This week Pope Paul has come together again to celebrate Pentecost and the Crowning of Mary. Thank you to all the families who supported and shared in our celebrations this week.
We are wishing you a restful half term holiday and look forward to seeing you back on Monday 5th June.
Miss Lambie
Wednesdays- P.E. kits for Swimming- GIRLS NO TIGHTS or LEGGINGS PLEASE
Friday- P.E. kits
Religion
This week Pope Paul has come together to pray and reflect for Spirituality week. On Monday, Year 1 met with their Year 4 prayer partners to share a prayer for each other. On Tuesday, Year 1 learned a technique called ‘prayer through colour’ and designed their own prayerful picture. On Wednesday, they explored the school grounds in search for signs of God’s creations. On Thursday, they reflected at the prayer stations which were led by Year 5. On Friday, they all met in a morning assembly to reflect on their Spirituality Week. Thank you to Miss Donatantonio for organising all the activities and resources for the week.
English
Year 1 worked so hard this week to produce their final pieces of writing on ‘How to wash a Woolly Mammoth’. It will be sent home next week so they can share it with you. We will start our poetry unit next week.
Maths
Year 1 have been continuing to learn about multiplication and division and this week focused on how to represent them through arrays. Please see the additional homelearning that has been sent to show you how Year 1 are to set it out and use this method.
Geography
The children enjoyed their second to last lesson with Mrs Poyiadzis as they went out to explore the local area. Next week they will be creating a map of their route and identifying physical and human geography features. After half term, they will begin their Seaside Geography unit. There are two spare parent spaces for the school trip on Thursday 15th June. If you would like to join us, please may you let me know on Monday morning and then I can randomly select two parents, if there are more than two wanting to come.
Homelearning-
-Mathletics multiplication arrays has been set
-Spelling/ sounds revision- ure (picture, future and adventure) Available on Spelling Shed
-Phonic screening revision available at: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/national-curriculum-assessments-practice-materials and https://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/resources/phase/5 (First 3 games are free)
-Please remember to bring reading books in daily.
Enjoy the lovely weather this weekend and I will see you our last week before half term on Monday!
Miss Lambie
Wednesdays- P.E. kits for Swimming- GIRLS NO TIGHTS or LEGGINGS PLEASE
Friday- P.E. kits
Summer Week 4 w.b. 08.05.2023
English
Year 1 have been applying their knowledge of instructions and have produced some wonderful writing on ‘How to Brush your teeth’. Next week they will be writing their final unit piece on ‘How to wash a Woolly Mammoth’.
Maths
Year 1 worked hard this week with a new calculation- division. They shared lots of different resources between two and learnt that odd numbers will have a remainder- they enjoyed sharing the cakes out too! Additional Maths links to practise multiplication and division fluency: https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/5-7-years/multiplication-and-division 
Homelearning-
-Mathletics division has been set
-Spelling/ sounds learnt: l, ll, le and we revised silent letters: wr, kn, mb, gn so I have sent some games home to practise with.
-Phonics Screen begins w.b. June 12th. Past papers to practise reading available at: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/national-curriculum-assessments-practice-materials
-Please remember to bring reading books in daily.
Enjoy the lovely weather this weekend and I will see you for a full week on Monday!
Miss Lambie
Wednesdays- P.E. kits for Swimming- GIRLS NO TIGHTS PLEASE
Friday- P.E. kits
Summer Week 3 w.b. 01.05.2023
Scooter workshop Wednesday 3rd May.
Friday’s Coronation Celebrations
Whole school celebrations
Coronation Home Learning
Homelearning-
**Whole school home learning on King Charles**
Have a lovely long weekend and I look forward to seeing you all Tuesday 9th May
Miss Lambie
Wednesdays- Swimming
Friday- P.E.
Summer Week 2 w.b. 24.04.2023
Religious Education
This week the children recalled the events of Holy week and reflected on how Mary, the disciples and the crowds would have been feeling at different points in the week.
English
Year 1 have been enjoying following successful and unsuccessful instructions this week based on ‘How to wash a Woolly Mammoth. They learnt about different types of sentences to use: command, exclamation, statement and question and worked well to group them.
Maths
Year 1 worked hard with their new knowledge of 2p, 5p and 10p and applied it to counting in multiples of 2,5 and 10 this week. Additional Maths links to practise multiplication fluency:
Computing
Year 1 started their new topic ‘Data Handling’. Year 1 enjoyed collecting lots of objects from the classroom and working together to decide what their categories should be before they made labels for them. They then had to group the objects into pairs and they were able to practise their multiplication too!
RSHE
Year 1 are now learning Module Two: Created to Love Others. Content information is available on the school website https://popepaul.herts.sch.uk/rse-consultation/ and the letter containing the parent password is at the top of the Year 1 webpage https://popepaul.herts.sch.uk/year-1/.
This week the children learnt about how to stay safe in practical ways e.g. wearing helmets but also online safety. They learnt how ‘Smartie the Penguin’ stays safe online and wanted to share the video and song with you at home. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7vZF-8bTFI&ab_channel=MrStarbuckEducation-IdeasforPrimaryTeachers . They also learned about how to keep private parts private and we used Pantasaurus to help us understand https://www.nspcc.org.uk/keeping-children-safe/support-for-parents/pants-underwear-rule/ .
Homelearning-
**Whole school home learning on King Charles**
-Your child has their days of the week spellings to practise with you at home.
– We revised silent letters this week: wr, kn, mb, gn so I have sent some games home to practise with.
-Please remember to bring reading books in daily.
Have a lovely long weekend and I look forward to seeing you all on:
Wednesday 3rd May- P.E. kits and swimming + bring in your Charles III learning.
Friday 5th May – Wear red, white and blue or Kings/Queens for the King Charles celebrations.
Miss Lambie
Wednesdays- Swimming
Friday- P.E. (NOT THIS WEEK, wear red, white and blue for Kind Charles)
Welcome to the Summer Term in Year 1.
Religious Education
This week we celebrated the Rising of Jesus on Easter Sunday. The children worked hard to retell the story, then write it themselves before designing beautiful pictures to represent the cross.
The children worked well together to change our prayer space from the purple Lent to the white and Gold for Easter.
Maths
The children enjoyed learning all about money this week but were a little disappointed to find our resources were pretend plastic money rather than real coins! The children learnt how to recognise the different coins, order them in their values, use different coins to make the different amounts and even how to use money to pay for ice cream! Again, very disappointed when they found out the ice cream was made of tissue paper!
Homelearning-
-Your child has their latest piece of writing from our English unit ‘The Last Noo-noo’. Please let them share it with you.
– I do not need any of the learning back- it is additional to support learning at home: -ed, -ing, -es and –s endings and high frequency spelling and handwriting practise.
-Mathletics has been set for money activities.
-Please remember to bring reading books in daily.
Have a lovely weekend and I look forward to seeing you all Monday.
Miss Lambie
Wednesdays- Swimming
Friday- P.E.
Welcome to the last week in our spring term and what a busy week we had!
In Religion we explored the events of Holy week starting with Palm Sunday, Maundy Thursday and then Good Friday. We will explore the events of Easter Sunday in our first week back.
Computing
Maths
In Maths the children enjoyed lots of addition problem solving activities and applied their number bonds to solve them. e.g.
The children have been exploring what they word ‘difference’ means in maths and solving problems relating to the vocabulary. E.g.
P.E.
Will now take place on Wednesday (swimming starting 26th April) and Fridays.
We wish you a restful Easter break and look forward to seeing you all for the start of the summer term on Monday 17th April.
Miss Lambie and Miss Lawlor 🐤
Who can believe we only have one week left till Easter break!? Year 1 has continued to be busy bees this week. Religious Education Maths They worked so hard to understand how the = sign can be used to balance calculations (additional home learning was sent home for this last week and Mathletics was also […]
Please visit wonderseekers website for some ideas for Science at home.
https://www.wonderseekers.charity/science-at-home
Religious Education
This week we revised what we know about the season of Lent and focused on fasting. The children had great knowledge of what they can choose to fast and learnt that it doesn’t always have to be food related!
Mathematics
Year 1 has been exploring different ways to total the same values and how it is called equality and balance. They enjoyed using the scales to balance their numbers before recording them in number sentences. Mathletics has been set to support this learning.
Phonic sounds taught this week:
Please use spelling shed to support the learning of this sound.
Other games can be found here:
https://wordwall.net/en-gb/community/alternative-j-sounds-matching-pairs-game-j-ge-g-dge
https://www.tinytap.com/activities/gwil/play/dge-or-ge
https://www.spellzone.com/word_lists/games-71.htm
Addition home learning sheets sent home this week:
I have found some maths and spelling resources/games that I have sent as extra home learning for those who wish to complete them.
They do not need to be returned to me.
Happy Friday, see you on Monday,
Miss Lambie 😀 🐝
Religious Education
This week we revised what we know about the season of Lent and focused on the act of Prayer. The children had great knowledge of when we pray, how we pray, why we pray and who we can pray too.
Mathematics
Year 1 have been learning subtraction methods in Maths this week. They have learnt to count back, use a number line, think ten, subtract ones first. These are the methods we used:
Mathletics subtraction games have been set to support this learning and further learning can be found at:
Robot subtraction
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/robot-more-or-less
Mental maths train subtraction
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/mental-maths-train
Subtraction grids
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/subtraction-grids
English
The children have enjoyed learning about Jill Murphy’s text ‘The Last Noo-noo’. They worked well in groups to sequence events of the story and liked going on their own ‘Noo-noo’ hunt around the classroom. When they found them they had to use their preposition words to describe where they were found. We tried to collect them all but are predicting we will be still be finding them next week!
You can access a reading of the text here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXDK0be85es
Phonic sounds taught this week:
Focused on the alternative v (ve, love, dove) and ch (tch, witch, hatch) sounds.
A learning sheet has been sent home to support this.
Addition home learning sheets sent home this week:
Handwriting- some tricky words to practise with the correct letter formation and height of letters in preparation to begin pre-cursive handwriting after Easter.
English story- Your child has their latest English story in their bag. It was completed independently at the end of our last unit. Please encourage them to read it to you and there are spellings attached to practise.
Home learning can be returned next Friday
Happy Friday, see you on Monday,
Miss Lambie 😀 🐝
