Welcome to our Year 1 Class at St James’
Welcome to Year 1, my name is Mrs Gofton and I am the Class Teacher. We have various Teaching Assistants in Year 1 who the children will already know from their time in St James. In Year 1, we aim to have fun whilst learning. Our main rule within class is that we always try our best
Year 1 Noticeboard
- Children will read with an adult in school throughout the week. Reading books and reading journals should be in school daily.
- Spellings are handed out on a Friday and will be tested the following Friday. Should the children misplace their spellings, spares are readily available.
- Homework will be given out later in the year. Homework will be given out each Friday and returned the following Wednesday.
- PE in Year 1 is on Wednesdays. Please make sure you have your full St James PE kit.
- Please bring fresh water daily.
Autumn in Year 1
We have had a very busy term settling in to our new classroom and our new routines. The children have been truly amazing and a credit to their families and our St James family.
In RE we have been looking at Families, Baptism and now we are looking at this wonderful season of Advent.
In Science the children have been investigating seasons, particularly how weather changes and how plants and animals adapt to this. We have also been researching animals and humans and are able to describe the features of animals and the groups they belong to as well as if they are Herbivore, Carnivore or Omnivore.
The children have been analysing some wonderful texts in English including SuperWorm, Stick Man and the Gruffalo. We even made Gruffalo Crumble which was very tasty and great fun to make in the Food Technology rooms.
In Art, we have been looking closely at the work of artist Vincent Van Gogh to understand how he created his masterpieces. We used inspiration from his Landscape work to create our own using his mark making techniques.
We have been working very hard on our phonics work this term using lots of digraphs and split spelling. We are using these sounds in our reading and our writing.
In November, we celebrated Remembrance Day and planted some poppies in our garden as well as recreating our own poppies in class to help us remember the lives of those who gave their today for our tomorrow.
Although we have been working hard, we have still made sure to find time for prayer and reflection in Church and the chapel.
Year 1 had great fun playing in the snow!
Spring in Year 1
We have had a very busy term and the children have all worked incredibly hard.
In RE we have been looking at Meals and Changes as part of our Lenten topic. The children have looked at how Lent is a time of reflection but also a time of change and that we can change our behaviour and attitude for the better.
In Science the children have been looking at forces. They have loved all of our investigations and making some great predictions as to whether certain objects would float or sink and why they thought that. They had a great time with many of their investigations this term and were very surprised by some of the results of our investigation.
We have been looking at the story of Paddington this term and have loved recreating a new adventure for him using ambitious adjectives and connectives within our work. The children have really enjoyed learning about Paddington and are very excited to continue to learn about London after the Easter holidays.
In Art, we have been looking at the artists Kandinsky and Delaunay. We have noticed they use primary colours in their work as well as using various shapes to create illusions and effects. We have recreated some of their artwork and will continue to build on these skills when we create our own piece of artwork.
We have been learning all about our local area in Geography and went on a walk around school to look at human and physical areas and what makes them so different and how they can be used together to create our local area.
During this term we have celebrated World Book Day and Red Nose Day. The children looked at the book Mother Earth is Weeping and created a fantastic Diamante Poem based on this. For Red Nose Day we learned why we celebrate this and where our money goes and how it helps those in our country and around the world.