St Oswald's Catholic Primary SchoolYear 1 Blog - Friday 7th November 2025
Date: 7th Nov 2025 @ 3:34pm
Home Practice - Sumdog
Maths challenge - Fewer, more, the same
Phonics challenge - Set words depending on phonics groups
Counting – Can you count in 5s to 50?
Reading - Please try and read at least three times a week.
Please remember to bring book bags each day.
English
This week we read the story of Bob - the man on the moon. Bob's job is to clean the moon as pesky aliens kept making it dirty! We used adjectives and verbs to describe our own alien, then we ordered the story, focusing on using the days of the week in the correct order. See our pictures here.
We also wrote our own firework poems using onomatopoeia sounds.
Phonics
Some of us started phase 3, focusing on the single letter sounds - j, w, v, x, y and z.
Some of us have recapped the phase 3 trigraphs.
Some of us started to learn the split digraphs - a_e in game, e_e in Eve and i_e in slime.
Maths
We have been comparing numbers using the vocabulary of 'more', 'fewer' and 'equal to'.
We also practised our number formation. See our pictures here.
R.E.
We read the Annunciation story where Angel Gabriel visited Mary to tell her about Jesus. We role played the story in groups and talked about how Mary might have felt.
In our 'Celebration of theWord' we focused on Jesus stating that Church is a special place to go to, which is for praying and for talking to God.
P.S.H.E.
We talked our how we all have a 'busy place' that our brain goes to when we are worried or scared. We thought of different things that we could do to get back to our 'happy place'.
Art
We printed handprints in our sketchbooks using a layering technique.
Science
We identified different animals.
History
We explored the differences between toys from the past and the present.
Golden Assembly
Star of the Week: Zara
Super Learner: Noah J
Superstar Writer: Felicity
Bookworm: Elsie
Marvellous Mathematician: Hartley
Special Mentions: Evie E and Rupert - for their fantastic artwork
