Rainbow, Sunshine & Saturn Class Blog

Week 1 We have had a lovely first week of term 5 after two weeks off for Easter! As mathematicians Year 1 have been learning about equal and unequal groups. We then practised adding equal groups together by using our prior knowledge of counting in 2s,

Week 6 As scientists, we discussed what we already knew about Spring. We went on a walk and recorded on our checklist what we could see. This week as writers, we used our Story S to write our innovations of ‘We’re

Week 5 What a lovely week we had had in the sunshine! As writers this week we read the story ‘We’re going on an egg hunt’. We discussed how it is an innovation of ‘We’re going on a bear hunt’ and then drew our own Story

  Week 4 As writers we have been creating UK leaflets. We included the flag, some information and some persuasive sentences about why you should visit. As mathematicians, Year 1 have been sorting odd and even numbers and applying their knowledge in reasoning tasks

Week 3 What an exciting, busy week! We enjoyed our trip around the UK on Friday! We moved around each country (classroom) to find out about the 4 countries of the UK. We had to find the flag and Capital city in each room and then looked at

Week 2 This week was reading week! We had such a lovely time doing so many special activities to promote reading for pleasure. Thursday was World Book Day and we loved seeing everyone’s fabulous and imaginative costumes! On Wednesday we had our bedtime stories evening. The children enjoyed

Week 1 We are so pleased to be back at school and to see the days getting longer and the sun shining! We have had a busy first week back, full of fun and learning. As writers this week we have been matching lowercase to uppercase

Week 6 Year 1s this week in phonics we have been reinforcing: u-e sound as well as adding ‘ing, er, est and ed’ to the end of words. EYFS have reinforced sounds: ai, ee, igh, oa. We wrote the sentence ‘I can meet the sheep on

Week 5 What another exciting week in EYFS/Year 1! This week in phonics Year 1 have been recapping split vowel digraph: a-e, i-e, o-e, e-e. EYFS have been recapping ch, sh, th, ng. As mathematicians we have been learning to subtract using numbers to

Week 4 We can’t believe we are in week 4 of the term already! We have had a lovely week, getting outside when we can! EYFS have been ordering numbers and counting to 20. In our whole class sessions we