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Year 1 Weekly News

Weekly update of activities in Year 1

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  • 18/12/25

    Friday 19th December 2025

    This week, Year 1 have been very busy completing their work and enjoying some festive fun by singing Christmas carols. In Maths, the children have been learning about number lines to 20 and have been working in groups to estimate and place numbers correctly on a number line.
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  • 12/12/25

    Friday 12th December 2025

    This week in RE, the children learned that Advent is a special time of waiting and preparing for Christmas. To explore this idea, the class created their own Advent calendars. As they decorated each one, we talked about what it means to wait with hope, be patient, and show kindness during this seaso...
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  • 04/12/25

    Friday 5th December 2025

    This week, Year 1 were very excited to receive a special visit from the Christmas elf. When the children arrived at school, they discovered that the elf had been busy decorating our classroom door. It was a wonderful surprise that filled the whole class with Christmas cheer!  The children...
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  • 27/11/25

    Friday 28th November 2025

    This week, Year 1 have been very busy making pumpkin soup! The children absolutely loved the activity and were very excited to taste their soup. After making it, they wrote instructions in English on how to make pumpkin soup. They did a fantastic job!
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  • 20/11/25

    Friday 21st November 2025

    This week, Year 1 have been working hard on their assessments and have made the Year 1 team very happy. To end the week with a bit of fun, we went outside in our PE lesson for some racing. The Year 1 children are super-fast and are nearly as quick as their teacher!
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  • 13/11/25

    Friday 14th November 2025

    This week, Year 1 had a fantastic trip to the cinema to watch The Sloth.  It was a lovely film, and the children absolutely loved it!  They were chatting excitedly about their favourite parts all the way back to school.  What a fun and memorable day!
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  • 06/11/25

    Friday 7th November 2025

    During our lesson, in English Year 1 investigated a real pumpkin and used our senses to describe it.  The children were very excited to take part in this activity and enjoyed talking about how the pumpkin looked, felt, and smelt.  It was a wonderful way to bring the story to life!
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  • 23/10/25

    Thursday 24th October 2025

    In our Geography lesson, we learned how to use directional words to describe where things are on a map of our KS1 playground.  We used the words: To the left To the right Near Far Next to We looked carefully at our playground map and practised describing where different objec...
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  • 17/10/25

    Friday 17th October 2025

    Year 1 have been working super hard in preparation for our Black History Month exhibition, which will take place next week Tuesday.  Our focus this year has been on the inspiring British athelete Denise Lewis.  To celebrate her achievemenhts, we have explored the art of collage as our...
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  • 09/10/25

    Friday 10th October 2025

    In PSHE, we read a book called We are Different by Alexandra Penfold and Suzanne Kaufman.  After reading, we talked about what makes each of us unique and wrote our ideas on the whiteboard.
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  • 02/10/25

    Friday 2nd October 2025

    As part of our ongoing work in maths on understanding part and whole, the children engaged in a fun, practical activity with a strong cross-curricular link to physical education.  In this session, the children were each given a set number of beanbags and asked to throw them into a hoop placed o...
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  • 26/09/25

    Friday 26th September

    This week in Maths, Year 1 have been learning about the concepts of "fewer", "more", and "the same".  To support their understanding, we played a fun and interactive game using dice and dominoes.  The children rolled a dice to generate a starting number, then...
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