WELCOME TO YEAR 1 BRAMBLINGS
The Brambling can be found most commonly in the British Isles during the cold winter months, the rest of the year it explores other regions of the world. They travel in large groups (usually in the thousands!) and we will take this characteristic of this bird and use it in our classroom to ensure that there is a sense of teamwork to encourage all children to work together and support each other in their learning journey!
THIS TERMS THEME
'Be Curious'
This term we will…
immerse ourselves in the cultures and traditions of Kenya. We will compare and contest what we learn with our lives in Paignton. We will explore the world of plants. This will all cumulate in an exciting learning outcome to share with our parents.
P.E AND DANCE DAYS
P.E/Dance Days are Wednesday and Thursday each week. Please ensure that your child has the correct kit in school all week. We will ensure that they are sent home at the end of every half term.
HOME LEARNING DAYS
Home Learning will be handed out on a Friday and collected in on a Wednesday. This will give you the opportunity to explore aspects of your child's learning if you wish.
UPCOMING EVENTS
Monday 25th April- First Day of Summer 1
Friday 27th May- Last Day of Summer 1
Monday 6th June- Non Pupil Day
Tuesday 7th June- First Day of Summer 2
Zoo trip Thursday 30th June 2022
Monday 25th July- Last Day of Summer Term
MEET THE TEAM
Meet the Team
If there are any issues or concerns, please feel free to contact your teacher (Mrs Ayling) or alternatively please contact a team leader (Mr O'Sullivan).
bayling@whiterockprimaryschool.co.uk
losullivan@white-rock-primary.torbay.sch.uk
ACADEMIC YEAR
2021/2022
Summer Term
Summer Term Curriculum Map
WB 11.7.22
What a great end to an exciting week. Friday was our 'Engineers and Inventors' day. Our challenge - to make boats that float. We designed, made, tested and evaluated our boats. It was great fun!!
4.7.22
This week we have been learning how to make different amounts of money. We have been amazing at recognising the different coins and using them to help Mrs. Ayling when she goes shopping.
27.6.22
This week we went on our school trip to the zoo. We had so much fun learning about all of the animals. A particular highlight was the orangutan playing in a potato sack.
20.7.22
This week we have been learning all about the place value of numbers in Maths. We went on a hunt and made numbers using tens and ones.
13.6.22
This week we have been learning all about plants and trees. We have read non-fiction books, planted seeds and been on a tree identification hunt around school.
WB 6.6.22
We have had great fun this week learning an African dance with Mrs. Tyson. We looked at how different safari animals move and used that to create our dance.
23.5.22
What a fantastic end to the term! We had so much fun celebrating the Queen's Platinum Jubilee. We enjoyed making crowns and bunting, having a street party and joining in with the whole school dance.
16.5.22
This week we have been introduced to the world of fractions. We have been learning all about splitting objects and shapes into 2 equal parts, halves, and 4 equal parts, quarters.
WB 9.5.22
When we arrived in our class there were egg shells all around the classroom. Who had left them there? Had something hatched? We found a poem about animals hatching and practised reading it as a class.
WB 2.5.22
This week we have been learning all about multiplication and division. We have learnt how to arrange objects neatly in arrays and went on an array hunt around school.
WB 25.4.22
This week our new topic has been launched, 'Be Curious'. Our teachers were sent a video, some music and a story and we have been tasked with finding out all about Mombasa in Africa.
WB 4.4.22
This week we have been learning all about Easter. The highlight of the week was an Easter Egg Hunt.
WB 28.3.22
This week we have been learning all about measures in our Maths. We really enjoyed finding out about length, height, weight and capacity.
WB 21.3.22
This week we had a message from the Queen. A sneaky swan swooped off with her handbag and has taken it all around the UK. The Queen has tasked the Year 1 children to track down the swan.
WB 14.3.22
We had so much fun on Red Nose Day. The all children looked great in the super hero and red outfits. We enjoyed all of the activities that Year 6 ran for us and had a ball at the P.E festival.
WB 7.3.22
This week Mrs. Jarrett sent us a letter asking us to help attract a greater variety of birds to our school grounds. We decided to make bird feeders to hang around the school. We had lots of fun rolling the lard into balls and covering them with bird seeds.
WB 28.2.22
Well, the highlight of this week most certainly was World Book Day. Everyone made such an effort with their amazing costumes. We had lots of fun in school and enjoyed sharing a book with children from Kingfishers.
WB 14.2.22
Well done on a super last week of term Bramblings. To finish off our Chinese New Year learning we made Chinese dragons and performed our very own Chinese dragon dance.
Chinese Dragon Dance
7.2.22
This week we the Bramblings have been amazing at making numbers up to 50 thinking about the value of each digit. Well done Bramblings, keep up the super work.
31.1.22
This week we have been learning all about Chinese New Year. We have enjoyed learning about the features of a non-fiction book and finding out lots of interesting facts.
24.1.22
This week we have continued to learn about the story of The Enormous Turnip. We have been thinking about different words that mean the same as 'enormous'. Bramblings did a great job of coming up with new adjectives such as massive, gigantic and colossal.
WB 17.1.22
This week we have been learning about the 4 seasons, Winter, Spring, Summer and Autumn. We have been out and about in our school grounds looking at the trees at Winter time.
WB 10.1.22
This week we have been learning all about the world. In our assemblies we have been learning the names of the seven continents and five oceans. We have also been learning about the compass points and using the directions north, south, east and west.
WB 3/1/22
This week we have been learning the poem The Train Ride off by heart. We created our very own train and made up some actions to go with the words.
WB 13.12.21
What a week! We have had lots of Chrismassy fun. We enjoyed a huge Christmas lunch and had an amazing time on the Polar Express.
Well done on a fab first term in Year 1. Merry Christmas!
WB 6/12/21
This week we have had fun rehearsing and filming our Christmas Play.
WB 29.11.21
This week Buddy the elf came and decorated our classroom. He also wrote us a letter to tell us that Santa has decided to stop making presents. We have been thinking of different things we can say to persuade Santa to start making presents again in time for Christmas.
WB 22.11.21
This week we have been authors. We have enjoyed retelling the story of Little Red Riding Hood in our puppet theatre and have written our own version of the story.
WB - 15/11/21
This week we have been learning all about what different animals eat and finding out if the are carnivores, herbivores or omnivores. Some cheeky animals had left poos in our classroom. We had to dissect the poos and see what they had been eating to find out who the poo belonged to.
WB 8/11/21
In Dance this week, the children have been exploring a prehistoric jungle travelling over, under, around and through. In these photographs, some children are being the jungle while others are being the explorers.
WB 1/11/21
This week we have been learning all about addition. We have been partitioning numbers in different ways.
WB 18/10/21
We have had a fantastic last week of the term. This week we have been learning how to sort and classify animals into different groups.
WB 11.10.21 - This week we have been working really hard on our number formation. We have been practising writing numbers to 20 every morning and have been playing lots of games to help us get our numbers the right way round.
WB 4.10.21 - This week we have had lots of fun using our senses to make popcorn. We talked about what we could see, hear, smell, feel and taste.
WB 27.9.21
This week we have continued to learn about the Gingerbread Man in our writing. We have been focusing on using finger spaces between words and we are getting really good at it now
In Maths we have been using the language, greater than, less than and equal to, to compare numbers.
We have enjoyed exploring a range of activities in the classroom and out door spaces and on Friday we had a chance to hold our very own White Rock stick insects.
WB 20.9.21
This week we have been learning all about recycling. We had an exciting workshop in the woodlands where we learnt about looking after our planet.
On Monday, someone had been in our classroom and made an awful mess. We used our detective skills to study the clues and discovered it was The Gingerbread Man.
In Maths, we have been learning to find one more and one less than a number.
When choosing our learning, we have had lots of exciting activities including; map making, drawing and labelling a body and learning to sketch.
Our New Favourite Wake and Shake
Week beginning 13.9.21
This week we have had our first lessons taught by our specialist teacher, P.E, Dance, Music and Computing. All of our new teachers were really impressed with our good listening. In Maths we represented numbers in different ways and in Writing we thought about what makes us special.
Week beginning 13.9.21
Week Beginning - 06.09.21
