Year 1
Welcome to the Year One area of the website. We hope you will spend a few minutes looking at the photographs and work we have uploaded. We will be making regular updates to our blog so don't forget to check back regularly to keep up to date with all the exciting things we are doing. You will find the link at the top of this page.
Wow! Have a look at the changes that have been happening in 1M. Our tadpoles which we have carefully nurtured have grown their back legs, some have their front legs and we have a froglet! Soon we will be releasing them all into the pond in our nature garden.
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1M had a fabulous time with Zoolab today. We saw a corn snake, a tarantula, a millipede, an african land snail, a hissing cockroach and 2 mice! We enjoyed touching, stroking and holding the animals.
1W had a fabulous time with Zoolab today. We saw a corn snake, a tarantula, a millipede, an african land snail, a hissing cockroach and 2 mice! We enjoyed touching, stroking and holding the animals.
A massive well done to everyone in year 1 who has entered this years Easter competition. Have a look below at some of the fabulous entries - so many different ideas! What clever children you have, a special congratulations to our winners and runners up!
Yet another exciting Science lesson! Today we have been mixing liquids and powders to generate questions about what we could see happening! First we mixed water and baking powder and it made a great foam. Then we mixed water and bicarbonate of soda and we didn't see a lot of change. Finally we mixed vinegar and bicarbonate of soda and you should have seen the mess it made! Bubbles and foam everywhere! It was a lot of fun.
We had a great time today in Science! We have been investigating whether a material is waterproof or not. We worked with our partners and showed really good teamwork skills.
Year 1 took full advantage of the snow today! We enjoyed creating footprints and making comparisons between them.
We really enjoyed creating our fruit kebabs as the conclusion of our design and technology project. We carefully chopped our own fruit and threaded them onto our skewers. When we had finished we evaluated our products but the best bit was eating them!!
As part of Enterprise Week we have been thinking about all of the things that we love about our school. We created a design for one thing we really loved and then used some special pens to transfer our designs onto ceramic tiles. We are hoping to use the tiles to decorate the outside of our school.
A huge thank you to everyone who came to support on our walk to Rise Park Church. The children really enjoyed themselves and were so well behaved. We have used the photos to create a display within school.
As part of our English work we have been reading the book 'What the ladybird heard' by Julia Donaldson. We have made our own ladybirds and we took them on a walk around school to listen to the different sounds we could hear. We used adjectives to describe the sounds.
In Geography in Year 1 this half term we are learning about our local area. Today we have been for a walk around Rise Park, looking at all the local amenities including the shops, cafe, chip shop and dentist. We also talked about where we could travel to on the buses from Rise Park. We will be writing about our adventure around the local area next week.
What a super Christmas we have had in year 1! We have enjoyed watching William the Wizard and some of his amazing magic tricks and we loved our Christmas party with pass the parcel, dancing and yummy food! Wishing you all a wonderful Christmas and a Happy New Year!
This week in year 1 we have done a candy cane science experiment. We put candy canes in cold water, hot water and vinegar and then observed that happened. We watched them disappear!
In Year 1, we have been learning about the story of the First Christmas in R.E. We spent time in groups talking about the story and sequencing the events, before making our own stick puppets so we could orally retell the story.
In 1W this week we have been using our number gators to help us learn about greater than and less than. We worked really well together in 3s deciding which number the gator would eat, remembering to use our mathematical language.
In 1M this week we have been learning about instructions. First we read and followed instructions to make lion puppets and then we wrote our own instructions to give to the children in F2.
Last week was anit-bullying week and in 1W we talked about how we are 'All different. All equal!'. We discussed how we could be a good friend to others and made a friendship wreath which is now hanging in the KS1 hall.
A huge thank you to everyone who supported our fundraising day today - as a school we raised a magnificent £945 which will support local charities. In 1M we raised lots of money too and came second in the loose change competition (£22.12) we missed out on first place by just a few pence! So close! Thank you to everyone who donated and thank you to the Marvellous Monkeys who sorted all of the coins for us.
We have really enjoyed listening to the children talk about their 'Me Boxes'. They were very confident talking in front of their friends and also showed some great listening skills. Well done!
Signs of Autumn - today we went on a lovely walk around our school grounds to look for signs of Autumn. We enjoyed rustling through leaves and throwing them in the wind. We found leaves that were many different colours and we even saw the fantastic red sun!
Excellent work 1M!
We got the attendance cup this week with an amazing 99.3%!!
Let's keep it up and see if we can win next week too! 
Have a look at our amazing Supertatoes! We will be using them next week to help us in the Harvest festival and as a stimulus for our writing.
We have really enjoyed Science week in year one. We did a skittle investigation and had to predict what we thought would happen to the skittles when we added water. Have a look at the results!
Wow, we have enjoyed some exciting Science this week! We predicted what would happen when we added salt to ice balloons. We heard popping and cracking and we saw them become rough and slowly melt. Mrs Mee and Mrs Webster had hidden some secret objects inside!
As part of our outdoor maths we have been practising our counting skills. We had a mini keep fit counting sessions then we used the chalk to match quantities to numbers.
Today 1M celebrated having the best Summer term attendance in the whole school with a visit from the ice cream van - tasty!!
Today we made sandcastle biscuits! We used yellow icing, marshmallows and designed our own flags!
A huge well done to all the children who attended our R.E.D.T.E.D party this afternoon. These children have read at least 3 times a week for 11 weeks every term! We played games, ate tasty food and received our final certificates from Mrs Kelly.
We have been enjoying theme week this week. The theme has been celebrations. On Monday we celebrated ourselves and went out onto the KS1 playground to write good things about ourselves. On Tuesday we celebrated others - we wrote other people's names on a piece of paper and wrote nice things about them - then we joined all the paper together to make a long friendship chain! On Thursday we said unkind things to some toothpaste, then we squeezed it all out. We said sorry to the toothpaste and tried to put it back in the tube but it wouldn't go. This showed us that our words and actions can still hurt after the event, even if we have said sorry.
In our Design & Technology lessons we have been learning about structures. We looked for common shapes which help to make structures stronger. Then we designed and made our own mouse houses! Today we tested them with Sunny the hamster from reception!
Congratulations 1M, the attendance cup has returned to us at last! 99% attendance week ending 23rd June 2017.
1M you super dooper stars! 100% attendance means we won the attendance cup again! How long can we keep this up for?!! (week commencing 8th May 2017)
Congratulations 1M! You've won the attendance cup! Week commencing Monday 24th April you achieved 99.3% attendance! Fantastic, lets keep up the super work!
We had a great time on Tuesday when Zoolab came to visit us. Barry told us all about the animals and we were able to hold and stroke some of them. We met Gary the gecko, Sophie the corn snake, Tracey the tarantula, Rita the rat and Deidre the giant African snail.
A huge congratulations to everyone who entered our Easter competition this year! We were amazed by the fabulous entries. Every child has received 5 stampers on their chart for returning their homework. An extra special well done to our winners; In first place - Frazer, our 2 runners up - Dominik and Leila, and our highly commended children - Muhammed, La'Naii, Aiden, Myla, Gracie and Amia.
Thank you to everyone who supported Comic Relief this year. It has been a very red day! Well done to Ebony-Mae who won the competition for who could wear the most red, red shoes, tights, dress, earrings, hair, ribbons ... the list is endless! A fantastic day, we have raised £820 as a school, AMAZING!
In Science today we have been testing different materials. We wanted to know if they were waterproof so we could make a coat for Mr Grinling. We found out the cotton wool and paper towels are not waterproof. Orange crepe paper isn't waterproof either and it turned the water orange! The tin foil and plastic sheet were both waterproof but we decided that the plastic sheet would be best because it is stronger.
This week we have been writing instructions and planning our own sandwiches. Today we made them and we had a fantastic time! We washed our hands, cleaned the salad and created our sandwiches all by ourselves! We enjoyed eating them in golden time.
Week ending 3rd March 2017 - Congratulations to 1M who achieved the attendance cup in celebrations assembly with a wonderful attendance of 99.7%! The children were extremely proud of themselves and so were Mrs Mee and Mrs Bell. Can we keep it up next week?
Wow what a talented bunch of artists we have got in 1M! A big well done to everyone who created their own sculture for our Henry Moore homework. We have really enjoyed looking at all the wonderful pieces of work.
Amazing fractions work completed today! We designed our own flags! Some of us coloured our flags in half using two different colours and some of us coloured the flags in quarters using four different colours! Mrs Mee was very impressed!
On Tuesday 7th February it was Safer Internet Day. We thought about information that gets shared online. We talked about how we never know who could be talking on a computer and how it is important to never share information about ourselves such as our name or address. We thought about information that cannot be used to idenfity ourselves and we made collages to show what information is safe to share with adult permission.
It is Discovery Week at Rise Park this week. Today we have been learning some French, we know how to say 'hello' and 'my name is'. Then we did some labelling in English and became French detectives! We hunted round the classroom to find French colour signs! We all had a great time and worked really hard.
Today we have been on a ladybird adventure! We made blindfolds for our ladybirds and took them on a trip all around our school. Since they couldn't see we used our knowledge of adjectives to describe what we could see. It was lots of fun!
In Science, we are looking at leaves and trees. Today we went to visit the sycamore tree and we took some rubbings from the bark. We talked about the different textures and why the tree would need a trunk
Christmas Party Day 2016
Christmas Jumper Day 2016 - We raised over £270! Thank you!
Have a look at our snowman biscuits!
In year 1 we are doing everything we can to improve our writing. We have personal targets, writing checklists and lots of classroom resources to help us. This display shows what we are aiming for. We need to have finger spaces, full stops, capital letters, our letters should be the right way round and sat on the line. Most importantly we need to use our phonic knowledge to make sure other people can read our work. Can you help us to achieve this by the end of year 1?
Have a look around our year 1 classrooms. Our displays show some of the things that we are learning about.
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