St Oswald's Catholic Primary SchoolYear 1 Blog Friday 13th November 2026
Date: 13th Nov 2026 @ 2:12pm
Home Practice
Reading: In Year 1, children should read for at least 10/15 minutes daily and talk about the book/new words they come across.
This will help them become more confident and fluent readers.
Book changing day is on a Monday each week.
Please remember to send book bags in every day as we will read with your children on a regular basis.
Spelling: This week's tricky words are: work, mouse, many, me.
Please practise reading and spelling these words. We will have a quiz at the end of next week.
Sumdog: Complete the shape
and spelling challenges (the four tricky words above).
A shape worksheet is attached at the bottom of the page, if you would like to do that instead of Sumdog.
Counting: Count forwards and backwards to 100.
Play the 'follow me game' - take it in turns to say the numbers.
English
Our book this week was - Where The Poppies Now Grow.
The children retold the story by writing sentences for pictures and thought of questions to ask Ben, using question marks.
They also wrote a fantastic Poppy Fact File.
Phonics/Handwriting
The children recapped phase 4 and learnt four new phase 5 phonics this week. They were i_e - ride, o_e - home, u_e - rule and u_e - cute.
We are regularly working hard at writing upper case and lower case letters correctly on handwriting paper.
Maths
The children have been learning all about 2-D and 3-D shapes.
They learnt to talk about the properties of the shapes and spent time spotting them around the classroom.
RE
We started our new topic - Prophecy and Promise.
The children listened to The Annunciation Story (Lk 1: 26-38) then sequenced the pictures in their books.
Art
The children made their own poppies to celebrate Remembrance Day.
Forest School is on a Wednesday - wellington boots and warm coats are needed.
Everyone looked great today. Thank you for supporting Children In Need.
Golden Assembly
Star of the Week - Ella
Super Learner - Elsi
Superstar Writer - Erin
Bookworm - Caleb
Mathematician - Henry Wood
Special Mention - Harry was spotted by Mrs Anderson for having such lovely manners
and Phoebe for being a great friend to everyone.
