Homerswood
Primary and Nursery School
‘A pathway to grow, be curious and discover’
Year 1
Welcome to Year 1!
The Year 1 team consists of:
Mrs Gregory (Monday and Tuesday)
Mrs Penny (Wednesday to Friday)
Mrs Bohoran
Phonics briefing presentation - 28th November 2024
Timetable
Newsletters
Year 1 Meet and Greet
Year 1 Recommended Reads
Phonics and Handwriting
SUMMER TERM 2025
Welcome back to an exciting summer term! We hope you all had a lovely Easter and are looking forward to our final term in Year 1!
FUDGE Morning - Thank you so much to all of the grown ups who came today!
Ducklings! - We has some furry, little visitors in Year 1 today!
Sports Week - Track Races Day!
Sports Week - Today is day 4 of our sports week and we celebrated with a Harry Potter Quidditch day! We started with a 'sorting hat ceremony' to be sorted into our Harry Potter houses! Then we had a Quidditch workshop on the field! Year 1 did an excellent job of learning all the rules of the game and even got to catch their 'golden snitch' Year 1 adults!
Sports Week - Year 1 have had a fantastic sports week so far. On Monday, we made used our creative skills by drawing flags to represent our houses at our opening ceremony assembly. Then, on Tuesday, we showed great team work and resilience during our sports carousel. On Wednesday we had a brilliant time competing in golf, tug of war and dodgeball with Monks Walk!
World Vyshyvanka Day - We were very lucky and excited to have two children in Year 1 share their experiences of World Vyshyvanka Day. Vyshyvanka Day is an international holiday that aims to preserve the Ukrainian folk traditions of creating and wearing ethnic embroidered clothes called vyshyvankas. It is celebrated the third Thursday of May. The girls were amazing at supporting each other through their explanations of this special day, sharing beautiful clothing and answering questions from their peers. We also completed some colouring and embroidery postcard crafts. Thank you for sharing these special traditions with us!
RE - We have been exploring what it means to belong to different faith communities, such as Christian, Islam and Jewish communities. We were very lucky because Mrs Bohoran was kind enough to bring in her own Islamic, special belongings to show us! Mrs Bohoran brought in her own prayer mat, Qur'an, Topi, prayer clothes and prayer beads. Thank you, Mrs Bohoran!
80th Anniversary of VE Day - The children really enjoyed wearing red, blue and white to celebrate VE Day. Over the last few days, we have explored the importance of VE Day through a PowerPoint and videos. We also created 'helping hands' and wrote the things we were grateful for. We were also lucky to have Mrs Mills talk to us about her family members who were in the war. She brought in some wonderful photos and a medal too. Thank you, Mrs Mills!
Science - Planting our very own sunflowers. We have been watering them each day and have them placed in the sunshine to help them to grow.
Art - Investigating mixing primary colours to make secondary colours.
Year 1 have made a fantastic start and we're excited for the summer term ahead, especially our upcoming class trip to Shepreth Zoo! We have already been super busy and are working hard across the curriculum. In math's, we have made a great start to our multiplication unit by sharing into equal and unequal groups, and using arrays. Next, we will be focusing on division and telling the time to o'clock and half past. In English we are continuing to enjoy challenging ourselves within our writing and will be writing instructions on how to plant a seed. In addition, we are looking forward to using our Science skills for our plants unit and will be planting our very own sunflowers!
SPRING TERM 2025
Happy New Year and welcome back to an exciting Spring term in Year 1! We hope you all had a wonderful Christmas break and are looking forward the term ahead.
English - Writing our own version of 'The Three Little Pigs'. We are so proud of all of the children in Year 1! Over the last three days, they have worked so hard on writing their very own version of the story by changing the characters and house materials. What a lovely way to end the Spring term! Well done, Year 1!
Year 1 enjoying a juice and biscuits treat from a Wonka chocolate prize!
DT - Practicing food preparation skills ready to make our smoothies.
Red Nose Day 2025
Holi Festival - Today we explored the Hindu Holi Festival. We listened to the story of Prahlad, discovered how Holi is celebrated and designed our very own Holi t-shirts. Year 1 were very proud of their creations!
World Book Day
Art - Meet our spider called Barnaby! Year 1 are so proud of their final art piece this half term. They worked collaboratively to create a final 3D sculpture of a spider. They applied the skills they have learnt throughout the unit by rolling, bending and scrunching paper. Fantastic team work, Year 1!
Maths - Exploring different ways to make the same total, including + and - (numbers 11 to 20).
PE - Combining basic shapes within gymnastics and using apparatus. We have been learning how to perform the star, pike, straddle, dish, tuck and arch shapes.
Computing - Learning how to turn the chrome books on and off, how to login correctly and exploring Purple Mash.
Art - Look at our 3D drawings! We have been using our paper shaping skills to make an imaginative sculpture of a tree, leaves, animals and insects. We are so proud of the children's creations and team work!
Geography - Creating group drawings of the seaside.
Art - Using paper to make 3D drawings.
Maths - Using comparative language in the context of length and height.
RE - Exploring Judaism and special Jewish artefacts.
AUTUMN TERM 2024
We are so proud of all of the children in Year 1! They have settled fantastically well into our Year 1 classroom, routines and expectations. They have especially loved exploring their new classroom this week. Please keep an eye on our class page for regular updates on what we have been getting up to. Well done Year 1! Keep up the hard work!
Class Treat Afternoon - Year 1 achieved their final gem in the jar today! As a treat, we have had a fun filled afternoon of dancing, singing to Disney songs and completing a drawing tutorial of 'The Grinch'! Well done Year 1!
Year 1 and Year 2 were all 'Stars of the Week' this week!
A huge well done to all of Year 1 and Year 2 for their Christmas play. We are so proud of how confident and brave the children were throughout the performance. Well done for your wonderful singing, dancing and speaking!
English - Curious Quests - We have now moved on from Drawing Club to Curious Quests for our English learning. We have been very excited to meet the new characters to help us with our writing.
Children in Need Day!
English - Drawing Club - Look at Year 1's amazing writing in Drawing Club! Today, we created a vehicle to escape a monster we created based on 'Superworm' by Julia Donaldson.
Computing - Year 1 had lots of fun using coding caterpillars to follow a set pattern.
Diwali - To celebrate Diwali, each class were lucky enough to complete an Indian dance workshop. We loved listening to a variety of music and learning different dance routines! Here are some photos of Year 1 enjoying our workshop!
Active Blast - For our Active Blast today, we practiced some chair yoga and mindfulness!
Science - Today we explored our sense of taste by tasting some different foods on bread. We tried marmite, chocolate spread, strawberry jam, lemon juice and cream cheese, and described the flavours we could taste. We pulled some funny faces!
In Year 1, our class rewards are gems in the jar. Today we went gem crazy and earned so many gems in our jar for kindness, fantastic learning and great listening! We are so proud of Year 1's team work today! What a great team. Well done Year 1!
Art - We are feeling very Autumnal in Year 1! We have been creating observational drawings of pumpkins and focusing on different ways of mark making.
Harvest - Our Harvest Service focus this year is ' Trees'. Year 1 have been busy creating tree craft images showing the different changes trees go through during the seasons. We are excited to share their creations during our Harvest Service at the church.
Maths - Representing numbers to ten in many ways through regrouping
Art - Exploring line and mark making to draw water
Our first week in Year 1!
Beach Trip Slides
Our new PE topic is Team Building. Take a look at Year 1s great skills of communication and problem solving.
Year 1 were treated with a very exciting show and tell as they all got to see and hold a slow worm! The children were all very surprised by how it tied itself into a knot.
Year 1 have been exploring colour mixing this week. Here they are mixing their primary colours to create secondary colours.
In Geography, the children were learning about Emperor Penguins. Here we are practicing our penguin huddle. Look at how well we are protecting our eggs!
📖World Book Day 📚
In Maths we have been experimenting with the different ways we can create numbers between 10-20 using cuisenaire rods.
In Geography, Year 1 worked in teams to create pictures of the coasts. They challenged themselves by adding coastal landforms such as cliffs to their pictures.
Year 1 enjoyed making sculptures in Art by rolling up paper tubes.
Merry Christmas Everyone!
During their Mastering Number lesson, Year 1 were learning about how the value of the numbers increase as they count.
Year 1 loved their trip to the theatre to see Robin Hood. They were especially excited to be front row! A big well done to the children who walked back to school after the show.
We are reading How to Wash a Woolly Mammoth in English so today we have been following other instructions. Here the class are practicing using bossy verbs to get their partner to make a Lego model correctly.
Y1 have been playing dice games to make the numbers 1-9 in as many different ways as possible.
Thank you to Mr Bradshaw for coming in to answer our questions about childhood in the past today. We were very interested to hear about the games he played and the food he ate when he was a child.
Welcome to Homerswood’s very busy opticians!
Look at how hard we worked as a team to put together this puzzle!
For science, we tested our sense of taste by trying bread spread with all different toppings. We used words like sweet, sour and bitter to describe the flavours.
Year 1 loved sharing their fables with Year 6!
Year 1 had their first Art lesson today where they created their own printing blocks out of Lego.
Year 1 have been practicing their clockwise and anti clockwise turns in maths. Great job year 1!
