Year 1 - Green Class and Yellow Class
Autumn 2025
The Year 1 children have settled into their new classes very well and have enthusiastically taken part in all aspects of their learning. We have been extremely proud of their attitudes and efforts. We all thoroughly enjoyed art week and looking at the work of Andy Goldsworthy. We used his art work as inspiration to create our own pieces out of natural resources. The children have been busy practising their counting and sorting skills in mathematics and have begun to calculate their own addition sentences by filling in part whole models. In history, the children have really enjoyed learning about the local historical figure: Sir Titus Salt. They’ve learnt about what life was like in Saltaire during the Victorian period. The children have produced some lovely poems about their senses in English lessons. In geography, we have enjoyed learning about the different countries in the United Kingdom and looking at maps closer to home. The children have navigated maps and created their own aerial maps of the classroom using keys.
Summer 1 2025
Spring 2 2025
It's been another action-packed half term in Year 1! The children have loved learning about the different animal groups in science. We have learned lots of facts about the different groups. We applied our newly learnt facts to our writing in English when we wrote fact files about snakes, barn owls and sharks. It has been wonderful to see the children so passionate about writing with a purpose.
We've also been learning about measurements; the children were introduced to rulers and measuring in cm, as well as cubes and even paper clips!
It was World Book Day and we had a fantastic time making alternative book covers, writing book recommendations, dressing up and of course - lots of opportunities to read for pleasure throughout the day!
We embraced the sunshine and took part in a whole school Easter themed orienteering day; the children were so engaged and worked brilliantly as a team. We'll be doing more orienteering in the summer term. We are already looking forward to another exciting half term to kick off Summer 1 when we'll be learning all about where we live... Stay tuned!
Autumn 2 2024
Autumn 1 2024
The Year 1 children have settled into their new classes very well and have enthusiastically taken part in all aspects of their learning. We have been extremely proud of their attitudes and efforts.
We have been very busy during our 'Marvellous Me' topic. We have created our own portraits in the style of Pablo Picasso after looking at his art work that had an emphasis on cubism. We all thoroughly enjoyed art week and learning about the very talented Japanese artist, Yayoi Kusama.
The children have practised their counting and sorting skills in mathematics and have begun to calculate their own addition sentences by filling in part whole models. We have identified fact families and learnt that the answer to a calculation can sometimes be found at the start of a number sentence.
During science lessons, the children have learnt the different body parts and how important our senses are to find out about the world. We have carried out some experiments to find out answers to questions, such as "Are two eyes better than one?"
In geography we have enjoyed learning about the different countries in the United Kingdom and looking at maps closer to home. The children have navigated maps and created their own aerial maps of the classroom using keys. They have learnt about and identified human and physical features on local maps of Guiseley, Yeadon and Ilkley.
Through our history lessons we have learnt how to put events in chronological order on a time line and we got to look at pictures of our grandparents when they were our age.
Both classes were excited to visit the computer suite and have all been taught to login using their own usernames and passwords. They can now navigate a word document to type, delete and edit text. Perhaps they could show you what they have learnt over the holidays.
