also practised counting in 2s, 5s and 10s. Ask your child questions such as, what's 5 more/less than 45?, 10 more/less than 40?, 2 more/less than 48? to see if they can apply what they have been learning. If your child seems confident ask 10 more/less than 47?and so on. Keep to numbers less than 100.
P.E.
We practised our throwing, hopping, running and rolling of a ball.
R.E.
We had a fun lesson learning about how the Disciples felt when Jesus ascended and the Holy Spirit came to them. We decorated paper plates with different emotions,
Science
We learnt about the different parts of a leaf and went on a hunt to find our own in the nature area. Then, we sketched our favourite leaf and identified the different parts that we could see.
P.S.H.E.
We talked about people that we trust and how certain people have special jobs. This could mean that we are supposed to trust them more than others (for example a policeman). Then we identified the people that we trust in our lives, such as our parents and teachers.
Computing
We continued helping Scrat get to his acorn on the code.org website. We learnt about 'debugging' and how to fix our mistakes when coding.
Art
We painted our final seaside picture in our sketchbooks. We copied pictures from the iPad and really took our time!
French
We we continued to try and memorise clothes vocabulary with a song, story and games.
Forest School and Outdoor Learning
This week some groups made pancakes. Some groups used a new method of cooking, a Dutch Oven, to make soup. Some of us tried to use a flint and steel to start a fire. This was 1 to 1 with Mrs Corbett. The children found out it was more difficult than it looked! Some children succeeded in starting a fire but all the children who tried showed great determination and perseverance. They will keep on trying hard!
Home Practice
Phonics - split a_e OR suffixes
Maths - time
Please wash your child's P.E. kit over half term and return it to school on the first day back.
Keep reading every day - we are seeing how much of a difference it makes.
Have a great week off and we will see you all on Monday 5th June.
Date: 23rd May 2023 @ 12:10pm
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Year 1 Blog-Friday 19th May 2023
Date: 18th May 2023 @ 10:10am
Welcome to your Friday blog!
We are enjoying Miss Forshaw being in our class. She is learning how to become a teacher and we are all helping her.
English
This week, we have been reading the story of 'The Enormous Crocodile' by Roald Dahl. We have absolutely loved learning about the crocodile's clever tricks (that did not work) and how the jungle animals saved the children each time. We read most of the book and predicted how it might end. We focused on adjectives this week. We highlighted the many adjectives in the story, wrote a beware poster to warn children and identified the crocodile's clever tricks.
We then wrote a recount of our school trip to Martin Mere, describing what we did during the day.
Phonics
Some of us have been learning about the spilt digraph e-e as in Steve and complete.Some of us have been learning about ear in earth and or in work.
Click here to sing some phonics songs.
Maths
We have been learning about positional language. The learning included the words above, below, between, on top of,in front of.
We have also been counting in 2s, 5s and 10s. Try counting from different starting numbers. Count in 5s starting at 2. Count in 10s starting at 12.
R.E.
We focused on the words that Jesus spoke to His disciples as He ascended up to Heaven. We spoke about His promise to send the Holy Spirit and we wrote what was said in speech bubbles.
History
We learnt about the various forms of entertainment that were seen at the seaside in the past and in the present day. We examined some real life photographs of the seaside in the past and identified any entertainment that we could see. We spotted Punch and Judy shows, people seabathing, swimming and making sandcastles on the beach. We drew and described two examples of past activities in our books.
Science
We have learnt about the different parts of the plant and the very important jobs that they have. We made our own collage pictures identifying each part and then pretended to be a plant with our bodies - we stretched out tall like the stem and opened our hands wide like the leaves!
Art
We made our final digital seaside picture using Paintz.app. They were absolutely amazing! So much so, that Mrs Robinson came in to see them.
Computing
We had our next lesson using code.org. We learnt to drag and drop instructions so that Scrat could eat the acorn. We did some amazing learning and sharing!
French
We began to learn the vocabulary for clothes with the story Je m'habille et je te croque followed by some games to reinforce the new words.
Outdoor Learning
This week our fire session was making pancakes. We made the batter and watched as it changed from a liquid into a solid. We noticed the change in the colour of the pancakes as they cooked. We ate them with lemon,sugar, cinnamon or apple sauce.
Our other session was making obstacle courses. We used logs and came up with really imaginative ways to use them.
Martin Mere
We had an amazing trip to Martin Mere. There was so much learning! We saw so many different plants and creatures. Have a look at the photos in the gallery section.
Home Practice
Phonics - split digraph o_e OR ear in dear
Maths - turns
KEEP READING EVERY NIGHT!
Even more children are changing their reading books more often and it's having a great impact on their progress.
Don't forget to keep reading the Tricky words and if your child recognises them on sight they could learn how to write them.
Date: 11th May 2023 @ 10:29am
Welcome to your Friday blog!
We are enjoying Miss Forshaw being in our class. She is learning how to become a teacher and we are all helping her.
English
This week, we have been reading the story ' There's a tiger in the garden'. We had some great discussions about whether the tiger was real and also about what we could infer from the story. We created our own story map of the main events in the story.
Phonics
Some of us have been learning about ir in girl and er in her. Some of us have been learning to read words such as shrink, plank, frost.
Click here to sing some phonics songs.
Maths
We have been learning about finding halves and quarters of shapes and amounts.
We have been counting in 2s,5s,and 10s. Start on different numbers and count forwards as well as backwards.
R.E.
We focused on the term 'Holy Day' and how they are special days that are celebrated. We recapped all the days that we have learnt about, focusing on the Easter story, and then chose one to draw and write about in our books.
P.E.
We had our final sports day practise on Wednesday.
Thank you to everyone who came to watch us take part in our sports day. The children we absolutely amazing, showing great determination, resilience and physical skills.
P.S.H.E.
We started to think about safety and who keeps us safe. We explored different job roles involving safety (police, fire fighters) and other people like parents and teachers who want to keep us safe. We then drew pictures of them and talked about what they do to help us.
History
We had such a fun lesson learning about past and present seaside clothing. We looked at what is the same and what is different and then we got to try some clothes on from the museum loan box!
Art
We made a great tiger craft each in choosing time using lolly sticks.
Then in our learning, we planned our perfect seaside picture in our sketchbooks ready to paint our final digital seaside picture next week.
French
We practised numbers to 15 and adding two numbers with a game. We recapped weather phrases, then moved on to begin to learn some clothes vocabulary with a story - Je m'habille et je te croque.
Music
We played the boomwhackers. We really had to concentrate so that we played our note at the right time.
Outdoor Learning
This week four groups cooked on a fire. We used wood and charcoal this time and cooked in the embers of the fire . We rolled bread dough into balls and cooked it in the fire-it was delicious!
We also cut a slit in the skin of bananas and put chocolate buttons in the slits. We then wrapped the bananas in foil and baked them in the embers of the fire. They were so yummy, the chocolate melted and the bananas went soft.
The last group will do this on Monday.
We also chose to build shelters and our own play fires which we could pretend to cook on. Some of us were still very interested in making mouse traps !
Home Practice
Phonics - ear words OR split e_e
Maths - quarters
KEEP READING EVERY NIGHT!
Even more children are changing their reading books more often and it's having a great impact on their progress.
Don't forget to keep reading the Tricky words and if your child recognises them on sight they could learn how to write them.
Please return your trip slip on Monday if you haven't already!
Date: 4th May 2023 @ 10:25am
Welcome to your Friday blog!
We are enjoying Miss Forshaw being in our class. She is learning how to become a teacher and we are all helping her.
English
This week, we have been reading the story "We are Going on a Lion Hunt". The story follows the pattern of the Bear Hunt story which we learnt about in Reception. We went on our own animal hunt in our school grounds. Some of use role played being the lion and answered questions.
Phonics
Some of us have been learning about words where we have to be really careful to sound out all the vowels and consonants, for example smell,grass,smug. We also learnt to read words such as print
Some of us have been learning about ough in bought and augh in taught. We couldn't believe how many 'or' spellings there were!
Click here to sing some phonics songs.
Maths
We have been learning about finding halves of shapes and amounts. We used practical equipment to work out and check our answers.
We have been counting in 2s, 5s and 10s, forwards and backwards. Practise counting in odd numbers, 1,3,5... Practise counting in 5s from different numbers, 2,7,12,17,22,.......what's the pattern?
Practise counting in 10s from different numbers, 3,13,23,33,.....what do you notice ?
Click here to play a fact families game.
R.E.
We started to learn about our new topic of 'Holidays and Holydays'. We first discussed the meaning of each and then we focused on our holidays. This tied in well with our history learning! We drew what we need to take on a holiday with us and then we watched a video of Barnaby Bear going on holiday.
Click here to watch more Barnaby videos.
P.E.
We started practising for our sports day, which is on Thursday 11th of May at 2:15pm
We practised all of our races and talked about competing in a fair way and celebrating everyone's achievements.
Computing
We have used a brand new website this week called code.org. By the end of the summer term, we are all going to be amazing coders! This week, we learnt to drag and drop objects. We challenged ourselves by using the trackpads to drag each time.
If you would like to access www.code.org at home, our class code is ZQTKZD. Each person has their own password icon to click to access the learning.
Science
We went in our outdoor area to see our bean plants that have been planted by the gardening club. We compared them from when they were in the bags in the classroom to now. Some had grown, some unfortunetly hadn't! We then wrote about how they had changed.
History
We learnt about King Charles' upcoming coronation. We read 'The King's Pants' together and drew our own pants. We hope that he comes to school one day so we can question him!
Art
We have been doing lots of art work this week! We have been sketching the King in our sketchbooks and then we continued with our digital media lesson. We used Paintz.app to digitally draw a seaside picture. It was fun to see how much we could remember from our computing lessons.
French
We recapped the weather phrases and practised them with some games. Then we read a story from the Berthe series about a witch who always has the wrong clothes on for the weather. This introduced the vocabulary for clothes which we will work on next week. Well done everyone.
Outdoor Learning
This week the last group learnt about fire safety and toasted marshmallows.
In our other session we got out all the shetler building equipment and worked together to make shelters. It was quite windy on some of the days which provided extra challenge! It's great to see such resilience, imagination, teamwork and resilience.
Coronation of King Charles
We all enjoyed our celebration school lunch on Thursday.
Everyone looked fabulous in their red,white and blue outfits.
Our Golden Assembly on Friday was a lovely celebration - we loved singing our special song. The picnic was great and we are all excited to watch the event tomorrow.
To The Sound Of Trumpets. Click here to sing the song.
Don't forget that it is Bank Holiday on Monday. We will see you on Tuesday.
Home Practice
Phonics - common exception words/compound words
Maths - halving
KEEP READING EVERY NIGHT!
Even more children are changing their reading books more often and it's having a great impact on their progress.
Date: 27th Apr 2023 @ 10:11am
Welcome to your first Summer Term blog!
English
This week, we have been reading the story 'I want my hat back' by Jon Klassen. We met a bear who had lost his hat who then used his detective skills to realise that actually, he had seen his hat! We predicted what was going to happen in the story, we drew our own hats, we made missing posters for the hat and used speech bubbles to write what was being said by each character.
Then, we read 'We found a hat' and compared it to the first story.
Phonics
We have been learning about oar and our is roar and pour.
Click here to sing some phonics songs.
Maths
We focused on parts and wholes in number sentences. We learnt that the parts add together to make a whole. Then we looked at the inverse, making the subtraction number sentences using same numbers. We had to remember that the whole comes first!
Click here to play a fact families game.
R.E.
We recapped the Easter story and talked about how Easter Sunday, and Jesus' ascension, is not the end. We read about Peter telling everyone to spread the Good News and wrote about how we can continue to change for the better.
P.S.H.E.
We recapped different forms of money before learning about distinguishing between needs and wants. We defined both of them and sorted objects into each category.
P.E.
We started practising for our sports day, which is on the 11th of May at 2:15.
We practised the relay race and the egg and spoon race together.
Computing
We had an online safety session regarding the internet. We looked at some rules to follow and practised being safe on the internet. We used the NatGeo website to learn about a country of our choice.
Science
We went outside for a lovely nature walk! We spotted lots of different plants and flowers and sketched them in our science books. We learnt a lot of new plant names!
History
We started to learn about seaside holidays, both in the past and the present. We compared the two and stuck pictures into our books under each column.
Art
We had two separate art lessons this week. Our first was a lovely lesson drawing Earth pictures for World Earth Day. Then in our second lesson, we started our Digital Media topic. This is where you create art online. We Googled images of the seaside and sketched what we could see in our sketchbooks.
French
We recapped animals words and began to learn some phrases for the weather through games and a story.
Outdoor Learning
This week four of the groups leant about fire safety. We watched a fire being started by Mrs Corbett using a flint and steel. We toasted marshmallows-they were yummy!
The last group will do this session next week.
We also checked how our plants are growing and put some of them in bigger pots.
Our summer term class and subject overviews are live on the school website. Please look on the year 1 page and the separate curriculum pages to see what we are learning about.
Don't forget that it is Bank Holiday on Monday. We will see you on Tuesday.
Home Practice
Phonics - au and aw words
Maths - counting practise
KEEP READING EVERY NIGHT!
Year 1 Blog-Thursday 6th April
Date: 6th Apr 2023 @ 5:29pm
Welcome to your final Friday blog of the Spring term. We had a great Easter assembly with some lucky children winning an Easter egg in the raffle.
English
This week we read our Scaredy Squirrel books to the children in Year 3 and Reception. Everyone loved our stories and we got some really good feedback.
We had a few days learning from a story called The Tiny Seed by Eric Carle. The seed has a journey starting in Autumn and ending up in Summer as an enormous flower.
We learnt about life cycles. We also wrote instructions to tell someone how to plant a seed.
Phonics
Some of us have been learning about al as in walk, talk, chalk and some of us have been learning more tricky words.
Maths
We have been doing lots of assessments this week.
R.E.
We learned more about the Easter story. We went to church on Tuesday to watch Year 6 perform their Easter presentation. We loved joining in with the singing and the prayers.
P.E.
We practised our fundamental skills outside.
Art
We all made an Easter card by collaging an egg shape.
French
We listened to La legende des Cloches de Paques - the story of the Easter Bells. In France, they say that the bells fall silent at Easter because they have gone to Rome to be blessed. They return on Easter Sunday, dropping chocolate eggs in gardens for children to find. We practised some vocabulary related to Easter with a hunt the word game.
Outdoor Learning
We have all made our hedgehog now using hammers and screwdrivers.
We did some more planting- carrots and foxgloves.
We went in the nature area and found new types of flowers growing, snails,woodlice, spiders ,ants and worms.
We wish you all a happy, holy and peaceful Easter.
Year 1 Blog - Friday 31st March
Date: 29th Mar 2023 @ 5:44pm
Welcome to your final Friday blog of March.
This week we have also attached a new online safety guide 'What Parents and Carers Need to Know about Age-Inappropriate Content'. Please Read.
English
This we we started to write our own version of the story, Scaredy Squirrel Has A Birthday Party. We had so many decisions to make...where to hold the party, things which might spoil the party, ideas for small talk, extra items which might be needed in an emergency! Scaredy Squirrel thinks of everything!
We role played being Scaredy Squirrel talking about his party.
We will read our books to other classes when we have finished them.
Phonics
Some of us were learning about or as in fork and oi as in coin. Some of us were learning or as in door, walk, roar and core.
Click here to sing some phonics songs.
Maths
We started looking at division problem questions that required us to share objects equally. We started with halving numbers and then built up to sharing into more groups (e.g. share 10 apples between 5 children). We quickly realised that we can easily halve even numbers but it isn't easy to halve odd numbers.
We made sure that we did lots of counting together to check our answers!
Click here to play Hit the Button - click halves to 10.
R.E.
We focused on Palm Sunday and learnt about Jesus being welcomed by people with palm leaves. We made our own welcome banner for Jesus and role played welcoming Him. Then, we learnt the Easter story, focusing on the lead up to Jesus' crucifixion.
P.S.H.E.
After recapping how we can earn money, we learnt about how we can save money. We thought about where our money can be kept safely - a piggy bank, a purse, with adults, and then we learnt about bank accounts and how we can keep large amounts of money safe. We then made a poster about how, and where, we can save our money.
P.E.
This week, we tried throwing and catching with larger, lighter balls. This was quite tricky outside but we quickly learnt to come closer to our partners to stop the ball from being dropped. We then played a game of throwing and catching rounders to improve our teamwork skills.
Computing
We did some tricky learning this week on the laptops! We learnt how to drag and drop objects into sorting groups using the trackpad. We learnt that we had to click with one finger and move another finger - at the same time.
History
We learnt about two very significant inventors - The Wright Brothers. We learnt that they invented the first aeroplane and made the first flight possible. We compared past aeroplanes to present day planes and then wrote about why the brothers are significant. We even tried to make our own paper aeroplanes!
Art
We sketched a story map of our favourite stories on World Book Day.
French
We listened to La legende des Cloches de Paques - the story of the Easter Bells. In France, they say that the bells fall silent at Easter because they have gone to Rome to be blessed. They return on Easter Sunday, dropping chocolate eggs in gardens for children to find. We practised some vocabulary related to Easter with a hunt the word game.
Outdoor Learning
Some of us used our skills of using tools safely to make a hedgehog using a wood slice, nails and screws.
We chose some of own learning in the lodge and the nature area. Some of us planted seeds including dill, coriander and basil. We hope that we are going to have plenty of plants growing when we return after the Easter holiday.
World Book Day
All of your outfits were absolutely amazing! The children looked incredible. Thank you also to the two mums who came in to read to the children, the children loved it!
Home Practice
Phonics - or words/ore words
Maths - Addition and subtraction
KEEP READING EVERY NIGHT!
EVEN MORE CHILDREN THAN LAST WEEK CHANGED THEIR READING BOOKS SEVERAL TIMES! THIS IS BRILLIANT AND IT IS REALLY HAVING A GREAT IMPACT ON THEIR PROGRESS.
READING BOOKS WILL BE CHANGED ON THURSDAY NEXT WEEK.
Year 1 Blog - Friday 24th March 2023
Date: 23rd Mar 2023 @ 8:13pm
Welcome to your Friday blog!
English
This week we have been learning through the stories of Scaredy Squirrel. He is scared of everything! He rarely leaves his house in the nut tree.
We discussed and wrote about our fears. We made a list of disdvantages of never leaving our house. We wrote a fact file about Scaredy Squirrel and we also planned a timetable of our perfect day-Scaredy Squirrel likes to know exactly what's going to happen.
We are going to write our own Scaredy Squirrel books next week.
Phonics
Some of us have been revisiting or as in horn and ai as in rain. Some of us have been learning ar in rather and half, plus u in wood and could.
Maths
We have been answering even trickier problem questions about multiplication. This required us to count in 2s, 5s and 10s whilst also reading the writing!
We also practised our times tables on Topmarks.
R.E.
We continued to learn about how we can change. We focused on Ash Wednesday and how it is the beginning of Lent. We revisted our Lenten promises to check that we are keeping them and then wrote about how we can make good changes to our lives.
P.E.
We practised throwing at targets this week. It was very tricky due to the wind knocking our targets over. We also practised throwing and catching in bigger groups, which meant that we had to concentrate more.
Science
We conducted a transparency experiment to see how many household objects were transparent. We used the torches to test this and we found that actually, many objects are either opaque or translucent.
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History
After recapping our learning about Florence Nightingale, we learnt about another significant nurse - Edith Cavell. We quickly realised that she was very similar to Florence as she also helped soldiers during the war (WW1) and trained other women to be nurses. We then wrote our own ideas as to why Edith is a significant person.
D.T.
We made our healthy smoothies. We had so much fun. We learnt to cut safely and use the blender. Some of us liked our smoothies, some did not!
Outdoor Learning
This week we did a variety of learning. One of our sessions was learning how to use the hammers and screwdrivers safely. We are then applying these new skills to make a hedgehog.
We also made Spring wreaths out of willow. This week was the Spring or Vernal Equinox when there is about the same amount of hours of light and dark.
We took advantage of the sunnier weather on Friday to make shadow faces.
If we didn't do one of the sessions we will catch up next week.
Computing
We practised our Sumdog learning on the laptops and iPads.
French
We checked up on our French beans to see how they are growing - some are almost ready for giants at the top! We listened to a poem about the life cycle of plants and added actions to show our understanding. We finished with a song and a story.
Home Practice
Phonics - or and ai words
Maths - days of the week and months of the year
KEEP READING EVERY NIGHT!
SOME CHILDREN ARE CHANGING THEIR READING BOOKS SEVERAL TIMES A WEEK! THIS IS BRILLIANT AND IT IS REALLY HAVING A GREAT IMPACT ON THEIR PROGRESS.
Year 1 Blog Friday 17th March 2023
Date: 16th Mar 2023 @ 10:24am
Welcome to your Friday blog!
English
We practised our readings for the special assembly. We tried very hard to lift the writing off the page by speaking slowly, clearly and so that our voice could be heard by our audience.
We read a new story called Farmer Duck which featured a very lazy farmer. We pretended to be the farmer and wrote a letter of apology to the animals.
Phonics
We have been learning the oi sound as in coin and and as in toy.
Maths
We have started to learn about multiplication. We've been focusing on doubles to 10 and some of us to 20! We then moved onto solving word problems. It was a lot of reading but we loved it!
R.E.
We started to learn about our new topic of Change. We looked at how seasons change and then how much we have changed since September. We had a giggle at the blog pictures from September and wrote about a skill that we have learnt since being in year 1.
P.S.H.E.
We learnt about where money can come from, focusing on the most common source - a job! We looked at different jobs and talked about what those people might spend their money on.
We even role played pretending to be a baker, a teacher, a dentist and even a builder!
Computing
We focused on grouping objects by their properties (for example - by size, shape and colour). We then went on a colour hunt and found 3 objects that were the same colour.
We also enjoyed practising our learning on Sumdog.
D.T.
We started to think about the smoothies that we would like to make. We chose the fruit that we wanted and then planned how we were going to make the smoothie.
We then tasted lots of different fruits that we wouldn't normally eat, such as grapefruit and tomatoes.
Outdoor Learning
This week we either made a worry doll, a forest eye or had some free choice in the nature area.
French
We we learnt the vocabulary for family members then we made a card for Mother's Day. We also enjoyed the story of Jacques et les haricots magiques (Jack and the Beanstalk) in French, joining in with the repetitive parts. We checked up on how our French beans are growing. No giants to see yet!
Home Practice
Phonics - oi and oy words
Maths - one step problems
KEEP READING EVERY NIGHT!
Thank you to everyone who came to our Mother's Day assembly. We hope you have a lovely Mother's Day!
Year 1 Blog-Friday 10th March 2023
Date: 10th Mar 2023 @ 12:46pm
Welcome to your Friday blog!
English
We don't want to give away any spoilers but this week we have been learning through the book, My Mum. We have been trying super hard to make our writing look beautiful on the page. We have made a picture of our mums and written prayers-all will be revealed at the assembly next week!
Phonics
We have been learning the ow sound as in drought and and as in underground.
Maths
We have continued to learn about money. We can now recognise all the coins and the notes. We used the coins to make different amounts by having a cafe set up in the classroom.
R.E.
We had a lovely final lesson all about special meals. We had a pretend Holy Communion with juice and bread and spoke about how Holy Communion and The Last Supper relate to each other.
P.S.H.E.
We started to learn about money - what it is, what it is used for and how we can pay for items. This linked perfectly to our maths lessons! We talked about deciding how to pay - whether to pay for items using coins, notes, a contactless card or a chip and pin card.
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Art
We sketched roses and the copied our sketch onto card. We then coloured in the sketch by painting really carefully.
D.T.
We learnt about flow diagrams and how food gets to our plate. We learnt that some food is hardly changed (e.g. fruit) and how some are changed a lot! (e.g. cereal and crisps).
Science
We were so excited on Monday when the eggs were delivered to our classroom. They were in an incubator and we waited very patiently until Thursday when the chicks started hatching out! By the time we arrived in school on Friday morning we had nine chicks hatched out of nine eggs!
We then transferred the chicks into a large container with a heater and we will have them in our class until next Thursday.
We wrote about what the chicks need so they can grow well.
Japanese Lesson
Yuitchi and his students taught a really exciting lesson about ogres. We made masks like the ones used in the story.
We have loved having Akane in our classroom for the last 2 weeks, she will be missed!
Outdoor Learning
This week we have done a variety of learning, some outside and some in the lodge . All of us planted a range of seeds which we are going to look after. We practised tying knots in strawberry laces which we could then eat!
Some of us did some den building and some of us listened to the legend of Guatemalen worry dolls and had a go at making our own using sticks, wool and fabric.
French
We learnt how to name the parts of a plant in French and checked to see if our French beans had begun to germinate. We also began to learn the vocabulary for family members through songs and a story.
Stuart Rowson
We were extremely lucky to hear from Stuart Rowson who worked for the BBC, particularly Cbeebies. He told us all about his new book, that we can borrow from the school library!
Home Practice
Phonics - ow and ou words
Maths - sequencing events
KEEP READING EVERY NIGHT!
We look forward to seeing you all at our Mother's Day assembly on Thursday 16th March at 2.40 pm.
Year 1 Blog - Friday 3rd March 2023
Date: 2nd Mar 2023 @ 10:10am
Welcome to your Friday blog.
English
We have been very busy this week! We have planned and written our own stories based on Where the Wild Things Are. Some of us have written up to 7 pages! We are becoming such good authors and illustrators. We then read our stories to years 3 and 4.
Phonics
We have been learning about all the igh sounds, focusing on split digraph o_e in stone and o in go.
Maths
This week we have been learning how to count in 2s, 5s and 10s. We searched for the patterns on a hundred square and counted groups of objects. Then, we used this knowledge to recap all the coins that we use. We realised that we do a lot of counting when paying with money.
R.E.
We have been learning to write The Our Father prayer this week. We know this off by heart now so found it really easy to write it down. We then wrote our Lenten Promises down and took them into Golden Assembly.
P.E.
We recapped the underarm throwing technique and practised aiming at a hoop. This was quite tricky! Then we practised throwing and catching a beanbag in the air. Some of us needed a challenge and tried throwing and catching with one hand!
History
We started our new topic this week - Significant People. We talked about what it means to be significant and how we remember people who have made a difference to our world. This week, we focused on Florence Nightingale and how she changed the world of medicine and nursing.
Computing
We went on Sumdog to practise our phonics and maths.
Art
We each made a month of February piece of art surrounding love. We used different object to print with - cotton buds, paint brushes, even our fingers!
Outdoor Learning
In one of our sessions this week we talked about Japanese folklore. We have a professor from Japan and four of his students visiting us for two weeks.There are stories about tree spirits which protect the trees. We made our own creations out of clay, leaves, sticks, moss and stones. We could use our imagination as no-one has ever seen them!
Two more groups learnt how to use the screwdrivers and hammers safely. There is just one more group to learn how to do this. Then we will be making something by using our new skills!
French
We listened to the story of Jaques et le haricot magique (Jack and the Beanstalk) and joined in with the repetitive parts. Then we set up some French beans to germinate to grow our own beanstalks. We chose where to put them to grow - I wonder whose will germinate first!
Music
We continued to learn The Little Red Riding Hood song with Mrs Wood.
Home Practice
Phonics - oe (toe) and ow (grow)
Maths - coin recognition
Please continue to read for at least 10 minutes every night with your child, it really will make all the difference to your child's progress.
Year 1 Blog - Friday 24th February 2023
Date: 22nd Feb 2023 @ 4:34pm
Welcome to your first blog of this half term.
English
We have started reading a new book - Where the Wild Things Are. We have listened to the story and watched animations of the story- we love the wild rumpus part! We described the settings in the story and listened for the language which is repeated. We looked closely at the wild things and discussed what human and animal parts they had. The puppets we made to re-tell the story were amazing-some of us also came up with our own characters. We are going to plan and write our own version of the story next week.
Phonics
We have been learning about all the igh sounds, focusing on split digraph i_e in slime and i in wild (just like our new story!)
Click here for a phonics song.
Maths
This week we have been learning about 2D and 3D shapes in more detail. We have compared the shapes and sorted them into groups.
We have continued to practise counting forwards and backwards in 2s, 5s and 10s from different starting numbers.
R.E.
We have started our new topic - Special Meals. We talked about a special meal that we have had, ordered the events of Mass and then focused on The Last Supper. We used speech bubbles to learn what Jesus said to his disciples.
P.E.
We have finished gymnastics and started throwing and catching. This week, we recapped how to underarm throw to a partner safely and then played a game to see which group could throw and catch the quickest!
Geography
We recapped the UK capital cities and sorted pictures of landmarks into each one. We found that London was the easiest as it is our capital city and some of us have been there!
Listen to the Big Ben song here.
Computing
We used our maths knowledge to start our new topic of grouping data. We are so good at sorting and grouping objects now! We were given lots of different objects and asked to sort them in different ways. Then, we went on Sumdog on the laptops.
P.S.H.E.
We learnt about personal hygiene and all the different ways that we can remain healthy. We listened to a very funny story called 'Dirty Bertie' and talked about making the opposite choices that Bertie does!
D.T.
We began our food topic this week. We learnt about the differences between fruit and vegetables and wrote down as many as we could think of.
Outdoor Learning
In one of our sessions this week we found a letter in our lodge from the forest fairy. She told us she had left some magic stones in our nature area and we could find them, decorate them and keep them. We had a great time helping each other to find the stones, then we decorated them with acrylic pens.
In another session we chose our own learning, we built dens, played in the mud kitchen, made up games, looked for mini-beasts or climbed trees. We showed great teamwork, imagination and perseverance.
Two groups learnt how to use hammers and screwdrivers safely. We have a volunteer helping in our sessions on a Monday so two more groups will use the tools next Monday.
We wore safety goggles and a glove on our helping hand. We learnt the difference between screws and nails.
French
We recapped the words for some farm animals and added some new vocabulary through a song, game and story. It's lovely to watch the children joining in with enthusiasm - excellent Y1!
Music
We continued to learn The Little Red Riding Hood song wiht Mrs Wood.
Home Practice
Phonics - ie and i_e words
Maths - 10 more and 10 less
Please continue to read for at least 10 minutes every night with your child, it really will make all the difference to your child's progress.
Thank you for coming in to the parents' evenings -we value all your support.
Year 1 Blog - Friday 20th January
Date: 18th Jan 2023 @ 5:42pm
Welcome to your Friday blog!
English
We have continued to learn through the story of Hansel and Gretel. We wrote some sentences about how the characters might be thinking and feeling. We described the setting of the story in terms of our senses... I can see, I can hear... We listened to a different version of the story - 'Trust Me, Hansel and Gretel Are Sweet' and compared the two.
Phonics
We have been learning about all the ee sounds again.We also revised oo as in zoo and moon and learnt ew as in screw.
Maths
This week we have been learning about measuring time. We have learnt about seconds, minutes and hours, days of the week and months of the year.The vocabulary we have also been using is before and after.
We have continued to practise counting forwards and backwards in 2s, 5s and 10s from different starting numbers.
R.E.
We learnt about the special people that work and volunteer in Church. We identified them in pictures and built our own Churches our of lego!
P.E.
We learnt two new gymnastic movements (crab walk and bear walk) and learnt to star jump effectively. Our confidence is growing each week!
Girls - please try to wear long socks on Wednesdays so that they can be taken off for gymnastics.
Geography
We learnt about the four countries that make up the UK in more detail. We labelled each country on a map and added on their capital cities. This was quite tricky for us, especially the spelling!
Computing
We are becoming whizzes on the laptops! We remembered how to open up a Word document and we typed our own lost poster for the teddy. We've learnt how to use the space bar, enter key, backspace, caps lock and even the arrows to navigate around the document.
P.S.H.E.
We learnt about medicines and how they help our bodies. We talked about moderation, different types of medicine and who can give us medicine.
Science
We continued to learn about materials. This week, we described their properties - are the materials opaque? Transparent? Strong? Light?
Each night, Patch the class teddy will be sent home as a part of our Science lessons. This is to test seasonal change. If you are chosen to take the teddy, please write the time that the sun goes down (Patch needs to go to bed then!). Hopefully we will see a pattern and a change in the times.
Outdoor Learning
One of our sessions this week was to make a spotter. These help us to really focus on what we are looking at. We looked at the buds on the trees and we used the picture on our spotter to identify the trees. We realised that we have a great number of different trees in our grounds.
Our other session was to investigate bubbles. We made a bubble mixture and tried to blow bubbles through a shape made from string. The first group realised this wasn't working and started using willow.... this worked brilliantly! We also tried blowing bubbles by making shapes with our hands.We showed great perseverance!
Click here to see some photos.
We also had some free play in the Nature Area. We noticed there is a lot of new growth and we found ice!
French
We played games and sang songs to reinforce the vocabulary of fruit.
Music
We have been learning about another traditiional tale called Little Red Riding Hood.
Click here to listen to the story and sing the songs.
Home Practice
Phonics - oo words and ew words
Maths - Sequencing events
Please continue to read for at least 10 minutes every night with your child, it really will make all the difference to your child's progress.
Year 1 Blog- Friday 13th January 2023
Date: 12th Jan 2023 @ 10:12am
Welcome to your Friday blog!
Englsh
This week we stared learning all about traditional tales. We talked about the features of these stores - there might be magic, talking animals, good characters, bad characters.
We listened to the story of Hansel and Gretel. We used great vocabulary to describe the witch. We illustrated and wrote a description of the witch on a poster.
Phonics
We have been learning about all the different sounds which make ee as in tree, y as in Bobby, ey as in turkey, ie as in field, e as in behave, e-e as in Steve.
Maths
We have been learning about coins and their value. We have been finding out how many 1ps are the same value as each coin up to 20p. We have been finding out the total when we buy two or more items. We have been explaining how we found the totals.Let your child have a look at any coins you have at home.
We have also been counting forwards and backwards in2s, 5s and 10s. This knowledge has helped us when working out the values of a group of coins, how many 2ps are the same value as 10p? how many 5ps are the same value as 20p?
R.E.
We have started our new topic of 'Special People'. We explored what makes someone special and we identified our special people. We learnt that it doesn't have to be someone in our family.
P.E.
We had our second gymnastics lesson and we built upon the learning from last week. We learnt how to do a tuck jump, egg roll, frog jump and bunny hop.
P.S.H.E.
We started to learn about how we can stay healthy. We looked at food, medicines and exercise and how we need to choose to live healthily. We identified things that are good for our bodies and things that are not so good for our bodies.
Computing
We focused on typing this week and the term 'digital writing' - how we can write digitally. We learnt about Word and how to type our names in a Word document.
Art
We learnt about mixing primary colours together. We experimented as a table and found out which secondary colours can be made.
Geography
We loved learning about the U.K. this week! We starting learning about the 4 countries that make up the UK and then we drew pictures of different places that we have been to. We had examples such as The Lake District and Blackpool.
We also used the atlases to find China ready for Chinese New Year! See our pictures here.
Science
We started our topic of materials. We learnt what a material was and how to identify them. We focused on 6 main materials - wood, water, plastic, rock, metal and glass.
French
We began to learn the words for some fruit. We enjoyed doing the conga to a fruity song - J'aime les fruits!
Outdoor Learning
One of our sessions this week was making forest faces with clay and natural materials. We worked in the nature area and we were careful to avoid standing on the new plants which are starting to grow. We found stones, tiny twigs, moss, spinning jennies and different types of leaves to make the features on our faces. We gave them a name as well. We also had some free play and decided what we wanted to do.
Our other session was making a magic wand. We used wire for the first time-we threaded it though the bells, as wool or ribbon would not go through the tiny hole. We then practised tying knots in ribbon and wool- we showed great perseverance until we were successful!
Click here to see some of our Outdoor Learning
Fairtrade
We had a visit from Mrs Greenlees. She came to talk to us about what Fairtrade is and how we can help the farmers by supporting Fairtrade.
Home Practice
Phonics - common exception words
Maths - money challenges
Please continue to read for at least 10 minutes every night with your child, it really will make all the difference to your child's progress.
Year 1 Blog- Friday 6th January 2023
Date: 5th Jan 2023 @ 9:56am
Happy New Year to everyone!
We hope you all had a lovely Christmas. We would like to thank you for your thoughtful cards and presents- we really appreciate all your support.
In English we will be learning through traditional tales- our stories will include Hansel and Gretel and The Elves and the Shoemaker.
We will continue our Red Rose Mastery Maths learning, starting with money.
In Science we will be learning about everyday materials and their properties.
Our first topic in R.E. is Special People.
We are looking forward to all our learning in all our subjects.
This week we learnt about Braille. We are going to look out for Braille when we are out and about.
Please continue to read with your child every night for at least 10 minutes.
Year 1 Blog Friday 16th December 2022
Date: 16th Dec 2022 @ 2:17pm
What an amazing term we've had together. We have thoroughly enjoyed seeing the children grow and achieve their goals!
We've been very busy this week - Christmas jumper day fun, singing carols, finishing our Harvey Slumfenburger story, making a Christmas snowflake and making our DT Christmas cards. We're ready for a rest!
Thank you for all of your hard work and we will see you in 2023.
We hope you have a lovely Christmas and a very happy new year.
The Year One team.
Year 1 Blog-Friday 9th December
Date: 9th Dec 2022 @ 7:40am
Welcome to your Friday blog. We hope you enjoyed our Nativity. All the children did so well. You can watch it again on St Oswald's TV.
English
This week we have been learning through a story about a little boy who lives in a hut on top of the Roly Poly Mountain which is far, far away. Father Christmas has forgotten to deliver Harvey's present so he goes on a treacherous journey involving planes, scooters, jeeps and other modes of transport! We planned our own story and we are going to be finishing it next week. We have been been very careful with our writing.
Maths
We have been learning about one half of a shape and that they are equal parts of a whole.
We have also been counting in 2s,5s and 10s.
R.E.
We learnt about the Advent wreath and which candles are lit on which week. We coloured in our own version and labeled each candle.
DT and Art
We painted our Christmas cards ready for next week where we will add on our mechanism - either a slider or a lever. We used a printing technique to apply our paint.
History
We learnt about timelines - what they teach us and how we read them. Then, we predicted what we think future toys will look like. There were some great ideas!
Science
We learnt about what animals need to survive. We then compared this to what they want and the difference between the two. We delved deeper into the 4 main needs - food, air, water and shelter and wrote about each one.
Outdoor Learning
This week it has been so cold but we don't mind! We started our session by looking at our shadows and we also talked out the full moon we'd seen. We played some running games to keep warm.
We made some Christmas decorations using braches of willow. We used willow because it is so flexible and we could easily make it into a shape.We tied knots in the wool to decorate our willow. We showed great perseverance and imagination.
P.E.
We continued with our robot dance. One group has completely finished! We will show each other our dances next week.
Sumdog challenges
Phonics - ea/e_e words OR oi words
Maths - 2D and 3D shape recap
Practise counting in 2s, 5s and 10s. Start at different numbers. Count forwards and backwards.
Please read for at least 10 minutes every night.
Year 1 Blog - Friday 2nd December 2022
Date: 30th Nov 2022 @ 3:47pm
Welcome to your Friday blog!
English
This week we have been learning through the story of Bob and his best ever friend. His friend is an alien dog called Barry. We drew and described some alien pets-we got ideas from a fabulous picture of the pet shop Bob visits. We wrote captions about all the things Bob and his pet could do together. We also made posters advertising Bob's trips to the moon.
Maths
We have started to learn about fractions and used our existing knowledge of part-whole models to understand them. We learnt that fractions are made up of parts and whole and that these parts are usually of equal size. We starting exploring halves in shapes.
Phonics
We have been learning alternative pronunciations, a as in alien and a as in was. We already know a as in act.
R.E.
We started our 'waiting' topic and explored the meaning of waiting - is it hard or easy? Then we wrote about a time that we have had to wait and then learnt about the liturgical calendar in relation to Advent.
P.S.H.E.
We read an interesting story about about some billy goats who used their phones to intimidate a troll. We learnt that it was a twist on the Three Billy Goats story. We talked about how it was not a good choice to be mean and how our actions have consequences. We wrote our own postitive texts, that included messages such as "you are amazing" and "I am sorry, please could I be your friend?".
D.T.
We finished planning our Christmas card by writing the instructions that we will need to follow. We then wrote the messages to go inside our cards. We thought really carefully about the message and who we would like to give our card to!
Science
We built upon our knowledge from the past few weeks and learnt about how certain animals grow and change. We learnt about life cycles, especially that of a butterfly, and compared it to a human's life. We then drew our own examples of life cycles.
Computing
Our next artist focus was Georges Seurat. We learnt that his artwork was wholly made up of dots. We had a go at creating our own digital sunflower using just the paintbrush and adding dots. It was hard not to use the fill button on our paintings!
Art
We painted our own Christmas trees using the style used by Helen Frankenthaler. We learnt that our painting didn't have to be perfect - it will always be a work of art.
Outdoor learning
Our first session this week started with some active games to keep us warm! We then went on a Winter scavenger hunt. We looked for lichen on a tree, a hole in a tree, a leaf skeleton, a tree stump and shadows amongst other things-we are getting really good at spotting changes.
Our second session started with some free play in the nature area. Everyone had amazing ideas for games and we showed great imagination and co-operation.
We then revisited an activity we have tried before- making obstacle courses! We used what learnt last time and made really challlenging courses which involved balancing, jumping, running and throwing. Great team work was shown and medals were awarded-made of sticks and leaves of course!
Santa Dash
We had great fun doing our santa dash. The children all looked amazing. Please send in your sponsor money.
Nativity
We are looking forward to performing our nativity in church next Tuesday. We have been trying so hard to learn the songs and actions.
Home Practice
Sumdog challenges
Phonics - high frequency words OR ow words
Maths - halves
Practise counting in 2s, 5s and 10s. Start at different numbers. Count forwards and backwards.
Please read every night for at least 10 minutes.
Year 1 Blog- Friday 25th November 2022
Date: 24th Nov 2022 @ 10:16am
Welcome to your Friday blog!
English
This week we have been learning through the story of Bob. He is an astronaut but he doesn't believe in aliens - they don't exist.......do they?
We have been writing in sentences. We have tried really hard to use finger spaces, our own ideas and to make sure our writing is on the line. We have also been really careful with our handwriting so that our writing looks beautiful on the page.
We also visited Year 3 to read our Traction Man books. The children and Mr Campbell were really impressed. The Year 3 children gave useful and thoughtful feedback.
Phonics
We have been learning about alternative pronunciations, ch as in Christmas, ch as in chef. We already know ch as in chunk.
Maths
We have been learning about repeating patterns. We have been describing the patterns and finding the part that is repeated. We have also been sorting objects using different criteria.
R.E.
We learnt about Jesus' baptism in the River Jordan. We answered some tricky questions about it and some of us even acted it out during choosing time!
P.E.
We are now half way through our robot dance. We split off into groups and began thinking of ideas for our dances. We worked so well together!
P.S.H.E.
We compared two families and wrote about how they are the same and different.
D.T.
We looked at the DT Christmas cards from last year and talked about how they were made. We then planned our own cards - how they were going to move, what they will look like and what we need to make it.
I.C.T.
Our next artist focus was Kandinsky. We made our own circles on the iPads, it was a bit trickier than using the laptops!
Science
We read lots of fact files about animals and their diets. We then sorted them into whether they were a carnivore, herbivore or omnivore. We were so impressed with their knowledge!
History
We sorted toys into 'new' and 'old'. We drew our own pictures in our books.
Outdoor Learning
Nearly every time we go out for our learning we see a robin on the fence. This lead us to a discussion about birds around school and where they find food in Winter. We made bird feeders using lard, meal worms, bird seed, raisins and oats. We had fun mixing it together!. We also practised tying knots in string so that we could hang the feeders on a tree.
In our second session we went for a walk to find places to hang our bird feeders. We also noticed some more changes-some of the trees have hardly any leaves left so we could see the nests. We also saw a few trees with unusual bark on them so we are going to try to identify them. For the last part of this session we all got a special listening stone out of a velvet bag. The stone helps us to listen as we feel its smoothness. We lay on a tarp to just listen and look at the clouds as they changed shape.
Music
We have continued to learn the songs for the nativity. This will be in church on Tuesday 6th December. All costumes will be provided by school.
French
We began to learn the words for pet animals. We sang songs, played games using these words and listened to our favourite story, Aboie Georges about a dog who has lost his bark because he has swallowed all sorts of different animals!
Home Practice
Sumdog challenges
Phonics - Split digraph u_e OR oo (book) words
Maths - True or false questions
Practise counting in 2s, 5s and 10s. Start at different numbers. Count forwards and backwards.
Year 1 Blog-Friday 18th November 2022
Date: 17th Nov 2022 @ 9:55am
Welcome to your Friday blog. Everyone looked brilliant dressed in their spots- thanks for supporting this cause.
English
We listened and discussed a new Traction Man story. In this story he got a new pet but it wasn't as good as Scrubbing Brush! We planned our own story and wrote a book! We are authors and illustrators! We will read the books to children in other classes when they are finished.
Traction Man meets Turbo Dog. Click here.
Phonics
This week we continued to learn about alternative pronunciations, ea as in head and ie as in cookie.
Maths
We have been counting in 2s and 5s. We have been counting groups of objects in 2s and 5s. Please practise this at home, start at different numbers and go forwards as well as backwards.
We have also been checking that we are forming our numbers correctly.
R.E.
We learnt about the symbols used in a baptism. We learnt about the Holy water, oil, white gown, candle and the cross.
P.S.H.E.
We read the story - Giraffes can't dance. We learnt that the giraffe wanted to dance, even though his friends told him that he couldn't. He was special and chose to dance anyway! The moral of the story is - be you!
Art
We made our own world cup flags using collage and cutting skills. We concentrated so well!
Science
We sorted animals into different groups using the toy animals that we have in the classroom. Some of our ideas were - fur/no fur, tail/no tail and legs/no legs.
P.E.
We were amazing in PE! We started to plan our robot dance. We worked so well in our groups that we managed to create half of the dance. We will continue to practise next week.
If you want to listen to the music at home, click here.
D.T.
We made our own prototype of either a slider or lever. The Gingerbread Man was being chased by the character!
I.C.T.
We learnt about another artist this week - Henri Matisse. We focused on his 'The Snail' artwork and recreated it on the laptops. There were some great pictures.
History
We learnt about 'new' toys this week and compared them to the old toys from last week. We wrote about our favourite toy and shared them with each other.
Yellow table did not have chance to play with their toy, so please bring it back in on Monday!
Outdoor Learning
The first session this week was about making shelters for small woodland creatures. Each team had a soft toy animal which we made a cosy and safe shelter for. We used all the available natural materials and found a way of getting moss of the paths to create a soft surface. We described our shelters to the rest of the group. Excellent team work, communication, imagination, resilience and creativity was shown.
Our second session was all about mini beasts and worms. We had a go at worm charming to see if we could get worms to come to the surface by vibrating the ground. We also looked under the logs to see what other creatures we could find. We talked about how we find different creatures at different times of the year.
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Thank you
French
We recapped numbers to 12 with a game then we recapped parts of the body by singing tete, epaules, genoux, pieds (head, shoulders, knees and toes) and a game. We finished with the story of Grand Monstre Vert - Big Green Monster.
Music
We have been practising the songs for our Nativity!
We also got out the boomwhackers and played them. We are getting really good at playing when it's our turn.
Freddy Fit
We had a brilliant session with Freddy. He put us all through our paces and we all had great fun! We all showed him our fabulous golden listening.
Freddy also talked to us about the importance of eating healthily, drinking enough water and getting plenty of sleep.
Home Practice
Sumdog challenges
Phonics - split digraph o_e OR oo words
Maths - doubling
Practise counting in 2s, 5s and 10s. Start at different numbers. Count forwards and backwards.
Please read every night for at least 10 minutes- it really makes all the difference!
Year 1 Blog- Friday 11th November
Date: 10th Nov 2022 @ 9:58am
Welcome to your Friday blog. This morning we had a minute silence for Remembrance Day.
English
This week we have been learning through the story of Traction Man. He changes his outfits depending on his mission! Some of us even became Traction Man.....or Traction Girl! The pictures in the story are very detailed and we described the one where Traction man is diving in the sink.
Phonics
We have been learning about alternative pronunciations, o as in mother,
Maths
We have been doing some checks to show our skills and knowlege about all the learning we have been doing.
R.E.
We continued to learn about the sacrament of baptism. We watched a video of a baptism and drew our own version in our books.
P.E.
We learnt about mirroring in PE. This is where you copy a partner. We made up our own robot dance moves and copied each other.
French
We looked at French customs for Remembrance Day. French people add cornflowers to their wreaths as well as poppies because the blue reminds them of the soldier's uniforms. We made a wreath with red poppies and blue cornflowers to remember.
I.C.T.
We learnt about the artist Pier Mondrain and copied his artwork on the laptops. We learnt to use the line tool on paintz.app and made our own versions.
History
We began our toys topic in history this week. We focused on old-fashioned toys, such as yo-yos, dominoes, tiddlywinks and kaleidoscopes. We had the chance to play with them and choose our favourite.
Next Friday, the children will be allowed to bring one of their toys into school to represent 'new' toys. A letter will come home on Monday regarding this.
Science
We continued to look at animals and how to group them. We learnt about mammals, fish, birds, reptiles and amphibians. We then compared the animals with questions such as: can all birds fly? Do all mammals have 4 legs?
P.S.H.E.
We read the story - All about families. We compared families and spotted the differences.
Outdoor Learning
This week we have been building shelters. We used ropes, tarps, pegs and clips. We showed great determination, resilience and team work. We used our knowledge of knots to secure the ropes. We built shelters in both our sessions this week to see if we could improve on our first attempt. The shelters kept us dry when there was a bit of rain!
Sumdog challenges
Phonics - split digraph i_e OR oa words
Maths - one-step word problems
Practise counting in 2s, 5s and 10s. Start at different numbers. Count forwards and backwards.
Please read every night for at least 10 minutes- it really makes all the difference!
Year 1 Blog- Friday 4th November 2022
Date: 3rd Nov 2022 @ 10:01am
Welcome to your Friday blog.
It has been lovely to see the children back in school this week after half term.
English
We have been learning through the story of Aliens Love Underpants. It is a rhyming story and we enjoyed spotting all the rhyming words. We designed our own pants and read some fiction and non-fiction books about Space. We drew our own alien and wrote about it. We tried really hard to make our writing look beautiful on the page.
Phonics
We have been learning about split digraphs, o-e as in mole and u-e as in cube.
Maths
We have been learning about 2D and 3 D shapes. we have been using vocabulary such as vertices, sides and faces to describe them.
R.E.
We have been focusing on our 'Journey in Love' topic. We talked about how our families love us and how it is important to say 'please' and 'thank you' to them for looking after us. We wrote a lovely thank you prayer to a special person in our lives.
P.E.
We started our dance P.E. lessons this week! We are going to be performing a dance in small groups, pretending to be a robot. We did some robot dances together and heard the music that we are going to use for our final dance.
I.C.T.
We started learning about digital painting in computing - how we can paint, on a laptop. We used the paintz.app website again to paint portraits of ourselves.
Science
We started learning about animals and went outside to see if we could find any around school. We managed to find lots of worms, woodlice and birds. Some of us even used our imagination and found our plastic animals and identified them!
History
We learnt all about Guy Fawkes and the Gunpowder Plot. We talked about his reason why he made the plot and started learning the 'Remember, Remember the fifth of November' song.
Art
We made some amazing fireworks based on the Gunpowder Plot. We chose the medium that we wanted to use, either paint, pastels, pencil crayons or tissue paper.
Outdoor Learning
We go outside whatever the weather and we had to dodge a bit of rain this week! We don't mind though- it just makes us more resilient!
We went for a walk to look at the changes,much of the fungi we have spotted previously has gone. We collected leaves, berries and sticks on our walk. We used these to make a picture. Our pictures showed great imagination-there were flowers ,trees, faces, even a football shirt!
We also had a competition to see who could make the biggest leaf pile.
We went in the nature area. We chose to do different things. There was tree wrapping, bridge building, leaf threading and even zip wire making. We are showing that we can apply skills which we have learned in previous sessions.
French
We listened to a Halloween song. Then we did head, shoulders, knees and toes in French to revise words for parts of the body. We played some games involving skeletons to help us remember the words!
Sumdog challenges
Phonics - split digraph a_e OR th words
Maths - 2D and 3D shape
Practise counting in 2s, 5s and 10s. Start at different numbers. Count forwards and backwards.
Please read every night for at least 10 minutes- it really makes all the difference!
Year 1 Blog - Thursday 20th October
Date: 20th Oct 2022 @ 10:03am
Welcome to the final blog of this half term. All the children have settled in so well and have definitely earned a rest!
English
This week our learning has been through a story about a witch called Winnie and her cat Wilbur. Winnie puts a few spells on Wilbur - some are more successful than others!
We wrote potion recipes, drew our own haunted houses, matched rhyming words together, wrote Halloween stories and read the other Winnie stories.
We will have one more day on this learning when we come back to school on Monday 31st October!
Phonics
This week we have been learning about oe as in toe,au as in launch and the split digraph a-e as in cake.
Sing Jake the Snake. Click here.
Maths
We have been learning about how to solve problem questions using addition and subtraction. There has been a lot of reading to do but we worked really hard!
We have also been singing lots of maths songs.
R.E.
We started to learn about the sacrament of baptism. We looked at who is present at a baptism and labelled them in a picture.
P.E.
We went outside for PE this week! We had 3 different activities - dribbling a football, throwing beanbags into hoops and jumping over hurdles. We ended the lesson with a relay race around the daily mile track!
Outdoor Learning
We have enjoyed the beautiful Autumn weather this week when we've been outside. We did some stick wrapping. We practised tying knots and carefully wrapping our wool around a stick. We are still finding different fungi and noticing changes every time we go for a walk.
All the children get involved so well. They show great team working skills as well as great communication and resilience.
Music
We were practising for our Harvest festival in music. We practised the songs ready for church and then played the glocks altogether.
Science
We learnt about a scientist called Linda Brown Buck who taught others about how we smell. We did our own smell tests and guessed what was in the pots. We had a lot of correct answers!
Computing
We learnt about being safe when using the laptops and iPads. We talked about how we look after them and then made our own 'how to be safe' posters.
PSHE
We had a lovely circle time talking about two separate topics - personal space and positive affirmations. We talked about when to give each other space and when we need to be close together (e.g. carpet time). We ended the lesson go round saying a positive 'I am...' sentence about ourselves. We had 'I am a good friend', 'I am a good listener' and 'I am a great tidier'. It was lovely!
We all sat really golden in church for our harvest celebration. We listened to the prayers which the Year 6 children read and joined in with all the singing. Thank you for all your kind donations.
Home Practice
We would like you to read, read and then read a bit more !
Have a great half term break! Thank you for all your brilliant support.
Date: 19th Oct 2022 @ 1:52pm
Welcome to your latest Online Safety Update
At St Oswald's, we regularly discuss online safety with the children to find out what they are experiencing in their online spaces. We find out what new games and platforms are trending and if any of our children have worries or concerns about what they experience online. A lot of children continue to access YouTube so we have added a refresher guide on the platform.
In the guide, you'll find tips on a number of potential risks such as connecting with strangers, inappropriate content and high visibility.
We have also spotted that some children have the new FIFA 23 football game for the PlayStation and XBox. Gaming has changed massively in the past few years with social connection now becoming an integral part of the gaming experience. We have added the latest guide for this game also.
Below you will find a link to join the National Online Safety platform and gain free access to a huge range of videos, resources and support.
http://nationalonlinesafety.com/enrol/st-oswald-s-catholic-primar-school-pr45eb
