Year 1 Blog - Friday 9th January 2026

Date: 9th Jan 2026 @ 8:11am

Welcome to your first Friday blog of 2026!

Home Practice - Sumdog

Maths challenge - Number bonds to ten

Phonics challenge - Dependent on phonics groups

Counting – Can you practise counting in tens quickly, from different starting points?

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

Please remember to bring book bags each day.

English

We started to read our new book - Dragon Post. We created our own dragons and labelled them. We also drew pictures of the story and wrote sentences about them.

Phonics

Some of us learnt igh and ee.

Some of us finished learning the split digraphs.

Some of us recapped the split digraphs, then learnt the alternative sounds for g (j sound) and u (you sound).

Maths

We focused on the number bonds to ten and then practised using part-whole models for addition.

R.E.

We read The Presentation of Jesus where Simeon and Anna came to visit baby Jesus at the Temple. We labelled the people and talked about why Simeon and Anna were excited to meet Jesus.

We also started our RSHE topic about God's love. We discussed how we can show love to others and wrote thank you messaged to the people we love.

P.E.

We finished our dances from last half term.

P.E. will now be on a Thursday instead of a Friday.

P.S.H.E.

We learnt about the word 'appreciate' and how we can show appreciation to others, ourselves and for different experiences.

Art

We sketched different sculptures in our sketchbook.

See our pictures here.

Computing

We used the iPads and laptops to practise typing our name. We then tried to type our friends' names.

See our pictures here.

Golden Assembly

Star of the Week: Ada G

Super Learner: Indie

Superstar Writer: Roman

Bookworm: Oscar

Marvellous Mathematician: Amelie

Special Mentions: Evie E and Connall for being a good friend.