Category: Year One Blog

This week it was internet safety day.  We worked together to think about some internet safety rules.  We thought about things that we were allowed to do, such as play a Maths games that my teacher has shown me in school.  Some things that we needed to ask before we do them, such as asking if they…

The Year One and Two enjoyed a fabulous morning hosted by Stokesley Secondary School young sports leaders.  They had put on a host of fitness games with a literacy and a maths focus so that we could all get healthier and still improve our reading, spelling and number skills.  The children had a…

We had a fabulous day at Flamingo Land.  The morning was spent learning about the different types of animal our science workshop.  We investigated feathers, saw some of the biggest eggs in the world, felt snake and lizard scales as well as meeting the spiky tenrec and Freddy the frog.  After lunch…

A huge thank you to all of our Year 6 reading buddies who come and read with us every Tuesday and Thursday lunchtime.  The children love reading with the older children and it is really motivating us to improve our reading skills, Thank you Year 6!

We have been getting busy finding out lots about lions.  We have been working together to decide which facts are true and false and using the books we borrowed to find out the answers to our questions.  We have also been inspired to have a go at drawing lions, we used the chalk pastels blended…

Rory got the week off to a super start by bringing to 100% attendance certificates for all of the children who managed to do 'Every Day On TIme' last term, well done!

This week we are investigating lions and finding out as much as we can about these fascinating animals so that we can create our Lion Fact Sheets.  So we decided that a trip to the library to find some information books would be a great way to start.  A huge thank you to all those parents who came…

Linked to our Power of Reading Book One Day on Our Blue Planet  ... in the Savannah we have been finding out a bit more about our planet.  The children worked in teams to assemble a world map and then used it to help them begin to learn the names of the 7 continents and 5 oceans of the world.  We…

This week we have been finding our different ways to make our teen numbers.  We have been investigating how the number that we write link to the amount and have begun to find out about tens and units.  We will be doing lots more work finding our about how bigger numbers are made up of groups of…

Today we have been getting started with our new Power of Reading book.  We have been looking closely at the picture and seeing what we can spot.  This week we will be focusing on finding our about the African Savannah and what we might hear and see if we were really there.  Why not have a closer…

The children did a fantastic job during the Nativity Performance today.  Well done to all of the the children who did such a super job singing and performing.  Amazing teamwork all round.  Thank you to all the parents who have supported the children by practising their lines and providing…

Today we all got into our teams and began working together to make the decorations that we hope to sell at Friday's Christmas Fair.  We had a very interesting discussion about how much we should sell them for and some interesting conversations about how people earn money and what happens if you…