St Oswald's Catholic Primary SchoolYear 1: Blog items
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.
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
Date: 15th Jul 2021 @ 12:50pm
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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.
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!
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.
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!
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
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.
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.
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
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!
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!
Year 1 Home Practice 30th April 2021
Date: 28th Apr 2021 @ 2:21pm
Welcome to your Friday blog.
This week we have been finding out even more about Katie Morag. We wrote some instructions for her to help her to tidy her bedroom. We met her big boy cousins who got up to mischief!
In Maths we have been reading, writing and drawing numbers. We have been making numbers up to 100 with Numicon and looking at comparing and ordering 2 digit numbers. Super learning everyone!
We have been learning about the different continents and looking at an atlas. We heard lots of good questions and even renamed our tables.
In P.E. we continued with our Athletics skills with bean bag races - we were very competitive and showed great encouragement to eachother!
PE kits - We have been sending everyone home in their PE kits on Tuesdays so to get the full 2 hours of PE and not lose any learning time getting changed at the end of the day. However we would like everyone to have their kits in school everyday as we will be doing lots of sports in the Summer term.
Every day we run our daily mile, well done to Willow who was awarded the daily mile trophy in Golden Assembly this morning.
Home Learning
Read, read and read some more. Children who read regularly make huge progress in their fluency and understanding. Embedding good reading habits at this stage will create a love of reading and set your children up to succeed.
We will change the reading books on Tuesday. Please make sure all books have been read and diaries signed.
We have also set up some spelling and number challenges on Sumdog. Regular practise of spelling and number facts will prepare the children for any new learning they meet at school. Well done to everyone is including regular skills practise into their daily routines.
Spelling - Words beginning with consonant blends
Maths - Shape challenge and Number skills
Have a lovely long weekend and we will see you all next week.
Online Safety - 21st April 2021
Date: 21st Apr 2021 @ 1:29pm
Using social media websites is among the most common activity of today's children and adolescents. Any website that allows social interaction is considered a social media site, including social networking sites such as Facebook, TikTok, Snapchat and Twitter; gaming sites and virtual worlds such as Club Penguin, Second Life, and the Sims; video sites such as YouTube; and blogs. Such sites offer today's youth a portal for entertainment and communication and have grown exponentially in recent years. For this reason, it is important that parents become aware of the nature of social media sites, given that not all of them are healthy environments for children and adolescents. - From the American Academy of Pediatrics
Below you will find two guides. One for Snapchat and one for Sadfishing.
For more guides and explainer videos, join us at National Online Safety and explore the range of resources to keep updated with developments in social media and much more.
https://nationalonlinesafety.com/enrol/st-oswald-s-catholic-primary-school-pr45eb
Date: 1st Apr 2021 @ 2:55pm
Well done everyone on a fanastic term in Year 1. We have been very impressed with how you all settled back into our school routines and Golden Rules.
This week our story has been the brave Beast written by Chris judge. We have written to the Beast, described his journey through the caves and even created our own story.
In our maths we have been using our number facts to solve problems and written our number sentences in different ways.
In Science we have planted our seeds and taken them home to look after.
Today we had an easter egg hunt and used our maps to help find all our clues.
We'd like to wish you all a happy and peaceful Easter and hope you all have a lovely Easter break.
The Year 1 Team
Online Safety - 31st March 2021
Date: 31st Mar 2021 @ 1:11pm
This week we are having a look back at our wellbeing week and how we express ourselves online. Below you will find a guide on Expressing yourself safely online and a guide to using Youtube.
We have also included the #wakeupwednesday guide from NationOnlineSafety.com on RecRoom. This is a new online platform with an age rating of 9+. We haven't yet seen any of our children use this platform but it is always good to be informed on new developments.
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 Home Practice 26th March 2021
Date: 24th Mar 2021 @ 12:33pm
Welcome to your Friday blog for this week.
We have been really enjoying all our learning this week again and we are now used to all being back together keeping the Golden Rules. We have enjoyed our playtimes in the sunnier weather and have been great friends to each other.
Our story this week was The Tiny Seed by Eric Carle. We all loved following the story of the seed and all the obstacles it had to ovecome before it could start to grow. We have done some super retelling of the story with Mr Campbell and lots of great writing. We could also use all our Science learning we've been doing with Mrs Quilliam to help us to understand the seed's journey.
In R.E. we have continued our learning through our topic of Change. We talked about being kind to each other.
On Tuesday we had some quiet time as it was a National Day of Reflection. We thought about what we could look forward to.
We all enjoyed our French with Mrs Quilliam and our Music with Mrs Winter.
Mrs Corbett and Mrs Anderson joined Mr Campbell for P.E. this week. There was super skills development in rolling, throwing, running, dribbling and catching.
In our Maths learning we were looking at doubling and halving numbers. We also played games which involved using our number facts and taking turns.
Home Practice
Please keep reading every single day. This is so important!
Also, sign the diary each time you read with your child.
Sumdog
We have set only 2 challenges for your Sumdog Practice this week. Well done to those who are still answering all your questions. We realised we set a little too many last week so we have limited the maths to 50 and spelling to 20 questions. All your children can access this learning!
Keep your eye on our website for new galleries of photographs and school information.
Every Wednesday, we will be updating our new Online Safety blog.
Thank you for your continued support.
