Year 1 2024-25
Welcome to our Headline of the week. This will give you a small taster of some of the learning taking place in your child’s class.
We hope you enjoy reading our Headlines each week.
17/01/25
In English this week we have continued to work on our book Handa’s Surprise. We compared Mill Hill to the village that Handa lives in and wrote our ideas down together.
10/01/25
In Maths this week the children have been practising making numbers 10-20 in different ways and recognising that these numbers are made of tens and ones.
20/12/24
In English this week the children have been reading poems by Shirley Hughes about sand, water and mud. They explored all of these and generated lots of adjectives to help write their own poems.
13/12/24
In Maths this week the children have been exploring 3D and 2D shapes. They have learnt to name them and use mathematical language to describe their properties. We also found different ways to sort the shapes.
06/12/24
In Jewish Studies this week the children have been practising reading Hebrew letters and the sounds in the word Havdalah.
29/11/24
The children sampled different salads in DT and really enjoyed describing the taste. They voted on their favourite salad in preparation for making their own.
22/11/24
The children felt the ice as an introduction to their science topic seasonal changes and their new book Winter Sleep.
11/10/24
The children wrote their own sentences to explain what was happening in The Little Red Hen.
27/09/24
The children have learnt to write number sentences to write out one less than any number.
20/09/24
In English the children followed instructions to make Gingerbread and will go on to write instructions.
13/09/24
The children enjoyed their messy phonic revision task in class! They had to find the sounds dunked into slime to read aloud to revisit the sounds they learnt last year.
17/01/25
In Ivrit this week we have learned some Hebrew letters. We played a game with lolly-pop sticks where we had to work together to build different Hebrew letters.
10/01/25
In Science this week the children have started their new topic of Animals including Humans. We learnt about different groups of animals and looked for animals around our school to observe.
20/12/24
In JS this week the children have been learning all about the festival of Chanukah. They have done lots of Chanukah art including making their own dreidels.
13/12/24
In English we have started to explore some poetry by Shirley Hughes. We listened carefully to a poem and visualised what the poet wanted to portray. We drew what we imagined and underlined the words that helped us.
06/12/24
In DT this week the children made a green salad. They chose which green vegetables they wanted to include and chopped them up safely. Then they tasted their salads and will evaluate them next week!
29/11/24
In English the children planned their own poem based on a poem they read on Winter. They looked at a Winter scene and described it.
22/11/24
In maths the children were introduced to subtraction. They did lots of practical work with the part whole model
11/10/24
The children have built sculptures in the style of Jill Townsley.
27/09/24
The children explored rhyming words in English.
20/09/24
In maths the children played matching pairs to help recognise numbers as words.
13/09/24
In Maths the children collected natural materials. They sorted them into groups and counted them.