Rainbow, Sunshine & Saturn Class Blog

  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

Week 3 What another lovely, packed week in EYFS/ Year 1! This week in phonics we have reinforcing j, v, w, x and Year 1 have been revisiting aw, ew, wh and ph. This week in maths EYFS have been consolidating their understanding of the composition of 5. Composing

Week 2 This week in phonics Year 1 have reinforced sounds: oy, ir, ue, ph. EYFS learned sounds ure (cure) and er. In Maths we have been looking at number 16 to 20. We have looked at how each number is made e.g. 14 is ten and 4 more. We

Week 1 We’re back and settled after our break! We hope you all had a lovely Christmas. We have had a fantastic first week back in EYFS/Year 1. As scientists, we’ve been investigating the weather! We discussed the different seasons and the typical weather in that season, as