This week the year 1 children have been exploring adding numbers to cross over 10. We have been learning to add numbers and using number bonds to make ten first. We have been thinking about the different steps to take to solve calculations. We began by representing the number sentence on a tens frame and … Read more
We hope you had a wonderful Christmas break and wish you all a Happy New Year! This week the children have been working on subtraction and understanding what it means to subtract. We have been using stories to subtract as well as working in groups to solve problems. In English this week we have been … Read more
This week class one have enjoyed writing their stories about The Elves and The Shoemaker. The children had to create their story maps and use it to recall the story for their writing. We have been learning to use the bar model to represent part, part whole models and using them to write number sentences. … Read more
We hope you have had a restful break and welcome back to this wonderful term! This week the children have been busy recapping their learning. We have also started our new topic of everyday materials in Science. Class One had a brilliant time exploring and making a new material at our Science Oxford workshop. We … Read more
This week in class we have been learning to write a sentence using capital letters, full stops, finger spaces and phonics. The children have been having a go at writing one sentence at a time. We have been really trying to get the children to form their letters correctly and writing the letters on the … Read more
This week we have been writing our own stories. We begun by drawing our own story maps. We then used our story maps to help us write the sentences in our story. We were very pleased with how helpful it was to have our story maps in front of us when we were writing. For Maths this … Read more
A huge well done to all the children in Class One for settling in so well. This week we have been exploring the numbers 0 – 10 and understanding one to one correspondence. We have used concrete materials to show the values associated with the numbers. For English we have been using Talk for Writing … Read more
This week class one have been learning about place value of numbers up to 100. The children have been exploring the vocabulary and learning about ones and tens proving how we know them. We have also been recapping how we need to add using number bonds to ten. The children have used number lines to … Read more
This week the children have all worked really hard to complete their non-fiction reports. We have learnt facts about houses and homes and included them in our writing. This week be have been focusing of sentence basics to remind ourselves about how we are always writing for a purpose. In Maths this week we have … Read more
This week the children have been settling back into the busy summer term. We have begun by revisiting the features of non- fiction text, the sentence basics and the importance of feedback in writing. We will continue to explore non-fiction text by writing our own non chronological report. For Maths we have been exploring fractions. … Read more
