Year 1 Blog

We had a lovely time in this week’s little library club. Mrs Wilkinson read us the story of ‘The True Story of the Three Little Pigs.’ We really enjoyed it and we couldn’t believe that the wolf wasn’t in fact big and bad but simply had a sneezy cold! Mrs Donnelly then  helped us with our stick puppets and we …

Year 1 completed lots of subtraction challenges today, using number lines, part-whole models and tens frames. They really enjoyed working together to complete the challenges.

This week our work was based on The Hungry Caterpillar. We enjoyed watching a video to remind us of the story. We then made our own hungry caterpillars by making a green paper chain with a red head.

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During Art, we made peg dolls to add to our forest setting. We explored fabrics such as satin, cotton, hessian and fur and then we chose the most appropriate fabric for our Little Red Riding Hood peg doll.

Happy New Year to all our children and families! We are looking forward to welcoming the children back to school tomorrow and beginning our spring term. Amid the increasing numbers of COVID cases, we would like to reassure you that we will continue to follow Local Authority, Trust and governmental guidance and will continually assess the ever-changing situation. At St. …

The children in Year 1 had a great afternoon dancing and playing games at their Christmas party.

As you may have seen recently, many refugees have been uprooted and relocated from Afghanistan to the North East of England. The SVP society at St Cuthbert’s House are collecting donations for these families. Our Mini Vinnies group in school are appealing for toiletries, games, toys, scarves, hats and gloves for adults and children.  Mrs Strong and our Mini Vinnies children …

The children looked at the artist Kandinsky and they made their own Kandinsky circles.

Instead of parent meetings in school, we will be phoning parents for an update this term. Please click on the link below for your child’s class and select the time slot you would like.  PLEASE MAKE A NOTE OF THE TIME YOU SELECT WHEN YOU SELECT IT. Office staff do not have access to these forms so will be unable …

  The children in Year 1 have been learning a circus dance routine. They have been learning a sequence of dance moves and creating their own dance moves.

This week in art club we have been making our own Poppy.

In our first art club session we have made our own firework pictures.

In Year 1, we have been reading The Gingerbread Man. Yesterday the children were shown footage of the Gingerbread Man in our classroom with his friends. We really want to find him, so we are making our very own missing posters.

A super start to our club on Monday. We practised different shapes and how to jump safely. Well done to all the children who came.  

For some of our younger children, it has been such a long time since they have visited church. Our children from Reception, Year 1 and Year 2 enjoyed a visit to our church on Monday morning. We were all welcomed by Fr Marc and the children enjoyed listening to Fr Marc explaining about all of the different things we can …

The children in Year 1 had a special book delivery. They loved spending time reading the new books in our classroom.

The children in Year 1 compared objects using the language greater than, less than and equal to and the symbols <,> and =. The Year 1 classroom had different objects on each table and the children had to make their way around each table and compare the objects.

The children in Year 1 used the zoom function on Google Maps to find the UK, Seaham and their school. We looked at the things that could be seen from an Ariel view, such as the car park, playground and the Year 1 classroom and decking area. The children then used materials around the room to make a messy map …

How lovely to be all back together this week for whole school assemblies!