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Year 1
Welcome to the Elm and Olive Year Group Page
Meet the Year 1 Teaching Team
Important Information
- PE is twice a week on Tuesdays and Thursdays. The children will need to wear their PE kits for these sessions. Please send your child to school in their PE kit every Tuesday and Thursday.
- Each week we will post the learning for next week on this page. Please check this weekly as it will contain the key learning for Year One and links and ideas to help you support your child at home.
Canadian Barn Dance 5
We have been learning a Canadian Barn Dance routine in our Dance lesson this week. We will add the next steps to our step hop routine next week! Here are some of our dances so far...
Canadian Barn Dance 4
Canadian Barn Dance 3
Canadian Barn Dance 2
Canadian Barn Dance 1
Instruction Writing- Baking Bread and Butter Pudding
We have been busy making bread and butter pudding in Year One today. We listened to the instructions carefully and mixed, buttered, poured and baked our pudding! We will be writing instructions about how to make it later this week.
Science Week- Inventing Paint Colours!
It's Science Week at Millfield and our topic is Inventions! Our first invention in Year One was to use natural materials to create pigments to make our own paint colours. We planned which colours we wanted to make and select natural materials such as petals and leaves to help us make them!
Music with Mr Hampshire
'Music from around the World - Scotland'
Mindfulness Art with Mrs Lewis and Miss Halsall
'I'm Still Standing' performed by Mr Hampshire
Big Garden Birdwatch!
Mrs Franks will be taking part in the RSPB Big Garden Birdwatch this weekend. Use these resources if you would like to get involved! You can also use the link below to find out more and to submit your results.
Early Spring Nature Walk with Mrs Kershaw
'Happy' performed by Mr Hampshire
Music with Mr Hampshire 2
A letter to Year One from Mrs Kennedy- Weeks!
Dear Year 1 children and teachers,
I arrived at school this morning feeling excited about the day ahead.
As I opened my office door, I saw that something had been left on my desk. I was curious to find out what it was! As I got closer, I could see a note on the front explaining that Year 1 children (within the Year 1 bubble) had created a non-fiction book all about penguins and I was lucky enough to be able to read it!
I then heard a ping and looked at my emails to see that I had received an email from Mrs Franks sharing a non-fiction e-book that had been created by using the penguin reports that children had completed at home!
Thank you so very much - what a treat for me!
I am so impressed with all your hard work to create such amazing non-fiction reports all about penguins - one of my favourite animals! The information that you have carefully written, as well as the labelled images have helped me to understand more about penguins. The book is full of fantastic topical terminology that I have thoroughly enjoyed reading. I particularly like the 'Did you know...?' questions which was a very clever way of sharing information.
Did you know that the Emperor Penguin is the tallest of all penguin species, reaching as tall as 120cm in height? How tall are you? Are you shorter or taller than an Emperor Penguin?
Thank you again for sharing your very impressive learning.
Keep smiling!
From
Mrs Kennedy-WeeksMindfulness with Mrs Kershaw
Music with Mr Hampshire
Storytime with Mrs Lewis!
Mr Wumble and the Dragon Part 5
Mr Wumble and the Dragon Part 4
Mr Wumble and the Dragon Part Three
Listen on to find out how Mr Wumble defeats the dragon!
Mr Wumble and the Dragon Part Two
Find out what happens to Mr Wumble in Fairyworld.
Mr Wumble and the Dragon Part One
Join me for another story this week. This time it's a fairy tale called Mr Wumble and the Dragon by Enid Blyton.
The Climbers Part Five
Here is the final part of The Climbers. Visit our class page next week for a new story!
The Climbers Part Four
Where will Alma and Tully go next? Who will let them in?
The Climbers Part Three
What will happen to Star Bear and Alma now the villagers have discovered the truth?
The Climbers Part Two
How do you feel about Star Bear? Do you think he is really as fierce as the villagers say he is?
The Climbers Part One
Join me each day to read the adventures of Alma and her bear cub.
Year One Christmas Poem
Personification Poems
This week, we have been imagining what winter would be like were it human. We drew an image of winter as a person and then wrote sentences to describe them. We were inspired by the poem 'Seasons' by Valerie Bloom. An excellent job from Harry, Alfie, Rose, Isabelle, Brodie and Daniel on their winter poems!
Year One End of Term Christmas Activities
Christmas Crafts in Year One
We have been in the Christmas spirit this week and getting involved in Christmas crafts and helping to decorate the Millfield playground!
Olive Class Christmas Carols!
Jingle Bells
Olive Class enjoyed venturing outside today to safely sing some Christmas songs! We sang 'Deck the Halls', 'Santa Claus is Comin' to Town', 'Silent Night', 'Away in a Manger', 'Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer' and 'Jingle Bells'!
Making Fruit Pizzas
Fruit Pizzas Cooking Class
Here is our Elm class cooking class to teach you how to make your own fruit pizzas at home.
Fruit Pizzas Cooking Class
Here is our Olive class cooking class to teach you how to make your own fruit pizzas at home.
In Year One, we made fruit pizzas using raspberries, grapes, bananas and blueberries. We recorded ourselves giving instructions to make the pizzas for our very own Millfield cooking show.
Junk Model Buildings
We were inspired by the building work at Millfield and spent Tuesday morning designing and building our own cardboard houses. We thought about the features of a house and what they definitely needed and then got to work building them out of junk modelling materials.
The Snail and the Whale
We have been writing our own version of Julia Donaldson's 'The Snail and the Whale' in Year One this week. Well done to Jack C who worked extremely hard on his sentence structure and also passed his spelling target this week!
Ocean Setting Description
We took our imagination to an underwater setting this week and used our five senses to describe it. Well done to Lea who wrote this shimmering sea description!
Poem Writing in Year One
Well done to Hayden in Elm class who used rhyming words to write a great poem this week.
We were inspired by the poem 'The Treasures' by Clare Bevan.
Well done to Sydney in Olive Class who chose some brilliant adjectives and animals to add to her rhyming couplets poem.
Year One Classroom Layout
In Year One, we have been working on making some reasonable adjustments to our classrooms to help us to support children in their learning.
We have created a carpet area in both classrooms, which will allow for more engaged and age appropriate teacher input. Children will be sat in lines facing forward on the carpet and will remain with their line as they transition to the tables.
The tables have been laid out in a way that ensures that no child is face to face with another child. Please see below for a few photos that show the changes we have made in Elm and Olive classrooms.
Thank you for your continued support and understanding.
Best wishes from the Year One Team
The slideshow below shows the classroom layout for Olive and Elm Classrooms from 20th October 2020.
Please click on the link below to view the welcome to KS1 document.
We hope you enjoy looking at the pictures of the continuous provision in the Elm and Olive classrooms.
