Year 1 Blog Friday 6th November 2026

Date: 6th Nov 2026 @ 11:00am

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: again, thought, through, the.

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

Sumdog: Complete the addition/subtraction within 20

and spelling challenges (the four tricky words above).

Counting: Count forwards and backwards to 100. Ask what is one more/less than a given number.

Count in tens, what is ten more/less than a given number.

English

Our book this week was - Goldilock's and the Three Bears.

The children sequenced the story and labelled a picture using relevant vocabulary.

They also wrote a fantastic bonfire night poem, using their senses and decorated it with exploding firework pictures.

Phonics/Handwriting

The children recapped phase 4 and learnt four new phase 5 phonics this week. They were oa - toe, au - author, a_e - made and e_e - swede.

We are regularly working hard at writing upper case and lower case letters correctly on handwriting paper.

Maths

The children have finished their addition and subtraction topic.

They were using what they had learnt to solve addition and subtraction problems. 

Next week we will be learning all about 2-D and 3-D shapes.

RE

The children wrote and illustrated beautiful prayers to say thank you for our wonderful world.

Art

We made bonfire night pictures using oil pastels for the fireworks and tissue paper/wood coloured card for the bonfire.

Geography

Our new topic is...Our School within it's Locality - Longton.

The children learnt the difference between rural and urban areas and discussed some of the geographical features around school.

Golden Assembly

Star of the Week - Elise

Super Learner - Alice

Superstar Writer - Nola

Bookworm - Jenson

Mathematician - Harry

Special Mention - Arabella and Maisie for being great friends to everyone.