St Oswald's Catholic Primary SchoolYear 1: Blog items
Date: 18th Dec 2020 @ 1:40pm
We’d would first like to thank you all for your support over this term. Your children have been fantastic and had a great start to their Year 1 journey. We have had a lovely term and have seen your children make amazing progress in all of their learning. Enjoy your well earned break and we will see you all in the New Year.
Have a peaceful Christmas and a Happy New Year.
Mrs Corbett, Mr Campbell and Mrs Anderson
Date: 16th Dec 2020 @ 10:57pm
Online Safety over the Christmas Holidays
Date: 16th Dec 2020 @ 2:11pm
Here you will find some help and advice for keeping your family safe online over Christmas.
Year 1 Home Practice 11th December
Date: 11th Dec 2020 @ 3:48pm
What a busy week we have had! Not only did we complete our Santa Dash and our Nativity performance, we had time to do all of our fantastic learning as well! On Thursday, Mrs Quilliam brought in her dog Ollie as part of our animal learning. We looked at his features and what made him a mammal, using some super scientific vocabulary. Well done year 1.
We have really enjoyed our story this week. How the Grinch Stole Christmas by Dr Seuss. The children wrote some amazing descriptions and retold the story in their own words.
In our sounds this week we have learned our OY and OI sounds and our OR, AW and AU sounds. We have created two spelling challenges on Sumdog. Have a go at these, copy out the words or try writing some sentences with these words in.
boil boy toy soil royal enjoy annoy spoil coil
cork North sport fork crawl saw lawn claw sauce Claus launch
In our Maths we have continued our focus on number, especially with addition and subtraction. Have a go on the challenges set.
Next week we will be collecting in all reading books. Therefore we won’t be doing a book change on Monday and please could we have all books returned by Wednesday. Thank you.
We hope you enjoyed our Advent Assembly. Keep an eye on out the website for the release of our Nativity 2020 next week.
Thank you again for your continued support.
The Year 1 Team
Date: 9th Dec 2020 @ 10:21pm
Last week we celebrated our Advent Assembly with our Year 1 children. We hope you enjoy our video.
Year 1 Home Practice 4th December 2020
Date: 4th Dec 2020 @ 3:35pm
This week in year 1…
In our English learning this week, we have retold the story of Traction Man meets Turbo Dog. The children were brilliant at remembering the story and describing it in detail. We acted out the great bin rescue of scrubbing brush and added some speech to the story. On Friday we enjoyed dressing the tree our side our classroom as part of tree dressing day and on Thursday we had an advent assembly in the hall. We will release our advent assembly video next week so keep an eye out!
Reading
We’ve been impressed buy all the progress the children have been making in their reading. This is down to all the reading you are doing at home. Keep it up.
Phonics
In our sounds this week we have been learning the OW and OU sounds, looking carefully to make sure we’ve used the correct one in our spellings. We’ve created a word list on Sumdog. Complete the challenge (we’ve only set 20 questions this week).
Maths
We have set some maths challenges on Sumdog linked to our school learning. The children have been very keen to tell us how they are getting on completing their challenges. Well done everyone!
We have put up our Christmas decorations and are reading The Grinch next week! We can’t wait.
Have a lovely weekend
The Year 1 Team
Date: 27th Nov 2020 @ 3:47pm
This week we have loved our new book, Traction Man Is Here by Mini Grey. The children have planned and written their own adventure and had a look at Traction Man’s many costume changes. Well done everybody!
In our PE we have started our Dance topic on Robots. Check out our moves in this week’s gallery. Some super movers! To tie in with our toys and space learning, we have researched Neil Armstrong, looked at Vincent Van Gogh’s Starry Night painting and even launched some rockets of our very own. The children have loved their space learning this term.
Reading
Continue to read every night with your children. 10 minutes a night makes a huge difference in reading fluency and comprehension. It is the key to all learning!
Phonics
This week we have looked at the ir, ur and er sounds. Everybody is using their phonics in their reading and writing which is great to see. Keep it up! We have set a new word list on Sumdog. Keep practising your spellings through games and writing them out. It has been lovely seeing all the practise brought in by some children. Well done.
Maths
We have been focussing our learning on Number fluency this term. The children are loving their maths learning, becoming more confident and fluent every week. Keep checking Sumdog for new challenges. These tie in with the skills taught in school and are helping the children remember those key number facts.
Year 1 Home Practice 20th November
Date: 20th Nov 2020 @ 3:48pm
20th November 2020 Home Practice
This week we have celebrated friendship week at St Oswald’s. In Year 1 we looked at being a good friend and how to show kindness to others.
It was lovely to speak to you all this week, sharing all the great progress your children are making this year. Keep up all the learning at home, it makes such a huge difference.
This week we have been reading Toys in Space by Mini Grey. We’ve been learning all about space, looked at pictures from the Hubble telescope and created a starry night chalk picture.
We continued learning overarm throwing and catching in our fundamental PE skills and helping eachother succeed in our PE lessons. Well done Year 1.
Maths
We’ve looked at doubling and halving and odd and even numbers this week. Keep an eye out for new maths challenges during the coming week. Remember, do 5-10 minutes a night on Sumdog and don’t worry if you don’t complete the challenges set. Do what you can!
Reading
Keep up with the great reading! 10 minutes a night.
Sounds and Spelling
We have been learning the split o_e sounds. Have a go at the spelling list on Sumdog. It’s has been lovely seeing so many children enjoying their writing and bringing notebooks into school. Practise writing your words out or writing sentences with your spellings in for extra practice if you wish.
Year 1 Home Practice 13th November 2020
Date: 13th Nov 2020 @ 3:34pm
We have had a great week of learning through two Bob books, Bob's Best Ever Friend and Bob and the Moontree Mystery. We wrote our own Bob adventures. In Maths we have been looking at addition and subtraction and how they relate to each other. In Science we have been classifying animals and made some birds with feathers on which are flying in our classroom!
On Wednesday we had a minute silence for Remembrance Day, we also made poppies and talked about their significance. We learned about How Moses led the people out of Egypt as part of our Judaism week. Our Space pictures using the technique of wax resist look great and our claylians are drying out before we paint them.
Thank you for supporting Children in Need.Everyone looked brilliant!
Reading
Keep reading for 10 minutes every night. Please ask for more tricky words.
Maths
New Sumdog Challenge
Sounds / Phonics
We have been learning the split i_e sound this week.
Please continue with the Sumdog tricky words spelling challenge. With these words,
the, no, go, into, are, me, my, be, her, was
Year 1 Home Practice 6th November 2020
Date: 6th Nov 2020 @ 3:45pm
6th November 2020 Home Practice
Welcome back,
It has been lovely seeing everyone again after the half term break. This week we have been reading The Man on the Moon (A day in the life of Bob) by Simon Bartram. We will be more of Bob’s adventures over the next couple of weeks.
This week we have finished our belonging topic in RE and celebrated the 5th of November with some fantastic firework art. On Thursday we took our learning outdoors for National outdoor classroom day, creating some homes for our mini hedgehogs.
Next week we will continue our new History topic on toys from long ago and go spotty for Children in Need on Friday.
Home Practice
Read every night for at least 10 minutes. We are seeing great progress in the reading. Keep it up!
Remember, if you need a new set of Tricky words, just write a note in the reading diary.
The Oxford Owl e-library is still available via the home learning button on the class page.
Sounds / Phonics
We have been learning the split a_e sound this week. Have a go at our Sumdog Sounds challenge where we look at words with this spelling pattern.
We have also added a tricky words spelling challenge. With these words.
the, no, go, into, are, me, my, be, her, was
Maths
We have entered the children into a country wide maths competition on Sumdog starting today. Answer as many as you can over the next week. Keep an eye out for new challenges in the week.
The Year 1 team
Date: 2nd Nov 2020 @ 3:28pm
A new film version of The Sectret Garden has been released. To celebrate this a competition is being run by the RHS Campaign for School Gardening and Sky. You can draw, paint, create a collage or model or even plant up a minature garden. If you would like your child to be in the competition the entry needs to be on a single sheet of A4 paper. The entry needs to include the design elements and why they have chosen them.
Please send your child's entry into school by Monday 16th November and we will send them off.
Good luck!
Click here to find out more.
Year 1 Home Practice 23rd October 2020
Date: 22nd Oct 2020 @ 3:52pm
Year 1 Home Practice Friday 23rd October 2020
First of all we’d like to say a huge well done to everyone in Year 1 for settling in so well and completing their first half term in Year 1. You have all been amazing and deserve a well earned break. This week we have enjoyed reading Winnie the Witch and her adventures with Wilbur and friends. We really enjoyed our Halloween dress up day and even created some magical potions. See our galleries on the class page!
We have also been building some skeletons and putting them back together in our Science and looked at some pastel drawings in our Art.
Reading
Continue to read every night over half term. When you have finished your books, please access our eBook library to keep up the practise.
Phonics / Sounds
This week we have been recapping all our long vowel sounds. We will add new spelling challenges on Sumdog over the next week so keep an eye out. First up - words with consonant blends (br, fl, nt, ck etc...) Keep practising your tricky words. We have sent a new set out with everyone today.
Maths
This week we have introduced the features of 3d shapes and continued looking at addition and subtraction within 20. Have a go at the Sumdog challenges we have set.
We’d like to extend thanks to all for your continuing support.
Have a lovely half term
The Year 1 team
Year 1 Home Practice - 16th October 2020
Date: 16th Oct 2020 @ 3:54pm
Year 1 Home Practice Friday 16th October 2020
Well done Year One on a fantastic week of learning. This week we have loved our story Black Dog and even retold it with some lovely writing. In our Maths we have been learning our 2D shapes as well as our numbers to 100 and in Science we read all about Linda Buck, a famous scientist who studied smell. (A Smelly scientist)
On Thursday we took part in Lancashire intra-sports football challenge. Everyone took part and didn’t give up, even when it got tricky. Amazing! We’ve also looked at pumpkin sketching, Baptism, in our RE and created some lovely Autumn posters.
For your home practice this week…
Reading
Continue to read every night. This is key to unlocking all the learning we do at St Oswald’s. Continue to access our eBook library at Oxford Owl, via the home learning button on the class page.
Phonics / Sounds
This week we have been learning the oo, ew and ue sounds. Here are the words we’d like you to have a go practising in your Sumdog spellings.
Pool, boot, cool, shoot, spoon, blew, chew, crew, drew, flew, grew, blue, clue, glue, fuel
Maths
This week we have introduced the features of 2d shapes and continued looking at reading, writing and counting numbers within 100. Have a go at the Sumdog challenges. We are seeing great progress in our number learning. Well done!
In other news...
Well done to Year One who competed in the Lancashire Maths Contest this week. Out of 68 Classes across Lancashire we came 21st (Best at St Oswald’s) and on Wednesday Year 1 were the daily winners with an amazing daily score of 165. A special mention to Libby and Xavier who came 44th and 3rd in all of Lancashire. Well Done everyone, an amazing achievement. We’d also like to thank Sam for the video he sent in on Monday. Everyone was so happy to see Sam and his chickens.
Year 1 Home Practice 9th October 2020
Date: 8th Oct 2020 @ 4:21pm
Year 1 Home Practice 9th October 2020
This week we have read Dogger by Shirley Hughes. The children have really enjoyed the story and created some fantastic pieces of work from it. Next week we are reading Black Dog by Levi Pinfold, a beautiful picture book about facing fears and overcoming worry.
In our Science this week we explored the science of smell and how we use our sense of smell to keep us safe. We have also started our new RE topic on Belonging and Baptism. The children have had some lovely ideas on belonging and family.
Home Practice
Reading
Keep reading for at least 10 minutes every night. It is also important to reread your books to boost confidence and fluency. We have also sent home some words for everyone to practice reading and writing. You can request a new set through the reading diary.
Sounds / Phonics
We have been learning the long e sound this week. ee, ea and y Have a go at our Sumdog Sounds challenge where we look at these words.
treat, seat, please, dream, tree, teeth, street, greet, happy, funny, jelly, runny
Maths
This week we have been learning new addition strategies and our number facts to 20. Have a go at completing the Sumdog challenges and keep a eye out for new challenges during the week. The practice you do at home is key to improving accuracy and speed with taught number skills. Well done, keep it up!
Thank you for your continued support
The Year 1 team
Year 1 Home Practice 2nd October 2020
Date: 30th Sep 2020 @ 2:14pm
Home Practice 2nd October 2020
Well done everyone for their response to the home practice we have set on Sumdog over the past weeks. Almost everyone has gone on and practised their learning at home and this has shown in the progress the children have made since returning to school.
We have added a few extra challenges this week but are keeping the number of questions in these to a managable level so all children can complete the tasks. Little and often is the key to home practice so keep up the great work.
Keep reading for 10 minutes every night. We have added an extra day for book changing on Mondays incase you forget on a Friday. We will still give out three books a week so please limit your change to one a week. We have also signed up to a huge library of ebooks on Oxford owl, tailored for our youngest children. Click here for access and sign in using our class login - sto1, password -1234. Choose books from phase 3 or 4 to practice taught sounds. This practice will benefit all readers in Year 1.
Sumdog
We have added 4 new challenges this week.
2 x Maths, 1 x Spelling and 1x Reading.
Try to do a little every night and keep up the great learning at home.
Keep checking our class page for new galleries to see what we have been learning in the week.
The Year One team.
Year 1 Home Practice 25th September 2020
Date: 24th Sep 2020 @ 4:38pm
Year 1 Home Practice 25th September 2020
This week we have started our new story, Percy the Park Keeper, After the Storm. The children designed some animal homes, wrote some super sentences and even received a letter from Percy himself.
On Friday we participated in European sports Day, learning how to play Handball. We had an experiment in Science, looking at our hands and feet and in French we’ve been counting and learning new greetings.
For your home practice this week, we have set three Sumdog challenges in Reading, Spelling and Maths. Have a go and answer as many as you can. Practise of these skills is the key to making progress so keep up your fantastic efforts.
Read for 10 minutes every night. If you have read all your books, have a look at Oxford Owl on our class page (Home learning button). We will change the books on Fridays so please remember to send them in.
Keep a look out for new galleries on the Year 1 class page. All the children have settled in brilliantly and have shown great attitudes to all their learning this week.
Reminders
Please check that all items of clothing have names on them so we don’t misplace any items.
Thank you for your continued support,
The Year 1 team
Date: 18th Sep 2020 @ 4:51pm
Online Content - 10 tips to keep your children safe online
Date: 16th Sep 2020 @ 6:22pm
Monitor-Talk-Report
"In light of recent distressing content circulating on several popular social media platforms, we're reminding parents how important it is to monitor, support and talk to children about their online activities." - National Online Safety
Here are some top tips from National Online Safety on keeping children safe online when viewing content online.
Year 1 Home Practice - 18th September 2020
Date: 15th Sep 2020 @ 8:17pm
Year 1 Home Practice 18th September 2020
This week we have had a fantastic week of learning. Everyone has really enjoyed our Large family stories and created some super pieces of work in our families topic in RE. We have had some busy afternoons in our outdoor area and been very active in our PE sessions, learning new skills and games.
We have given out new reading books this week for you to read at home. Make sure you are reading for at least 10 minutes every night. You can also access a huge range of e-books on Oxford Owl in the home learning button on our class page. These books will be changed on Fridays but for this week we will have an additional change on Monday, so send in your books.
This week we have been learning how to count in lots of ways, looked at numbers to 100 and learned the ow and oa sounds. We have set a few challenges on Sumdog to practise this learning. Have a go on all of these. We have given out passwords today and all the children have had a go to familiarise themselves with the platform. The games can be accessed through the website www.sumdog.com or through the app (available on the App store)
Try not to help your child too much as this will mean they get questions that may be too tricky for them.
Keep checking our class page on our new website for galleries and news from Year 1.
Reminder - Send in PE kits every Monday and make sure your child has a water bottle, especially during this warm weather.
