Year 1 BP | Sea View Primary School

Welcome to Class 1CM!

In Year 1 we explore the broad range of areas the National Curriculum offers. This includes English, Maths, Science, Humanities, Computing, R.E., P.E., Music, Design and Technology and Art.

Phonics play There are some great activities on this website that support children’s phonic learning. The children will all undertake a phonic screening check in Year 1. If you require any further information please do not hesitate to contact your child’s class teacher.

PYJAMARAMA! We are having lots of fun reading in our pyjamas today! The children have brought their favourite book from home to share with their friends at school.

Stranger danger. The police visit Year 1 to give important information to help keep our children safe and about the role of the police in the community.

Enjoying the sun this week!

In our P.E. Lessons this term we have been working with a fantastic gymnastics coach who has helped us to develop our physical skills through movement and balance. Here are some of the children putting the skills into practice on the equipment this week.

Gymnastics

This week in Maths, the children have been exploring times tables and practicing how to practically solve the problems by using arrays. Here are just a few snaps of some of the children hard at work. Please encourage your children to use Times Tables Rock Stars as often as possible. Just 5 minutes per night could really improve their recall of times table facts. Visit www.ttrockstars.com. If anyone has lost their password, please do not hesitate to ask the class teacher for another copy.

Marvellous Monet! We have begun to explore works of art by Claude Monet. The children enjoyed looking at a selection of the paintings and visiting each other’s tables in a galloping gallery to discuss what they thought. More work to follow...

Times tables rock!

Looking after pets! As part of our Science topic we had a fantastic furry visitor in Year 1 today! Rab the dog came to visit and we learned all about how to take care of a dog. He was so well behaved and the children absolutely loved having him in class.

The children in Year 1 had a fantastic time today when they visited our school science fair ran by our Year 5 children. Each class had a display to share with others and some of our children took on the role of the scientists, giving information on our display and answering questions from other children. A fantastic time was had by all!

Year 1 visit the school science fair

All ready for our Science fair today!

Using the iPads to research aerial photographs of South Shields in our Geography lesson

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Using the iPads to research aerial photographs of South Shields in our Geography lesson 5

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Using the iPads to research aerial photographs of South Shields in our Geography lesson 8

Using the iPads to research aerial photographs of South Shields in our Geography lesson 9

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Using the iPads to research aerial photographs of South Shields in our Geography lesson 12

Using the iPads to research aerial photographs of South Shields in our Geography lesson 13

Using the iPads to research aerial photographs of South Shields in our Geography lesson 14

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During science week, the children in Year 1 undertook the task of finding out how many children and staff across the school were using single use plastic water bottles. We visited each classroom and counted the amount of bottles being used. The children then put their data together to make bar charts showing use around the school. The children looked at how plastics are used and what is reusable plastic and what is not. We discussed items that we use in school, like straws, where they ended up and how long plastic stayed on the earth. We explored alternatives to single use plastic and thought about small changes that we could all make. The children had a lot of fun collecting and exploring the data and have already started to make small changes for themselves. A few have even been trying to inform their parents on how to make positive changes too, keep it up Year 1!

Science week

The children have created these fabulous friends for Beegu. Inspired by what we already know about the story character the children have thought about features that the alien friends might have. After making the models, the children wrote great character descriptions to use in future writing. The children had a lot of fun making their models and coming up with funny alien features!

A friend for Beegu

In our R.E. lessons we have been exploring the area of Christianity and friendship. We reflected upon what it means to be a good friend and what a good friend behaves like. We made our friendship web by sharing with our friends what we liked and valued about them and this demonstrated that we are all connected through our friendships.

Our friendship web

Exploring what makes a good friend in our R.E. lesson.

Exploring what makes a good friend in our R.E. lesson. 3

World Book Day Fun!

Inspired by our whole school world book day book, Tuesday by David Weisner, the children are using frogs and lily pads to explore halving numbers, making equal amounts and investigating odd and even.

Investigating numbers

Tuesday

An animated version of the story Tuesday. The children thoroughly enjoyed watching this book come to life on the big screen as part of our World Book Day activities.

Footprints in the Snow

The children are exploring the text ‘Footprints in the Snow’ and are working as teams to record their ideas, likes, dislikes, what they are puzzled about and any patterns or links that they can see with other stories that they know. The children enjoy working together and sharing their ideas with each other.

Working Collaboratively. Team work is dream work in Year 1!

The children enjoyed learning about Chinese New Year and producing these fantastic lanterns inspired by Chinese art and symbols in our Art lesson.

Chinese New Year

We have been learning all about how to stay safe online for safer internet day. The children have learned this song about keeping safe and have found out all about the SMART rules we must follow online.

Internet safety week

Our art work inspired by Paul Klee

At Christmas, 1CM decided to try a reverse advent calendar. The children brought items of food from home and we collected it in a box. We had two huge bags of shopping by the end of the term which we donated to The Key Project in South Shields. A huge thank you to all the parents for supporting your children with this project, they learned a lot about giving at Christmas and making a difference to others.

Wild

A superb retelling of this great story.

Wild

This fantastic story map tells us the story so far.

In Year 1 we have been exploring the text Wild by Emily Hughes. The children are acting out scenes from the story to understand the characters and their feelings.

Emily Hughes reads Wild

We are learning all about Christianity and looking at the features of a church. We also discussed how important the church is in the local community and services that the church provides to others.

Our Church Visit

Phonics In our phonics groups we have been learning lots of new sounds to support our reading and writing. Why not try some of the fantastic games that we use in school by clicking on the word phonics.