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