Year One: Hedgehogs Class

Miss Sebastian

Mrs Scottow, Mrs Higgleton, Mrs McClean, Mrs O'Meara & Mrs Duffy

Welcome to Hedgehogs class page.

What a wonderful end to a fantastic term in Year 1. The children have been busy and done lots of brilliant learning. In English, we have been working on the book “Look Up” by Nathan Bryon and Dapo Adeola. Alongside learning lots of interesting facts about meteor showers, we made inferences by looking at the pictures, created our own persuasive flyers encouraging others to witness a meteor shower, had a visit from Rocket (the main character) and had the opportunity to ask her questions. We even ‘experienced’ a meteor shower using finger lights! The children also learned about and wrote a biography of Mae Jemison, a famous astronaut and Rocket’s personal hero. In Maths, we have learnt how to subtract using two methods; number line and by crossing out. We also explored the properties of 2D and 3D shapes.

In Science, we investigated everyday materials, learning how to identify and group them. In History, we looked at our personal chronology and began to find out about the past within living memory. We examined photographs, made a memory box with our more important memories and learned about time capsules and how the objects put in them help people to understand life in the past. The children thought about what they might include in our class time capsules to tell children in the future about what childhood is like now. In our geography lessons we continued the study of our local area, exploring the different uses of places nearby and collected data about how we travel to school, discussing the reasons why we might travel in different ways. The focus in RE this term has been the Nativity and in DT we designed and created windmills. We ended the term with a magical Christmas performance. The children worked very hard learning their words and the songs for their play, ‘Christmas Counts’. We had the opportunity to sing a few of our songs at St Mary’s Church. Well done Year 1, and we wish you and your families a wonderful Christmas and look forward to seeing you all in the New Year.

Here is the Year 1 Learning web for Spring 1:

The Year 1 children have settled in wonderfully, and we have been impressed by their eagerness to learn. We've had a busy start to the term! In English, we’ve been working with the book ‘Mini Rabbit Not Lost’ by John Bond, reading a few pages each lesson to build anticipation as the plot unfolds. Our writing activities included setting and character descriptions, instruction writing, poems, and questions. We have also engaged with the story through drama activities such as acting out the story, playing ‘conscience alley,’ and performing our poems. In Maths, we began by sorting and comparing numbers, using the part-part-whole model to identify relationships between numbers. We have also reviewed the number of bonds to 10 and practised addition.

Our Geography lessons have focused on learning about where we live, naming the four countries of the UK, and creating aerial plans of our classrooms. In History, we’ve explored key events in our lives so far. The focus in Science has been seasonal changes, weather patterns, and how trees change, even presenting our own weather reports. In Art, we experimented with different types of lines, and in RE, we have learnt about Harvest and how wonderful our world is. We have enjoyed using the new laptops in Computing . We have practised logging in and saving work.

The children in Hedgehogs class have made a very positive start to the year. We are very much looking forward to working with you all and making this year a very successful one!