Y1 Friday 7th November 2025– Looking Back & Forth
Y1 Friday 7th November 2025– Looking Back & Forth
Looking back:
What a great first week back for our Autumn 2 term- great enthusiasm and attitude to learning!
In Maths we have begun to look at part whole models to help us begin to see how amounts can be split into parts and how these can generate number sentences. We have used lots of practical equipment to help us with this.
In English we have been inspired by the book ‘Rapunzel’ by Bethan Woollvin. We have explored the book through Shared Reading and begun to learn the story through the use of a story map and following it with actions. We had an interesting debate related to our Traditional Tales unit of writing. We discussed ‘good’ and ‘bad’ characters and we were torn as class as to which side Jack from ‘Jack and the Beanstalk’ should be in. Lots of the children decided he was a ‘good’ character and a few thought he was not so good- everyone could justify their opinion.
We wrote facts about the weather in each season and made a pictogram to show daylight hours in each season.
In PHSE we learnt about firework safety and this led to an understanding of where Bonfire Night originated.
Year 1 – Pupils’ Highlights:
√ Retelling some Traditional Tales to our carpet partners.
√ Learning the story of Rapunzel through actions following Mrs Carew’s story map.
√ Learning how to use a part whole model to partition numbers.
√ Understanding and reading CVCC words and blending the adjacent consonants to help with our reading.
√ Using data to inform a pictogram to show how many hours of daylight each season has.
√ Doing whole class shared reading to explore the text of Rapunzel.
√ Throwing to aim at a target in PE.
√ Understanding the story of the ‘Gunpowder Plot’.
√ Learning about the two parts of the Bible- the Old and the New Testament in RE.
√ Repeating days of the week in French.
Family discussion questions:
- Is Jack in the story of Jack and the beanstalk a ‘good character’ or a ‘bad character’? Why?
- If 5 is the whole, what could the 2 parts be?
- What adjectives could you use to describe the forest in the story of ‘Rapunzel’?
Looking forward:
Next week we will be looking at the features of writing in Traditional Tales and explore the language within the story of ‘Rapunzel’ before writing adjectives to describe Rapunzel and the Witch.
In Maths we will begin to solve addition problems using drawings and moving onto number sentences.
In Geography we will begin to look at what a city, town, village and coast is like.
Reminders:
Book change on Thursday.
Please continue to read every night and practise the sound cards. If this could be recorded in reading diaries so I can track progress for our 14 day Reading Challenge. I am so impressed with how many children have achieved the Reading Challenge so far.
Nativity
Tuesday 16th and Wednesday 17th December 9:30am in the Village Hall.
If you have any questions please ask
Thank you for your continued support
Mrs Carew