Year 1 Friday Blog 15th October 2021

Date: 14th Oct 2021 @ 10:00am

Welcome to your Friday blog!

We have had another great week of learning. We are constantly amazed by the children's positive attitide towards everything they do!

We have been learning through the story of Percy the Park Keeper. We talked about how he helps his animals and takes care of the park. We did some writing and drawing about what jobs we might like to do when we are older. We have been practicing our letter formation and trying hard to learn to write some Tricky Words. We talk about how these words try to trick us! when, what, was, went, said, have, come, some, like, of.

In Phonics we have been looking at igh as in night and fight and ie as in tie and lie.

Next week our story is about a witch! Do you know her name? Don't forget to get your costume ready for Thursday!

In Maths we have been looking at how to make numbers from 20 to 29. We have used straws, Base 10, ten frames and cubes. We make groups of 10 and some 1s. We have been doing some great number challenges which really make us think and explain. We have been trying to write our numbers correctly and we are getting really good at checking. We have been counting in 1s, 10s and also 5s when someone suggested this as a way of working out a challenge!

All our collective worships this week have been about Mental Health Awareness. We read a book called The Huge Bag of Worries and talked about anything that might be worrying us. In R.E. we have been talking about our families.

We had French with Mrs Quilliam. In Music with Mrs Winter we got the instruments out! In P.E we have been jumping and rolling in the hall. We got the benches out and had a great time practising our skills!

Look at the Year 1 gallery to see our Golden Stars this week

Home Practice

Read for at least 10 minutes every night. This is so important. please sign the diary so we can change the books. Keep practicing reading the Tricky Words on sight.

Practise counting in 1s. Take particular care when crossing the ten boundary, 29 to 30, 39 to 40 and so on. Ensure that your child is saying the numbers correctly too, twenTY not tweNY!

Start at different numbers, count forwards and backwards. Miss a number out, can your child tell you which number you have missed? How do they know?

We have also been counting in 10s to 100. Use 2 hands to show 10 fingers. Count forwards and backwards from different starting numbers. How many hands would you need for 30? How do you know?

Sumdog challenges

Phonics-ee and ea

Maths-Reading and writing numbers to 20.

Year 1 Friday Blog 8th October 2021

Date: 7th Oct 2021 @ 10:01am

Welcome to the Year 1 Friday blog!

In English this week, we have finished Dogger and linked the story to our PSHE lessons. We have explored how the characters (especially Bella) have been kind and why they chose to be kind. We loved writing a special thank you note to Bella from Dave thanking her for getting Dogger back. The class have produced some super sentences!

In Phonics, we have been making comparisons between phase 3 and phase 5 sounds, in particular ai and ay. We are now more able to question which sound to use in our writing.

In Maths, we have been making the numbers 11-20 using tens frames, straws and cubes. We have learnt to make a group of ten and then count on to our specified number. We have used our mathematical reasoning to solve problems and make number sentences.

In Science, we have been comparing different animals and spotting their similarities and differences. In P.E. we have been developing our running and bouncing skills in the hall and worked together as a team to pass the ball to each other. 

We have done some French with Mrs Quilliam and Music with Mrs Winter. 

In R.E. we have started our new topic of Belonging. We have talked about the groups that we belong to and how we can work together as a team!

Thank you for all your Harvest donations, we have filled two boxes in our class! All our collective worships this week have been about Harvest. We had a lovely Harvest Celebration in golden assembly.

Lost items

We seem to have children losing their jumpers and cardigans each day. Please can you make sure each piece of clothing is named.

Look on the class gallery to see our golden stars for this week.

For your Home Practice,

Please read for at least 10 minutes every day. It really does make all the difference. We change the books on a Friday, please sign the diary.

There are also tricky words on green card which your child needs to be able to read on sight. Play games with these words, match them, find them when you are out and about.

Sumdog challenges this week...

Phonics-ay and ai

Maths- 1 more, 1 less

Please do lots of counting in 1s.Start at different numbers, count forwards and backwards. When you stop at a number what number is 1 more? 1 less?How do you know?

Have a go at counting in 10s. Start at 20 and stop at 80, start at 50 and count back in 10s to 30 and so on. Write the numbers on pieces of paper, order then then remove one. What number has been removed? How do you know?

Have a lovely weekend!

Year 1 Friday Blog 1st October 2021

Date: 29th Sep 2021 @ 2:21pm

W/C 27/09/21 Year 1 blog

We've had another super week of learning in Year 1! The children have been so busy and we are so proud of them all.

We continued to read our 'Dogger' story and we learnt that Dave's favourite toy Dogger was found on a toy stall at the fair! We wrote about our favourite toy and Miss Fisher even brought in some of her favourite toys. 

In Phonics, we have practiced using the 'ee' and 'ea' sounds in our sentences. We had some brilliant sentences in our morning work which made us giggle, such as 'The bee had teeth and went to the beach.'

In Maths, we have started to use the mastery approach in our learning. We have been looking at ways to make 10 and how teen numbers are made up of  1 group of 10s and some 1s. We have also been learning about  1 more and 1 less. All of the children have responded really well and have been doing lots of problem solving and they have also enjoyed being responsible for their own resource packs.

In Science we have been grouping animals by their features. We have been continuing our Geography learning by talking about the changes in our locality over time by comparing photos of Longton to seeing what has changed and what has stayed the same. We had P.E. in the hall this week and we did really well with our fundamental skills. In French we learned how to say colours. We also celebrated European Languages Day by singing a song with ways to say hello in different languages.

In our collective worships we have been thinking about how we can look after God's world. We have talked about practical choices we can make every day. In R.E. we have been listening to psalms and we wrote a thank you prayer.

Thank you for all the donations you have sent in for the Harvest.

Look on the class gallery to see our golden stars for this week.

For your Home Practice,

Please read for at least 10 minutes every day. It really does make all the difference. We change the books on a Friday, please sign the diary.

There are also tricky words on green card which your child needs to be able to read on sight. Play games with these words, match them, find them when you are out and about.

Sumdog challenges this week...

Read and write numbers to 20

Please do lots of counting.Start at different numbers, count forwards and backwards. When you stop at a number what number is 1 more?,1 less? Ask your child how they know.

Reading challenge sh,th and ch.

Have a great weekend!

Year 1 Meet the Teacher

Date: 24th Sep 2021 @ 12:42pm

Here is the presentation from the meeting.

Year 1 Friday Blog 24th September 2021

Date: 23rd Sep 2021 @ 10:12am

Welcome to your first Year 1 blog!

All the children have settled in so brilliantly. Well done, everyone! Thank you for sending  the Summer Scrap Book in with your child- we will look at every single one of them.

This week we have been listening to the story of Dogger by Shirley Hughes.We have been writing sentences about the story and making posters to find Dogger. In our Phonics we have been learning the long oo sound as in roof and the short oo sound as in look. We have been reading as well.

In Maths we have been doing lots of counting up to 20, forwards,backwards and from different starting numbers. We have also been investigating ways to make 10 and writing our numbers correctly. We have been ordering numbers to 20.

This week we celebrated the International Day of Peace in our collective worships. We talked about how we can be peaceful. In R.E. we have been learning about how we care for our families and how God cares for us. In P.S.H.E. we have been discussing how we belong to different groups.

We looked at photographs of buildings in Longton and talked about all the different things in our locality. We are going to have a good look around when we are outside.

We have really enjoyed our P.E. outside practising our fundamental skills, hopping,skipping and jumping. We had a great time learning French with Mrs Quilliam and Music with Mrs Winter.

We had a lovely Golden Assembly with Mrs Wood where we celebrated another super week of learning. We will take a photo the children who receive an award and post it in the Year 1 gallery each week.

Thank you for attending the Meet the Teacher meeting. If you couldn't attend, the presentation is attached to the Year 1 blog.

Please read for at least 10 minutes every night and sign the diary. We will change the books on a Friday.

Practise counting forwards and backwards from 0 to 20. Start at different numbers, count fast and slow, make it into a game.

Sumdog Challenges this week are...

Maths - 1 more and 1 less

English - Recognising and having a go at writing Tricky Words.

Back to School Online Safety

Date: 14th Sep 2021 @ 11:55am

With your children returning to school, it is a great time to review online safety in your homes and make sure we are all up to date with developments in the online world. At St Oswald's, all classes will be beginning their Online Saftety learning where they will learn all about safe practices online in the following areas. 

Self image and identitiy

Online relationships

Online bulllying

Health, Well-being and lifestyle

Online reputation

Managing online information

Copyright and ownership

We will blog regularly to keep you updated with developments in the online space, sharing platform guides and links to expert training for you to keep your children safe when exploring the internet. Below you will find a guide on some back to school online safety tips for children.

To access a huge range of information on the National Online Safety website click the link below and join our school online safety hub.You will get access to videos, training and guides to keep you informed of the best practices in keeping your children safe online.

http://nationalonlinesafety.com/enrol/st-oswald-s-catholic-primary-school-pr45eb

Year 1 Final Blog

Date: 15th Jul 2021 @ 12:50pm

Welcome to the final blog of the year!

First of all we'd thank you all so much for your amazing support throughout the year. We also wish to pass on our appreciation for your very generous gifts.

This week we have had a mini football tournament and a karaoke party in the marquee. We really enjoyed the final Golden Assembly altogther as a school for the first time this year.

It's been an amazing year of learning and also challenge. Your children have been a delight to teach and their amazing attitudes have made us smile daily.

Over the Summer...

Continue to read and access the home learning on our school website and Sumdog.

The Seesaw link on the reports will continue to work over the weekend and will be deactivated at 12noon on Monday.

If you wish to download any pictures you can by using the 3 dots icon in the bottom left of all posts and selecting the share or save option. Your child's account will continue next year in school and their learning posts will be shared through our school website.

We wish you a very happy and safe summer holiday and look forward to seeing everyone again in September.

Year 1 Home Practice 9th July

Date: 9th Jul 2021 @ 12:39pm

Welcome to your weekly blog!

We have had a brilliant week of learning again!

We have continued with our writing about "Where the Wild Things Are". We described the island and we wrote about how to look after a Wild Thing. Some great ideas and discussions. We can tell everyone is trying hard to improve their writing.

We have been applying our maths skills and knowledge all week with our maths games. Super explaining everybody!

We watched some more sports days and were really impressed with how everyone took part.

On Thursday we had a real treat when we watched the Year 6 children perform Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. We were blown away by their singing and acting. It was an amazing show! Look out for the video on our website.

We have enjoyed making cards for the members of staff who are leaving. Evryone took care with their pictures and shared some kind messages.

Please make sure all the reading books are in by Wednesday as we are collecting them in for the Summer break. 

Well done to everyone who is continuing to practise their spelling and maths learning on Sumdog. The training features will ensure your children are practising skills they need to work on and this will help prepare them for the Year 2 curriculum.

This week your maths challenge will be on simple multiplication and your spellings are compund words we have met in class this week.

Next week, the children will spend a morning in Year 2 with their new teachers. Miss Bennison and Miss Gravili would like children to bring in their favourite book for an activity. Thanks!

Have a lovely weekend and we will see you all next week!

Year 1 Home Practice July 2nd

Date: 2nd Jul 2021 @ 12:44pm

Welcome to your Friday blog!

We have had a super exciting week!

We started a new story called 'Where the Wild Things Are'. We looked hearing about their wild rumpus! We wrote our own stories using our own ideas.

Here is a link to the story.

Where the Wild Things Are

In Maths we have been using what we know to solve problems. We have been playing games which test our number facts and our strategic play!

On Tuesday we had a great time at our sports day. Our positive attitude and determination shone out. The photos and the video are on our class page. We have also watched the Year 3 and Reception's sports day. We waved our French posters to encourage everyone.

We have been taking great care when painting our under the sea clay models. They look great! We will send them home on Monday.

We all had great fun taking part in the Tough Kidder event. Thank you for supporting this by sending in your sponsor money. The video will be on the Year class page this evening.

Next week we are looking forward to watching Year 6 perform Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.

And finally, Next Monday we will send out your child's report. This year we have included a QR code which will link you to your child's school Seesaw. On this you will see lots of pictures and videos of all the learning we have done this year.

Scan the code using your Seesaw Family App (from lockdown) by clicking the icon in the top left and select +Add child's account. This will be available until the end of term (16th July).

Have a lovely weekend!

Year 1 Sports Day 2021

Date: 29th Jun 2021 @ 6:55pm

Today it was our Year 1 Sports day. Everyone had a great time and took part in every race with a huge smile. Enjoy watching everyone giving it their all in our  video below. Amazing effort everyone!

Year 1 Home Practice Friday 25th June 2021

Date: 23rd Jun 2021 @ 2:27pm

Welcome to your Friday blog!

We have missed everyone who has not been able to be in school this week but look forward to being back together next week.

This week we further explored the story of The Enormous Crocodile and we did some great writing. We have been taking great care with our handwriting so that our writing looks beautiful on the page. We have also recorded our own version of the story which we will post next week.

In Maths we have been using our number facts to solve challenges. 

On Monday it was World Music Day. Everyone in the whole school went out on to the field to play their instruments and sing the celebration song. Watch the video by clicking on the link in our class page. The energy was amazing!

On Tuesday we had a Mindfulness Workshop with Miss Rebecca. We learned about different breathing techniques. Miss Rebecca was really impressed with our listening.

We have been shopping in French with Mrs Quilliam and playing instruments with Mrs Winter.

On Friday we dug up our potatoes and washed them to take home. We hope you enjoy your tea tonight!

Please keep reading every single day and keep having a go at the Sumdog challenges.

Next week we will have our Sports day and post the video to our website. 

Have a lovely weekend

From the Year 1 Team

The Enormous Crocodile

Date: 21st Jun 2021 @ 10:13pm

One of Roald Dahl's masterpieces, Year 1 are currently learning from The Enormous Crocodile. Find the story below and some video clips and read-a-longs.

The Enormous Crocodile

The Enormous Crocodile Animation

Year 1 Home Practice Friday 18th June

Date: 16th Jun 2021 @ 12:45pm

Welcome to your Friday blog. We have had another fabulous week of learning.

We continued with The Enormous Crocodile. We found out about his secret plans and clever tricks. 

In Maths we have been learning about telling the time and what happens at different times of the day. 

On Tuesday we had a clay workshop. We all learned about different techniques to make an under the sea piece of art.

As part of our outdoor learning we went to the pond on a Minibeast hunt. We looked really carefully and saw many creatures which we drew.

In R.E. we finished off our learning about "Being Sorry". We made a speech bubble with 'thank you' on one side and 'sorry' on the other. We put this under our pillow so at bedtime we can thing about what we can say thank you for and what we may be sorry about.

We have been learning about the countries taking part in the Euros. We have been using an atlas to find information.

We made some signs in French for our Sports Day!

We enjoyed going to the Father's Day pop-up shop and making a special card!

Have a lovely weekend. Keep reading and doing your Sumdog challenges!

Year 1 Home Practice Friday 11th June 2021

Date: 11th Jun 2021 @ 12:32pm

Welcome to your Friday blog. Everyone came in on Monday full of smiles to start the final half term of learning in Year 1.

We started a new story, The Enormous Crocodile. We have read the first part of the story and will be continuing it next week. We have retold the story so far as a class by recording our voices. We have also written a letter to the crocodile asking him not to eat children! We have also been painting pictures from the story and we made our own enormous crocodile with a moving jaw.

In Maths we have been finding halves of shapes and amounts. We have used counters and other equipment to support our understanding.

In P.E. we had a go at some of the races we will be taking part in at our Sports Day on Tuesday 22nd June. We had great fun!

In R.E. we had another story about Zacchaeus the Tax Collector. We talked about making the right choices.

Please keep reading every night.

We have seen huge progress in all your reading. This is down to all your regular home reading throughout the year.

We have set a couple of challenges on Sumdog. Continue to have a go at these. We have seen a drop in participation lately with the good weather but 10 minutes a night will make a huge difference to maths and spelling fluency.

Maths - x2 and Halving Challenges

Spelling - 2 syllable words

Have a great weekend in the sun!

The Year 1 Team.

Online Safety - June 2021

Date: 9th Jun 2021 @ 2:25pm

Keeping our children safe in the online space is of ever growing importance. From phones to consoles, our children are exposed to more online risk than ever and it is important that we adults keep up to date to ensure our children are prepared for all they meet online. Here is an interesting article on Internet Security professionals teach their children about internet safety.

How do I keep my children safe online? What the security experts tell their kids

Below we have attached two guides on how to set up your child's phone for privacy. We teach the children not to share their information when online, however social platforms and games will take data from users unknowingly.

"If its free, you're paying with your information."

Please continue to access all information on the National Online Safety website. You will get access to all videos and guides by clicking the link below and joining free to our school online safety hub.

http://nationalonlinesafety.com/enrol/st-oswald-s-catholic-primary-school-pr45eb

Year 1 Friday May 28th

Date: 25th May 2021 @ 12:53pm

Welcome to your last blog of this half term!

We had some new arrivals outside our classroom this week. A nest of chicks has been tweeting and listening to all our fantastic learning. So exciting!

We finished off our Lighthouse Keeper stories and read them to the Year 2 children. They were really impressed and listened very well.

Our new story this week was called Flotsam. It is an unusual book as it only has pictures so we had to look carefully to tell the story ourselves. We have been tryng really hard to form our letters correctly and to spell even more Tricky Words. 

In Maths we have been learning how to Multiply numbers and looked at how counting groups can help us. We have been counting in 2s, 5s and 10s.

Well done to Alfie G for his Sumdog award this week! 

In R.E. we listened to the story of Levi, the tax collector and talked about the choices he made.

Our P.E. skills are really improving and we enjoyed our outdoor lesson. We practised running in different directions with our honeybee game.

We used our map reading skills in our Orienteering learning. We found clues to make spell out the name of our school and nobody got lost! Great team-work!

Our Daily Mile Award goes to Eddie this week. Great effort.

We have all drawn our pictures for the PTFA tea towel. We can't wait to see the finish product!

Everyone looked brilliant today dressed up as teachers! Some very inventive costumes! 

Have a brilliant time next week whatever you are up to...hopefully the weather will be kind! We look forward to seeing you all on Monday 7th June.

Year 1 Home Practice Friday 21st May

Date: 21st May 2021 @ 8:06am

Welcome to your Friday blog! 

This week we have been writing our own Lighthouse Keeper stories. We are going to read our stories to the children in Year 2 and Reception so we will have a real audience!

Some of our book titles are... The Lighthouse Keeper Lost his Glasses, The Lighthouse Keeper's New Cat, The Lighthouse Keeper Goes to Hospital!

In Maths we have been learning how to use our friends of 10 to solve tricky number problems and worked don explaining our working out. Super maths this week!

In between the showers, we got outside for P.E. and practised our Athletics skills. We are seeing some huge improvement from September so well done everybody.

On our round the world trip we stopped off in Nigeria exploring all the different places including cities, forests and desert. We also designed some African patterns in Art using repeating pattterns and contrasting colours.

In R.E .we had a quiet reflection to celebrate the end of our topic of Holidays and Holy Days. We used our fire-coloured streamers to represent the coming of the Holy Spirit. 

We started our new topic called Being Sorry and discussed making good choices,

In Science we started a new topic on materials by making a collection of objects and sorting them into groups and saying how we had sorted them. We began to discuss materials and their properties.

In French we continued to practise the vocabulary for clothes with games, songs and stories.

In Golden Assembly we celebated all our learners including our Daily Miler which this week was Ronnie!

Keep up all the reading at home, it all has an impact.

Keep an look out on Sumdog for new Spelling and Maths challenges. Well done to everyone who completed this week's learning.

Don't forget our fund raising Friday next week. Come to school dressed as a teacher!

Have a lovely weekend!

Online Safety - 13th May 2021

Date: 13th May 2021 @ 9:28pm

This week is Mental Health Awareness week and a great opportunity to remind us to be kind to ourselves as well as others.

Below you will find two guides from National Online Safety on how to promote wellbeing both online and offline and how to be kind when using the internet.

Join us at our Online Safety Hub at National Online Safety and gain free access to a huge range of videos, resources and support.

http://nationalonlinesafety.com/enrol/st-oswald-s-catholic-primary-school-pr45eb

Year 1 Home Practice 14th May 2021

Date: 12th May 2021 @ 2:20pm

Welcome to your Friday blog!

This week we have met Mr Grinling the lighthouse keeper and his wife. They have a cat called Hamish. We have done some super writing about their adventures. We will  be finding out more about what they get up to next week.

In Maths we have been learning about addition and subtraction. We have also been checking that we are writing our numbers correctly.

Well done who completed their Sumdog challlenges this week. You have all received a bonus 200 coins. 

We have been finding out about South America in our Geography, visiting Rio and the Amazon Rainforest. We heard some fantastic questions and even looked at some photos of an explorer from Year 1!

 In Collective Worship we have been hearing about May being the month of Mary.

In Science, Mrs Quilliam showed us lots of different leaves and we learned some great new vocabulary. Serrated, deciduous and evergreen.

We have enjoyed catching up with you all this week with the phone calls and thank you for all your continued support.

Keep reading every day, this is the key to success. 

Spelling and Number practice has been uploaded to Sumdog. 

Have a lovely and relaxing weekend.

The Year 1 Team 

Year 1 Home Practice 7th May 2021

Date: 7th May 2021 @ 12:42pm

Welcome to your Friday blog!

We have really enjoyed reading all the Katie Morag stories. This week we read a story about a wedding on the Isle of Struay. We made some beautiful invitations. We have been carefully checking our writing and looking for ways to make it even better.

Next week we will be learning through the story of The Lighthouse Keeper's Lunch.

In Maths we have been practising our 10 more and 10 less learning and looked at adding 1 and subtracting 1 to any 2 digit number. Everyone has really tried hard in their number lessons and never given up when our learning got tricky!

Mrs Quilliam showed us some flowers and we have explored them using magnifying glasses. We had a great time with Mrs Winter in our Music session this week playing our boomwhackers to some Red Riding Hood songs.

We had some special visitors in our Golden Assembly from The Players. We did some acting and some singing! Look out for a flyer and contact the office if your child wants to sign up. The sessions run on Fridays after school.

Home Learning

Continue to read every night. Your children are developing a love of reading and story and they are loving all the new texts we have added to our library. 

Books will be changed on a Friday or a Monday. It is important to re-read the books we send home and ask lots of questions about what they remember from previous reads. Re-reading will improve comprehension as well as fluency.

We will extend the Sumdog maths challenges to give everyone a chance to complete them. If you have, look at the maths training and all new challenges will appear on the site.

This week we have been looking at the or, aw, au, al, or and ore sounds. Have a go at the spelling Challenge on Sumdog.

Have a lovely weekend everyone!

Online Safety - 5th May 2021

Date: 5th May 2021 @ 10:40am

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