Happily Ever After…

21st September 2021Miss K. Wilkinson

As part of Year 1’s topic ‘Happily Ever After’ they invited Chris Bostock in to tell the children some tales. They all had a fantastic time listening to and joining in with the stories. The children loved the visit so much that the Explorers and Pathfinders 5 & 6 joined in the fun too.

Chris Bostock reading stories to the children in Year 1 Chris Bostock reading stories to the children in Year 1 Chris Bostock reading stories to the children in Year 1 Chris Bostock reading stories to the children in Year 1

Year 1 and 1/2 Summer 2 Focus text

14th June 2021Miss K. Wilkinson
Class 3 and 4 will be studying Little Red Riding Hood this term, however the version we are reading is a little different.  The children have already described Red as strong and brave, that she is able to hold it together when the wolf pounces, Red is a modern tenacious little girl who is not going to let the wolf eat her!
We will learn about character descriptions using adjectives, make some of our own treats for grandma (or maybe ourselves!), write recipes, recall the story and discuss its similarities and differences with other versions and create our own alternative versions.
Enjoy listening to the version we are sharing in class (this is a recording of the Nosy Crow app, so please ignore the interactive elements)
Some contents or functionalities here are not available due to your cookie preferences!

This happens because the functionality/content marked as “Google Youtube” uses cookies that you choosed to keep disabled. In order to view this content or use this functionality, please enable cookies: click here to open your cookie preferences.

Year 1 and 1/2 Summer 1 Focus Text

29th April 2021Miss K. Wilkinson

Class 3 and 4 are studying the gorgeous book The Robot and the Bluebird by David Lucas this term.

It tells the story of a broken robot and how he is seen as useless rubbish that is only good for the scrap heap…until he meets a very tired bluebird who he helps to care for.
Over the term we will make predictions about the story, explore questioning and question marks, explore suffix especially the -ed endings for the past tense, We will write instructions and make bird feeders to put up around school. We will debate if the robot should have been thrown on the scrap heap. We will research birds and to end the term we will try to retell the story from the perspective of the bluebird.
We have already read the story a few times and all of the children and adults have fallen in love with the story!

Some contents or functionalities here are not available due to your cookie preferences!

This happens because the functionality/content marked as “Google Youtube” uses cookies that you choosed to keep disabled. In order to view this content or use this functionality, please enable cookies: click here to open your cookie preferences.

Year 1 and 1/2 Autumn 2 Focus Text

2nd November 2020Miss K. Wilkinson
This next term in Year 1 we are going to be reading ‘Lost and Found’ by Oliver Jeffers.
This was a favourite of ours in Reception and we cannot wait to start doing some fantastic work in our Literacy lessons!
We are going to be looking at writing lists, in particular a list of what might be in our suitcases if we were characters in the story. We are going to create some brilliant pieces of work this term.
Watch a reading of Lost and Found below:
Some contents or functionalities here are not available due to your cookie preferences!

This happens because the functionality/content marked as “Google Youtube” uses cookies that you choosed to keep disabled. In order to view this content or use this functionality, please enable cookies: click here to open your cookie preferences.

The Tiger’s Tea Party!

23rd October 2020Miss K. Wilkinson
To end our literacy book study on ‘The Tiger Who Came to Tea’ we held our own afternoon tea party. This week we have learnt about instruction writing; including time words and bossy words. We wrote some wonderful instructions really trying hard to apply our developing phonetic skills and segmenting words using Fred Fingers.
We followed our instructions to make our own jam sandwiches. We all thought they were delicious and enjoyed a toast to the end of our first term back to school. You will all be relieved to know that the Tiger did not join us for tea!

Year 1 and 1/2 Autumn 1 Focus Text

17th September 2020Miss K. Wilkinson

This term in Year 1 and 1/2 we are going to be reading ‘The Tiger Who Came to Tea’ by Judith Kerr.

We love this story and cannot wait to start doing some fantastic activities.

We are going to be looking at speech and thought by talking about how each character feels and what they say in the story. We will be using speech and thought bubbles to explore this in our writing. We will also be looking at conjunctions to extend our sentences, which will help us towards the end of the term in our story retell. We will be creating our own story maps, exploring different characters and even making our own invitations to tea for very own tea party!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXgW9UCgpc8

Year One Spring Term Focus Text

14th January 2020R Smith

During Spring 1 we will be reading ‘Beegu’ by Alexis Deacon as part of our literacy lessons.

Beegu is a lovely story about a small creature who is lost on Earth.

We will use this book to make predictions about what might happen based on what we have read and talk about how the main character is feeling. These activities will enhance our understanding of the story. We will write lists and character descriptions. As part of Talk for Writing we will rewrite our own stories based on Beegu.

Watch this animated version on YouTube.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WBYcwGZa8WE

Reading Club (Year One)

25th November 2019R Smith
We have not only been reading some fabulous stories, but have been talking about the love of books and reading.
We look at the pictures, we read the blurb and even predict what will happen. Recently we have been looking at Julia Donaldson stories such as the classic Gruffalo and The Stick Man.
We have been having great fun acting out the Gruffalo and Mrs Sloanes does some very funny voices!
We are looking forward to our special Christmas Reading Club where we will get cozy around the tree with hot chocolate and snacks whilst Mrs Sloanes reads us some Christmas stories!