Y1 Friday 12th September 2025– Looking Back & Forth
Y1 Friday 12th September 2025– Looking Back & Forth
Looking back:
What a wonderful week we have had in Year 1.
I am so overwhelmed with the enthusiasm for Show and Tell this week- it was lovely to see the children so excited. This is not something children need to bring in every week as it is a celebration of achievements and things the children are proud of. I will monitor the amount of Show and Tells over the next few weeks to see if this should be done on a rota.
In Maths we have been sorting objects based on their colour, shape and size and solving problems related to this.
In English we have looked at the book ‘Not a stick’. We have made guesses about what the stick is because it is ‘not a stick’. We designed objects based on our chosen sticks and labelled them.
We have begun to create collage pictures for exhibition related to our chosen book ‘Nibbles the Book Monster’.
We have looked at how to stay safe online and used the Ipads safely.
Year 1 – Pupils’ Highlights:
√ Using our ‘chopping arms’ to help us to segment phase 3 words when writing and reading them.
√ Sorting objects based on their colour, size or shape both practically and recorded.
√ Listening to the story of ‘Not a stick’ and making predictions.
√ Drawing our ‘not a stick’ objects based on the book.
√ Writing a list about what the stick could be.
√ Reading traditional tale books.
√ Underarm throwing in PE.
√ Learning about the features of Christian church in RE.
√ Repeating numbers in French.
√ Creating collage pictures.
Family discussion questions:
- Can you write a caption about an object from ‘Not a Stick’?
- What number comes in the middle of this sequence? 4, __, ___, 7 ,8, 9 ___
- Find some of your things at home- how could you sort them? Size, colour or shape? Can you think of anymore?
Looking forward:
Next week we will continue writing labels, lists and captions; using ‘Dangerous’ book to stimulate our writing.
In Maths we will be counting objects before moving onto larger groups.
We will be looking at our bodies and labelling their parts before thinking about what we use them for.
As part of Science and Geography, we will be looking at the weather in each season.
Reminders-
Reading books should be brought into school each Thursday so they can be changed overnight. They will be given back each Friday.
Please continue to read every night as this underpins so much learning in Year 1. For every consecutive 14 days of reading the children will receive 10 house points and see their face on the ‘Reading Challenge Wall of Fame’- If this could be recorded in reading diaries so I can track their progress (They will automatically get a read for Thursday night when I keep the books).
Thanks for your support
Mrs Carew