The Year One Team are really excited to welcome the children and parents of our Year One family back to school for the Autumn Term. We have lots of fun activities planned already and have been delighted to see the hard work put in by parents and children during the Summer break as pupils returned to school with their home learning creations of 'The Great Fire of London'. They were amazing! This was a wonderful start to a new school year and was quickly followed by our 'Stunning Start' introduction to the history theme with an online workshop from 'Vlad and the Great Fire of London' author, Kate Cunningham. Our writing lessons this term will include a focus on handwriting, using capital letters and full stops correctly, adding finger spaces, including nouns, Proper Nouns and verbs in sentences, labels and captions and much more ... In maths lessons we will start with Place Value, looking at sorting objects, counting objects from a larger group and writing number names just for starters. Please continue to encourage your child's love of reading at home as you share reading books, comics, library books, etc. Reading is one of our main priorities at Hawthorn Primary and we really appreciate your help. We will also be making regular visits to our local library to add to our fun!
Please feel free to speak to myself, Miss James or Miss Barker if you have any queries at all concerning your child this year. We strive to make the transition from EYFS to KS1 as smooth as possible for both you and your child. A member of the Y1 team will always be available at the beginning and end of the day.
Thank you again,
Miss Phillips
Year One love reading, so we invited our parents and special people to school to share our favourite stories with us. Miss Phillips read a story, and then we all read to our parents, and they read to us! It was a lovely afternoon - we all took home our very own reading to pack to help us to be even better readers!
In Autumn Term, Year One invited our parents into school to share one of our favourite stories ‘The Colour Monster’. It helps us to talk about our feelings which is so important when we start in a new year group. Our special people helped us to make monster puppets! How wonderful!
Year One began the Spring Term by visiting our local library to watch a modern performance of a fairy tale we have shared recently ‘Little Red Riding Hood’. We had already read ‘The Wolf’s Story’ and thoroughly enjoyed this tale told in a modern way by a theatre group using BSL and instruments. One of the actors used visual aids to tell the story and introduce any BSL signs we may not recognise, and then we sat back for the performance! Beforehand, we even shared a story with our local librarian, Alan, and we can’t wait to return later this term to share books with our parents and ‘special people’ in our Parent Engagement afternoon. Thank you so much Perry Common Library for encouraging our love of reading and stories even more!
We visited our local fire station and spoke to the firefighters about our history topic about the ‘Great Fire of London’. They were really impressed with all the knowledge we shared and answered lots of our questions!
They told us about how fire-fighting had changed since those times in the past and let us sit in the fire engine and switch on the hose. So many of our Year One pupils now aspire to be firefighters!
What a wonderful Christmas in Year One this year!
It began with a visit from the Jolly Christmas Postman! He delivered his chosen book for our writing lessons and even left his postbox for us. It helped us to remember our verbs too, by encouraging us to include ‘ -ed’ words in our writing, such as ‘delivered’ and ‘posted’ etc.
We also loved decorating our Christmas tree and couldn’t believe how naughty our Christmas Elf was. He left us a different surprise every day. We also took part in creative RE lessons to help us learn the true meaning of Christmas by making finger puppets of the Christmas Story characters and designing a group tree including different materials to represent parts of the story, e.g. white tissue for the Angel Gabriel, golden shiny paper to represent the gift of gold, etc. We also loved taking part in the EYFS/KS1 Nativity. We hope you all had a lovely Christmas break too!
Year One thoroughly enjoyed their Creative Parent Workshop session. Parents came in to school to share our book of the week 'The Colour Monster'. We then created our own colour monster monster puppets with our special people. It was lovely to be able to talk about our feelings whilst being creative and sharing stories with our favourite people.
Year One have been discussing their aspirations and what they would like to achieve as they grow up. Many of the children particularly enjoy PE and so were very happy when Miss Henderson, a Physical Trainer, came to school to talk about her achievements and to tell us all about what her fantastic job involves! She shared photographs and answered questions too! However, the best part of our day was when Miss Henderson delivered a complete workout with us. What a fabulous afternoon! A lot of children are now aspiring to follow in her footsteps. Thank you, Miss Henderson!
We celebrated 'Hello Yellow Day' with a fantastic African Drumming Workshop! What fabulous drummers Year One made!
Year One have really enjoyed learning about the Great Fire of London during our history lessons this term. We have also studied artwork from this time by Jan Griffier and are now trying to work in the style of this famous artist ourselves! We began by discussing the colours used in his work and the mood it creates. We also thoroughly enjoyed our junk modelling home learning task of creating houses from 1666! Look at our amazing work....
The children in Year One love to vote for a story book every day as they enter school! They have a choice of two books and Miss Phillips, Miss James or Miss Barker read their chosen book to them at 3pm in Story time ! Sometimes the pupils read the story to the class themselves ! We also have a weekly book and a poetry book that we also share. They love to choose books by their favourite authors from our inviting book corner in the twinkly lights! Year One love books and so do the teachers! Pupils bring home two reading books to share at home weekly and read every day in our phonics lessons too! We are also lucky enough to have some fantastic reading volunteers who also listen to the children throughout the week! Please ask us about our favourite books and authors, we would love to share our thoughts and opinions with you ...
Today, we have a parent workshop which was all about the Vikings. We created shields as part of our Art Unit and our parents / carers came into help us. We use large pieces of cardboard and paints to create our pattern on the shields. It was so much fun!