WELCOME TO YEAR 1 BUNTINGS
Buntings are a family of birds that includes the Cirl Bunting. This bird is very rare and can be found by the coast in South Devon. Just like us! Many Buntings are long distant migrants which means they travel many miles around the world every year. Just like we will be doing in our learning in this Term's theme!
THIS TERMS THEME
'Be Curious'
This term we will immerse ourselves in the cultures and traditions of Kenya. We will compare and contrast what we learn about Kenya with our lives in Paignton. We will explore the world of plants and go on a trip to Paignton Zoo. This will culminate with an exciting learning celebration to share with our parents.
P.E AND DANCE DAYS
P.E/Dance Days are Wednesday 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
Phonics Home Learning will be handed out on a Monday and Maths Home Learning will be handed out on Friday. Books will be collected in on a Wednesday. This will give you the opportunity to explore aspects of your child's learning if you wish.
UPCOMING DATES
Monday 15th April 2024 - Non-pupil day
Tuesday 16th April 2024 – First day of Summer Term
Thursday 18th April 2024 – Rocksteady Assembly and Workshop
Tuesday 23rd April 2024 – RNLI Water safety assembly
Monday 6th May 2024 – Bank Holiday
Friday 24th May 2024 – Last day of Summer 1
Monday 27th May 2024 – Friday 31st May 2024 – Half Term
Monday 3rd June 2024 – First day of Summer 2
Friday 7th June 2024 – World Ocean Day
Monday 10th June- Friday 15th June - Phonics Screening Week
Monday 24th June 2024 – Friday 28th June 2024 – RSHE Week
Monday 24th June- Buntings Zoo Trip
Tuesday 25th June- Sports Day
Wednesday 26th June- Bramblings Zoo Trip
Thursday 27th June- Buzzard Zoo Trip
Wednesday 24th July 2024 – Last day of Summer Term
MEET THE TEAM
Contact Details
If there are any issues or concerns, please contact your class teacher (Mrs Walker) or alternatively please contact the Year One team leader (Mrs. Ayling);
nwalker@whiterockprimaryschool.co.uk
bayling@whiterockprimaryschool.co.uk
Year 1 Maths Key Performance Indicators
ACADEMIC YEAR
2023/2024
Summer Term
Summer Term Curriculum Map
Tuesday 16th July 2024- DT- Animal Models
This week, we have linked our DT learning with our writing journey all about African animals. We have used modelling clay to make different African animals We used our observational skills of different animals and sculpted the clay carefully. Take a look at our animals below.
Wednesday 10th July 2024- Colour Mixing Art
In Art this week, we have explored colouring mixing. First we identified the primary colours by singing a song. Then we began to mix the primary colours together to make secondary colours. Have a look at our work below.
Tuesday 25th June 2024 - Sports Day
Thank you so much to everyone for coming to our Sports Day. The children loved having a picnic lunch on the field with their grown ups followed by a carousel of team activities despite the heat! It was lovely to see the children being cheered on and working together with the other children in their house teams.
Monday 17th June 2024 - Music
In our Music learning this week the children had a go at playing the boomwhackers! Everyone's boomwhackers were a different note and they all tried their best to play along to 'Twinkle, twinkle little star' at the correct time depending on which note they had.
Monday 10th June 2024 - English
This week the children have loved reading our new model text 'Dino Dinners'. We have discussed features of non-fiction texts and the children had a go at replicating the layout of our model text by organising the different features. They were also very excited to take their own dinosaur egg home to grow!
Monday 3rd June 2024- History
Today, we had a day understanding the key skills that make us Historians such as finding artefacts, looking at historical documents and images and sequencing time chronologically.
We started off digging for fossils and exploring the artefacts. Then we learned about the life and achievements of Marry Anning. Finally, we created a timeline of her life.
Wednesday 22nd May 2023 - The Pied Piper visited White Rock Primary School!
Today, we were honoured to be visited by the real Pied Piper of Hamelin! Torbay has been twinned with Hamelin, Germany since 1973 so the Pied Piper came to visit us to tell us his story. He told us tales and played his flute before leading a walk around the school with all the children following behind. Take a look at the pictures below!
Monday 13th May 2024- English
We have been immersing ourselves in our new Writing text, Boa's Bad Birthday and we all enjoyed using role play to explore how a character thinks and feels. We took turns pretending to be Boa receiving a present and then being the animal that gives the present.
Tuesday 7th May 2024 - Dance
We have been learning Dance this term through the story of Giraffe's Can't Dance. We began by all becoming Gerald, who thought he could not dance, but then by the end of the book he was able to because... "We all can dance when we find music that we love." We have then tried the different dance styles that the other animals dance. One week we learnt the waltz, as "the warthogs started waltzing"; then we learnt the tango, as "the lions danced a tango which was elegant and bold". Next week we are going to be learning the cha cha as "the chimps all did a cha cha with a very latin feel".
Tuesday 30th April - Physical Education
Athletics is the Year 1 focus this half term, with the children from Buntings learning about relays and how to safely changeover the baton. They learned all about 'chase relays' and how it is important to transfer the baton from one runner to the next quickly to try and catch the other teams. They understood the techniques and tactics well and all teams were able to be successful.
Monday 29th April 2024- Geography- African Artefacts
Today Year 1 discovered some African Artefacts in Buntings classroom. We found some patterned material, a tea pot, a fan which also doubles up as a fly squat and a beaded necklace. We watched a clip of a safari in African and named the different animals that live in Africa. We then went onto Google Maps to find where Paignton is and compared this to where Mombasa is and discussed how we would travel there.
Monday 22nd April 2024- Science- Plants
This week, we have started our new Science learning all about plants. We started our learning off by drawing what we thought would happen to a seed if we planted it. We then had a go at planting our own bean seeds. We are going to use our observational skills to watch them grow each week. We were then tasked with finding out the name of different flowers and plants, so we went on a hunt around the school grounds to see what we could find! Have a look at our Science photos so far.
Thursday 18th April 2024 - Music - Rocksteady
This week the children at White Rock were lucky enough to be visited by Tom from Rocksteady. They had an assembly introducing them to Rocksteady followed by an interactive workshop. Rocksteady provide in school fun and inclusive rock and pop band lessons. The children were able to learn about the electric guitar, keyboard and drum kit as well as having a go on the microphones. They all had so much fun!
Tuesday 26th March 2024- Learning Celebration
This week, we invited our parents into school to share some of the learning from the Spring term. We shared some facts about the Titanic and everyone was confident enough to want a speaking role! We also performed a short piece of music using the glockenspiels. Finally, we showed our parents our own collages of the Titanic and then they had a go at making their own with our careful supervision. Everyone had a wonderful time and our parents were very impressed with our fabulous learning.
Monday 18th March 2024- RE
On Monday, we were really lucky to have a Jewish Faith speaker talk to us via video. We found out lots of information about Jewish religion such as Shabbat. We learnt that this is a complete day of rest. We got to ask lots of questions such as 'Where do you pray?'.
Wednesday 13th March 2024 - Gymnastics
We have been really enjoying our Gymnastics lessons this half term. This week we were practising jumping and landing with bent knees. We also recapped our shapes, remembering to squeeze our muscles to make a strong shape. Stretching is important in Gymnastics too, so we always make sure we stretch our muscles so we don't injure ourselves.
Tuesday 12th March 2024- Writing- Don't Spill the Paint!
In Writing this week, we have started to read our new class text 'Don't Spill the Milk!' On Tuesday, we went on our very own journey of 'Don't Spill the Paint!' As we walked through the school, we chanted 'Walk tall, walk steady through the corridor, don't quiver, don't fall off the trim trail, left foot right foot all the way up the stairs, finally we got back to the classroom when...SPLOSH, a big football landed in the tin.' We had so much fun going on our very own journey and luckily Mrs Walker didn't spill the paint!
Friday 8th March 2024- Spanish
Today, we had a special visitor in our classroom to teach us Spanish! We learned the words Hola (hello) and Adios (goodbye) and sang some songs in Spanish. This fits in with our 'One World One Heart' geography theme and we looked at which continent Spain is in (it's Europe!).
Monday 26th February 2024- History and Phonics
What a busy week we have had in Year One! On Monday, we had our History/Writing experience day. For this, we transformed the three classes into 1st,2nd and 3rd class. The children then used role play to imagine what life was like on board the greatest ship of that era! We will be using our History knowledge and skills to inform our writing-this will be a non-fiction page all about the Titanic.
On Tuesday, we held our second Phonics workshop and parents listened to a short talk about the Phonics journey so far and were given information about the Phonics Screening Check. The parents then came to watch our lessons and were so impressed with our amazing learning behaviours. Well done Year One!
Phonic Parent Workshops
Titanic Day
Wednesday 21st February- Physical Education
The children have been working really hard on their fundamental movement skills this year in PE and have progressed to a level where they are learning to catch. They are learning techniques for catching beanbags including ‘domes and butterflies’ but will soon be confident catching a variety of larger balls.
Monday 5th February 2024- Art
In Art this week we made a collage. We used different coloured paper and used either scissors or our hands to rip it. We then stuck the paper down in our Art book to make a collage. During the lesson, we also learnt about the Artist Henri Matisse and found out he was born in France! We are going to be looking more closely at Matisse's work and making collages our own collage pictures of the Titanic later on in the term. This will link with our History learning about the events that took place the night the Titanic sank.
Wednesday 31st January 2024- Maths
In Maths this week we have been subtracting numbers from 20. We played a game with our partner. One of us made a number up to 10 on our tens frame and our partner made the number that is 10 more on their tens frame. We then rolled a dice and took that number away from each of our numbers. After we looked at our number and our partner's number to see if we could spot a pattern.
Thursday 25th January - Physical Education
This week we have had great fun playing on our new Trim Trail. We have been using our gross motor skills to climb, pull, weave and push our way over, round and across the obstacles. It's so much fun!!
Wednesday 24th January 2024 - Dance
We have been learning about African dance and trying to create our own short dances. This week we watched some traditional African dances and used this as inspiration for our own short dances. We had to work with a partner to include two poses from pictures and link them together with a travelling move (like a turn, jump, walk or roll). We found this quite tricky so are going to practise this some more next week.
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Monday 15th January 2024- Writing
We have started a new Writing journey this week and our 'hook' into the learning was a mysterious egg which was left in our classrooms! We discussed where we thought the egg came from and then read our new model text, Tell me a Dragon.
Wednesday 10th January 2024- Geography
This week, the children in Buntings have been using their Geography skills to puzzle piece together the map of the United Kingdom and labelling the different countries. They have looked at each countries capital cities, population and famous landmarks! Well done for using your brilliant Geography skills Buntings to complete the puzzle!
Thursday 4th January - Handwriting
What a busy first week back after the Christmas holidays! The children have been very excited this week to write in their new handwriting books for the first time! This week we have been focusing on the curly caterpillar letters: c, a, o, d, g, q, e, s and f. The children have tried their best to form all the letters correctly and make sure they are sitting on the line. Well done for your brilliant handwriting!
Thursday 7th December - RE
Weren't they amazing!! We are so proud of all of the Year 1 children. Their two performances of the Christmas story, 'The Innkeeper's Breakfast', were incredible. They acted, they sang and they danced to create a brilliant show.
Wednesday 22nd November 2023 - Dance
In Dance, we are learning dance styles from the past. So far we have learnt the Hand Jive and Rock and Roll from the 1950s and the Twist from the 1960s. When learning the Hand Jive, we had to watch Mrs Tyson really closely to copy the moves as they were quite quick. The Twist was great fun to learn as we had to wiggle our hips while bending our knees and lowering ourselves down and then coming back up. We also had to balance on one leg and lift the other leg up while twisting! Next week we are going to learn some moves from the dance 'Night Fever', which is a famous dance from the 1970s.
Friday 17th November 2023 - Children in Need
Thank you for all the donations for Children in Need over the week. The children loved dressing up in yellow and spotty clothes as well as taking part in different games in the hall run by the Year 6 Sports Captains. Some children also donated 50p to have a go at guessing how many sweets were in a jar. We will find out the result on Monday and which child will be the lucky winner of all of the sweets!
Monday 13th November - Art
This week we have been learning all about self-portraits. We have studied the work or Vincent Van Gogh and compared it with that of Picasso's. We then had a go at experimenting with brush strokes in the style of Van Gogh.
Tuesday 7th November- Phonics parent workshop
This week we had some very special visitors during our phonics lessons! We enjoyed waving to our grown ups and showing them how brilliant we are at learning new graphemes (spellings). We we learning all about i and how it makes an igh sound in words like wild, child and kind. We hope you enjoyed visiting our classes and seeing our wonderful learning.
Tuesday 31st October 2023 - Design & Technology
What a busy week Year 1 have had back at school! In Design & Technology, the children designed and made their own gingerbread man. The children thought carefully about their design making sure to label the different parts. They all had a go at mixing the ingredients and rolling the dough before cutting out the gingerbread man shape. Finally they were able to decorate their gingerbread man after they were baked which they all agreed was the best bit!
Tuesday 17th October - History
This term we are learning all about change within living memory. We have been focusing on how toys have changed over time. This week we went on an amazing school trip to Bygones to learn about the past. We compared toys we play with to the ones we saw in the museum and we found out that toys used to be made from china, wood or metal instead of plastic.
Monday 9th October 2023 - Music
In Music this week, Year 1 have been doing some cross curricular learning by listening to and playing instruments to the gingerbread man song. The children learnt the meaning of the word 'tempo' and changed how fast or slow they played their instruments to the song. They all had so much fun!
Friday 6th October 2023 - Phonics
This week Year 1 have been doing some super phonics! The children have started learning Phase 5 graphemes including 'ay', 'ou', 'oy' and 'ea'. They all enjoyed playing the grapheme spotter game, where they have to put their hands on their head when they spot the new grapheme. We then played phonics games and used our new found knowledge to apply these graphemes to our writing in Choosing.
Tuesday 3rd October 2023- Computing
This week, we had our very first computing lesson in the ICT suite at school! We learned how to sit at the desk safely (the chairs spin!) and how to hold a mouse correctly. We then had a go at using the paint software on Purple Mash to help us learn to control our mouse.
Wednesday 27th September 2023 - Dance
Year 1 have been enjoying their Dance lessons this half term. They have been learning to use the space around them and begin to move at different speeds safely. Next week, they will be moving in different ways while being Mr Men characters.
Friday 22nd September 2023 - Maths
Year 1 have been doing lots of brilliant learning in maths this week! The children have been learning to represent numbers as words and trying their best to spell them correctly. They have also been practising counting on from any number within 10. They then used this knowledge to help them find one more than any number within 10.
Monday 11th September 2023- Science
This half term in Science, we will be looking at Animals including humans. We have started this learning journey with looking at the different parts of the human body. We identified the different parts of the body on a diagram and used Scientific language to label each part. We also drew around one of our class friends and everyone enjoyed labelling the large diagram on sugar paper!
Wednesday 6th September- Our first week in our new class!
We have had a great first week back and the children have loved seeing their friends and exploring their new classroom! The children have settled in really well and are all keen to share their learning with the class. We have been ordering and writing numbers to 10. Writing short sentences and drawing and discussing our feelings. We will have our first P.E and dance lessons next week so watch this space for photos of what we get up to in the following weeks.
