Class 1

Hello Year One,

I hope you are all well. I have uploaded two more videos onto the school youtube page, one of which is a writing task. Have a watch of the video and have a go at the task!

Hope you are all well, stay safe.

Miss Bridgman

Hello Year One!

I hope you are all well and are enjoying the posts on this page! Remember anything you do can be stuck into your home learning book to show me when you return! 
 

I hope you are spending lots of time outdoors in this lovely weather! 
 

I’ve just uploaded another scavenger hunt that you can do in your garden or on a walk! 
 

Stay safe and healthy see you soon!

The children will be coming home with home learning books soon which have some activities and sheets in for them to have a go at. Before that time I have made a list of activities, websites and resources that may prove helpful, informative and fun for you and your child while they are learning from home.

• https://www.ictgames.com/ this has lots of fun games for KS1 children that work help support phonics and maths.
• Purple mash- your child has their own log in for this in the back of their reading log. I have selected some activities for your children that they should be able to do independently, they will need help logging on.
• Mathletics - your child has their own log in for this in the back of their reading log. I have selected some activities for your children that they should be able to do independently, they will need help logging on.
• https://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/ - this has interactive resources to support phonics teaching, you do not have to pay or subscribe, follow the links to free resources.
• https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize this has lots of great information and games. We have been using it for Geography where the children have been learning about the UK and farming.
• https://www.phonicsbloom.com/ this has some free resources which will support children learning their phonics sounds.
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I will be posting information and tasks to this page so please keep checking back here regularly. Any work that the children completely can be stuck into their home learning books so they can show me when they return.

I hope you all stay healthy and happy. Remember that although some of us may be ill, isolated or feeling sad. We are still a big Clatford family! We'll all be back to school together before you know it!

Miss Bridgman

Welcome back to Year One, we hope you had a lovely and restful Christmas break! This half term we are lucky enough to have Mr Bailey-Hobbs join us for six weeks; he is doing his teacher training and is excited to learn about Key Stage One.

Our new topic is Fantastic Fairy Tales where we will be learning about traditional tales and their characters.

As part of our amazing animals topic the children made an animal of their choice. Some children recreated an existing animal like a cat, a tiger or giraffe. Some children creatively chose their favourite parts of different animals to create a super animal!

We are so impressed with all of the creations and have created a little zoo in the corner of the classroom. The children used their geography skills to decide which habitat their animal would live in!

This week, to celebrate International Peace day on the 21st September, we made our own symbols for peace! 

This linked nicely with our RE topic (Bread as a symbol) and the children brought so many great ideas to the class discussion.

We considered what peace was and how we could capture that in a symbol! The children were really proud of what they created and these symbols are now hung with pride in the quiet garden! 

Year One builds upon the children’s experiences from Year R.  The classroom is still mobile but activities are often teacher-led and involve the children in working with an adult or independently.  Learning friends help children to recognise the kind of learner that they are.

In the mornings, the children have a literacy or maths lesson and then phonics before lunch. In the afternoon the focus changes to topic and science work. The children also have an indoor and outdoor P.E lesson, music, R.E and ICT skills lessons.  Our topic this half term is Amazing Animals, which is a science and geography topic. Children will also have daily handwriting lessons and will do “funky finger” exercises to help their fine motor skills!

In Year One we want the children to be happy and enjoy their learning.  We encourage the children to be polite, reflective, to behave well, and to support and respect each other. Children are also rewarded with team points and certificates. On Friday afternoons, they have Golden Time which is a time when they can play. As a class they are collecting marbles in a pot, once they have collected all of the marbles they will have a class reward, which the children will choose.

The children’s learning is reinforced through homework.  The children practise spellings, during the week, and complete a maths, literacy or topic based piece of weekend homework. In addition, they take home reading books which they choose themselves.

During this term children will visit Marwell Zoo.  Next half term they will take part in the Christmas play alongside Year 2.

This page will be updated with pictures of what we get up to in class; so please check back for more information!

Follow this link below to watch our weather reports, we wrote these reports in our table groups in science.

 https://clatford-church-of-england-primary-school.primarysite.media/playlist/year-1-vlogs

This half term we have started a new topic, Fantastic Fairytales. We have looked at traditional tales and alternative versions. 

When we arrived at school last week, the outdoor area had been changed into a crime scene. There was lots for us to look at and different clues for us to examine! The police came in to question us to help find the criminal! 

This week the children finished their Sprout Boy poems. Here some Year One children have shared their ideas to create their own Christmas video inspired by Sprout Boy. The children have worked very hard on these poems and they have been very successful.

In English, in the lead up to Christmas, we have used the video “Sprout Boy” to inspire our writing. We have watched the video and have been considering the vocabulary choices and learning about rhyme.

We have also had the chance to taste sprouts, to decide whether our poem will be about loving sprouts or hating them! The children were brilliant and nearly all of them tried a sprout, many of them were surprised when they liked them! Many of them went back for SECONDS!

On the 15th of October we went on a class trip to Marwell Zoo as part of our Amazing Animals topic. While we were there we were looking at Fur, Feathers and Scales. We used what we had learned in science to classify these animals into mammals, birds and reptiles. The animals were clearly not perturbed by the rain and we saw lots of different animals whilst walking around the zoo.

When we got back to class, the children wrote postcards home about our day at the zoo and enjoyed looking through the photos we all took.

On Monday the 8 October a beach washed up on the shores of Year One’s outdoor area! Miss Bridgman was the first to notice the strange scene and asked the children to take a closer look. Upon inspection James spotted that a glass bottle had washed up onto the beach, inside the bottle was a message from a tiny snail who had taken a trip on the tail of a whale.

The children were eager to begin learning all about the snails adventures. More information about the snail and the whale will be posted here so check back soon!

Year One builds upon the children’s experiences from Year R.  The classroom is still mobile but activities are often teacher-led and involve the children in working with an adult or independently.  Learning friends help children to recognise the kind of learner that they are.

In the mornings, the children have a literacy or maths lesson and then phonics before lunch. In the afternoon the focus changes to topic and science work. The children also have an indoor and outdoor P.E lesson, music, R.E and ICT skills lessons.  Our topic this half term is Amazing Animals, which is a science and geography topic.

In Year One we want the children to be happy and enjoy their learning.  We encourage the children to be polite, reflective, to behave well, and to support and respect each other. Children are also rewarded with team points and certificates. On Friday afternoons, they have Golden Time which is a time when they can play. As a class they are collecting marbles in a pot, once they have collected all of the marbles they will have a class reward, which the children will choose.

The children’s learning is reinforced through homework.  The children practise spellings, during the week, and complete a maths, literacy or topic based piece of weekend homework. In addition, they take home reading books which they choose themselves.

During this term children will visit Marwell Zoo.  Next half term they will take part in the Christmas play alongside Year 2.

This page will be updated with pictures of what we get up to in class; so please check back for more information!