Good Luck in Year 2!

We are sad to come to the end of our time in Year 1, but we are also very happy because our teachers are so proud of all of the progress that we have made this year. It is also a sad time because, today, Miss Cheetham is leaving school to go to university. She has been with some of us since pre-school and we are going to miss her very much. Good luck Miss Cheetham!

All of the teachers would like to say a big thank you to all the children and parents/carers for a fantastic year.

We hope you have a lovely Summer holiday and continue to shine as you move to Year 2!

Love from Miss Moorcroft, Miss Cheetham, Mrs Duckworth and Miss Hunt x x x

World Cup Mad!!

This week we have done lots of activities related to the World Cup.

We have learned about Brazil, including creating some Amazon Rainforest collages and doing some Samba dancing. We even learned some Portuguese as this is the main language spoken in Brazil.

We have also learned about England, as this was the country that we were given to find out about as part of World Cup week. We learned about the Royal Family and London, our capital city.

Also, we had a Year 1 football tournament where we played matches against each other in teams. One of our teams won and they received a medal!

The whole school are also having a competition to create a Westfield World Cup Mascot. This week we made our mascot using recycled materials. Our mascot is called Westie and is a pie (seeing as we live in Wigan)!

Well, that's it for this week! See you next week for our final year in Year 1. Love from Miss Moorcroft, Mrs Duckworth, Miss Cheetham and Miss Hunt x x x

Here is a slideshow of our fun-filled week...

2 weeks to go...

We can't believe we only have 2 weeks left of being in Year 1! This week was particularly exciting because we went on a trip to Spaceport on Monday. We have also been busy bees learning about lots of other things this week. Read on to find out more...

Spaceport

On Monday we went to Spaceport and took part in lots of fun activities. We got to launch a rocket, sit in a 'dome' where we watched a small film about astronauts, go on a space simulator ride, make model aliens and much, much more. We even got to bring home our very own rocket! Here are some pictures from the trip...

Mathematics

In maths this week we have explored different types of measure including length, weight and capacity.

Science

This week in science we explored how we use forces to stop things from moving, for example a rolling ball. We also discussed things that might be safe or unsafe for us to stop if they were moving.

Literacy

This week we read a story called 'Aliens Love Underpants'. This is about some very mischievous aliens who come to Earth in their flying saucer to steal underpants off our washing lines. We were very shocked on Friday when Miss Moorcroft showed us a video of some aliens stealing underpants off her washing line at home! Therefore, we decided we needed to help her catch the aliens. We wrote her a set of instructions detailing how she might catch the aliens...we do hope she catches them soon so that she can get her underpants back!!

Super Sentences

Here are some of our alien themed B.O.Y.S sentences...

There has been no assembly this week and therefore no certificate winner.

Next week we are going to be taking part in a 'World Cup' themed week. (Unfortunately our team, England, were knocked out ages ago but never mind!) Come back next week to find out about all of our England/ World Cup themed activities. Love from Miss Moorcroft, Miss Hunt, Mrs Duckworth and Miss Cheetham x x

Sports Day and Rocket Adventures!

This week we have had a particularly adventurous week in Year 1W. We have taken part in Sports Day and have been on not 1, but 2 rocket adventures! Read on to find out more about our busy week...

Sports Day

We thoroughly enjoyed taking part in Sports Day this week and we were particularly lucky because the sun was shining. We took part in races, played ball games, had a javelin competition and long jump competition...

Mathematics

This week we looked at fractions. We found halves, quarters and three quarters of shapes and then moved on to finding halves and quarters of numbers.

Science

On Monday we had our first rocket adventure of the week using a bicycle pump, cork, plastic bottle and a tyre valve. We spoke about how air can be used as a force to push a rocket (plastic bottle) high in to the air. We also discussed how a bicycle pump could be used to create this air to push the rocket. In order to use the bicycle pump, we had to pull the handle up and push it down quickly to create the air needed to ensure the rocket could 'blast off'!!

Literacy

Our second rocket adventure of the week took place on Thursday where we used our imaginations to travel to space in our own rocket. On Friday we then wrote about our super rocket adventure.

CfL

In CfL this week we made our own rockets using the construction kits. We then evaluated these using the computer. Here are some examples...

Achievements

This week's certificate has been awarded to Amber Raymond for showing true bravery and determination to complete her race at Sports Day despite an early stumble!

Hope you have enjoyed reading our blog this week! We are very excited about next week because on Monday we are going on a trip to Spaceport. Could you please make sure that if your child has packed lunches that these are brought in a named carrier bag? Thank you!

See you on Monday bright and early! Love from Miss Moorcroft, Mrs Duckworth, Miss Cheetham and Miss Hunt x x x

Growing up fast!

This week we have felt extremely grown-up as we have spent 2 days in Year 2. We had lots of fun getting to know Miss Mousdell and our new classroom. We have also had a busy week in Year 1. Here is what we have been up to...

Mathematics

This week we have done some data handling. We thought about how we could collect and sort information about our favourite planets and favourite space suit designs. We then presented this information in pictograms, block graphs and bar charts.

CfL

This week we received a letter from Baby Bear from 'Whatever Next'. He was extremely upset because his mum had thrown his rocket away, so he asked us if we could make a new one. Therefore, we got to work designing a rocket on the computer. Hopefully Baby Bear will like our designs.

Literacy

In order to persuade Baby Bear to choose our rocket design, we wrote him a letter to describe our design. We tried really hard to think of different ways to start our sentences and also included different types of punctuation.

Science

This week we made 'alien biscuits'. We used pushes and pulls to shape and mould the mixture. Here we are exploring the different forces shaping the mixture...

Achievements

This week's certificate has been awarded to all of Year 1W for making all of their teachers proud with their sensible and mature attitude towards learning- they are certainly ready for Year 2!

Well, that's it for this week! Please remember it is Sports Day on Monday so children should have their PE kits. See you next week. Love from Miss Moorcroft, Miss Hunt, Miss Cheetham and Mrs Duckworth x x x

Brain Explosion!

This week we have worked so hard and at one point we thought our brains might explode! Luckily, they didn't, and we were able to complete some tricky assessments to show off our progress since we started in Year 1.

Due to assessment week, unfortunately we don't have many pictures or much to report this week! However, we do have some pictures of us exploring different pushes and pulls around the classroom and outdoors. We found out that a push is a force away from you and a pull is a force towards you...

Something else exciting happened this week- the whole school took part in a World Cup draw. Each class in school was drawn a country to follow throughout the World Cup. Our country is England, so we are hoping that they win the tournament (fingers crossed)!! In a couple of weeks we will have a World Cup week where we will complete activities associated with the football tournament and our country. We are hoping to find out some interesting information about England to share with the rest of the school.

Achievements

This week our certificate has been awarded to Carly Melling! Carly has really stood out in assessment week due to her fabulous progress in reading- well done Carly!

Well, that's it for this week. See you next week for another jam-packed week in Year 1! Love from Miss Moorcroft, Miss Cheetham, Mrs Duckworth and Miss Hunt x x x

To infinity... and beyond!!

We have had a busy few days back in school and were so excited to see our role play transformed in to 'Space' on Monday morning. Read on to find out about our hectic first week back...

Mathematics

This week in mathematics we have been busy practising all of the different skills we have learned so far in preparation for our tests.

Literacy

We have been on another magical adventure to another magical land this week. However, this time instead of going on a bubble we travelled through a WASHING MACHINE!! It was so much fun. We went to Disneyland, space, the farm and the Queen's mansion! Today we have written about our adventures.

Super Sentences

As we have got the hang of similes and 2A sentences now, Miss Moorcroft thought we were ready for a new type of sentence called the 'B.O.Y.S' sentence. This is a two-part sentence where a connective (But, Or, Yet, So) is use to link the two different ideas in a sentence together. In this sentence we also include a comma before we write our connective. For example: Miss Moorcroft was hungry, so she ate a juicy apple OR Miss Moorcroft was hungry, but had forgotten to bring her lunch box.

Here are some of our fantastic sentences...

CfL

As you may have already guessed, our new CfL topic is SPACE! We have thought long and hard about some of the things we would like to learn in this new topic and can't wait to discover more over the next few weeks.

Here we are in our new role play area...

Well, that's it for this week! Next week we are going to be doing some more tests to show our teachers all the progress that we have made. I'm sure we will blow their socks off!

Love from Y1W, Miss Moorcroft, Miss Cheetham, Miss Hunt and Mrs Duckworth x x x x

Where has the time gone??

We can't believe that another half term has whizzed by! We only have another half term left of being in Year 1 and then we are off to big Year 2! Here is what we have been learning about this week...

Mathematics

In maths this week we have been partitioning numbers into tens and ones using dienes equipment. For example, did you know that 27 is made up of 2 tens and 7 ones? You could help us partition numbers at home!

Literacy

This week we have been on a journey...in a bubble! We started off the week by meeting Ellie...a little girl who went on a journey through space and under the sea in a bubble. Ellie was sad her adventure was over so decided that we should all go on our own adventure so that we could tell her about it. Therefore, we blew our own bubbles and off we went on our own adventure. We went to some adventurous places including New York and Dinosaur Land! We then wrote a description of where we went on our adventure.

Here we are blowing our bubbles ready to set off on our own bubble adventure...

Science

We finished our Science investigation this week by looking at the cress we had grown in different conditions. The plant which had soil, water and sunlight looked the healthiest so we decided that plants should have these things to help them to grow. The plant which has been left without water did not grown at all and therefore we concluded that plants definitely need water to grow! We were also amazed that the plant grown in the cupboard still grew but turned yellow!

PE

This week we enjoyed some relay races in preparation for sports day.

CfL

We have concluded our 'Grow Me Eat Me' topic by making and evaluating our fruit salads. Lots of us decided that if we were to make a fruit salad again we wouldn't use apple because this started to go brown and didn't look too appealing. Here are our finished products...

Achievements

This week the certificate has been awarded to Dominik for always making his teachers smile with his brilliant sense of humour.

Well,  we hope you have enjoyed this week's blog! See you next half term for our final few weeks in Year 1W. Love from Miss Moorcroft, Miss Cheetham, Miss Hunt and Mrs Duckworth x x x

1 week to go...

Numeracy

This week we have been looking at missing number calculations. We have used resources including our fingers, counters, ten frames and number lines to help us find the missing numbers in addition and subtraction calculations.

Literacy

This week we have been looking at information texts. We discovered that these are written in the present tense, are factual and a person might use these to find out information about a specific topic. After exploring information texts we made information posters about the life cycle of a butterfly...

We then wrote our own information texts about the life cycle of a butterfly...come and have a look at our new display in class!

CfL

As our vegetables are not yet ready to eat, we decided to sample some fruits grown by other people. We spoke about the appearance and taste of the fruits to decide which would make the best fruit salad. We then designed our own fruit salad which we are going to make (and eat!) next week. Here we are sampling the fruits...

Science

This week we have started an experiment to investigate what cress needs to grow properly. We have 4 test conditions: no soil, no water, no sunlight, and all conditions met. We have made our predictions and are watching our cress carefully to see which plant grows best.

Achievements

This week the certificate has been awarded to Maddison Jones for showing a keen interest when learning about information texts and the life cycle of a butterfly.

Well, that's it for this week. One more week to go and then a well-deserved week off for working so hard!

Love from Miss Moorcroft, Miss Cheetham, Mrs Duckworth and Miss Hunt x x x

Hello again!

Hello and welcome to blog number 3 of this half term. We can't believe we only have 2 weeks left until we break up again! Read on to find out about our busy week...

Numeracy

This week we have been learning how to 'subtract' or 'find the difference'. We discovered that there are many different maths words all related to subtraction but they all mean the same thing. We practised taking away smaller numbers from bigger numbers and discovered that we always had less than we started with. We did this using counters and number lines and then moved on to solving subtraction word problems once we had got the hand of this.

Literacy

This week we wrote a recount of our planting trip to the ALPs. We did this completely independently and blew Miss Moorcroft's socks off with the progress we have made in writing!!

Super Sentences

Here are some of our super similes...

CfL

Since our planting trip to the ALPs, we have been wondering what type of weather would be best for our vegetables to grow. This week we watched the weather forecast and set up our own weather station to monitor the weather and track any changes and patterns. We also discussed the changing weather throughout different seasons and why some plants might grow better in certain seasons.

Science

As we have been learning about and growing our own plants, this week in Science we discussed the potential dangers in eating certain plants or parts of plants. Although some plants give us food, not all do, and certain parts of plants which give us fruit and vegetables can be dangerous if we try to eat these.

Achievements

This week's certificate has been awarded to Jessica for making fantastic progress in her writing.

Well, that's it for this week! We look forward to seeing you again next week for another busy week in Year 1W! Love from Miss Moorcroft, Miss Cheetham, Mrs Duckworth and Miss Hunt x x x

Green Fingers!

This week we have enjoyed learning about all things green! Read on to find out more...

Numeracy

In maths we have focused on addition. We totalled the cost of different flowers from the garden centre using coins or number lines. We then moved on to solving word problems about the garden centre. For example, if a sunflower costs 10p and a daffodil costs 6p, how much would they cost altogether? We discovered that it is very important to underline important information in a word problem so that we know what number sentence to write and how to solve the problem. This morning (Friday), Mr Sherriff and special visitors from another school came in to watch our super problem solving...I'm sure they were very impressed!

We also learned a song to help us learn our odd and even numbers. It goes like this...

I'm a number cruncher and my name is Bodd,

I like numbers if they're odd,

All odd numbers taste just fine,

And they end in 1, 3, 5, 7, 9!

I'm a number cruncher and my name is Steven,

I like numbers if they're even,

All even numbers taste just great,

And they end in 0, 2, 4, 6, 8!

Literacy

We have continued with our 'Very Hungry Caterpillar' book, but this week we have wrote our own version of the story. We began by describing our own animal and foods which we wanted to feature in our story and then on Friday we wrote our own story. They are very impressive!

Science

In Science, our new topic is 'Growing Plants'. This week we discovered the names of all of the different parts of a flower and a tree and found out about some of their jobs. For example, did you know that a plant gets food and water from roots? Amazing!

CfL

Again, continuing with our green theme, this week we went to the ALPs to plant our own seeds and vegetable plants. We began by digging up all of the weeds and turning over the soil. Next, we carefully dug up holes to place our seeds and plants in. Then we filled in the holes with soil and watered them. We are going to do this everyday until they are fully grown. Hopefully we will be able to make some healthy foods using them!

Check out the end of this week's blogs to see some of the photos from our trip to the ALPs.

PE

This week we enjoyed some outdoor games with Mrs Saunders. We played 'Cats and Mice' and 'Scatter the Rain'. Fingers crossed for more nice weather next week so we can continue with our outdoor games!

Achievements

Our certificate this week has been awarded to Callum for his outstanding attitude towards learning!!

Well, that's it for this week! We hope you all enjoy a peaceful long weekend and look forward to seeing you bright and early on Tuesday morning! Love from Miss Moorcroft, Mrs Duckworth, Miss Cheetham and Miss Hunt x x x

Hello and welcome back to Summer term in Year 1W. It has been a short week for us this week...read on to find out all about it!
 
Numeracy
 
This week we have been doubling. We blew Miss Moorcroft's socks off because we remembered that when you double a number you just add the same amount again. We also had a go at calculating 'near doubles' where we used our doubles facts to help us to add together two consecutive numbers. You can help us with doubling through our maths homework this week!
 
Literacy
 
For the next couple of weeks we are going to be doing Literacy activities all about 'The Very Hungry Caterpillar'. This week we sequenced the story and then made our own Hungry Caterpillar book. Here we are re-enacting the story…

Super Sentences
 
This week our similes have been linked to The Very Hungry Caterpillar. Here are some examples...

CfL
 
Our new CfL topic is 'Grow Me Eat Me'. We began our new topic by thinking about what we already know and what we would like to learn. We discussed how we might like to grow some food ourselves so next week we are going to the ALPS to plant our own fruit and vegetables.
 
Achievements
 
This week's certificate has been awarded to Jayden for returning to school with a grown-up attitude!
 
Well, that's it for this short week! Come back next week to hear all about another exciting week in Year 1. Love from Miss Moorcroft, Miss Cheetham, Miss Hunt and Mrs Duckworth x x x

Happy Easter!
 
Yippee! We have finally made it to the Easter holidays...what a busy and fun-filled final week we have had. Read on to find out about some of the Easter activities we have been doing...
 
Numeracy
 
As a special treat, this week we went on an Easter themed maths trail. There were numbered Easter eggs hidden around the outdoor area and it was our job to solve the different problems which were written on them. Here we are being super problem solvers...

Literacy
 
To consolidate our understanding of following and giving instructions, this week we made chocolate nests. We melted the chocolate, added the cornflakes, mixed it together and added a spoonful to our cake case. We then added a scrumptious mini egg on top...delicious! We can't wait to share (eat) them when we bring them home tonight.

 
 Super Sentences
 
Here are some examples of our Easter themed similes...

CfL
 
This week we have sketched our final castle using all of the new sketching techniques that we have learned. Watch this space for our castle art gallery in the shared area.
 
We have also used our art and design skills to make Easter baskets to bring home today... we hope you like them!

Achievements
 
This week's achievement certificate has been awarded to Danika for growing in confidence more and more everyday. Danika also won the trophy this week- well done Danika!
 
Another exciting achievement this week has been all of the 'egg-cellent' egg competition entries. Here are the entries from our class...

1 week to go...
 
This week we have been very busy in Year 1. Read on to find out about our week...
 
Numeracy
 
This week our main focus has been measure. We have used strides, art straws and even metre sticks to measure length of lines and distance a bean bag was thrown...

We also measured weight using balancing scales and cubes...

Literacy
 
This week we have completed our work on Jack and the Beanstalk. On Thursday we did some role play and created our own alternative ending to the story and then on Friday we wrote our alternative ending. We had some super ideas! Jayden thought that Jack met some pirates at the top of the beanstalk and then went on a hunt for treasure. Aaron thought that Jack found Rudolph and the reindeers at the top and he then returned them to Father Christmas! Here we are being super actors and actresses acting out our alternative ending...

Super Sentences...
 
Here are some of this week's super similes...

Literacy
 
This week we have continued to explore Jack and the Beanstalk, this time thinking about what the characters from the story might say. Firstly we looked at the giant's alliteration in 'fee, fi, fo, fum!' and the use of the exclamation mark to show he was saying this with great feeling. Miss Moorcroft challenged us to think of our own alliteration for the giant. For example, 'gee, gi, go, gum!' and 'bee, bi, bo, bum!' We then moved on to using speech bubbles to think about what other characters might say at different points in the story.
 
Super Sentences
 
We have continued with our similes focus linked to Jack and the Beanstalk. Here are some of our simile super sentences (did you like the alliteration?)...

Science
 
This week we were very scientific indeed because we had to make predictions (this means have a really good guess based on the information we already know) about where we would be able to read a special message the best. Most of us found that we could read the message best when we were outside on the playground and it was least clear when we were in the dark dungeon in the role-play area. This helped us to conclude that we need light to help us to see!
 
CfL
 
This week we enjoyed exploring the history of castles in more depth. We used a timeline to order different castles from oldest to newest and then learned about the features and purposes of different parts of a castle.
 
Achievements
 
This week's certificate has been awarded to Letitia for simply being Letitia and excelling in all areas of her learning. Keep up the good work!
 
Sports Relief
 
Today (Friday) is Sports Relief and we have all come to school dressed in our favourite 'sporty' clothes. As a special treat in the afternoon, we played some team games outside. Here we are joining in with the Sports Relief fun...

Well, that's it for this week. Come back next week to read about another busy and exciting week in the life of Year 1W. Love from Miss Moorcroft, Miss Cheetham, Mrs Duckworth and Miss Hunt x x

 Smarty pants!
 
This week we have been doing lots of assessments to show our teachers just how much we have progressed since starting Year 1. Therefore, unfortunately there is not much to report on in our blog this week. However, you should all be extremely proud of us as we have tried so hard and progressed so much!
 
In particular, we would like to say a big well done to our certificate winner this week...Ryan! Ryan has certainly stood out as progressing extremely well in all areas of learning!
 
Don't forget that next week is parents' evening and we look forward to updating you regarding your child's progress and achievements thus far in Year 1.
 
See you next week! Love from Miss Moorcroft, Mrs Duckworth, Miss Dingsdale, Miss Hunt and Miss Cheetham x x
 
 We read all night, it was the best book ever!
 
Wow, what an adventurous and exciting week we have had in Year 1! Firstly can we start by thanking all parents and carers who came to our 'World Book Day' assembly? We hope you enjoyed it, especially our amazing songs! Here we are enjoying 'World Book Day' in our costumes...

Click here to see a video of our assembly.
Click here to see our Super-Star-Story-Teller winners reading their stories.

 
Another exciting event which has happened this week has been our adventure on the life bus. We found it so interesting! Here are some pictures...

On Friday we were lucky to visit Skipton Castle. We even got to go in the spooky, dark dungeon! Click here to view a slideshow of photographs from our visit.
 
Now, what else have we been learning this week???
 
Numeracy
 
We have continued with our money focus, this time within the context of adding two amounts together to find the total.
 
Literacy
 
This week we went on a magical adventure to a fairytale land, just like the one in the story 'Rapunzel'. We then had to use similes and adjectives to describe what we saw while we were there.
 
Super Sentences
 
Here are examples of some similes that we have written...

 Science
 
To continue our new light and dark topic, this week we sorted light and non-light sources. Maybe you could help us to identify objects which give off light at home?
 
CfL
 
Before our trip to Skipton, we thought it would be useful if we researched castles. Therefore, we used the internet and created mind maps to show our findings. For example, did you know that Skipton Castle was built over 900 years ago? Also...did you know that coat of arms were used in battle to identify the knights? Amazing! Try and help us use the internet at home to discover more about castles!
 
Well, that's it for this week! Due to our trip to Skipton Castle, there has been no achievement certificate winner this week. Please come back next week to find our who are next superstar certificate winner is!
 
Love from Miss Moorcroft, Miss Dingsdale, Mrs Duckworth, Miss Cheetham and Miss Hunt x x x


 Welcome Back!!
 
Hello and welcome back to the second half of our Spring term in Year 1W! This week has been particularly exciting for us because Mrs Duckworth is back...we have missed her so much! Have a look at what we have been up to in our busy first week back...
 
Numeracy
 
Money, money, money! This week our learning in Numeracy has been all about money. We have identified different coins and paid for items in  our class 'shop'. Maybe you could help us to identify coins when we are out shopping and encourage us to use coins to pay for items ourselves?

Literacy
 
Once upon a time...Yes, you guessed it, we are learning about Fairytales this half term! This week we have read the story 'Rapunzel' and used similes and adjectives to describe the characters from the story. Come and have a look at examples on display in our classroom.

Here we are hot seating some of the characters...

Super Sentences
 
We have just started learning a new type of super sentence- the 'simile'. A simile is when you compare things using 'like a...' or 'as a...' to create a picture in the reader's mind. This is very tricky but we are going to continue practising writing similes throughout this half term.
 
CfL
 
Our new topic this half term is 'Dungeons and Dragons'. This week we have spent time thinking about what we would like to learn about in our new topic in preparation for our trip to Skipton Castle next Friday. We even have a new castle role play...come in and take a look!

Some of the boys were so fascinated by castles that they decided to buld one using our wooden blocks...what do you think?

Science
 
Our new science topic is 'Light and Dark' and this week we were super scientists as we went on a walk around school to identify different light sources. Maybe you could help us to identify different light sources around the home?
 
Achievements/ News

This week our certificate winner is... ALL OF YEAR 1W!! This was awarded for blowing Mrs Duckworth's socks off with all of their progress since she has been off.  We also won the trophy this week...come and see it in class!

This week we have also been very busy practising for our World Book Day assembly which will take place next Thursday...you are all in for a treat! If your child has brought lines home, could you please help them to practise them? Thank you.
 
Finally, could we please remind parents/ carers to return both permission slips and money to cover the final cost of the trip ASAP?
 
Thanks for reading! See you next week! Love from Miss Moorcroft, Mrs Duckworth, Miss Dingsdale, Miss Hunt and Miss Cheetham x x

Happy Valentine's Day

Can you believe that we are half way through Year 1 already? Crazy! We are progressing so well and can't wait to have a well deserved break over half term.
 
Bake Off!
 
Our 'Bike Shed Bake Off' has been a great success this week. I think the staff and children of Westfield can certainly give Paul Hollywood and Mary Berry a run for their money. Have a look at our class cake and some of our individual entries to the competition...

Numeracy
 
This week we have been learning about data handling. We have sorted information into pictograms, tables and block graphs. To tie in with our bake off theme we decided to find out the favourite cake of the children in our class.

We have also been 'problem solvers'. We had find all possibilities for lining up 3 or 4 different coloured counters in a row.

Literacy
 
We have continued with our work on Kakadu Jack and this week we have been thinking about alternative endings to the story. We acted out our own endings to the story and they were very imaginative! Here we are acting out our own endings...

CfL
 
To end our 'People and Places' topic, this week we have worked in groups to build our own fire engines. Here are the finished products...

Numeracy
 
This week we have re-visited and extended learning about 2D and 3D shapes. We impressed our teachers with our fantastic knowledge of the mathematical vocabulary associated with shapes.
 
Literacy
 
This week we have read the story of ‘Kakadu Jack’ and have made our own book to re-tell the story. It is a story that is set in another culture and it contains lots of different exotic fruits… we were very lucky as Miss Galley bought us some of these fruits to try...

CfL
 
To demonstrate our knowledge and understanding of our local area, on Wednesday we went on a local walk, remembering the maps and directions we created in a previous week. Here are some photos from our journey…

PE
 
In PE this week we have used our hands and feet to travel in different ways...

Science
 
This week our ‘Sound and Hearing’ topic has come to a close. We concluded the topic by conducting an experiment to measure the distance sound travels. Our teachers played 3 musical instruments and we had to take strides away from the instrument until we stopped hearing it. We found out that the louder the sound, the further the distance travelled.
 
We then completed a science assessment to demonstrate our understanding of this topic…we are certainly becoming ‘super scientists.’
 
Achievements
 
This week’s certificate has been awarded to Bailey Belshaw for demonstrating outstanding behaviour and excellent knowledge during our walk of the local area.
 
Well, that’s it for this week! Join us again next week when the results of Westfield’s ‘Great Bike Shed Bake Off’ will be revealed…YUM!
 
Love from Miss Moorcroft, Miss Dingsdale, Miss Hunt, Miss Cheetham and all children of Y1W x x


 Fantastic Firefighter Fun!

This week has been a particularly exciting one in Year 1W. Read on to find out why...

Numeracy

This week we have been ‘take away champions’. We began the week by taking away different numbers from 10 using counters and ten frames. We then moved on to subtraction by ‘counting up’ on a number line.

CfL

As a result of our interest in firefighters, this week we have designed our own fire engine which we will be building in groups over the coming weeks.

After much anticipation, on Wednesday morning, we were visited by the firefighters. We were so excited to ask them questions and have a look at the fire engine… we even got to have a look inside and they played the siren for us! CJ was very lucky because he got to hold the hose and Aaron got to hold the axe. We were very inquisitive and found out some very interesting things. For example, did you know that they pump water from underground when they are fighting a fire? We also found out that firefighters don’t only fight fires; they do lots of other jobs including cutting people free from cars when they have been in an accident. Here are some pictures from their visit…

Literacy

We have been busy writing about our exciting firefighter visit this week and, as we are getting so good at writing now, we did this INDEPENDENTLY. We blew Miss Moorcroft’s socks off she was that impressed with the work we have produced!

Super Sentences

Have a look at the latest 2A sentences we have written. Some of us have moved on to adding an extra 2 adjectives and noun in to our sentences.

Science

This week we explored how we hear and discussed things which can either help or hinder our hearing. We had fun testing this out by wearing hats, hoods and headphones.

Achievements

This week’s certificate has been awarded to Maddison for her inquisitive mind and super questions during the firefighter visit.

A big well done to Harry who won wrestler of the week at wrestling this week...

Next week we will be going on a walk around our Local Area and are particularly excited to walk past the fire station.
Thanks for looking at our blog! See you next week. Love from Miss Moorcroft, Miss Cheetham, Miss Dingsdale and Miss Hunt x x x

Marvellous Mathematicians!

Welcome back to our third blog of 2014. This week our teachers have been blown away with the progress that we are all making in maths. In fact, they have been so impressed that we have now been renamed 'marvellous mathematicians'!

Numeracy

This week we have been practising our number bonds and our addition skills. Some of us even moved on to doing this on a number line using the ‘counting on’ strategy. Here is a new number bond song you might like to sing with us at home and some pictures of us in action…

(Tune- row your boat)-
 9 + 1 are number bonds
8 + 2 are friends
7 + 3
6 + 4
5 + 5 are twins
(The second verse is the same but 1 and 9, etc.)

Literacy

We have continued with our work on poetry and this week have moved on to writing our own rhyming poems based on he poem 'Jump or Jiggle'. We had lots of fun pretending to move like the animals in the poem and trying to match the rhyming words. Maybe you could practise writing rhyming poems with us at home?

Super Sentences

Here are some of our latest ‘super sentences’…

Science

This week we thought about pleasant and unpleasant sounds and discussed how we could make sounds quieter and louder.

CfL

Next week we hopefully be visited by some firefighters (depending on whether or not they are called to an emergency). Therefore, this week we read a big information book about firefighters and watched a small clip about fire engines. We then thought of questions we would like to ask the firefighters.

Achievements

This week’s certificate has been awarded to Letitia for being a 'Marvellous Mathematician' and being amazing at addition using a number line.

That’s it for this week! We hope you all have a lovely weekend- see you next week for another busy week in Year 1W and (hopefully) a very exciting trip from the fire crew. Love from Miss Moorcroft, Miss Cheetham, Miss Dingsdale and Miss Hunt x x x

Another week down...

Wow...week 2 has flown by already! Here is what we have been learning about this week...
 
Numeracy
 
We began the week by partitioning numbers in to tens and units. We did this practically by sorting counters into cups and using special Dienes equipment...

Literacy
 
This week have written our own senses poems. We thought hard about what we could see, touch, hear, taste and smell. Look our for our new display coming soon showing off our fantastic poems!
 
Super Sentences
 
Our work with 2A sentences has continued and it would be great if you could practise these with us at home. Maybe the children could write 2A sentences about objects they find around their house or their local area?
 
A 2A sentence has 2 adjectives (describing words) which come before a noun (a person, place or thing). We are very clever and use commas to separate our adjectives.
 
For example: The children played on the exciting, thrilling park. We ate a hot, tasty pizza.
 
Here are more examples from the children...

Science
 
We thought about how to make different sounds using musical instruments. We found out that you can make sounds by plucking, banging, blowing and shaking the instruments and then sorted the instruments according to how they are played.
 
CfL
 
Thinking about our local area, we looked at Google Maps to locate our surrounding area using a 'bird's eye view'. We then plotted a route to walk around our local area and wrote some directions that we could follow.
 
PE
 
This week we found different ways of travelling using both our hands and feet.

RE

We brought in our special books to share and then wrote about why they are special to us.
Thanks grown-ups for helping us to remember them, if you forgot it this week, bring it in next Wednesday!

Achievements

This week's certificate goes to Joshua for always being so polite and well-mannered and giving 100% in everything he does.
 
That's it for this week! Don't forget to come back next week to hear all about yet more exciting learning in Year 1W! Love from Miss Moorcroft, Miss Cheetham, Miss Dingsdale and Miss Hunt x x x

Happy New Year!

Hello and welcome back to the first blog of 2014. We hope you have had a lovely break over Christmas. We are so impressed with the children's attitude as they have come back ready and eager to learn. Have a look at what we have been up to...
 
Numeracy
 
This week we have been halving and doubling amounts. When halving numbers we have been sharing counters in to two equal groups. When doubling numbers we have been using cubes and our fingers to add the same amount again. Here we are exploring this practically...

Literacy
 
We have written a thank you letter to Father Christmas and some fantastic New Year's Resolutions. We are going to try really hard to stick to all of them!
 
Super Sentences
 
We have continued with our 2A sentences. Here are some examples...

Science
 
Our new topic in Science is 'Sound and Hearing'. This week we went on a 'listening walk' and had a 'sound quiz'. We discovered that there are lots of different types of sounds which come from lots of different sources.
 
CfL
 
This week we have been introduced to our new topic which will be 'People and Places'. We created a mind map, discussing all of the things we wish to find out about.

PE

We have been travelling in different ways using our feet including jumping, hopping, skipping, changing levels and changing directions. Here we are in action...

Could we please remind parents/ carers to have PE kits in school every Thursday? Thank you.
 
Achievements
 
This week's Achievement Certificate has been awarded to Mason Hurley for starting 2014 ready and eager to learn. Keep it up!
 
Well, that's it for this week! As you can see, we have been busy bees in our first week back. Come back next week to discover what the second week has in store...
 
Love from Miss Moorcroft, Miss Dingsdale, Miss Hunt, Miss Cheetham and all of Year 1W x x 

Santa Claus is coming to town...

My oh my what a fun-filled, busy week in Year 1W! Here is our day-by-day guide of our exciting Christmas week...

Monday

On Monday morning we had so much fun getting ready for our Christmas party. We listened to Christmas songs and made party hats and party bags ready for the afternoon...

Tuesday

On Tuesday we went to Acorn Farm where we met some farm animals and... FATHER CHRISTMAS!!! Here are some photos of our trip. We hope that you like the special decoration we made with the photo of us meeting Father Christmas.

 Wednesday
 
On Wednesday we got creative by making Christmas cards for our loved ones. We hope you like them!

We also had a special assembly where children with the most improved handwriting received a special award. Our most improved hand writer was Logan. Well done Logan you superstar!

 Thursday
 
On Thursday we got busy making Christmas decorations to take home. We also had a special 'cinema afternoon' where we watched a Christmas film with Y1F.

Friday
 
Today is our last day before Christmas and we are so excited for our special visit from Father Christmas... 5 more sleeps to go!!
 
We hope that the children and parents/ carers of Year 1W have a lovely Christmas and New Year. Thank you for all your support so far and we look forward to seeing you in 2014!
 
Love from Miss Moorcroft, Miss Dingsdale, Miss Hunt, Miss Cheetham, Miss Kenny and Mrs Duckworth x x x

 It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas...
 
We are feeling very festive in Year 1W and are extremely excited at the thought of Father Christmas coming very soon! Have a look at all of the Christmas themed learning we have done this week...
 
Numeracy
 
We began the week by continuing to count in different ways, including 5s and 10s. We found this very difficult last week but now we are beginning to get the hand of it.
 
We then moved on to learning about halves. We found halves of shapes and then turned these into Christmas snowflakes...

We also halved amounts of objects to help Santa share presents between different children.
 
Literacy
 
This week's Literacy has all had a Christmas theme. We began the week by using adjectives to describe our favourite present and then moved on to writing our Christmas list for Father Christmas, again using adjectives. 
We also received a message from Father Christmas all the way from the North Pole...Thankfully we are all on the 'good' list this year!! We hope we get some of the things from our Christmas lists for being so 'good.' We left them outside for Santa to collect in the hope that we might receive a letter back from him.

CfL
 
We have continued to sew and decorate our puppets...They look fabulous as you can see...

Science
 
We have investigated materials yet again, this time thinking about why we use certain materials for certain jobs. Here we are investigating why we use glass for windows and plastic for umbrellas...

Continuous Provision
 
As our classroom has turned very 'Christmassy', we have had some Christmas challenges to complete. Here we are being independent learners...

Well, that's it for this week! Come back next week for our last blog of 2013. Love from Miss Moorcroft, Miss Cheetham, Miss Dingsdale and Miss Hunt x x x

 
Christmas is coming…

Christmas may be getting closer but we are still working our socks off in Year 1W…

Numeracy

This week we have been counting in 2s and 5s- we discovered that this is much quicker than counting in 1s! We have done this very practically using counters and arrays…
 

Super Sentences

We have continued with our work on ‘2A sentences.’ Here are some examples…

How fantastic are they?

Literacy

This week we have been putting our 2A sentence work into our Literacy writing by writing descriptions of bears and bear caves. We tried hard to use adjectives and put our commas in the right place to separate the adjectives.

CfL

We have begun making our animal puppets so that we can hopefully take them home before Christmas.

Science

This week we have completed a Science assessment to show our teachers how much we know. They were so proud of us!

Other News

This morning (Friday) when we came to school something very exciting had happened to our classroom. We have lots of Christmas decorations and even a Santa’s Workshop to explore! Have a look at our ‘Christmassy’ classroom…

Miss Moorcroft and Miss Cheetham went to visit Mrs Duckworth this week and she was happy to hear about all of the progress the children are making! She can't wait to see how much they have grown when she returns.

Achievement Certificate

This week’s certificate was awarded to Codie Atkins for trying your best in everything you do!
 
Well that's it for this week...come back next week to find out about some of our Christmas themed learning!

Love from Miss Moorcroft, Miss Hunt, Miss Cheetham, Miss Dingsdale and all of Year 1W x x

 Back to normal in Year 1...
 
This week we have recovered from our brave adventures on the ALPs and have settled back in to our normal routine. We have worked extremely hard this week and have been super sensible and well-behaved. Let us tell you all about it...
 
Numeracy
 
We have been mathematical problem solvers this week! We looked at different word problems and tried hard to pick out the important bits of information to help us solve the problem. We decided that the most important information included the numbers and the words which told us whether we were adding or taking away...

Literacy
 
This week has been all about writing 'recounts'. A recount is where you write about something you have done... you write about it in the past tense and remember the events in order. You might even use special time connectives (e.g. first, next, then, finally) to link these events. Our recount was about our week in the ALPs.
 
Super Sentences
 
Every day we now write a 'super sentence'. At the moment we are learning about 2A sentences. 2A sentences include 2 adjectives (describing words) which are separated by a comma. (Yes, we are using commas in Year 1!!!). Here are some of our 'super sentences'...

CfL
 
This week we have used some of the natural resources which we collected in the ALPs to make some natural collages just like an artist called Andy Goldsworthy. Here are some of our super creations...

Science
 
This week we have learnt about magnets. We found that some metal objects stick to magnets whereas non-metal objects do not.
 
Achievement Certificate
 
This week's certificate goes to Duncan for his excited, energetic and enthusiastic attitude towards his learning.

Well, that's all for this week! Please come back next week to discover more about the adventures of Year 1W!

Miss Moorcroft, Miss Cheetham, Miss Hunt, Miss Dingsdale and all of Y1W x x x


We're going on a bear hunt, we're going to catch a big one...

See below for ALPs pictures!
 
Time really does fly when you are having fun, and we have had so much fun on the ALPs this week! We hope you are sitting comfortably because we can't wait to tell you all about it...
 
Monday
 
Monday began with a Cinderella pantomime. Some fantastic actors and actresses came and performed the story of Cinderella...it was full of songs, dances and lots of laughter! We had so much fun and it has already got us in the Christmas spirit.
 
In the afternoon we went to the ALPs to begin our bear hunt. We followed clues which led us to different food items. We picked these up along the way so that we could enjoy some yummy food around a camp fire. We had a fantastic time but unfortunately didn't catch a bear (despite seeing lots of paw prints). Therefore, we decided that we would need to make a trap to try and catch the bear, which we did later in the week.
 
Tuesday
 
In the morning we did maths in the ALPs and learnt all about following directions. We found out that it is important to follow directions so that we can get from one place to another. It's also really important to be precise with our directions so that we get to exactly where we need to be.
 
In the afternoon we did a Science investigation in the ALPs, looking at whether or not different materials were waterproof. We decided that our bear trap would need to be waterproof just in case it rains...we wouldn't want it falling apart before we caught our bear now would we??
 
Wednesday
 
Due to the adverse weather conditions, on Wednesday we had to spend the day in school. In the morning we learnt about positional language. We had to listen to directions and special words to describe where different paw prints were hidden and then use this information to go and find them.
 
In the afternoon we had a break from the ALPs and did some RE with Mrs Saunders. We learnt all about the Christmas story.
 
Thursday
 
On Thursday morning we followed a special maths trail, solving mathematical problems on paw prints which were hidden outside.
 
Later that day, we built our bear trap. We tried hard to listen to and follow instructions in small groups to help us make the trap. We even caught a bear!!!
 
Friday
 
Today we have impressed our teachers by writing some super independent instructions so that other people can make a bear trap. We blew Miss Moorcroft's socks off as we remembered to be bossy, use capital letters, full stops and finger spaces. Our independent writing is improving everyday!
 
Well, that concludes our day-by-day diary about our themed week in the ALPs. As you can see we have had lots of fun and even managed to catch a bear! We have had so many fantastic ideas, worked well together, been extremely well-behaved and learnt so much!

Click here to see the photographs of the week.
Click here to see the author, Michael Rosen, read his poem.

 
Achievement Certificate
 
This week's certificate goes to Chloe Lawrence for her fantastic idea about how to catch a bear AND her amazing adjectives in her 2A sentence- "we walked through the soggy, squelchy grass." You have been on fire this week, Chloe!

Have a lovely, restful weekend. You all deserve it after an exciting but tough week on the ALPs!
 
Love from Miss Moorcroft, Miss Dingsdale, Miss Hunt and Miss Cheetham x x x
 

Another busy week in Y1W...
 
Another week has flown by in Y1W and we can't wait to tell you all about it. We also have a new adult in our class (Miss Dingsdale) who will be joining us for a few weeks while Mrs Duckworth is away... so a big welcome to Miss Dingsdale!
 
Numeracy
 
This week we have been learning all about time. We began by learning a song to help us remember the days of the week in the correct order. We sang this around the playground to help it to stick in our heads...

Here are the words to the song (sang to 'The Addams Family' tune)- help us to sing it at home...
 
Days of the week (clap clap)
Days of the week (clap clap)
Days of the week
Days of the week
Days of the week (clap clap)
There's Monday and there's Tuesday
There's Wednesday and there's Thursday
There's Friday and there's Saturday
And then there's Sunday
(Repeat)
 
We then moved on to sequencing events of the day and discovered how to tell the time when it is 'o'clock'. We found out that when it is 'o'clock' the minute hand (which is the longest hand)  always points to 12 and the hour hand (the shortest hand) points to the 'o'clock.' Help us tell the time when it is 'o'clock' at home!
 
Literacy
 
This week we have been learning about captions. A caption is 1 or 2 sentences explaining what is happening in a picture. The sentence must include a captial letter, full stop and finger space.
 
CfL
 
This week we got a note from a bear telling us he had hidden clues around school. We had to de-code these clues and pick up notes that he had left us along the way. These notes spelt out a terrifying message: BEWARE OF THE GRIZZLY BEARS!

Next week we are taking part in a themed week in the ALPs based on our new topic. We will be going on a REAL bear hunt, so could children please make sure that they bring wellies, a coat and a spare pair of trousers and leave them in school in a named carrier bag all week? Thank you!
 
Science
 
We continued our 'Materials' topic and this week used descriptive words like bumpy, shiny and bendy to describe different objects around the classroom...

Achievement
 
This week's certificate goes to Frank who is growing more and more every day! Frank- you are a superstar!
 
Our 'writer of the week' is Chloe for her bossy instructions.

A big well done to all children (and staff) who managed to come to school in their pyjamas and onesies in aid of Children in Need!

See you next week when we will tell you all about our fun filled week in the ALPs! Love from Miss Moorcroft, Miss Dingsdale, Mrs Duckworth, Miss Hunt and Miss Cheetham x x x

 Welcome Back!!
 
Hello and welcome back to our class blog after a relaxing half term. The children came back to school ready to learn, so let's tell you all about it...
 
Numeracy
 
This week has been all about measure. We began by learning all about height and length, using our bodies and a ruler as units of measurement. We used super maths words like longer, shorter and taller.
 
We then moved on to learning about weight. We discovered that if the balance scales were down, the objects in here were the heaviest. If they were up, these objects were the lightest...

Literacy
 
We have started to look at non-fiction writing this week and we began with a re-count of our half-term holidays. We tried hard to write about the events in the past tense and wrote about what we did in order using special words like first, next and then.
 
Next, we created a firework safety poster to inform others of how they could safe on Bonfire Night.
 
Then, we moved on to looking at instructions. We made a jam sandwich and created some very bossy instructions to help others follow all the steps they need to (in order!!) to make a jam sandwich. We even got to eat our jam sandwiches...delicious!

Science
 
This term in Science we are going to be learning all about 'Materials'. To start this topic, we went on a material hunt, comparing and describing different materials that we found. 

PE

We played a game of sharks in the water with Y1F...

CfL
 
We were so excited to hear that our new CfL topic is going to be 'We're Going on a Bear Hunt'. We had a 'thought shower' to decide what we wanted to learn about during this topic. There were some fantastic ideas- Logan decided that he wanted to go on a real bear hunt and Aaron thought it would be a good idea to use a map and follow directions to help us on our hunt.
 
We even got to explore our new 'Bear Hunt' role-play. Here are CJ and Duncan re-enacting the story independently...

Achievements
 
This week's achievement certificate goes to Harry who has just started in our class this week. You are polite, hard-working and always have a smile on your face. We are so lucky to have you!

This week's 'writer of the week' is Star for her fabulous list of things she would take on her bear hunt.
 
Reminder
 
Children who read at night get a sticker the next morning and those who have read every night of the week get a well done token on a Friday...happy reading!
  
See you again next week! Love from Miss Moorcroft, Miss Cheetham, Mrs Duckworth Miss Hunt and all of Y1W x x x
 

A Fantastic Half Term in Year 1!
 
We have ended a fantastic first half term in Year 1 by impressing all of the teachers with how much progress we have made so far in our reading, writing, mathematics, speaking & listening and science. All of the adults would like to say a big WELL DONE to all of the children for their sensible attitude and hard work this week.
 
As it has been assessment week, there have been little photo opportunities, however, we would like to share some photos of some of our finished toys that we have been busy making…

This week’s certificate goes to Bartek. We can already see that you are going to be fantastic role-model in Year 1W!

Well, that's it for our final blog from our first half term in Year 1. We hope you have enjoyed finding out about our learning and seeing us all hard at work. See you next half term so we can do it all again! Have a fantastic half term and a safe and SPOOKY Halloween.

Miss Moorcroft, Mrs Duckworth, Miss Cheetham, Miss Hunt and all of Y1W x x

What a super week!

We would just like to start this week’s blog by saying a big thank you to all of the parents and carers who attended Parents’ Evening. It was great to share information about your child’s well-being and achievements so far. Don’t forget, if you have any queries regarding your child’s well-being and achievement you are more than welcome to pop in to speak to me at any time.

Numeracy

This week has been all about data handling- this is where you sort information in a variety of ways to find the answer to a problem. For example, this week we sorted shapes in different ways using sorting hoops and we also created pictograms to find out ‘What is Year 1’s favourite fruit?’

Literacy

As we love The Jolly Postman so much, we continued our work on the story this week. In particular, we discovered more about Goldilocks through completing a ‘role on the wall’ to find out about what Goldilocks looks like on the outside and what she is like on the inside. We also got into role as Goldilocks through another ‘hot seating’ activity where we pretended to answer questions as if we were Goldilocks. We are naturals at going in to different roles and pretending to be characters…
 

CfL
We have started making our toys that move. Year 1W definitely has some budding engineers in the making I’m sure you will agree…

Science

This week we talked about why we need food and drink and discussed the different types of food we should eat to be healthy. We then designed our own dinner plate.

PE

In PE we played some party games with a 'toy' theme!

Achievement

This week’s certificate winner is Jessica for her hard work in Read Write Inc!

Next week we are doing lots of activities to show off the children’s amazing progress so far in Year 1. We are sure they will blow our socks off! Enjoy your weekend and have a big rest so that you are ready to impress us!

Miss Moorcroft, Mrs Duckworth, Miss Hunt, Miss Cheetham and all of Y1W xxxx
 

Time flies when you are having fun…

Hello again everyone and welcome back to Year 1 W’s weekly blog. We can’t believe how fast our first few weeks in Year 1 are going! Time really is flying by and we can’t wait to tell you all about. First, however, we must give yet another ‘Westfield Welcome’ to Abigail who started in our class this week. We hope you have settled in well and can’t wait to get to know you more!

Numeracy

This week we have had a break from all of the tricky number work and have been looking at shapes and repeating patterns. Some of us went on a shape hunt around school, we made shape pictures using 2D shapes and some of us made models using 3D shapes- it was lots of fun! Try and help us find different 2D and 3D shapes around the house and get us to describe them to you…we will impress you!

On Thursday Miss Galley came to watch us learn all about repeating patterns so she could go back and tell 1F what superstars we are in 1W. She was so impressed with all of the new wallpaper we made for Miss Moorcroft’s new house using shape repeating patterns.

Literacy

We just loved reading The Jolly Postman so much that we have continued our work on the story this week in Literacy. On Wednesday we wrote a character description of 'The Wicked Witch' from the story, thinking of super WOW words to describe her appearance. On Thursday we discovered that the postman had hurt his foot so could not deliver his letters... The Giant had dropped a huge cup on his foot- oh no! Therefore, we got to work writing him a letter, telling him how we were going to help him. Most of us decided we would deliver the letters for him! Our independent writing is improving day by day so any help you can give us at home would be great.

Science

This week we matched adult animals to baby animals- did you know that a butterfly actually starts life as a caterpillar and a frog begins life as a tadpole? Also, a baby goat is called a kid and a baby cow is called a calf? Amazing stuff! Test us on animals and their young at home!

CfL

This week we got to work designing our own toy, thinking about how it is going to move…watch this space because we will be making these toys very soon!

Achievements

Our certificate winner this week is Abigail Orrell- you have settled in really well to Year 1W and are already a fantastic member of our team. Keep up the hard work!

Reminders

Don't forget next week is Parents' Evening and your child should have brought home a letter indicating their time and day. We look forward to meeting with you next week and discussing how your child has settled in to Year 1.

See you next week- Miss Moorcroft, Mrs Duckworth, Miss Hunt, Miss Cheetham and all of Year 1W xxx
 
 Busy Bees!
 
Hello again and welcome to week 5 of our class blog! We hope you are sitting comfortably because we have a lot to tell you about...
 
Numeracy
 
This week has been all about number bonds- these are two numbers that make 5 or 10 when added together. Miss Moorcroft taught us a number bond song to help us to learn our number bonds. It goes a bit like this...
 
0 add 10, 0 add 10, 10 add 0, 10 add 0
Bring them both together, bring them both together
That makes 10! That makes 10!
 
1 add 9, 1 add 9, 9 add 1, 9 add 1
Bring them both together, bring them both together
That makes 10! That makes 10!
 
2 add 8, 2 add 8, 8 add 2, 8 add 2
Bring them both together, bring them both together
That makes 10! That makes 10!
 
3 add 7, 3 add 7, 7 add 3, 7 add 3
Bring them both together, bring them both together
That makes 10! That makes 10!
 
4 add 6, 4 add 6, 6 add 4, 6 add 4
Bring them both together, bring them both together
That makes 10! That makes 10!
 
5 add 5, 5 add 5, 5 add 5, 5 add 5
Bring them both together, bring them both together
That makes 10! That makes 10!
 
Sing it with us at home to help us to learn our number bonds to 10! Here we are being number bond experts...

Literacy
 
This week was our Westfield Speaks competition! Winners from our class were chosen to go and speak about our trip to the ALPs as part of a speaking competition across the whole school. Well done to all of the finalists in our class and to everybody for taking part. Here we are rehearsing our speeches...

Science
 
We found out about how humans grow and change and sequenced pictures showing a human's life cycle from baby to elderly person. We even got to look at some pictures of our teachers from when they were young. They were really funny and we can certainly see that they have grown and changed a lot!
 
Continuous Provision
 
Over the past few weeks in Year 1 we have enjoyed being independent learners in our classroom, exploring the different areas and completing the different challenges. We just love learning in this way! Here we are being independent learners...

Danika and Codie: Sorting old and new toys.

Achievements
 
Our certificate winner this week is Amber Foster for her hard work and love of reading at home which has led to her speedy progression in Read Write Inc! Amber also won the KS1 trophy... SUPERSTAR! 
Our 'Writer of the Week' is Amber Raymond for her instructions on how to wash your hands...come and look at it in the photo frame!


Enjoy your weekend! Miss Moorcroft, Mrs Duckworth, Miss Cheetham and Miss Hunt xxx 

What a busy week!

Welcome back to our blog following another busy week in Year 1. We have worked our little socks off and can’t wait to tell you all about it…

Numeracy

This week we have been partitioning numbers- this is where we think very hard about what different numbers are made up of and split them up in to tens and units… really hard stuff but we are impressing our teachers and are going to carry on practising this throughout the year!

We are becoming super mathematicians now and are getting better day by day at reading and writing numbers to 20. Can you help us with this at home?

Literacy

We have continued our work on ‘The Gruffalo’ this week. Miss Moorcroft had been speaking to the Reception teachers and found out that they wanted to make a Gruffalo trap with their children. Therefore, we got to work writing a list of things they would need and a set of instructions for them to follow…we hope they catch a Gruffalo too! Hard at work writing...

CfL

This week we have been playing with old and new toys- we spoke about our favourite toys and then explored toys from the past including a spinning top and some pecking ducks. We found out that a lot of toys from the past were made from wood and metal, but a lot of the toys we have now are made from plastic and are very bright and colourful. Here we are sorting the toys into ‘old’ and ‘new’…

PE

Linked to our toy theme, we moved like different toys in PE, including ballerinas and toy soldiers. Here we are having fun…

Science

We sorted different things into living and non-living categories. Did you know that living things grow and change? Test us on living and non-living things at home…we will impress you!

Reminders

Please could parents and carers sign home reading records once they have read with their child so that we can change their books on Mondays and Thursdays? Thank you.

Achievements

This week our Achievement Certificate winner is Ellie for writing her name all by herself- WOW!

Our 'Writer of the Week' is Abigayle for her fantastic Goldilocks story. Come and take a look at her fantastic work in the photo frame on the wall!

See you on Monday. Love from Miss Moorcroft, Miss Cheetham, Miss Hunt, Mrs Duckworth and all of Y1W x x x

Hello again…

Thanks for checking out Y1W’s class blog again- it has been yet another busy week so let’s get started and tell you all about it. First another ‘Westfield Welcome’ goes to Jayden who started with us this week… we hope you have enjoyed your first couple of days with us!

Numeracy

This week we have been trying hard learning about ‘1 less’ and ‘taking away’…did you know when you ‘take away’ your answer is smaller? Wow! We have even written some subtraction number sentences. Take a look at us having lots of mathematical fun…

Literacy

This week in Literacy we have read ‘The Gruffalo.’ To perfect our already amazing acting skills, we got to work re-telling the story of ‘The Gruffalo’ taking on the different roles from the story and acting it out in order…

Finally on Friday, we wrote a re-count of our trip to the ALPs, remembering all of the different parts of our trip in order. We are going to use our brave, exciting, ‘Gruffalo-catching’ trip to the ALPs as part of our ‘Westfield Speaks’ competition entitled ‘The Great Outdoors’…so watch this space!

Science

This week in Science we have experimented with our 5 senses- sight, touch, hearing, taste and smell! We tasted lemons, chocolates and popcorn; smelled curry, toothpaste, fairy liquid and vinegar; heard children playing and cars zooming; touched scorpions and flying dinosaurs; saw bananas and lions. Here we are having lots of fun…

PE

PE was so exciting this week as we had a tennis lesson from some very talented tennis coaches…

Reminders

Could all parents and carers please stand back from the door at home time so that we can let the children out safely? Thank you for your support.

Achievement Certificate

Logan- for his imaginative ideas when making a trap to catch The Gruffalo on the ALPs.

See you on Monday bright and early- enjoy your weekend! Love from Miss Moorcroft, Mrs Duckworth, Miss Hunt, Miss Cheetham and all of Y1W x x

Time flies when you are having fun!

Welcome back again after a busy and exciting second week in Year 1. We have done so much this week and can’t wait to tell you all about it! Firstly, we need to start our blog by giving a big ‘Westfield Welcome’ to Niamh who has started in our class this week… how exciting! We just love having a new member of our class!

Numeracy

This week has been all about addition and finding 1/ 10 more than a given number. We have played lots of fun counting games to help us with this and even stated to write some addition number sentences! Have a look at us being great mathematicians…
 

Literacy

We have continued working on our story ‘Not Now Bernard’ and this week we became actors, taking on the role of different characters from the story and remembering the story order….

We then got to work writing storyboards- we are trying hard to listen to the sounds in the words when we are writing, use capital letters, full stops and finger spaces! Can you help us with our writing at home?

Science

In Science we have continued to learn all about ‘Ourselves’ and this week we discovered that all humans are different. We might all have a body, two eyes and hair but these come in all different shapes, sizes and colours! We got to work investigating different eye colours in our class and used a Pictogram to show how many children have blue, brown or green eyes. Here we are hard at work…
 

CfL

This week in CfL we have continued with our ‘All About Me’ topic and decided that because the topic is all about US it would be a great idea to show people what we look like. Therefore, we got to work drawing and colouring self-portraits. We used mirrors so that we remembered to include all of the different parts of our face and so that we could check that we were using the right colours for our self-portraits when we were colouring them in.

Class Novel

We had a lovely end to the week. We started our new Class Novel 'James and the Giant Peach'. We got comfy and listened to Mrs Duckworth tell us the story...

Reminders

PE day- Thursday

Book bags- Changed Monday and Thursday

Homework- Given out on Friday and to be returned by Friday

Snack- 20p juice/ 25p milk, and 20p fruit/toast. It would be a great help if children could bring these in a container!

Certificates

This week’s winners were: Niamh for settling in well to our new class and CJ for being a super mathematician!

Welcome to Year 1!

Hello everyone and welcome to our first class blog as Y1W. We have had such a busy and exciting first week in our new grown-up classroom and can't wait to tell you all about it...

On Tuesday we had lots of fun exploring our new classroom. We started the morning 'signing in' using our new name sheets and then spent the rest of the time exploring the exciting new areas in our classroom. Then, it was back to Read Write Inc where we met our new group... some of us even got to go to different classrooms with different teachers for our Read Write Inc lessons. How exciting! We finished the day by learning all about our bodies in Science. We played a fun game of 'Simon Says' where we had to point to our different body parts and then we went outside and drew around our bodies. It was then our job to impress the teachers and label the different parts. Take a look...

Then, in the afternoon we started something new called 'CfL'. In CfL this term we are going to be learning 'All About Me' so we started off by deciding what we would like to find out about. We came up with some super ideas including how houses, toys and clothes have changed. "We can look on GOOGLE," Josh said. What a fantastic idea!

We also read a story called ‘Not Now Bernard’ about a boy who sees a monster do lots of naughty things but when he tells his mum and dad they don’t believe him. We made ‘Wanted’ posters to try and help Bernard find the monster and tried hard to describe the monster in our writing. We are going to carry on writing about our new story next week.

Today is Friday and we have come to the end of our first week in Year 1! It has been very exciting but we are also very tired because we have worked so hard. This week our super star certificate winners are Star for always doing the right thing and having a big smile when she comes to school and all of Y1W for settling in well to their new classroom. All of Year 1 even won this week's trophy...come and see it in our classroom! We hope you have enjoyed reading our very first blog. Come back next week to discover more exciting things that we have been doing in Y1W!

Love from Y1W, Miss Moorcroft, Mrs Duckworth, Miss Cheetham and Miss Hunt xx