Year 1
Welcome to the Year 1 Class Page!
Year 1 learn together in a play based environment that provides the perfect stepping stone from Reception. We have a lovely classroom that is well resourced and offers a safe, exciting and inspiring learning environment. Our classroom is arranged to encourage the children to access resources, working walls and sound mats independently to scaffold and support their own learning. The children learn in a supportive but challenging environment enabling them to work both collaboratively and independently. We encourage Year 1 to learn from their mistakes and develop the skills to persevere even when finding a topic challenging. In Year 1 we encourage the children to use the skills and knowledge acquired from teaching inputs and apply these independently to learning tasks to begin to take responsibility for their own learning.
We love reading and read every chance we get; the classroom reflects this with a variety of books linked to each term’s topic. We are creative thinkers, confident speakers, compassionate friends and imaginative problem solvers!
Please find the attached letters and curriculum map to find out what we are learning about at the moment.
To find out more about Year 1 Class and what we have been getting up to please take a look below:
Miss Flower, Mrs Hobbs, Mrs Lockwood
DT and Computing with Year 1
During the second part of the Autumn term, Year 1 explored bird feeders in DT. We had a chance to make 4 different bird feeders and evaluate how effective they were. We enjoyed learning lots of new skills and working on our perseverance as some of the bird feeders were a little bit tricky to make. … Read more
A busy Thursday morning in Year 1!
Year 1 was bursting with ideas on Thursday morning. They started to investigate the idea of measurement, comparing lengths and heights outside. During Art the children looked at different sculptures and then recorded their responses in their sketchbooks. Mrs Cairns was really impressed by their creativity and individuality.
Icy Fun
After our delicious Christmas meal the whole school went on to the field to enjoy the ice. Mrs Cairns bought an iPad out so that the children could take pictures of the beautiful sights. The children took some wonderful pictures.
Many thanks to the pond party!
We may have had a soggy start to our Sunday morning, but it certainly didn’t dampen the spirits. A big thank you to all of the parents, children and the FACT team who turned up to help us to show some love to our amazing school pond. Over the last few years the pond had … Read more
Year 1 learn about Remembrance Day
This week Year 1 have stated our new History topic all about Remembrance Day. The children have loved learning about WW1 and why we use poppies to help us remember. We started our topic thinking about our own important memories before discussing why Remembrance Day is important. The children have enjoyed listening to lots of … Read more
Year 1 visit the Museum of Norwich
On Wednesday 9th November Year 1 had a fantastic trip to the Museum of Norwich. They met the Toymaker and who asked Year 1 to assist with sorting the toys into groups based on their materials or age. The children loved exploring the old toys (including playing with them) and identifying their properties. Next they … Read more
Careful artistic focus in Year 1
The Year 1 artists have shown excellent focus working on their mixed media observational drawings. They were each given a section of painted card from last week’s creation and chose beautiful plants to draw, first in pencil then in pen. They then worked in bright chalk pastels to make their drawings ‘pop’ out of the … Read more
All Saints Stibbard Remembrance Service
The weather was fine and dry as we completed our Remembrance Service around the Memorial to hear the names of the servicemen who sacrificed their lives in the World Wars. The children were so still as we engaged in the two minutes silence at 11 am. They sat beautifully in the church service beforehand. We … Read more