Welcome to Year 1

To contact the year leader please email: 

heatherlands.office@coastalpartnership.co.uk

Please phone the office if you have an urgent message or enquiry.

PE days: Monday (outdoor) & Thursday (indoor) - Children to come into school dressed in PE kits.

The Heatherlands Way

What a fantastic week in Year 1. We are really enjoying our theme this half term ' Toys through time' . Lots of children have brought in some home learning  to show what they have found out about toys from the past and now.  lovely work we all learnt something and celebrated their work on our working walls. 

During Let's Learn we have been enjoying being scientists and exploring how we can melt the ice to help rescue the creature inside. We tried lots of ways wrapping the ice block up in fabric, putting outside, holding in our hands and blowing on it. We wrote down what we had found out. We had a go at making our own little peg dolls  like they did in the past using different materials. They were so cute! We had fun playing old fashioned games like jacks, snakes and ladders, snap or dominoes. Some of us have been using our phonics to write our wish lists to Father Christmas, there are so many exciting toys to choose from. What is on your wish list ?

In maths we have been doing some more work on subtraction and worked really hard at recording how many we have taken away by crossing out. We had to remember to count the amount first, cross out the number we were taking away then  count the total left to find the answer. We used practical resources to help us and recorded our number sentences too. We tried hard not to reverse any numbers. Those numbers can be ' Naughty' sometimes !

We have learnt a some new phase 5 sounds in phonics this week ' ea' as in seal and split digraph  e-e as in swede. We have practised reading, writing and spelling them on their own or in a sentence. We have learnt to segment and blend them on the computer too trying to spot those alien words that are not real.

In Science we investigated what objects float and sink. We thought about why the objects might float or sink. What material are they made from ?  Are they heavy or light ? What does an object do if it floats or sinks ? Do heavy objects float ? It was really interesting we predicted what might happen and were surprised by the results. 

In Jigsaw this half term we have been thinking about ' Celebrating Difference' . How we are similar and different and how amazing that is. We are thinking about what is bullying and what do about it ? We thought how we should ' choose respect and show kindness to others. We are trying to do this everyday  both at home and school.

It's been a great week. It started with a bang with a special visit from our gold medal Paralympian Chris Hunt Skelley. He talked to us all about his achievements and how resilient and motivated he was to achieve his gold and bronze medal in two different Paralympics. We saw the video of the moment he achieved his gold. It was so inspiring and taught us about having  our own aspirations in the future. It was amazing to see the actual gold medal ! He said that it is important to be ' The best version of you ' everyday. Great advice Chris. We really enjoyed our activity with him for our sponsored event challenge. It was tiring but so much fun. He thought we were FANTASTIC!

We have been busy with all our learning in class this week. In maths we have been learning about subtraction. We have learnt to take away practically using ten frames, the  part, part, whole model. Then later in the week  we recorded this visually and through number sentences. We tried really hard to use our number facts to help us and count backwards accurately to find the total. 

During English we have been learning how to ask questions and use question marks correctly. We used our skills as historians to ask and write  questions about the old toys. We used question words like ' How, what, where,  when, why ' to be inquisitive ' How does it work ? When was it made ? How old is it ?  We learnt a song to help us remember a question mark always goes at the end.

In Let's learn we were scientists being detectives finding objects made of different materials and making a list. We enjoyed making and designing another old fashioned toy 

' a spinning top' we were so independent and had really enjoyed testing them out. Outside we made potions in the mud kitchen and toy cars out of boxes. 

Phonics we worked really hard learning some new phase 5 spellings for the sound ai - eigh - as in eight, ey - as in prey or ei - as in rein. We tried really hard to use the correct spelling when writing. We used what we had learnt to spell these during  Let's Learn in different ways. We practised the tricky words 'there' and 'they ' as well. Can you spot these anywhere when you are reading or listening to a story over the weekend.

We enjoyed science this week where we  did some simple tests. We had to work out how to get an object out of the ice cube?  We had to work out which ice cube would melt the fastest. The one on under the blanket, the in the warm water or the one by the heater. It was really interesting making predictions and observing what might happen.

Did you guess correctly ? Where you surprised at the results ?

After such a busy we need a rest and some fun. Maybe you might even visit the school Christmas Fair on Saturday. 

Well done Year 1 on all your hard work this week.

It's been another busy week, which started with Anti-bullying week ' The Power of Good'.

We started with ' odd sock day' on Monday and designed our own odd socks. We are all special and unique. We have really thought how we can show kindness to others and what our ' Super Powers'  are to our friends and others.

During the week Year 1 we have enjoyed learning more about toys in the past in our new History focus’s theme. It’s been really interesting finding out toys from 100 years ago and how they have changed. We have thought about how they work and materials they were made of. We really enjoyed making our own old fashioned toy ‘ a cup and ball’ during Let’s Learn. We showed how independent and resilient we were. It was great fun testing them out. 

As well as this we showed respect on Tuesday for Remembrance Day. We took time to reflect on how the brave men and women in the armed forces have helped us and why we remember those who have died with a poppy. We sat so quietly at 11 o clock with the whole school for 2 minutes. They should be very proud of themselves. 

In phonics we learnt 2 new phase 5 sounds ' ay  as in tray' and the split digraph 'a _e as in shape'. We worked really hard with our spelling and handwriting putting these words into sentences. Thinking about what makes a ' super sentence'. 

During our maths session we continued to learn about shapes. This week we focused on 2D shapes and used words like corner, sides, straight and curved to describe them. We explored how 2D shapes are on the faces of 3D shapes and remembered our knowledge from last week. We recapped on making and noticing patterns and explored this using 2D shapes.

Our English work was linked to our science and History theme this week. We wrote about old toys and  how they could be sorted, how they move or what they are made of. In Science we have explored what materials objects are made of and sorted these in different ways. We thought about why materials are used for different objects due to their properties i.e strong, soft or rigid. During Let's Learn we were being scientists and looking closely at different types of rocks, thinking about where they came from and how they were formed.

We are really ready for a restful weekend after such a busy week in school.

Let's go again next week.

It’s been a great week in Year 1. This week as part of our ‘ Super Me! ‘ topic we have been learning about real life heroes. We learnt about Florence Nightingale. ‘ The lady with the lamp ‘. Who are your real life heroes ?

In English we have been continuing to practise writing sentences 

adding ‘ ed ‘ to verbs to write about Florence Nightingale and how she helped others. We have worked really hard in our phonics sessions and have been reading and writing 4 letter (cvcc i.e :  tent, list ) words. We were really independent writing words in Let's Learn using our  phase 2 and 3 sounds.

Maths has been learning how to add 2 numbers together. The children practised saying their number sentence out loud and used their fingers and other resources to add the amounts accurately. We have tried really hard with our number formation and tried hard to not have any ‘ naughty numbers ‘.

In Let's Learn we  thought about weather and the different the seasons. As we are in Autumn,  we had fun creating 3D paper pumpkins. It was quite a challenge but we were very resilient. We did not give up !

 During Art this week, we have used all the skills we have learnt to create our own Picasso inspired self portrait. We used mixed media such as oil pastels, pencils and crayons and collage. It was really fun. We were very proud of the final outcome. Next it's a Lichtenstein inspired self portrait. What will you create. One more week until half term. Well done!

All the children have settled in really well to Year 1. We have been very busy with all our learning and enjoying our first theme ' Super Me!'  Last week we enjoyed the nice weather and went for a senses walk in the school grounds. In Art we have been thinking about portraits and looked at our own baby photos. This was really fun  guessing who they were! We have enjoyed looking at and talking about portraits by some famous artists and realised portraits are everywhere. Can you spot any when you're out and about ? 

 In Art this week we looked at work by two famous artists Pablo Picasso and Roy Lichtenstein. They both have really different, interesting styles.  Pablo Picasso is an abstract artist, and Roy Lichtenstein creates POP Art. In Let's Learn some of us have created our own Picasso inspired portraits. They were great. In our art lesson we chose our favourite image by one of these and were ' Art detectives ' looking for different elements such as line, colour and shape. We talked about what we liked about them and how they made us feel. 

Maths has been really fun this week, we have been practising using the part, part whole model to think about how a number can be  made. We have been learning about Super Tato in English and in Let's learn we practised our counting by making play doh ' Evil Peas'.  We tried really hard to count  accurately.  What a fantastic week we have had.