Welcome to the England Year 1 Class Page. Here, you can find out about everything that we've been doing this term.
Friday 19th July
Wow what a year it has been for us in England class! We have had such a brilliant time this week sharing all of our favourite memories of the year and celebrating everything that we have achieved. We have taken part in multiple assemblies throughout the week to celebrate our class, the Yr6 leavers and the lovely Mrs Lawrence and Miss Kenyon who are leaving us this year. We have been so grateful to these lovely people who have had an impact on our journey whilst at school and we will be sad to see both the lovely Miss Kenyon and Mrs Lawrence leave as well as our Yr6 buddies and friends.
I wanted to say a huge well done to my wonderful England class. You have grown so much in the time that I have taught you since September to now and you are all so ready for your next challenge of Yr2. It has been an absolute pleasure to be your teacher and I know Mrs Johnson will be so lucky to have you all in her class next year. Always remember to be the best you can possibly be and never give up on your hopes and dreams. A little quote made me think of you all and I want to leave it with you all to always remember.
'You will never find rainbows when looking down ... So always look up to the sky, dream big and aim high!'
Have the most amazing Summer and enjoy every minute of Year 2!
Mrs Thompson.
Friday 12th July
We have had an absolutely amazing enrichment week this week thinking all about the Olympics and Olympic Values. We have spent time exploring both the modern and ancient Olympics, the different mascots that have been used and discussing some of the fantastic athletes who have strived and excelled in their sports such as Michael Jordan.
This week I wanted to share a little highlight of each of the workshops that we have taken part in. We started the week of by completed a drama workshop with Helen where we travelled into the past to explore the ancient Olympics. We went back in our time travelling machines all the way to the first ever Olympic games! We completed lots of fun activities such as slow motion racing, partner chariot racing and sport association tennis. We had so much fun in our workshop and all got involved. On Wednesday, we had the wonderful Emma in from Tiny Tasters who helped us create a recipe and food for an Olympic athlete. We made Mexican bean burritos from scratch. We firstly made the salsa, then added the ingredients all together and gave them a mix. We then had to fold our burrito up before it was put in the oven to cook. We loved getting hands on and taste testing the different ingredients. Yesterday, we had a wonderful time with Ethan who taught us how to skateboard! Some of us were a little nervous to take part but we showed such a fantastic growth mindset and didn't give up. Ethan taught us various moves to do on the skateboards and we were so excited to work with our friends to try them . Please see below some photos of us taking part in the different activities.
Have a wonderful weekend everyone ready for our last week in Year 1 together!
It has been a super week this week in England class full of experiments, games and talking all about change. On Tuesday morning, the children met their class teacher for Year 2 who is the lovely Mrs Johnson. They are all so excited to have her back as a teacher and to be part of Northern Ireland class.
This week I wanted to share with you some performance poetry. For the past few terms we have been taking part in Poetry Thursday in school. Each term we have had a different poet to study and the children have so far learned about Laura Mucha, James Carter and John Foster. They have been so enthusiastic on a Thursday to find out all about the poets and listen to them reading their poems. We were tasked with a challenge from Miss Armstrong, Miss McPherson and Miss Woolard to choose one of our favourite poems that we have learnt about so far and perform it to the rest of the school. It was a hard decision as we loved lots of the poems by the poets however we chose a poem by James Carter called 'How to turn your teacher purple'. The children were absolutely brilliant at performing the poem in front of the rest of the school last week and I wanted to share their fantastic performance with you.
Have a wonderful longer weekend this week. Hopefully the sunshine stays out!
Mrs Thompson
Friday 28th June
We have had such a busy week this week in class. We have been making healthy fruit smoothies in DT, found out all about the ancient and modern Olympics in History and have been comparing numbers up to 100 in Maths.
This week I wanted to share with you the super fun lesson we had in Science. We have been exploring forces in our Science lessons this half-term and our lesson this week was all about catapults. Firstly, we found out some information about catapults including how they work and how they are used. We found it so interesting that the first ever catapult was created by the Ancient Greeks. After that, we watched some videos on people who had tested out making their own catapults. We then decided to give it a go. We created a very simple mini catapult using dolly pegs and spoons. We used our catapults to fire foam dice. We loved seeing how far we could get the dice and we even went outside to try the dice to go as far as possible. The children at the end of the lesson were all full of smiles and said it was such a fun science lesson.
We had an absolutely amazing week this week in England class. Today we said a goodbye to Miss Ferguson who has now finished her 3rd year of training to be a teacher. We were excited to hear that she would have her own class in London from September.
Our week started off with a fantastic sports day. We worked together in our house teams to earn as many points as possible. The children were absolutely fantastic at the events where they could earn points for their team such as the sprint, middle distance, long jump and howler throw. Additionally, the children worked fantastically in their teams to complete a team stacking challenge, egg and spoon race and obstacle relay. After such a busy afternoon in the sun, we were super tired when we returned back to class however we were spoilt with some ice cold rocket lollies. Well done for your outstanding attitude and sportsmanship England class! I can't wait to find out who is the winning team of our house points competition in the next few weeks.
We have had such a busy week this week in England class where we have worked our socks off! We have learnt all about the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in History, completed some push and pull investigations in Science and found out all about where fruit and vegetables grow in DT.
This week I wanted to share with you all the amazing work the children have been doing in RE. This week we have had an introduction into our new topic which is based on 'Forgiveness'. Firstly in our lesson, we listened to a story about the selfish crocodile. In the story he was unkind to his friends however he said sorry. We discussed that sometimes we might do things we need to say sorry for. Some of us were very brave in circle time and shared times when we had to say sorry and how it felt. We all agreed that it is always the right choice to say sorry if you do something that hurts someone else. After that, we started to think about moving on and things we would want to do in the future. We started making a flag with a side based on what we want to be able to do by the time we get into Year 2. We are going to move on next week to learning all about a Judaism special time of year called Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur.
Have a lovely weekend everyone ready for Sports Day on Monday!
Mrs Thompson
Friday 7th June
It has been a wonderful start to our final half-term in Year 1 this week full of so much super learning. It feels like time has gone so fast since September but I am so proud of the children for all of their fantastic attitudes to learning during their time in Year 1.
Yesterday, we went on a brilliant trip to Belsay Hall, Castle and Gardens in Northumberland. We were so excited to get on the coach and visit somewhere new. Whilst we are at Belsay, we went on a wild man trail around Belsay. We had to search for clues whilst we followed the trail, searching for the wild man. Whilst on our trail, we saw lots of different plants and trees which were different sizes and colours. We also saw a range of animals including birds, ducks and tadpoles which were in the pond. Once we had completed some of the trail and followed the signposts and map, we made our way to the castle. We went in small groups to explore the castle and even climbed the stairs towards the top of the castle! We were so intrigued by the fact the castle didn’t have some of the things we expected due to how old it was. Once we had explored the castle, we had a chance to play in the giant playpark which had a super high slide. Some of us were really brave and climbed to the top to slide down. After all that exploring, walking and playing, it was time for lunch which we had on the green outside the castle. We chatted and played some games before it was time to head back on the trail to find some more of the wild man clues. We found lots on our way back and were so tired from all of our exploring once we made it onto the bus. The children were absolutely outstanding in their attitude to learning and behaviour whilst we were on the trip and they made me so proud as their class teacher.
We have been working super hard in England class this week recapping over the numbers 0 – 20 in Maths, creating a class aboriginal art piece in Art and describing why we are all incredible in our PSHE lesson today.
This week I wanted to share with you our brilliant work that we completed in History. We found out about a new significant figure in our lessons called George Stephenson. George Stephenson, who was born in Wylam, was an engineer and was famous for inventing a locomotive engine called the ‘Rocket’. We explored together a photograph of what the rocket looked like. During our lesson, we found out that George Stephenson built the first passenger railways which ran from Stockton to Darlington. In 1830, he also built the Liverpool and Manchester Railway. As a class we played some hot seating where we put ourselves into the shoes of some people who would have been affected by the work of George Stephenson. This included people who might be excited and happy about the railway lines being built but also people who could be unhappy about the creation of the railway. The children were fantastic at getting into character and answered the questions incredibly well following our discussions. If anyone has time in the holidays, you could visit George Stephenson’s cottage which is in Wylam.
I hope you all have a wonderful half-term full of lots of fun and hopefully lots of sunshine too!
Mrs Thompson
Friday 17th May
We have had such a super week in England class this week. We have completed some map work on Wylam in Geography, explored making aboriginal art patterns in our art lesson and practiced our ball passing skills in invasion games where we learnt how to do a bounce pass and chest pass yesterday.
This week I wanted to share with you the brilliant work we did yesterday in our PSHE lesson. Our current Jigsaw topic for this term is relationships and we have been discussing about who is important to us and why. In our lesson yesterday, we focused on being able to know who can help us if we need help and how to ask for the help. We started the lesson of by a connecting us game. We passed a gentle squeeze around the circle without talking to our friends until it did a full circle. After that we had some calm time where we completed a bubble bounce breathing video. The children loved doing this to relax themselves and calm their minds. We then explored a range of different people and discussed if those people would be able to help us in school, outside of school or both. The children were fantastic at this discussion and giving reasons why the people would help in different ways. We also explored a range of scenarios that could happen and the children came up with responses of how to ask someone for help and who would be the best person to ask in the scenarios. I was so proud of their brilliant attitude throughout the lesson and how grown up their responses were. Keep being superstars!
Have a lovely weekend everyone!
Mrs Thompson
Friday 10th May
Today we had a wonderful trip to Crawcrook Library to hear a story and complete a treasure hunt. It was our first time going back to the library since it's recent renovations and we absolutely loved the new layout, seating and books that were on offer. We listened to librarian, Kyle, read us the Elmer story. This is one of our favourite stories in class to listen to so we were so excited to hear it in the library. After that, we completed a treasure word hunt around the library to try and make a word. After all that hard work, we were treated with some time to explore the books the library has. We absolutely love reading our class and we were all so excited to read some different books to the ones we have in school. It was a wonderful visit and we can't wait to go back.
Friday 10th May
It has been an absolutely fantastic week in England class this week following on from a lovely bank holiday weekend. Although we have had a shorter week than usual, we have been so busy! We have been learning all about Captain Cook in History, discussed how to be a good friend in PSHE and have continued to work on our attacking and defending in PE.
On Wednesday, we were invited to a Yr1 Multi-Skills event at Thorp Academy. We walked from school in the lovely sunshine up to Thorp where we took part in some brilliant activities ran by the Yr 7 and Year 12 sports leaders. We completed lots of activities where we used skills of throwing and catching, kicking balls, bouncing basketballs and jumping. It was a very warm afternoon so we made sure we had lots of water and rest in between. We had an amazing time and enjoyed taking part in the afternoon. I was so proud of everyone for their enthusiasm and sportsmanship.
It has been a super week in England this week full of lots of super learning. We have been on a tree hunt in Science, learning all about money and coins in Maths and explored what aboriginal art is in our art lesson.
This week in PE, we completed our final lesson on the unit of Athletics. The focus of our lesson was to practise our throwing skills and aiming for a target. We started the session of by going into two teams and having a battle of who could get rid of the most beanbags from their side. We had so much fun and both teams managed to win one game each. We then moved on to practising throwing our beanbags towards targets. We set up 3 different stations for us to practice some different mini games. The first game was aiming for the beanbag to get as far up the ladder as possible. The second game was called roller ball. We had to roll a ball through the 2 cones however we made it trickier by making the distance between the cones smaller. The last game was hit the target. In our mini teams, we took it in turns to throw the beanbag as close to the cone as possible. The winner was the person who had hit their beanbag closest to the cone.
It has been a fantastic week here in England class full of lots of exciting learning about garden plants in Science, finding out all about William Shakespeare in History and we have continued with our exploring of printing in Art by creating our very own stencils.
This week, we have embarked on the exciting journey of storytelling and innovation! Inspired by the classic tale of the magic porridge pot, we have put our creative minds to work and have designed our very own stories. On Wednesday, we have created our very own innovated story maps to go alongside our innovated stories. As a class, we changed our class story to be a magic sweet pot, found by a little boy called Coby who has to say the magic words ‘Abracadabra cook pot!’ to make it start cooking. We can’t wait to see the magical tales they will write next week for the story. Hopefully some of these brilliant stories will feature on our writer of the month board.
Have a lovely weekend everyone!
Miss Ferguson and Mrs Thompson
Friday 19th April
It has been such a busy first week back in England class this week. Our trainee class teacher, Miss Ferguson, is going to be teaching us in more lessons in the next coming weeks and will be sharing with you weekly on our class page what we have been up to.
In our bustling year 1 classroom this week, our young artists embarked on an exciting journey into the world of printing! The children dove into various printing techniques, exploring natural materials such as vegetables and plants. As a class we explored the technical elements of printing, but also discovered the joy of self-expression, and the unique patterns each object made when we printed them onto the page in different ways. The children enjoyed the printing process and embraced the lesson with enthusiasm and determination, showcasing their unique printing outcomes with pride.
In addition to this, our learners delved into the fascinating world of plants in Science. This week we started our lesson of by exploring all about wild plants. To support our knowledge of common and uncommon wild plants in their local area, the we went on a plant hunt. We explored the school grounds and used tally charts to record our findings.
Have a lovely weekend everyone!
Miss Ferguson and Mrs Thompson
Privacy and Cookies Policy
Part 1: Privacy Policy
Last Edited: 22nd April 2021
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Part 2: Cookie Policy
Last Edited: 22nd April 2021
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