Year 1 News

Autumn Term Clubs – Half Term 1 We have several clubs running this half term. Please follow the link if you would like to book a place for your child. Please note that places will be allocated on a first come, first served basis. Different clubs will be on offer throughout the year. MONDAY:  Year 1 & 2 Gymnastics Club …

PE days beginning from Monday 11th September.

At Dance Club the Years 1 and 2 have been working very hard the past few weeks learning a dance routine to the song Best Day Of My Life. They’ve had fun using the scarfs and wearing colourful outfits. Well done, we are so proud of you all and the dedication you have had to Dance Club. Dance Club Video …

Year 1’s Liturgical Prayer looked at important words from God’s Promise. In God’s Promise, it says that we should share what we have especially with people who have little or nothing. We decided to donate toys and clothes to charity as part of our mission. We have donated all of our things to Barnardos in Seaham. Well done Year 1! …

Year 1 really enjoyed their trip to the Billingham Forum Theatre to watch The Tiger Who Came to Tea. We had lots of fun singing along, joining in with the characters and watching the Tiger be silly on stage. A big thank you to the grown ups who came along and helped.

Last week Year 1 took part in a KS1 Fun Day. We listened to the story The Secret Sky Garden and we worked together to complete a set of challenges to win flowers. Each team made their own beautiful team garden. We also got given golden flowers for extra special teamwork. We had such a great morning and we all …

In Year One, we have been reading The Tiger Who Came to Tea. We have looked at the key features of instruction writing and followed a set of instructions. We made delicious jam sandwiches using instructions and ate these outside in the sun. Tomorrow, we will be writing our very own instructions of how we made our sandwiches.

Gold Standard Superstars A big well done to the children who achieved 3 Gold Standard pieces of work this week.  They visited Mrs Parlett and Mrs Noble’s stationery ‘tuck shop’ for a little treat. We have been using a new handwriting scheme in school and are aiming high for amazing presentation in all our work – you can see our …

Our latest news from our ‘Friends’ group including planned Easter discos.

We had a really good day on World Book Day. We all came dressed as a word and had a visit from Adam Bushnell. We watched a rocket ship landing on Mars and designed our own rocket ship. We then looked at the way that Alex Scheffler designed the aliens in the story The Smeds and the Smoos and drew …

In Year 1, we have been reading Super Worm by Julia Donaldson. We have been finding out lots of interesting facts about worms and made our very own fact files. We have also been finding out how to make a worm farm. We have followed a set of instructions on how to make our own worm farm and then we …

Gymnastics Stars A big well done to our 6 gymnastics teams, 2 individual competitors and 2 creative gymnasts who took part in this morning’s Key Steps competition and this afternoon’s gymnastics festival.  We are all so proud of your teamwork, your effort in learning routines and how well you supported one another. It has been lovely to hear feedback from …

In our explore lesson in RE we have been talking about our experience of a special meal. We talked about a birthday party, Christmas and a Baptism celebration. We worked with our partner to share memories of a shared meal and discuss why it was special. We then had a Valentines class family snack together, where we served food and …

In English we have been reading lots of Julia Donaldson books. This week we have been reading Stick Man, so we went outside to build our very own. We placed our stick men in a new home and used adjectives to describe where he was living. We had lots of brilliant adjectives and we can’t wait to use these in …

Accessing Google Classroom at home We have had some families unsure about how to access Google Classroom at home. Please see the following guide for accessing from a laptop / computer. Google Classroom is also available to download as an app on Apple and Android tablets and phones.  

Year 1 have been improving their mouse skills in computing this week. We looked at Wassily Kandinsky’s art work and created our own artwork using 2paint on Purple Mash. We found it tricky at first, but we had lots of fun and definitely improved our mouse skills.

We have had a really fun week in Year 1. We had our Christmas party, where we danced and played lots of games. We have also had a special visit from Santa. We sang songs with him and told him one thing we would like for Christmas. He said that we were all on the nice list.

We have had a lovely 2 days in Year 1. We had a great time with Candy Cane and his elves from Easington School Sports Partnership and today we really enjoyed having our Christmas dinner.

Last week Year 1 made their own Advent Wreaths. We talked about how the Advent Wreath helps us wait for Christmas. We also talked about the candles representing the 4 weeks of waiting during Advent and how each week we light another candle until Christmas.