Year 1

CRC Article 13: All children have the right to express their opinion. 
      CRC Article 28: All children have the right to an education. 

For the first two days back, Year 1 / 2 T have been re-visiting the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. They are extremely proud to be a Gold Rights Respecting School. They used their pupil voice to create their own Class Charter. They wanted it to be very bright so it stood out.  All pupils looked extremely smart and have settled in well. All of the adults have been very impressed because the pupils have high expectations of themselves. All pupils have returned with a positive and resilient attitude towards their learning.

Article 28 – All children have the right to a good quality education.  

This week, Year 1 pupils have been working on and looking at the subject of Science! But what is Science? Throughout the year we will be looking into seasonal changes. There are four seasons and different places in the world have different types of seasons to ours. Right now, in the UK, we are in Autumn (September 1st until November 30th). As Scientists, we are going to observe the seasonal weather changes throughout the year and observe our local environment and see how that changes over time. On Monday we enjoyed a seasonal walk around our school environment. We looked for some deciduous and evergreen plants. We showed some outstanding observational skills. 

Physical Education 

Article 29: All children have the right to be the best that you can be. Your education should help you use and develop your talents and abilities. 

In P.E. this week we have revisited our passing skills and ability to aim at a target. We then played a large-scale version of ‘pigging in the middle’. The group in the centre had to try and block the ball as it travelled between the two outer groups. By watching each other play, we soon realised that those children who moved and jumped for the ball were more successful when blocking it. 

CRC Article 29: All children have the right to be the best that they can be. Education must develop every child’s talents and abilities to the full.  

CRC Article 24: All children have the right to the best possible health.

Our Year 1 children have enjoyed playing ‘Piggy in the Middle’ in our PE session. They threw the ball to their partner without the person in the middle catching it. All children know that exercising regularly helps their physical and mental health. They practised throwing both longer and shorter distances with a ball. The children were outstanding at reacting to their opponents’ actions. They added more rules to make their game more challenging. Mrs. Dykes was really impressed with some of the children’s dodging and swerving skills. Well done for being amazing PE ambassadors!  

Challenges: 

1. Can you walk or cycle to school? 
2. Can you drink plenty of water and do some form of exercise every day?  

CRC Article 19: All children have the right to be safe.   

CRC Article 29: All children have the right to be the best that they can be. Education must develop every child’s talents and abilities to the full.  

In Computing, the Year 1 children have been working on their iPad skills. They have learnt how to log on and off successfully. All children have created their own Numbots character and name. They have been completing some Maths counting challenges. As they reach the next level, they will earn badges in school. You can access Numbots at home too; your child’s login and password can be found in their homework book. There are eighteen levels to complete. All children are excited to earn their first RUST badge. I wonder who will be the first to earn this! 

Challenge: We have been talking about staying safe online. Ask your child who their five trusted adults are. Children know what they should do if they have an online worry.

Lesson objective: To identify objects by their material properties & to observe seasonal changes over time.

CRC Article 28: You have the right to a good quality education.  

As always, we began our Science lesson by recording the temperature, weather conditions and rainfall. This is part of our ongoing learning of observing seasonal changes. Our rain gauge is collecting a lot of rain at the moment! We wondered this week if when it gets to winter, we will be able to measure the snow in the gauge? We also discussed what would happen to our school field if it rained everyday in Autumn.  

Back in class, we worked as material scientists and were asked to show our teacher we understood the different properties a material can have.  

Our teacher wrote a material property collected from our knowledge organiser and then we had a countdown to find an example of that property using everyday objects we have in our classroom. We discovered that some objects could have more than one material property. We also discussed how funny it would be if some objectives had unusual material properties such as: 

 A chair that was rough; 

A book that was stretchy; 

A cardigan that was rigid. 

Article 14: Every child has the right to their own religion.  

The Year 1 children have been learning about Christianity this half term. They have recently walked to their local Methodist Church. Reverend David explained all of the features of a Church to the children; they all listened carefully and asked him lots of enquiry questions. They confidently recognised the Bible, cross, candles, pulpit, altar and lectern. The children were outstanding ambassadors for our school; Reverend David was impressed with their knowledge of the characteristics of a Church building. 

English

CRC Article 29: All children have the right to be the best that they can be.  

In English, the Year 1 children have been working hard on their poetry skills. They have been looking at the poem called, ‘There was an Old Lady who Swallowed a Fly.’ The children discussed the descriptive language that they read. They were fantastic at finding all of the rhyming words. As a class they read each verse and made up their own actions. To finish our fantastic work, we performed this to each other in small groups.  

PE

CRC Article 24: All children have the right to the best possible health. 

CRC Article 29: All children have the right to be the best that they can be. 

Our Year 1 children have enjoyed their Fundamental Skills session this week. We worked with our coach, Megan, and started by playing corners. She was so impressed with our skills, she moved us straight on to some competitive team games. The children had to sprint and touch a cone; the first team back with their hands on their heads were the winners. The Red Team won five games! For the last game, Megan challenged the children to run backwards. They were all resilient and gave it a go, Mrs. Dykes was very proud. 

Science

Article 28: All children have the right to a good quality education.  

As Scientists, we are going to observe the seasonal weather changes throughout the year. We are observing our local environment and how it changes over time. On Monday, we went on a seasonal walk around our school environment. We noticed the leaves are beginning to change from green to shades of orange, brown and red which we identified as Autumnal colours. We are also monitoring our rain gauge to see which month it rains the most. This week we collected 5cm of rain.