Four Swannes Primary School
Diversity. Inclusion. Belonging
Four Swannes Primary School
Diversity. Inclusion. Belonging
Year 1SE
Welcome to the Year One class page 2024-2025
Class Teacher: Ms Ertac
Teaching Assistant: Ms Zoe
Welcome back to Year One.
The children have had a good start to their year so far.
Our PE days are Mondays and Thursdays, so please bring PE kits and water bottles.
We have our 'meet the teacher' meeting on Monday 16th September at 9 am.
Looking forward to seeing you there.
The children have transitioned well into Year 1. We started the term with a soft start, learning new routines and adapting to a new timetable.
In Maths, we have been sorting objects into groups of colour, size and shapes.
17th October 2024 - Celebrating Diversity - As a class the children made pasta salad and guacamole. They chopped the peppers, lettuce, spring onions and having a taste of an avocado. We had lots of food donations and a great turnout to the event!
Week beginning 21st October - Black History Month 2024 - We had lots of exciting events taking place across the school this week. The children took part in Samba dancing, Steel pans and African drumming. We also had special visit from Scarlott Douglas who talked about her becoming successful presenter on TV and a storyteller who read the story 'Coming to England' and shared her experience when arriving to England.
Today Rocky's Animals came to visit! The children had an amazing experience in feeding and handling animals (even us adults!) We also learnt some interesting facts about the animals.
4.5.24 - In Science we have been learning about plants and this week we observed and identified Evergreen trees around our school grounds.
29/04/2024 - In Maths the children have been learning how to group into equal parts and counting in 2's, 5's a nd 10's.
25th April 2024 - Earth Day. Today we spoke about the importance of ways of helping to keep our planet clean and free from plastic. The children had a lot of fun making Earth hangers!
19th April 2024 - Welcome back! This week in Maths we have been learning about Mass and Volume. The children enjoyed measuring using various containers with water.
15/3/2024 - In English we have been learning how to write recipes. We looked read the story 'The Giant Jam Sandwich' and then wrote instructions how to make a sandwich which then lend us onto making a sandwich!
15/3/2024 - Science week - We had lots of fun learning about science in many ways. We talked about our senses, carried out experiments such as dancing raisins, volcano explosion and colour changing flower.
13/03/2024 - Maths Workshop - It was lovely to see so many families join our Maths workshop. The children enjoyed sharing how we learn Maths using various manipulatives and skills in addition and subtraction.
7/3/2024 - World Book Day 2024 - The children looked amazing in their costumes celebrating World Book Day. Throughout the day we focused on the story 'The Very Hungry Caterpillar', sequencing the story, making fruit kebabs and many more fun activities.
6/2/2024 - Safety Internet Day - As a class we spoke about how to keep safe online and completed various activities. One activity was to group objects into categories.
2/2/2024 - Science - Every day materials. We had scientists in class today, exploring with various materials and their properties.
19/1/2024 - This term in Science we are looking at different materials and their properties. The children have worked together finding objects from around the classroom and placing them in the right categories.
December 2023 - In English, we have been reading the story The Jolly Christmas Postman. We talked about the journey of a letter or a card getting delivered. We had great fun writing our own letters to Father Christmas and then walking to the post box to post.
Children in Need - We had a lot of fun decorating biscuits with icing and chocolate drops. We kept the Maths theme by thinking of parts and the whole using milk and white chocolates.
Maths is fun! In Maths week, the children enjoyed learning maths in different ways using various manipulatives. We also had a Maths hat competition. The children did amazing work with their hats!
Wk Beginning: 13th November - Antibullying Week odd sock day! The children wore odd socks as we are all different and to stand up and make noise.
Maths - Less and Greater (Week 6)
In Science we have looked at Animals including Humans. We have looked closely at grouping the animals, looking at their diets, the human body and the five senses. Below are pictures of children grouping the animals.
Week 3 (22.9.23)
This week in Maths we have been working on counting objects reliably within 10/20.
In English, we have been reading the story 'Plenty of love to go round'. The children have been labelling the characters Plum and Binky. Also, beginning to write sentances describing the characters.
In computing, we have talked about how to keep safe online. Using the key vocabulary, SMART (Safe, Meeting, Accepting, Reliability, Tell).
Maths in Year One - Counting objects
