Year 1 Blog - Friday 5th December 2025

Date: 4th Dec 2025 @ 8:34pm

Home Practice - Sumdog

Maths challenge - 1 more and 1 less (within 20)

Phonics challenge - Dependent on phonics groups

Counting – Can you count beyond 20 as far as you can? 

Reading - Please try and read at least three times a week.

Please remember to bring book bags each day.

English

We continued to learn through the story 'The Robin Who Stole Christmas'. We focused on creating a sorry letter to Father Christmas, in role as Rotten Robin. We orally rehersed our ideas, wrote an example as a group, and wrote our own independent letter.

Phonics

We completed a phonics screen check.

Maths

We completed our maths arithmetic and reasoning Autumn term assessments.

R.E.

We have been practising our Nativity!

In our 'Celebration of the Word' we continued to learn about Advent. 

P.E.

We created the first half of our robot dance together. Great ideas everyone!

P.S.H.E.

We talked about character strengths and how we have different strengths.

Computing

We made Georges Seurat inspired sunflower art on Paintz.app

See our pictures here.

Science

We compared the similarities and differences between the animal groups.

Forest School

We listened to a story called Ruby's Worry. We looked at some real worry dolls from Guatemala. We had a go at making our own, showing great creative skills and resilience.

Golden Assembly

Star of the Week: Imogen and Noah H

Super Learner: Grace

Superstar Writer: Ada G

Bookworm: Felicity

Marvellous Mathematician: Harriet

Special Mentions: Connall and Elsie for their fantastic singing in the Nativity practises.