Year 1
Welcome to Year 1!
In the classroom you have:
Teacher: Miss Kettle
LSA's: Mrs McArthur
Mrs Bugg
Mr Lewis
Miss Gilbert
Our Yearly Overview
Spring Term
We have been writing instructions during our literacy lessons and on the last day of the half term we followed our instructions to make challah bread. We have also been learning about Judaism and shabbat.
Welcome to Year 1 2018
We have had a fantastic first half-term and the children have adapted well to the big change from Reception to Year 1. We are all so proud!
Here's what we have been up to so far this term.
This half term in art we have been looking at paint. We have explored how to create different colours as well as linking our literacy to our art. Have a look at some of the things that we have created.
Literacy
Maths
Science
Green Fingers
We are learning all about plants this term in Science. We have grown, planted and are looking after a mini vegetable patch in Year 1. Our plants are doing really well! At the moment we have sunflowers, sweet peas, beans, beetroot, carrots, tomatoes, courgette, squash, cucumbers and mangetout growing! We have even eaten a few of our mangetout all ready!
The Great British Picnic
As part of out Topic learning we had a Great British picnic! We all ate very traditional picnic food and had a brilliant afternoon. Unfortunately it was not dry enough to sit on the field for our picnic but I don'y think the children minded as it meant they were closer to the food! Thank you to everyone who donated some food, we had enough to feed the whole school! We have saved some of the food so we can have another little picnic as a treat towards the end of the year. Lucky us!
We are Artists!
After our printing workshop Mrs Bryan (from the Happy Art Company) took all of our printed pieces home to collate into a collaborative canvas. Mrs Bryan recently finished it and returned it to school. It is incredible! Everything on the canvas is created by the children apart from the background painting. We are extremely proud and are going to hang it pride of place within the school!
Word Hunt!
Today in Literacy we went on a word hunt. We were looking through our Year 1 books and trying to find different nouns, adjectives and verbs. We did a really good job!
World Book Day
We had a lovely day talking about all of our favourite books and looking at everyone's outfits!
We loved the snow days!!
Printing Workshop
We had an amazing day with Mrs Bryan from 'The Happy Art Company'. We experienced so many different ways of printing including - direct, mono, subtractive and collograph printing! We got super messy but we loved it! We cant wait to see what our canvas looks like when all our was it put together.
Reminder
On Monday the 5th of March we will be taking part in our printing workshop with the Happy Art Company. Please send your child to school in old clothing that you do not mind them getting messy in! Thank you.
Do you like our costumes?
We really enjoyed Christmas jumper day!
Freaky Friday
Our unit in science this term is 'Animals including Humans'. In this weeks lesson we learnt about different animal body parts. We described our favourite animals to each other, being specific about body parts. With then created our own new animals using various body parts. It had to have the normal features of an animal e.g 1 head, 1 body etc they just didn't need to match the rest of the body. We think they look very cool! What do you think?
Collage Fireworks
We talked all about bonfire night and different types of fireworks. We also watched some videos of big firework displays. We then made our own collage pictures of different fireworks. We are trying to develop our fine motor and cutting skills. Here are a few of them.
Autumn Leaves
Today in art we were experimenting with different medias. We each collected an Autumn leaf from the playground and had a look at all the different colours. We then used felt pen, wax crayons, oil pastels and colouring pencils to draw the leaves.
STOMP!!
Today we were really lucky and got to take part in a STOMP music workshop. The children had great fun making LOTS of noise! They especially enjoyed drumming on the bin!
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more videos coming soon...
Year 1 are off to work!
As part of our new RE topic, 'Why should we look after our world?', we discussed how to keep our planet a nice place to live. The children said that we must keep it tidy and clean! So this afternoon we pretended that we were a clean up team here to tidy up our school environment. The children found lots of rubbish around our school and we have kept it to sort into recyclable and non recyclables next week.
Here are some photos of us on our clean up mission!
Welcome to Year 1!
This is our class page on the website. We will update it with all the fun things we do! Keep your eyes peeled for what we get up to in our first few weeks....
Year 1's Non-Fiction Book
This week we were looking at the key features of a non-fiction book. As a class we made our own non-fiction book for Reception. It tells them everything they need to know about life in Year 1. The children wrote facts, added diagrams and photos and they created the layout. We think it's fantastic! Can you spot the key features inside our book?
YUM!
Today was a very exciting day! We picked our first cucumber from our Year 1 vegetable garden, cut it up and ate it! We all had a very small bit and Emilia said it was even better than a Sainsburys cucumber!
We also picked some of our peas to take home and finally our tomatoes are turning red!
Sending letters to Mr Bloom!
Year 1 have been learning all about letters. We have written postcards, letters to each other, to Mrs Wilson, to the tooth fairy and now....Mr Bloom. We all walked to the postbox to deliver our letter. We have told him all about the growing we have been doing. Hopefully we will get a reply! Fingers crossed!!
Take One Picture
We have started our art week and are having an amazing time! We have started off by making frames and then having a mini photo booth with them!
We also discussed how the painting is a 'fresco'. This is a painting that has been painted directly onto a wet plaster wall. Artists would have to plan their work ahead of time and work to a strict time limit as they could only paint when the plaster was wet. Unfortunately we didn't have any wet plaster around! So we had a go at painting standing up and we added a timer to pretend that we had to stop because the plaster was drying!
The children worked so well together. They were really sensible and brilliant mini artists!
We also made our own 'modern frescos' by drawing on acetate sheets and projecting them over the walls in the hall.
As a class we talked about how Penelope and Odysseus, in the painting, had not seen each other in 10 years. We thought that maybe Odysseus tried to send Penelope a message but he didn't have a phone! So we thought maybe he sent her a message in a bottle. We each decorated a bottle and wrote a letter to our families and friends as if we had been away on a journey, just like Odysseus.
Collage Pictures
In art we have started a new collage unit. For the past two weeks we have created a collage picture and then added photos. Have a look at our work...
Printing Workshop
We had an amazing day working with Mrs Bryan from 'The Happy Art Company'. We spent the whole day taking part in a printing workshop. We experimented with lots of different printing techniques e.g direct, lino, collagraph and mono-printing! Our work tied in with our topic on 'Houses and Homes'. We looked at works by the artist Hundertwasser and used some of his work as inspiration for our own printing and class canvas.
Here are some photos from our brilliant day! BEST MONDAY EVER!
Mrs Bryan is assembling our class canvas, made with all of our art work, at home and will return it once finished. We will be hanging it pride of place inside school. Photos to come .....
And here it is!!!
Where Teachers Keep their Pets
(read and performed by Year 1)
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World Book Day!
We all dressed up as different characters. Can you guess who we are?
Junk Model Houses
Over half term the children made junk model houses for their homework. They are all different and brilliant!
The Spring Term So Far......
In numeracy we have been learning all about money!
In Topic we looked at they key features of a Tudor house and tried to recreate them using collage.
In art we have been exploring painting techniques using watercolours.
This term in PE we are having a go at gymnastics! It's really fun. We have been learning all about balances, rolls and working in teams to create routines.
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In ICT we are learning about coding by giving the BeeBots instructions. Here are some videos of us using them.
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We have been very busy!!
Festive Fun!
We are enjoying winding down before the Christmas break. Here are some of the fun things we have been doing -
Christmas Lunch!
Christmas Play Time!
We made cinnamon salt dough decorations for our trees! Unfortunately they are still drying so will be coming home in January ready to use for next Chrsitmas!
Bonfire Night
As many of us had been to see some fireworks this weekend, we decided to make some firework collages! Take a look!
Remembrance Day
As part of our PSHCE lesson this week we were thinking about Remembrance Day. We discussed why we all wear poppies in November and what it represents. We then made our poppies to add to the school wreath that YR5 and 6 will be taking to the British Legion this week. We also painted some in our books.
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Monday
Today we had a go at some traditional Greek dancing. We also designed our own ancient Greek pots, looking at the patterns and recreating them carefully.
Tuesday
Today we had a brilliant morning tasting traditional Greek food! Everyone joined in and tried lots. We found out we don't have many feta cheese lovers in Year 1 but the Greek yoghurt and honey was a winner!
Then in the afternoon we had lots of fun making our own vine headbands and building the Acropolis!
Bernard Cohen
'In That Moment' 1965
We had a go at recreating his work with our own touches. What do you think?
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Welcome to Year 1
The children have had a great first week! It was shock to the system after the long break but they have got stuck into Year 1 life. Over the course of the year we will update this page, with information and photos, to show you all what we have been doing, so keep an eye out!
A letter from The Queen!
When you were in Year 1 we wrote to the Queen to wish her a happy birthday, do you remember? Well, today something very special arrived in the post! A letter from one of her ladies in waiting. They apologised for the late arrival as the Queen had received many cards. She found all our questions very entertaining!
Take One Picture
Information and photos to come..... (We don't want to spoil the surprise of our assembly!)
Happy Art Company Printing Workshop
We had an amazing day doing nothing but art! Yippee!
Mrs Bryan from the Happy Art Company came in to do a printing workshop with us this week. We had so much fun and spent all day learning new printing techniques, developing our skills and creating a group collaborative display. We had a go at direct, additive, subtractive, collograph and mono-printing. All our prints were themed around our science unit, plants. We printed fruit, vegetables, flowers and roots. We got super messy but it was ok as we wore our own clothes.
Have a look at some of our work!
Collage
In art this term we are exploring collage. This week we made multi collage pictures and added photos. We needed to decide what picture we wanted to create and how we could incorporate our photo into this. We put a lot of time and effort into these and they have turned out really well!!
Frog Watch!
World Book Day!
We had a great day dressed up as book characters!
Junk Model Houses!
Over half term our topic homework was to build a junk model house. We spent the afternoon showing each other our houses, talking about the features and taking photos of our incredible work. We really enjoyed making them and we think our parents did too! Have a look at our photos. No two houses are the same!!
A snapshot of our work this half term!
'I am in the groove'
In music we have been working on singing, percussion and playing instruments.
Tudor Houses
During our houses and homes topic we have been looking at houses from different time periods. We looked at the key features of a Tudor house and then replicated these by making our own using collage.
Nelly's Christmas with Miss Bailey
The children were all very keen to know what Nelly was going to do over the Christmas holidays, so I took a few photos to show them. They have asked me to put them on the website so they can all have a look instead of putting them in her book!
Nelly enjoyed helping me open my presents!
And then it was time to go skiing....
And now Nelly needs a good rest!
Year 1 Christmas Photo booth!
A Field of Poppies
Monday 2nd November: Perform for Schools Drama Workshop
Today the children took part in a drama workshop provided by the company Perform for Schools. The children had to act out various scenarios in relation to the story of The Sword in the Stone.
They had great fun being knights, princesses, statues and saving Excalibur from the evil witch!!
Wyke Travels the World!
This week we will be 'travelling' to Greece. We have lots of exciting and engaging activities planned for our week ahead!
Monday
Greek Dancing
Greek Dancing
Tuesday
We started our day by having a Greek feast!
We tried some traditional Greek food - cucumber, tomatoes, green and black olives, feta cheese, pitta breads and houmous. Then we finished it off with some Greek yoghurt and honey!
Greek food testing!
Wednesday
We made our own Greek mythological creatures in literacy.
Thursday
With Mrs Griggs the children made Greek masks.
Friday
Today we took part in our own Year 1 Mini Olympics!
We received medals and made our own vine wreaths and Olympic torches!
What a wonderful week we have had, but now we are all in need of a good rest!!
We really enjoyed performing our Harvest Samba to everyone!
Welcome to Year 1!
Welcome to our Year 1 class page. The children have had a fantastic first full week! They have worked very hard and are getting used to their new classroom and our Year 1 routines! We have had great fun taking part in a variety of different lessons including Literacy, Art, PE, Topic and ending the week with a brilliant Music lesson! 
The children did some excellent practical Numeracy work throughout the week, thinking about numbers and their order, finding one more and less and working in groups. Here are some photos from our lessons.
Numeracy
