St Anne's Catholic Primary School

Year 1 have settled really well into their new routines and style of learning with continuous provision alongside small groups. 

We learnt class routines and aspects of the day that we will do daily e.g. dough disco. If you would like to do dough disco too then it can be found on https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLOcPymb-OvBy6NN-nkIHG4eXNC_mksrAx

We started our first week getting to know the class and discussing our feelings using the book "The Colour Monster". We sorted the coloured counters to each emotion and made our own loose parts faces.

We also drew ourselves for our class display, wrote Year 1 common exception words in sand and made faces with playdough.

In week 2 we started our usual timetable including all of our core subjects and wider curriculum.

The class were very excited to have their first history lesson and learn about Kings and Queens from the last decade and we even made our own timelines of who has been our monarch, who is our current monarch and who will be our monarch. 

In Design and Technology we learnt all about Gustave Eiffel and all of the amazing structures that he had designed. Did you know that the Eiffel tower was built to be an entrance to the French fair in 1889?!

In Maths we started "Place Value to 10" and we sorted buttons by shape and colour, as well as making numbers to 10 with objects. 

In Literacy we discussed all that we know about buses and even made our own class fact book about buses. One day there was even a messy class and we think it might have been the Naughty Bus visiting..

During our third week in year 1 we were discussing the Creation story in RE and we ordered images of what happened on each day and then drew our own representations of each day. We also learnt a creation song that you can sing along too on https://www.google.com/search?sca_esv=566579981&rlz=1C1GCEB_enGB1043GB1043&q=creation+song&tbm=vid&source=lnms&sa=X&sqi=2&ved=2ahUKEwjUgNrvzraBAxXkQUEAHZtUCjEQ0pQJegQIDBAB&biw=1366&bih=619&dpr=1#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:4689414b,vid:aoehyq6X650,st:0

In our enhanced provision this week we  enjoyed playing with the castle in small world play. We have also started challenges that we have to achieve through our play each week; a particular favourite being drawing Gustave Eiffel's structures. 

In maths we have been counting on from any number wihin 10 and ordering numbers on number tracks. 

Our One World Councillors were also chosen.  

During our fourth week in Year 1 we have embraced Autumn with the additional of Autumnal resources and activities in the room. These include a tree based train tray and an Autumn sensory tray.

We have new LCD writing pads in class that have gone down a treat and are encouraging lots of indepdent writing, drawing and mark making. 

In maths we have been continuing working on place value to 10 incluidng counting back from 10 and more work on our number formation. 

Our RE topic of Creation ended this week with us concluding our learning by writing our own verse of the Canticle of Creation as as well as learning all about St Francis. We have also participated in class worship to thank God for all of his creations. 

As we have moved into October, this week Year 1 were exploring more Autumn themed provision including threading pumpkins, Autumn animal small world and cotton bud leaf painting. 

The current D&T focus is junk modelling so we have made structures based on the designs of Gustave Eiffel.

Our skill in PE this week was standing on one leg balancing. It definitely wasn't as easy when your eyes were closed or we tried to balance!

We also started our new RE unit - Families and Celebrations. We discussed important celebrations for our families and celebrations that Jesus was present. Additionally, we role played these stories including the Wedding at Cana. 

This week in Year we changed topic in Maths, started a new book in Literacy and have been busily finishing up lots of our other subjects.

In Maths we have started addition and subtraction within 10 (which will continue into Autumn 2). We have been spliting numbers into parts and introduced the whole part models. We have been practically splitting the whole, as well as writting down addition sentences using our parts. We have also been finding our number bonds using Numicon in our provision.

In Literacy we started our new text for the last fortinight of this term - Astro Girl. You can listen to the story yourselves on https://www.google.com/search?sca_esv=572834593&rlz=1C1GCEB_enGB1054GB1054&q=astro+girl&tbm=vid&source=lnms&sa=X&sqi=2&ved=2ahUKEwj4893VsvCBAxX_V0EAHdhgArQQ0pQJegQIDhAB&biw=1536&bih=747&dpr=1.25#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:c9a2f6db,vid:nWQgk3SMWKY,st:0.

This has led to the addition of different Space themed activities in our provision including a tuff tray, sensory table and drawing shape aliens. 

In Phonics we have continued on our Phase 5 journey and used these skills to play a roll and read game.