Hello and welcome to Year 1 class news! 

Come and say hello, we are always happy to get to know you better and help in any way we can. 

Important Update 

As a result of the current situation regarding Coronavirus we have suggested some activities that you may want to plan into your day. 

Logins for Abacus and Hwb can be found at the front of your homework books or on Dojo.

Any questions, please do ask.

Home Learning 😁📚

Important Information:

• PE takes place on Tuesday morning (every other week) - Please provide your child with a PE kit, with items clearly labelled. If we can't find a name, and to save items getting lost we are happy to write names on them for you.
•  

• Homework and reading books are given out on a Thursday and Friday. These will be placed in your child's book bag - Please make sure these are returned back to school by the following Wednesday so that we can mark it and change reading books ready to give back.

• School dinners cost £2.30. There is a choice of hot or cold meals each day. Please send all money in a clearly labelled purse or wallet.

• Fruit costs 30p per day which will provide your child with a healthy snack

IMPORTANT- Some children have allergies, so please do not

send your child to school with  any snacks which may contain nuts-THANK YOU

• Outdoor activities Please provide your child with a coat or jacket each day, preferably with hood, so that they can comfortably take part in all weather.

Each Friday we choose 'Our Class Super Star of the Week'. If your child is chosen they will receive a certificate in Friday's Assembly and collect a trophy which stays in the classroom.

A Class Super Star has to show they have tried extra hard to...

be kind, share, follow directions, achieve a target, persevere, tidy up, speak Welsh, help someone, show good manners, or get changed for P.E., fold their clothes, look after their belongings, read confidently, learn spellings, write number etc.

We enjoyed our St David's Day celebrations by dressing up in traditional costume, sport kits and the red associated with Wales. 

Everyone was congratulated on their Eisteddfod entries which were superb as always! 

Best of all were the scrumptious welsh cakes, which we all shared together

Fab photos were taken - Please enjoy looking at them below... 

Mwnci Mawr!

The first topic we are studying this year is all about monkeys. As part of this topic we are learning the story, 'Monkey See, Monkey Do'. Please practise saying this story together at home; we can show you all the actions. These actions help us to remember the story, so that we can re-tell it.

Blocking a story

We can block a story to help us remember it.

We painted some really fabulous pictures of monkeys!

Our exciting visit to BRISTOL ZOO GARDENS

Our next Autumn topic is called Blasus Bwyd!

The children have discussed what they already know about food, and what they want to find out.

Here are some of the things we will research:

Our Topic this term is ‘Lost!’

We’ve had great fun reading and researching in the classroom.

This term our new story that we are learning is 'Whatever Wanda Wanted' We will be learning new actions to remember the story. This story is about a little girl who is very selfish and greedy but an experience makes her change her ways! She realises she can be happy without having EVERYTHING she wants. 

Below is the story map we have created as a class and have blocked the story into an opening, build up, problem, resolution and end - Ask your child/ren to explain what happens during the story.

Measuring

We have been learning to measure using non-standard measures using items such as cubes, pencils and whiteboard rubbers.

Some children are also measuring using standard measures. They have used a small cm ruler and a long metre stick.

Celebrating Saint David’s Day

World Book Day

Our new topic this term will be Curious Creatures.  We will be using Pie Corbett to act out the story 'How the tortoise got his shell' 

We will be drawing the story map, blocking the story, describing characters and re-writing/changing the story.

Red Nose Day

                                        Autism Awareness Week

Celebrating Welsh with parents and carers in the classroom 

Our visit from the Easter Bunny

   Dwr - Water                              

Our topic this term is Dwr - Water. We are going to be learning lots of new exciting things all about water. To start with we have the homework map for you to complete this term. 

Ffantastig!

Kerry Darlington 

We have looked at the work of Welsh artist Kerry Darlington and used some of her ideas to make pictures of our own

Helping others

Courtney brought a special collection box to school, for us to put our donations in. 

Some of us enjoy playing 'Beth sy yn y bocs?' together

We have been studying the work of Welsh Artist Kerry Darlington.

We looked at her work titled 'Tree of Life - Autumn' and then used some of her ideas to make an autumn tree of our own.

Our next autumn topic is Celebrations!

We have been learning about Divali and how Hindus celebrate the Festival of Light.

Gurshaan's mum kindly came in to school to tell us how they celebrate Divali at home. She brought in Divali lamps for us to look at and then helped us to make some of our own.

Over the weeks been reading a story about Sammy Spider who lives in a house with the Shapiro family . He watches them celebrate

Rosh Hashannah, the Jewish New Year Celebration..

In groups we chatted together to find words to describe Sammy Spider. We came up with some amazing adjectives!

In the story Mum prepares apples dipped in honey and makes special challah bread.

The boys and girls tasted apples dipped in honey, just like the family did, and most of them decided it was... delicious, yummy, sweet, tasty, sticky and scrumptious!

Spring Term 1- January 

Our Topic is Water

We all enjoyed learning about the water cycle. Together we read the the book 'The Drop Goes Plop' by Sam Godwin.  

We made our own story maps like this one:

Year ! Class Assembly was a great success. All the children took part telling the story of the Drop Goes Plop and sang a variety of lively songs. 

Our topic this term is Water!

We always start this with a web, where children give us their ideas of what they already know about water.

Here are some useful guides to show what we expect from a Year 1 child

Your child may be working either below or above this level and we adapt this work to suit their needs. 

By looking at these, you will know where to start when working with your child at home.

Try to do little achievable steps and then choose a new thing to learn.

Maths

In Year 1 we cover a variety of topics e.g: shape, money, measuring, time, data handling, coding and number.

Here is a number overview of what we expect a Year 1 child to know by the end of the year. Once again your child may be working below or above this level and we differentiate the work for them to achieve to the best of their ability.