Year 1 Blog Friday 2nd October 2026

Date: 2nd Oct 2026 @ 1:01pm

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: Mr, Mrs, people, and.

Please practise reading and spelling these words. We will have a quiz at the end of next week.

Sumdog: Complete the number challenge (one more/one less)

and spelling challenge (the four tricky words above).

Counting: Count forwards and backwards in 1's to 100.

English

Our book this week was - Stanley's Stick by John Hegley

The children predicted what stanley would use his stick for, learnt about time connectives and retold the story.

Phonics/Handwriting

The children have revisited phase 2/3/4 phonics. Next week we will be learning phase 5 phonics.

They have been neatly writing upper case and lower case letters on handwriting paper.

Maths

We have finished our Place Value topic this week.

The children worked on saying one more than or one fewer than a given number.

They also compared numbers by deciding which was more, less or equal to.

RE

The children sequenced The Creation Story in their books and thought more about what was created on each day.

Science

 The children took part in a senses investigation.

Art

Year 1 used continuous line drawings to create pebbles and stones in their sketch books.

Then they used watercolours to paint vibrant shells.

PE

The children had a great session working on their fundamental skills.

PE day has moved to a Thursday.

Computing

We learnt the different parts of a computer/laptop.

This week we had a leaf challenge. We found as many different leaves as we could. Some of us made them into crowns. We crowned ourselves the kings and queens of Autumn!

Forest School is on a  Wednesday - wellington boots are needed.

Golden Assembly

Star of the Week - Arabella

Super Learner - Ella

Superstar Writer - Alice

Bookworm - Jenson

Mathematician - Joey and Jake

Special Mention - Vinnie and Finlay for thinking of others and Lucie for her generosity.