Friday 22nd November
It was so good to see so many Grandparents at our games and toys of the past afternoon. There were so many different games played ranging from snakes and ladders to pick up sticks and dominoes just to mention a few. Everybody had great fun and it was lovely to see the engagement and interest from all the children and the adults. Thankyou so much for coming and we hope you enjoyed your visit to Year 1.
That's not the only fun we had today as we had some visitors from Rugby museum and Art Gallery this morning to run a workshop for the children. They were shown sculptures by the artist Barbera Hepworth and were then inspired to create their own from various resources such as cardboard, beads and modelling clay. The children were very engaged and created some fabulous sculptures. It was good to see in the week of self care that they were absorbed in their own creativity.
The children have been inspired to write 'Missing posters' this week as Bunting the cat from our book 'The toy museum' got lost trying to find the toys. They described what he looked like and where he was last seen so we do hope the museum find him.
Friday 15th November
This week the children have really enjoyed the new topic 'What's in the toybox?'. Our story was 'Lost in the museum' by David Lucas and the children have been finding out about the main character 'Bunting' who is a cat who looks after the museum. The children have made registers this week and a to do list for all the jobs Bunting has to do at night. We are learning to use the plus sign in maths and write an expression to represent the partitioning structure of addition. I.e if there is a picture of 3 red hats and two blue hats the children have been writing 2+3 or 3+2.
Next week is National Self Care week and there are several workshops planned for the children over the week. These range from Yoga to Dance to an art workshop on Friday.
Also on Friday we are hosting our Grandparents Toy afternoon where grandparents are welcome to come in, bring their toys from the past and play with the children. This will be at 2.15 in the year 1 classrooms. The side gates will be open and Grandparents are welcome to come on to the playground ready for the session.
Friday 8th November
Welcome back after the half term holiday. We hope you all had a restful week. It has been a really busy week in Year 1. We celebrated Diwali at the beginning of the week with sweet treats and beautiful henna patterns. We learnt a lot of new words associated with Diwali and had a great time so thanks to the parent who very kindly offered her time to come and chat with us and bringing lots of things to help us celebrate.
We have also been on a walk in the school grounds looking for signs of Autumn. We scrunched through the leaves and looked carefully at the colours of the leaves falling to the ground. We have used the leaves to make things and we have been out collecting them in binbags to turn into compost. It was a shame that the sun didn't come out but at least it didn't rain. We had great fun exploring how sycamore seeds travel and then creating our own helicopter seed out of paper and watching them spin to the ground.
Next week we begin a new topic called 'What's in the toybox?' . You will find some ideas for shared learning that have come home this afternoon. Our first book that we are reading is called 'Lost in the toy museum' so we will begin to explore toys in the past. On the afternoon of Friday 22nd November we are inviting any grandparents to come in to school and bring any toys they still have that they played with as children. We can then have a games afternoon playing with all the toys from the past.
Friday 25th October
We've had a great end to the half term with our 'Tea Party' this afternoon. The children enjoyed decorating a biscuit and making some cucumber sandwiches. We finished the day off by watching 'The Tiger Who Came to Tea'. The children have really enjoyed making their tiger posters this week and finding out lots of facts about tigers.
In maths we've been looking at number lines and number tracks and noticing the difference between them. We've also done some half term assessments so we can plan for next term. The children have worked really hard!
Diwali is soon so we have been learning about how people celebrate. We have looked at Rangoli patterns and Mendhi patterns and then designed our own. The children took great care with this and did some fabulous, detailed designs of their own. One of our parents has kindly agreed to talk to the children about Diwali on the Monday afternoon we come back. She would like to paint Mendhi patterns on some of the children using henna, if you have any objection to this please email us and we will make sure that your child is not included. She's also going to bring some Indian sweets in for the children to enjoy, we have all allergy information but again if you'd prefer your child not to have one, please email us.
Alongside Diwali we are also celebrating the season of Autumn and we're going to make some leaf puppets using leaves and toilet roll middles. Can you please collect these over half term and bring them in after the holiday? Much appreciated!
We will be starting a new learning challenge when we come back called 'What can we find in the toy box?' so information will come out in the first week regarding shared learning.
Friday 18th October
It was great to meet some of you this week at Parent's evening and talk to you about how your children have settled. We are looking forward to the next one on Tuesday 21st October. This week has flown by again and we suddenly find ourselves in the last week before half term. We shall be rounding off our topic next Friday with a 'Tiger Who came to Tea' party where we shall be making some cakes and icing some biscuits during the day. This will all be provided by school so do not worry about sending any food in.
Next week the children will be finishing a non-fiction poster all about Tigers that they have started this week. We have begun to use vocabulary associated with non-fiction writing such as headings, title and the children have drawn pictures to illustrate their work.
In maths this week we have been learning how to compare numbers and use these signs < and > to show greater than and less than and today we were ordering 3 numbers to 10.
We started today to use some materials provided by Warwickshire County Council for Teaching road Safety. The children were asked to be 'Spies' looking out for how to keep safe on the road and we had lots of ideas of how they already keep safe. We shall continue to use some more of these materials in the coming weeks.
Friday 11th October
Firstly can we say a big thank you to all the parents and carers that came for our interactive maths session. You will have participated in a lesson today very much like we do every day in maths. These 'Mastering number' lessons enable your children to become fluent in maths by concentrating on the composition of number , which today was different ways to make 6. The lesson included subitising (knowing a number without counting) , thinking of different ways to see 6 and using stem sentences , "6 is made of 2 and 4, 2 and 4 make 6". We hope you gained an insight into how we teach maths and enjoyed the session.
We started a new text in English this week 'Augustus and his smile' and the children have really enjoyed engaging with this text and imagining what Augustus might say and feel when he has lost his smile and when he found it.
We also looked carefully at the illustrations in the story and used different media, paint, collage to recreate some of the beautiful pictures in the book.
Next week we have the first of our parent's evening on Thursday 17th October following on the next week with Tuesday 22nd October. If you haven't signed up for this please do so as soon as possible as the slots are filling up quickly. Go through the Bawnmore website as this is the easiest way.
Friday 4th October
After all the rain at the beginning of the week it was lovely to see the sun for today for our walk to the woods. The children thoroughly enjoyed putting on their wellies and squelching through the mud.
In maths this week we have been focussing on counting forwards and backwards and beginning to find one less than a number. Next week we will be comparing numbers and using the language associated with this.
This week the children had a letter from the tiger from our story asking if he could come to tea at Sophie's house because he had such a good time. The children wrote back as Sophie and invited him for tea.
We learnt about different groups of animals and their characteristics this week including reptiles and mammals. The children sorted these and drew some fantastic pictures to represent these groups.
You will have noticed the children have spellings today in their bookbags. We would ask that you practise spelling these words this week in fun ways, with different pens, spell the word with pasta, be as creative as you like to help your children remember these words. These come from a list of words that all children should be able to spell in year 1. Next Friday in an informal way we will ask the children to spell these words. You will then get the next group of words next Friday.
Friday 27th September
It's been another busy week in school. The children really enjoyed listening to the pupils from Rugby School playing their instruments. We have continued to enjoy our story of the week 'The tiger who came to tea'. The children have written a shopping list and labelled pictures from the story. In science we have learnt all about birds and fish and the children have drawn some fantastic pictures to illustrate their learning. In maths we have been focussing on one more than using lots of different representations.
We love seeing learning that the children have been doing at home. This can be stuck into their learning book or if it doesn't fit into the topic or the book then the children can bring it in separately. We would ask that they come in on a Friday for show and tell. Please encourage your children to keep other items i.e toys at home so they don't get broken or lost.
Next week on the morning of Friday 4th October we are walking to Cock Robin Wood as part of a 'Winston's Wish' special day. More information on this charity will be coming out to you next week. If you are free and would like to support our walk then we would love you to come with us and the children. We need as many adults as we can so if you can let one of the team know if you can help it would be much appreciated.
Friday 13th September
We have had a fantastic week in year 1. Our story this week was 'The mixed up chameleon ' by Eric Carle. The children loved hearing about how the chameleon became bits of different animals. This inspired the children to sketch mixed up animals from the story and make their own. We have been talking about how our bodies feel if we are worried or anxious about anything. We call how our body feels 'Early Warning Signs' when we are worried. We then made a network hand which lists all the adults we could find if we needed to talk about our worries in school and at home. We have explored the work of Clarice Cliff and the children designed and painted some fabulous plates. We enjoyed playing the musical instruments and keeping the pulse to some of our favourite songs.
Our PE days this year are Mondays and Wednesdays so please make sure your child is in black shorts or jogging bottoms and a white top or t shirt and trainers. Also if your child has pierced ears please can you take these out on PE days. Please can you remember to bring a named water bottle for your child to have all week.
We are looking forward to the visit on Tuesday to Twycross Zoo. The children will be provided with a lunch unless you have specifically instructed otherwise on the form. The children will need to wear school uniform and comfortable shoes, trainers can be worn as there will be lots of walking. The weather looks great so that should make for a lovely day.