Year 1
Phonics Screening Check - June 2025
After the May half term holiday, the Year 1 children will take the government Phonics Screening Check. Please find below some information for parents about the check. This is a narrated PowerPoint, you will need to play slide show to be able to hear a narration in line with the slides. We do not make a big deal of this check with the children and call it a "Reading Booklet". The children have been working towards this from the moment they started RWInc and they should not feel worried.
If you have any questions about the check, then please ask your child's class teacher at home-time. We will report the results alongside your child's school report in July.
Phonics Screening Check Presentation
Reading books and Library books:
Next week we will be collecting all reading books and library books, please send them in to school on Monday. We are finding lots of sets of our reading books have missing books, PLEASE can you check at home for any books that have not been returned.
Starlings DT - We have been learning how to peel, grate and chop different fruit and vegetables.
Maths - Measuring. We have been busy measuring and comparing the length, height and weight of objects from around our classroom.
Starlings - Outdoor learning. Session 4 - Toast!!!!!
Starlings - Outdoor learning. Session 3 - Nature faces
Starlings - Outdoor learning. Session 2 - Den building
Maths - Measuring length and height.
Starlings - Outdoor learning. Session 1 - Obstacle courses.
Huge well done and thank you to everyone who came out to ‘Let’s Run’ this Saturday at Worthington Park.
Let’s Run!
Run, run!
British Science Week - based on the Story ‘Izzy Jones’s Quantum World’ by Jules Pottle, the children investigated the best conditions for spinning. We decided to test different footwear and record our results.
Starlings - PE. Dodging our opponents. Tag rugby style!
Starlings - We enjoyed watching the “Willow Man” work to create our very own willow sculpture.
Challenging ourselves to write big numbers!
Starlings - Using our maps to find treasure!
We loved taking part in ‘Let Girls Play’ today ⚽️
Robin's fabulous World Book Day!
Goldfinches enjoyed their World Book Day activities, including the book quiz!
Starlings had a wonderful World Book Day!
Robins enjoyed a fabulous morning learning about coding in computing using spheros!
When learning about maps in geography, we talked about what a birds eye view means and had a go at drawing objects from above
Robins had great fun creating clay faces in their outdoor learning session!
Numbers to 50 - We've been positioning the numbers into tens and ones
In geography we have started to look at lots of different maps and discussing why maps are useful
Art - the children have also experimented with different sketching paper and different sketching equipment when drawing old and new parts of Springfield School!
Art - we have been lucky enough to have Lucille's mum delivering clay lessons for all of the year children over the last couple of days. The children had so much fun learning new skills and experimenting to make their rock pools. We can't wait to see the finished pieces once they have been in the kiln. Thank you so much to all who helped out!
Starlings Clay Session
Starlings - Preparation for our clay session. Using Play-doh to practise our skills.
So much incredible learning and development happening during COOL time - children sketching owls, practicing making pinch pots with Play-Doh, practicing number formation, construction and writing! It's so great to see the children developing confidence, independence, perseverance and teamwork amongst lots of other things! 🌟
Robin's second outdoor learning session involved roasting bread on the campfire and testing out the new weaving equipment - I think it got the seal of approval!
Art - later on this week, the children will be using clay to create some rock pool artwork! They have been practicing their pinch pot making skills during COOL time today!
Children's Mental Health Week
Last week was Children's Mental Health Week and the children in Year 1 learnt that looking after our mental health is just like looking after our physical health. They learnt that it is normal for us to all experience different feelings at different times and discussed strategies to look after their own wellbeing. These links give lots of great information and some resources to help with discussing mental health and wellbeing at home.
Maths - we have been learning about place value to 50 and have shown our understanding by making the numbers using Dienes equipment!
Robin's first outdoor learning session for the spring term was a lot of fun - they used logs to create obstacle courses in teams then they tried out each other's! They really showed their 'together we are a team' school value!
Forest School Session - Robin Class
Forest School Sessions start for Robin Class tomorrow Tuesday 4th February for 4 sessions. Please wear warm/outdoor clothes and bring wellies in a bag.
History - Timelines: Why is our school special?
Computing - we have been learning all about making pictograms on purple mash (using 2Count). Some of the children even made some pictograms independently during COOL time!
PE - Learning how to dodge to beat an opponent.
Wheelie Disco Token Treat - we had a wheelie good time!🚲
Goldfinch Class enjoyed our last forest school session making shelters for a dinosaur or animal!
Happy Lunar New Year 🎊
Goldfinch Class produced some excellent artwork with clay and natural materials during our outdoor learning session. We also learning parachutegames and worked as a team to create a giant marble run!
Science - as part of our plants topic we have been learning about the different parts of a flowering plant (roots, stem, leaves, petals) and recognising and naming different flowers found in the UK.
Maths - We have been making fact families in maths using our understanding of part part while models
Maths - Number bonds to 20 and addition by first making 10 and then adding on the rest.
Science - Identifying and classifying parts of plants, using fruit and vegetables.
Science - Identifying and describing the basic structure of a flower.
Goldfinch Class Assembly
The children have all brought words home to learn, please rehearse with your child at home. Unless your child is an ‘animal’ part, they just need to bring a jumper, scarf, hat or earmuffs to wear over their uniform as a costume. Please could all assembly clothes be brought into school by Monday 27th January in a named bag.’
Goldfinches outdoor learning - we learned how to toast bread on the fire and butter it ourselves!
Fun in the snow!
Snow Day Activities
During this period of cold weather, please take care when travelling outdoors, particularly where it is very icy underfoot and by the canal.
We have attached some winter-themed activities below to support children who are at home:
Watch a pantomime of the Snow Queen 👑
Winter Music 🎶
Listen to the pieces of music below and interpret in a creative way!
Can you make up a dance, draw a picture or tap out the beat? Can you spot what instruments are being played?
Science and writing
Look out of your window...
What can you see?
Can you observe (watch closely) any changes to the weather?
Can you name some of the types of weather we have talked about in school?
Can you write down any words to describe what you see?
How does the weather make you feel?
Can you draw a picture of what you can see through your window?
Listen to one of these lovely winter stories...
Happy New Year and Welcome Back!
We hope you have had a happy and restful break. The children have enjoyed observing and experiencing the changes in the weather which has provided a fantastic real-life context to our current geography and science topic of 'Winter' and the changes in the seasons.
Observing the snow!
Goldfinch Class
After our first outdoor learning session this week, we have three more sessions. Please remember to dress warmly and bring boots/wellies and waterproofs if you have them.
Our class assembly is on Wednesday 29th January. We have just started to rehearse and will send words to learn at home and what to wear shortly.
Goldfinch Class demonstrated some excellent teamwork building obstacle courses and testing them out! We really enjoyed our first session with Mrs Garbett, especially in the snow!
Merry Christmas and Thank You!
As we are at the end of our first full term in Year 1, we wanted to thank you for all your support, kind words, cards and gifts. The children have made such great progress and are developing new skills all the time. Have a happy and restful break and we look forward to seeing you all in the new term.
Best wishes,
The Year 1 Team
Reading Books:
We will be collecting all reading books next week and no new reading books will be given out until after the Christmas holidays. Please could you check at home for any reading books and return them to school next week. All books on Oxford Owl Online will be reset for over the Christmas holidays should you want to use the online resources to continue to practise reading over the Christmas break. Thank you.
Library Books:
We have collected in most of the children's library books this week. Please could you check at home for any outstanding library books and bring them into ASAP. Thank you.
Year 1 Christmas Party
Our daily mile challenge... How many laps can you do?
Visiting Year 2 to help evaluate their DT puppets...
DT - the children worked very hard on their Christmas cards with moving parts! They had a little gallery to evaluate their own and their friends' cards.
Science - Animals Take Over Starlings
Science - Animals Take Over! Goldfinches
Animals Take Over - Goldfinches
Animals Take Over - Goldfinches
Animals take over - Robins!
Christmas COOL time!
Crazy Hair for the chocolate tombola
Maths - representing numbers to 20
Starling’s last outdoor learning session - building dens!
The children did such an incredible job with their Christmas performances and we are so proud of them all! Thank you to everyone who came to watch and supported your children to learn lines/songs and provide costumes!
Year 1 had a great time at the Christmas Fair!
Library Books
We will collect all library books in from next Monday w/b 9th December and children will be able to choose a new book in the new year.
Exploring 3D shapes and their properties.
Our Theatre Trip to see The Bear
We enjoyed visiting the Christmas markets
Starling’s outdoor learning - session 3. We enjoyed making journey sticks.
Exploring repeating patterns in maths!
Design technology - Exploring books with moving parts.
Science - animal classification including carnivores, herbivores and omnivores
Starlings enjoyed visiting the school book fair today
Maths - 2D shape sorting
Learning how to make fire 🔥 and fire safety!
Starlings enjoyed their first outdoor learning session.
Year 1 Christmas Production
If your child has words to learn for the production, please help them practise them at home.
Costumes need to be brought to school in a bag/on a hanger with their name on by Monday 2nd December. We have a small number of spare costumes, if you need any help, please speak to your child's class teacher.
Thank you for your support,
The year 1 Team
Supporting Children in Need
Today marks World Diabetes Day which the children in Robin class marked by creating blue ribbons.
Thank you for supporting Odd Socks day and promoting anti-bullying week.
PE - Team games, over and under.
Maths - Subtraction using a numberline
Maths - subtraction using physical objects
Art - using our new skills to draw a portrait of our grandparent
Maths - I can use Numicon to represent number bonds to 10.
Robin's third outdoor learning session - den building for a teddy!
Have a Great Half Term!
The children have now completed their first half term in Year 1 and have made us all so proud with how well they have settled in. They have put great efforts into their work are trying hard to becoming more independent.
If you would like extra reading practice, the books the children have read in school have been made available (without quizzes) on Oxford Owl online. This is optional. Please remember to bring in a facial photo of a grandparent/elderly relative for our artwork when we return.
We wish you a lovely half term and will see you all on return to school!
Thank you for your support,
The Year 1 Team
History - asking a grandparent the questions we have written about the past
Learning about and celebrating Diwali during COOL time. Year 1 made some wonderful Diwali boxes too, thank you to our fabulous families for supporting the children to make boxes and to our PTA for organising!
Art - Self Portraits
We have been learning how to draw a self portrait using guidelines to focus on position, line and space. We are very proud of our end results!
Robin's self portrait gallery!
Starlings Self Portraits. Can you guess who?
Goldfinches Portrait Gallery
Robins learning all about fires and staying safe around them in their second outdoor learning session
Consolidating our recent Maths learning through independent challenges.
History - sorting old and new toys into past and present. How do we know if a toy is from the past?
Library Books and Reading Books
Children change their library book and reading book on Monday. They will then have one reading book and one library books to share over the half term holiday.
Robins - Outdoor Learning Tuesday 22nd October
Robins will have their second outdoor session. Please send in warm outdoor own clothes.
Year 1 loved exploring the iPads in their computing lessons!
Robin class enjoyed their first outdoor learning session!
Tuesday 15th October
Individual school photos wearing full winter uniform. No P.E. kits for the day. Robins will need to bring their wellies in a separate bag.
The Year 1 Team
History - What was life like in the past? How was life different in grandparents' day?
The children have really enjoyed bringing in their original artefacts of toys, photos and other objects to make our class museums. We have all learned a lot from them!
Goldfinch outdoor learning - making a house for a soft toy and parachute games
Goldfinch Class will have their last outdoor learning session of this block on Tuesday 8th October. Goldfinches will then revert back to P.E. Kits for their P.E. lesson on Tuesdays. Robin Class will start their outdoor learning sessions on Tuesday 15th October.
Maths - ask your child to explain ’Part, Part, Whole’ to you!
Comparing numbers using our more than and less than symbols. We use these sentences to compare: "___ is greater than ___", "___ is less than ___" and "___ is equal to ___"
Goldfinches made journey sticks as a way of following a route around the school garden
To finish off our learning all about the human body, the children made a human body out of a choice of resources. They were then asked to talk about the different body parts and what the body parts do and to talk about the different senses that they have learnt about.
School Library
Your child will visit the school library 'World of Words' every Monday. Please make sure your child has their school library book in their bookbag each Monday. This is not a reading book so please enjoy and share the book at home with your child.
Exploring travelling over, under and through the apparatus.
After our Autumn walk and discussion in the classroom about changes we see in Autumn, the children created an Autumn page in the geography books
Autumn walk fun!
Exploring our senses in science! We explored the different tables which had activities activities using our 5 senses: sight, smell, hearing, taste and touch
In computing we have been learning about what technology is. Ah your child about what technology they can spot in different rooms of the house or when you go for a walk.
Throwing and catching skills in PE. The children have been gaining confidence when moving with a beanbag. Using the learned techniques to take part in team games too!
Pikes, straddles, tucks and lots of balances!
Year 1 Goldfinches learning about outdoor fire, safety and looking for signs of Autumn
In science we are learning all about the human body and have had fun labelling different body parts!
We have enjoyed sharing all our holiday adventures with our transition treasure boxes!
In maths we have been exploring Numicon to help us to order numbers.
Exploring ‘high and low’ movements and working hard on learning ‘log rolls’
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Goldfinches had a lovely time exploring our outdoor resources in our session on the garden!
Starlings loved moving their bodies in different ways, carefully negotiating the space around them.
Practising number formation in lots of fun ways!
Mastering Number! The Year 1 children have settled well into their new Maths groups!
Mastery approach to number - counting with physical objects
Year 1's first PE lesson on the MUGA!
Robins first music lesson with Mr Boardman!
Starlings Music time with Mr Boardman
Singing with our specialist music teacher, Mr Boardman
We loved the singing games with Mr Boardman
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Welcome to Year 1!
We are very happy to have the children back in school and they have all been superstars in settling into their classes with their new teachers. Please ensure you visit our webpage regularly as we will post important information on here as well as curriculum details and pictures of our learning.
Have a look at how well they have settled in!
The Year 1 Team
Our Year 1 Outdoor Area
Enjoying Our Year 1 Outdoor Area
Exploring our Classroom
Starlings exploring Year 1
Robins exploring Year 1
Reading
We will be sending reading books and new reading records home from Monday 9th September. Your child will receive two reading books over the week - please read regularly at home and ensure your child's reading book and record are in their book bag each day. We will let you know when login details for Oxford Owl are set up.
P.E. lessons
P.E. lessons will take place on Tuesdays and Thursdays starting from next week. Please ensure your child wears their P.E. kit to school on these days. Goldfinches will start forest school sessions on Tuesdays starting from 17th September. Children will need to wear suitable outdoor clothing and bring their wellies to school in a bag.