Class One

Balancing

This week in PE we used the big equipment to practice our balancing skills. The children enjoyed working in groups balance on the equipment.

Making equal parts.

In maths we found out what numbers up to 10 have 2 equal parts.

Facts about Belfast.

In geography we are learning about capital cities. Today we used the iPads and books to find out facts about Belfast. The children wanted to know what landmarks are in Belfast, is there a river in Belfast and what is it called?

Butterflies

This week in science we looked at butterflies. The children find out facts about butterflies and made a butterfly.

Adding plurals

In English, we decided if the noun needed ‘s’ or ‘es’ to make a plural.

Maths

Today in maths we practiced our number bonds to 5.

Algorithm

In computing we are learning how to make algorithms. The children worked in pairs on the computers to make their own algorithm.

Using a number line

In maths we worked out how many jumps we need to do on the number line to reach the next number.

Balancing

This week in PE we have been practising our balancing skills. We used beanbags to help us balance.

Finding numbers on a number line

We identified the number on a blank number line by counting on from 0 or 10.

Spellings

This week for our SPAG lesson we looked at adding the ending ‘es’ and ‘s’ to make plurals.

Science

the children made their own spider, we talked about how many legs and learnt some facts about them.

Healthy Eating

Today class 1 had a visitor who talked to us about healthy eating and looking after our teeth. The children told us how to look after our teeth and learnt how much sugar we can have in 1 day, the children then drew a eat well plate.

English

Today in English we wrote sentences about our story. We have done some fantastic whiteboard work!

One more and one less.

Today in maths we have been learning how to find out what is one more or one less than a number within 20.

PE – Gymnastics

This week in PE we done gymnastics. The children took turns practicing different moves and rolls, the children loved doing a forward roll. We then used beanbags to help us roll and keep our balance.

1 more and 1 less

Today we used cubes to work out what is one more and one less than any number up to 20.

Spanish

In Spanish we recapped our numbers and learnt the animals. We read Jack and the Beanstalk in Spanish.

Music – High and low pitch

This week in music we looked at high and low pitch by using glockenspiel. The children then sang the Jack and the Beanstalk.

Amphibians

Today in science we looked at Amphibians. The children told us what amphibians are and told us a few facts about them. Then we cut pictures of amphibians out and wrote what they are called.

Maths

Today in maths we used dices with our parent to make the number 20.

PE

This week in PE we have been learning how to travel in different ways and showed our friends a variety of gymnastic moves.

Rhythm in music

This week in music we listened to Jack and the beanstalk and focused on the rhythm.

English

In english we found capital letters, full stops and the word ‘and’. We then looked at words we can add ‘un’ to change the meaning.

English

The children asked Hermelin question about an item of a story.

Maths

In maths we learnt how to count to 20 using our tens and ones.

Hermelin

In English we asked Hermelin questions. Some of the questions were “are you a strong mouse?” “Can you find my headphones?” “Why do you like cheese?” “How old are you?”.

P.E – Balancing

This half term in P.E we are doing gymnastics. Today we practiced our balancing skills with our partner by doing poses called “the dish” “flamingo” and “plank”.

Science

This half term in science we are looking at animals in humans, today the children learnt about frogs and told us facts about frogs. The children enjoyed colouring in their frog.

Maths – Recognising numbers up to 10.

Today in maths we done an activity using counters, cubes and counting bears and seeing if they add up to 10, the children had to find out if they did or didn’t add up to 10 and if they didn’t add up to 10 then they told us how many more they needed.

English – Hermelin

In English we made predictions about the story Hermelin. We talked about what we think is going to happen in the story.

Maths

Today in maths we counted objects and matched them to the number on the number track.

Breakfast in class.

The children had breakfast in class this morning as a special treat before the children holidays.

Yogo

This half term the children have really enjoyed doing yoga with Georgia. We learnt how to do yogo poses and met the yoga bears.

Our trip

Class 1 went to the museum to look at old and new toys. The children played with the old and new toys and talked about why they are old and new.

Whole School Choir

The Pleasant Street Primary School choir lit up the Liverpool Royal Hospital with their amazing energy and cheerful voices, turning the hospital into a mini concert and spreading smiles everywhere!

Witch’s Brew

We made a very special potion to help us to catch the witch from our story. We worked together to write our ingredients list using our Monster Phonics sounds.

Music

This term in music we are practicing our Christmas play. Our Christmas play is called ‘Camel Ama Ding Dong.’

Maths

Today in maths we have been practicing our number bonds to 10.

Year 1 Assembly

Class 1 performed a class assembly about wellbeing. The children did so well and really enjoyed showing their parents what they have learned about wellbeing. At the end they performed a song from their music lessons.

Maths – days of the week

In maths today we have been learning the days of the week. The children had a challenge to do where they had to put a timetable in order of what lessons we do in what day.

Maths – Time

Today in maths we have been learning about time. We used the words ‘before’ and ‘after’. The children had images of what happens on a Wednesday, they put them in order.

Family BBQ

A big thank you to everyone who attended our family BBQ last week. A great time was had by all and we managed to raise over £1000 which will help school funds. We were also able to make a donation to Shy Lowen Sanctuary, where lots of our children have attended over the years. We cannot wait until our next event.

Digital Art

Class 1 spent their computing lesson using Apple pencils & iPads to create a digital piece of art. Children have been looking at the artist Kandinsky, they created a design on a piece of paper and then using Sketchpad and apple pencils recreated it to be a digital piece of work.

Maths – Money

In maths we are learning money. The children sorted 1p, 2p, 5p and 10p coins.

Geography

In geography we have been learning about capital cities. The children researched each capital city and found information about them.

P.E

In P.E we have been practicing our tennis skills. In partners we used tennis balls and guided the balls with the rackets.

Geography

In geography we are looking at the capital cities. We had a map and labelled where the capital cities are.

Computing

In computing we are using pic college. The children practiced taking pictures of themselves and uploading the pictures to pic college.

Maths

In maths we are learning how to understand the value of tens to 100.

Art

Today in art we went outside and looked for natural objects. We made a picture of using the natural objects.

P.E

Today in P.E we have been practicing rolling the balls using our underarm. We then used 3 cones for the children to throw the ball without touching them.

Maths – Directions

Today in maths we have been learning about directions using left, right, forward and backwards. We had a map and used our bears to tell each other what direction to go to find the treasure.

Maths – 2D shapes

In maths we are learning about 2D shapes. The children had to turn the shapes into a quarter turns or half turn.

Music

This week in music we have been learning rhythm composition.

P.E – underarm and overarm

Today in P.E we have been learning how to throw by using underarm and overarm.

Maths – Quarters

In maths we have been learning how to find a quarter of a number.

Maths

In maths we played a race game were we picked a number and had to get the same number bean bags and separate them into half’s by putting them in hoops.

P.E

In P.E year 1 have been practicing travelling by leaping, hopping and jumping. We used the spots to help us land on the right spot. We tried using two legs then made it harder by using one leg.

Maths

Today in maths we looked at shapes and sorting them into half’s.

English

In english we looked at a letter from Hermelin to Mrs Mattison. We have been looking for adjectives, imperative verbs and exclamation marks.

Science – Plants

In science we are looking at plants. Today we looked at peas and planted our seeds.

Maths – Division

In maths we have been exploring division in the form of sharing making equal groups.

Science – fruit and vegetable

In science we are looking at fruit and vegetables and seeds. The children drew pictures of apples, pears, tomatoes and green beans.

English – The detective mouse

In English we read the story ‘The Detective Mouse’. We found the adjectives, nouns, ‘and’ and un sounds.

P.E

Today in P.E we have been practicing our balancing skills. We worked in groups doing different activities. Group 1 walked backwards on a rope, group 2 balanced a been bag on their head and had to get it to the other side, group 3 had to balance on one leg and move the balls, group 4 had to kick the balls off the cones without kicking the cones and group 5 had to jump on the spots without touching the floor.

D.T – Making our fruit salads.

Today in D.T we made our fruit salads. The children enjoyed chopping and cutting the fruit and picking what fruit they would like to add into their fruit salads.

D.T – practising chopping fruit

Today in D.T we practised chopping, peeling and grating fruit.

D.T – tasting fruit

In D.T we are learning about fruit salads. Today we tasted different fruits to see what fruits we liked and disliked. The children rated the fruit out of 10.

Maths – counting in 2s

Today we have been practicing counting in our 2 times tables. We worked in partners using counting beads to fill in the blank numbers.

P.E

Today in P.E we worked in groups of 4 and practised our throwing and catching skills. After that we had a game where one person had to catch the ball while the others thrown it to each other. Then we kicked the ball using our feet to practise our stopping.

Maths – Measure Capacity

In maths we measured the capacity of different containers using non-standard units. We discussed the importance of keeping either the container or the units the same when comparing two things.

Programing and Coding Robots

Yesterday children had their final computing lesson of the unit. They spent the morning looking at the similarities and differences with different coding challenges compared to controlling a Beebot. Children worked in pairs using prediction, debugging and sequencing to complete the coding challenges. 

Sefton Park Geography Trip

Year 1 had a great time on their Geography trip to Sefton Park. They explored Old Nick’s Cave, the Palm House and the Fairy Glen. They used compasses and maps to navigate around the park.

Maths – Mass

We have been learning about mass in maths. We found out that the mass of the glue stick was the same as 22 cubes.

Spanish – Colours and animals.

Today in Spanish we played a game of matching the correct animals to the correct colour.

Maths – measuring

Today we practised using a ruler to measure different objects in centimetres.

Maths – Taller

Today in maths we measured objects with cubes using the word ‘taller’.

Geography – Sefton park

In geography we are learning about Sefton Park. Today we made our own timeline to show when Sefton Park was made. The children put down the dates when the teachers were born and compared them to when Sefton Park was made.

P.E

Today in P.E we used a football and practised our balancing skills, we then had a go at dribbling the football in between our feet by using our ‘instep’ and ‘out step’. We then worked in partners passing the football to each other.

Maths – longer and shorter

Today in maths we compared the length and height of different objects and toys in class. We talked about using the words ‘taller’ and ‘shorter’.

Spanish – Animals

In Spanish we are learning how to say different animals, we sang a song to remember the name of the animals.

Maths – 1 more and 1 less

As a class we practised counting forwards and backwards between 0-50. Then, we made numbers and in partners worked out 1 less and 1 more than the number we was given.

Programming Robots

Class 1 continued to look at how Beebots worked. Today the focus was on being able to predict and debug a task the Beebot needed to complete. Children worked in partners to be able to get the Beebot to go towards person A, turn around and come back. We recapped how the clear function works and the best way to program a Beebot. Children then had the chance to complete some different levels on the Beebot application.

DT – final design

In DT we made our final design with our puppets. The children had lots of fun making them.

Yoga

In yoga we have been practicing our breathing and practicing our stretches which is called ‘down wood doggy’.

Colours and animals.

Today in Spanish we have been learning our colours and animals. We played a guessing game which helps us remember the colours and animals.

Partition 2 digit numbers

We have been learning how to partition 2 digit numbers into tens and ones and practised doing this with dienes.

Writing detectives.

Today in English we read the story ‘The land of the Wild Things.’ We worked in partners and found adjectives, nouns, capital letters and full stops and exclamation marks in the story.

Puppets

In D.T we are looking at puppets. Today we looked at puppets in the classroom and talked about what we liked and disliked about them. We then started to practice our sewing skills.

Different types of churches.

Today in R.E we learnt about different types of churches. The children enjoyed talking about churches and what they are special for.

Counting to 50

Today we have been working in groups practicing counting forwards and backwards to and from 50.

Programming, coding & Robotics

Class 1 started their new unit of work, programming robots. The focus today was on children becoming familiar with a Beebot. Children worked in pairs to explore a Beebot and figure out the different functions, children then created a help sheet on how a Beebot works to use in future lessons.  

Yoga

Today year 1 enjoyed our yoga session with Georgia. We talked about what makes us happy and focused on our breathing.

Maths

Exploring different ways to sort

Listen and Appraise

Classical Music

Forest School Club

Each week in Forest School Club the children enjoy an activity of their choice, this weeks task was a “Bug Hunt”. We had so much fun exploring the Early Years outdoors looking for different insects.

UK

We have worked hard locating the surrounding seas and oceans of the UK. We used atlases to help locate them and discussed the difference between a sea and ocean.

PE

Some fantastic bating, throwing and catching skills in PE today.

Distance from Liverpool to capital cities in the UK.

We used blocks to help us work out the distance from Liverpool to each capital city in the United Kingdom. We discussed which capital city was the closest to our city and which was the furthest away.

Water Safety

Thank you to our visitors teaching us the importance of staying safe in and around water. We learnt techniques how to keep ourselves safe and what to do if we see anyone in need of help.

Music

We enjoyed playing the djembe today.

Art

We collected some natural objects and created our own piece of art work. We tried hard to design work in the style of Richard Long.

Maths

We have been working hard to compare numbers with the same tens.

Y1 Beatles Trip

Y1 enjoyed visiting Strawberry Field, John Lennon’s childhood home and Penny Lane as part of their History topic based on The Beatles. They viewed artefacts and information, took part in a sing-a-long with a musician and had the chance to ask the expert guide, Chris, lots of questions along the way.

In science today we have been looking at seeds and sorting them into groups.

Maths

This week we have been working hard doubling numbers.

PE

We enjoyed practising our throwing and catching skills. We then learnt how to hold a tennis racket and hit the ball to our partner.

Listen and appraise

This week we enjoyed listening to ‘Yellow’ by Coldplay. Lots of us had heard this song before and liked hearing the guitar.

DT

We enjoyed making our own fruit salads. We followed the instructions we made and carefully chopped up the fruit. We took our fruit salads home to enjoy.

Phonics Parent Meeting

Thank you to all of the Y1 parents who joined us for the Phonics Screening Information meeting. If you have any questions about the test, please do not hesitate to ask us.

Computing

We collected data about our favourite fruit and favourite pets. We then represented our data by creating pictograms.

DT

We enjoyed tasting different fruits in class. We discussed the fruits we liked and disliked.

Sefton Park

We had a fantastic afternoon at Sefton Park. We used a map to follow our planned route and a compass. We visited Sefton Park Lake, Old Nicks Cave, Sefton Palm House and The Fairy Glen. We identified human and physical features in the park.

Class 1 Computing

This morning Class 1 have been using their knowledge gained from the past few weeks to program Beebots and Sphero Indi’s to move. Children worked to get the robots to do a series of instructions that included turning and moving forwards and backwards, children also completed different levels on the Beebot app.

World Book Day

The children wore some wonderful costumes and outfits today, as they celebrated World Book Day. The children were also excited to take home their free book.

Programming, coding & Robotics.

This morning Class 1 has been recapping what Algorithms are and why they are used when coding. Today children had to create algorithms to get a robot to complete different levels, we focused on moving forward and how we can use the turn right and left blocks to change direction. Children then looked at how we could apply this knowledge to a Beebot and created a ‘help sheet’ to use in the next lesson.

DT

In DT we practised the running stitch using a needle and thread. We had to carefully sew around the edge of the fabric. We are looking forward to making our puppet. ?

PE

This week in PE we enjoyed using different apparatus. We had to learn how to travel and use the apparatus safely.

Art

During art we have been researching Henri Matisse and looking at his style of work. We enjoyed using oil pastels to create the background for our final design.

Diversity Day

For Diversity Day we read ‘Ruby’s Worry’. We thought about the different themes in our story and discussed what a worry is. We spoke about what we can do when we feel worried and thought about the different people we can share our worries with.
Our P4C question was ‘Is it ever useful to worry?’

A Special Visitor

We had a very special visitor in school on party day, every class had the opportunity to visit the grotto and they left with some gifts.

Y1 Museum Trip

We enjoyed a trip to the museum to take part in a workshop about toys. We compared toys from the past with modern day versions and spoke about the difference in materials and design.

History

Some exciting household objects from the past arrived in class today. We looked at the items and discussed how we know they are from the past.