Year 1
Class teacher: Mrs Tuff and Miss Baker
Class T.A’s: Miss Cullum
Welcome to Year 1! We are so excited to be the team teaching your children this year and we have lots of fun, engaging activities and topics planned!
Year 1
Class Timetable
2025-2026
We have had a busy start to the term, getting to know the different routines of the school day. The children have made a good transition and are engaged in their learning. In RE our topic is Creation and Covenant. We have been learning all about God’s creation and how we need to be stewards of our wonderful world. We have looked at some art images of creation and then created some of our own. We celebrated a liturgical prayer about caring for God’s creation. We set up the focus area. In maths we have been working on numbers to 10 and beyond. We have been finding numbers 1 more and 1 less than a number. In Literacy we have been describing woodlands and woodland creatures. We have been matching key words to sentences and have begun to record our own sentences. In Computing we have been learning about algorithms and the importance of instructions. We gave Miss Boyd instructions for making a bowl of cereal. We learnt how we needed to be very clear about each step. We then had a go ourselves.
In RE we have been exploring the Gospel of Saint Luke. We have acted out the stories of the visit to the Temple when Jesus was a baby, the boy Jesus in the Temple and when he preached in the Temple as an adult. We have created some lovely artwork from these pieces of scripture. We also thought about how we can be a light to others.
In computing we have been learning how to use the different drawing tools to create pictures. We created portraits and then created shapes to fill using the fill tool.
In Geography we have been learning about the physical and human made features of our school area. We have looked at aerial views of the areas around school. We compared our school area and Miss Boyd’s old school area. Miss Boyd’s school has a lot more physical features than our school which has a lot of human made features.
2023-2024
On the 10th May, we were very lucky to have Father Andrew in school. He looked at our RE display and e presented him with a card the children made in honour of Pentecost Day.
Pentecost commemorates the descent of the Holy Spirit upon the twelve disciples. This is when the disciples felt a rushing wind, tongues of fire and spoke in other tongues.
Father Andrew said he would take the card to the churches and present it on the alter so all can see during this time.
On Thursday 21st March, we took a trip to Cleethorpes seafront. We took a walk along the train staton and looked at the differences between the old buildings and new buildings before watching a train pull into the station!
We walked long to Papa’s and talked about what it used to be back in Victorian Cleethorpes, walking to the end of the pier to look out at the sea and looking over the beach.
We wandered up to Ross Castle, stopping at the maze which the children enjoyed before walking to Pier Gardens for lunch. After lunch, we walked towards the leisure centre along the prom.
We had such a lovely day 😊
Also Miss Boyd liked running through some of the photos 😂
Year 1 doing very well with their writing skills.
In our RE topic,we are learning the words used in Baptism.
In KS1 RE – Belonging is a term that children will learn and become familiar with. It is a topic that comes up a lot when talking about religion, because religious communities provide some people with a feeling of belonging. This is why people attend places of worship and spend time with people with the same faith.
2026 – 2027
The children have settled well into key stage 1 during the first few weeks of the school year. They have been getting used to their new environment and the routines of Year 1.In English we have been working on letter formation and describing a woodland setting. We have linked this learning to the Gruffalo and Owl Babies stories. In phonics we have begun our new phonics programme, learning sounds, blending these sounds in our heads to read words. In RE we have been learning all about the creation story and how we can take care of our God given world. We are all making a pledge as to how we can make our school and community a better place. As part of this we will also pledge to live out our Mission Statement by signing up to it with our fingerprint. In science the children have been learning all about materials and have been identifying and naming what an object is made from, including, wood, plastic, glass, metal, water, and rock.
In October, we have continued our learning about woodlands, focusing on writing fact files about woodland animals. The children have been fantastic at recalling interesting facts about foxes, owls and hedgehogs! We have explored and developed our vocabulary, practised saying sentences aloud before writing them, and created some wonderful pieces of artwork to bring our fact files to life. We are so proud of the children’s enthusiasm, creativity and growing confidence in their writing! We also had an online visit from the author and illustrator of the new children’s book ‘the line’.
In PE, we have been continuing our athletics topic, focusing on running, throwing and jumping. The children have enjoyed developing their skills, practising different techniques and challenging themselves to improve. They have shown great enthusiasm and determination during our activities!
