Spring 2, Week 4 Parent Blog.

English- Checkpoints

Maths- Checkpoints

Year 1, have really worked extremely hard on their checkpoints this week.

We are very proud of each and every one of them

Well done Year! 

Project- This week the students have been focussing on 3D art, by, rolling paper. They have learned different ways to roll paper in a 3D form. They designed their own quilling art, to make a 3D effect.   

Science- Students have enjoyed they used air dough to sculpture flowers and the pollen- they really enjoyed this lesson as they learned that how the pollen in found in the flower and what job the bumble bee plays the part as collecting the pollen.

  Places to visit

Orchard

Garden Nurseries   

Art galleries

Have a lovely weekend!

Miss Kalyan and Year 1 Team

Spring 2, Week 3 Parent Blog.

English- students have been learning about the personal pronoun I, they put together some great sentence by using the letter I – as if they were the boat from our Boat story. They have also learned this week the past tense, suffix by adding the “ed” after the word, again they wrote some lovely sentences using the suffix. Children have also been busy learning all about chronological order- as to sequence the story and write sentences, applying capital letter finger space and full stop.

Maths- Students have been learning to recognise and find ¼ of a quantity
and understand that a quarter is one of four equal parts. They also did the same for shape and length, finding the ¼. We must the students really worked hard on this week.

Project- This week the students have been focussing on 3D art, by, folding paper learning. They have learned different ways to fold paper in a 3D form. They created a master piece 3D structure.

Science- Students have enjoyed science this week they looked at various seeds of fruit and vegetables, they learned about chitted potatoes. They looked at some chitted potatoes, and they filled the plant pots with soil to grow their potatoes. They will watch then grow over the duration of this topic.

Places to visit

An Orchard

Garden Nurseries   

Art galleries- Gustav Klimt

Have a lovely weekend 

Miss Kalyan and year 1

Spring 2, Week 2 Parent Blog.

English- Students have had lot of fun writing sentences using nouns, adjectives, verbs and expanded noun phrases. They also have been learning about their fives senses and adapting that in their writing this week. We have seen some beautiful sentences, well done year 1.

Maths- Students have been learning to read and write numbers from one to 20 in numerals and word. They also learned to recognise place value in numbers to 20 and identified numbers using objects and pictorial representations.

They were encouraged to use the math vocabulary language like equal to, more than, less than, most, least.

Project- This week the students have been focussing on 3D art, by, folding paper learning. They have learned different ways to fold paper in a 3D form, concertina curve zig-zag, they will be using these techniques later in project to structure a dinosaur with junk modelling.    

Science- Students have enjoyed this week they looked at some imagines of well-kept gardens and discussed what they might be growing in their garden such as fruit and vegetables. They then grew their own pea pod bean in a grow bag, by following instructions and then they predicted what might happen to their bean over time. The children then did a detailed drawing of their bean in its bag.

World Book Day – well what a great fun this was! children all looked super spectacular in their costumes. They had a fun packed day in their own classrooms focussed all around world book day.

  Places to visit

Garden Nurseries

Art galleries

Have a lovely weekend!

Miss Kalyan and Year 1 Team

Spring 2, Week 1 Parent Blog.

English- Students have being learning about adjectives, verbs and predictions. They have been busy writing sentences using their own predations about a small stories.  They also have been working hard to remember their capital letters, finger spaces and full stops.

Maths- Students have been learning about sequencing days of the week and the months. They have also explored time, the children have played ‘What’s the time Mr Wolf’ but by using clocks to show o’clock and half past the hour. We will be looking at applying this knowledge more next week, drawing the hands of the clock to show a time and reading different times.

We started our new topic in Project ‘Dinosaur Planet’. (Art based) This week the students have been focussing on 3D art, by, rolling and twirling up various cards and paper.  Students then designed their 3D dinosaur city together by drawing it in their sketch books, once they were happy with their design they then glued their 3D city together. 

Science- Year 1 topic is what’s growing in your garden, Student have enjoyed this week they have had the opportunity to learn about various fruits and vegetables. They have had hands-on experiences which, included examining different types of fruits and vegetables when they are cut up. They also tasted and explored flavours’ and textures of these healthy foods. Finally they draw the fruit and veg. Students also looked closely at plants and flower, learning about how they are grown and then drawing the flower and labelling parts of the flower.

  Places to visit

Garden Allotments

Art galleries

Have a lovely weekend!

Miss Kalyan and Year 1 Team

Spring 1, Week 6 Parent Blog 

In English this week the children have been learning all about captions, they have learned that captions are imagines that tell the reader more about what is happening. The children then wrote some caption, of their own looking at some photo imagines, whilst doing this they have been focusing on their capital letter and full stops. This not only allowed children to understand the learning objective but, to bring focus on their punctuation. We had some great writing and lovely monster pictures which they labelled.

In Maths the children have been working on addition and subtraction and facts to 10 and 20. Students have been calculating their answers using number lines, some children made their number line. Students also learned that a number sentence written other way around still gives them the same answer they had great fun learning in Maths.

In Project it has been an interesting eye opener for the children learning all about artefacts, understanding old ancient history things that were still kept in museums. They learning about cultural artefacts. They looked at books from stone ages, 7 wonders of the world, the Viking and famous landmarks. Another super week.

In Science we have come to an end learning about materials, children had fun recapping the terms learning and finished it off with their own reflection what they enjoyed in science. Year 1 also had a great experience to in the science dome planetarium learning about the planets.  

Places to visit

Museums/Castles

Famous landmarks in UK

Have a lovely break!

Miss Kalyan and Year 1 team

Spring 1, Week 5 Parent Blog

English

This week students have been learning about list and labels, children discussed that, list are not just a shopping list, children came up with great ideas such as, travel list, invitation list, Christmas list and many more. Children were given pictures, so they were able to observe and label what they could see. They also were given pictures that they then labelled. 

 Maths

Students have been working hard this week on Addition and Subtraction, leaning facts of 10 and 20. They have had fun- playing addition and subtracting games throughout this week. Using number lines, counting beads and various resources to help calculate their work. Maths Rock star day was a added bonus to enhance their  learning!

Project

Year 1 have been rather fascinated learning, about Geoffrey De Havilland, they have learned some interesting facts about him and his once town of Hatfield. Children wrote down some known facts. Furthermore they were intrigued to learn about Historical figures who lived in Hatfield in the past such as Henry the V111 and Queen Elizabeth the 1. Students looked at picture of Hatfield House over 400 years ago and learned about King Henry and his 6 wives. The children were very interested about Hatfield House.

Science

This week students identified which materials are the strongest, they predicted and experimented and recorded their findings. Year 1 had such a marvellous lesson building a house out of different materials for the 3 little pigs, they worked in groups, another great week in science.

Places to visit with your child

Hatfield House

De Havilland Museum

Have a lovely weekend!

Miss Kalyan and Year 1 team

Spring 1, Week 4 Parent Blog

In English as you are aware last week we have read our story The Storm Whale. This week the children compared the story to other stories such as, The secret black rock, Lost and found and The Storm whale in winter. The children discussed similarities and differences within the 3 books. They wrote some super sentences to go along with the similarities and differences. Students had fun learning about acrostic poems and wrote out marvellous poems.

In Maths the children have been working hard on measurement mass. They have been Comparing weight of objects from around their classroom. They have been recording the work on their recording sheets working in groups.

In Project the children looked at imagines of old transport and modern transport- they compared the differences. They enjoyed the class discussion on this lesson. Children then stuck these imagines in the books and wrote some great sentences to go along with them.

In Science we have looked at properties of materials, such as ‘bendy’, ‘flexible’, ‘rigid’. The children then found objects to sort within their groups. Children had fun drawing a object they found from the class and wrote labels what materials they are made from.

Have a lovely weekend!

Miss Kalyan and Year 1 team

Spring 1, Week 3 Parent Blog 

In English this week we have continued with our story The Storm Whale. The children have used adjectives, and expanded noun phrases to describe the setting from the book, they had a look at some picture of the storm this helped them to really think about the scene and the event as if it was a reality, this inspired them use their imagination to write lovely sentences.

In Maths the children have been working on sharing and division,

They have been learning about grouping objects to find the calculation of their maths task. They have also continued counting in 2’s 5’s and 10’s. They have been learning arrays again by sharing and grouping and using counting resources to help them along their learning.

In Project the children were extremely keen to learn all about our School HCFS.

They looked at photos of the old school and why it closed down. Children had the pleasure of our member of staff who has been with HCFS since it opened, she came into the classrooms to share and talk about the History behind HCFS. Children were rather curious and asked many questions whilst taking notes.

In Science we have continued with our new project ‘Let’s Build’. The children used magnets. They learned about what magnets repel, they also predicted what they thought a magnet would pick up, after that they experimented using magnets what works best.

Have a lovely weekend!

Miss Kalyan and Year 1 team

Spring 1, Week 2 Parent Blog

In English this week we have continued with our story The Storm Whale. The children have used adjectives to describe the characters, thinking about their appearance and their personality. They have also used speech bubbles to think outside their box to what the characters are thinking and writing their own versions.

In Maths the children have been working on multiplication and division,

They have been counting in 2’s 5’s and 10’s they have been learning sharing and grouping and finding the amount altogether, using another way of counting and arrays. Children have had fun counting on using their multiplication.

In Project the children compared old and new images of Hatfield in their topic ‘Memory Box’. They identified what was the same and what was different, and as a class we discussed how things have changed. They looked at the old and new transport and looked to know what a settlement is and recognise past and present settlements from the local area of they looked at Google earth (Hatfield)

Comparing old and new photos of Hatfield.

Which raised lots of interesting discussions and observations in class.

In Science we have continued with our new project ‘Let’s Build’. The children used materials to make boats to help the gingerbread man cross the river safely. They had to think about each materials properties and predict which material would be the best. We then conducted an experiment to see if their prediction was correct. We made sure it was a ‘fair test’ by putting each boat in the water for the same number of minutes. The children noticed that some materials absorbed the water and others floated at the top.

Have a lovely weekend!

Miss Kalyan and Year 1 team