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Welcome to
Park Spring Primary School

‘Achieving Together ● Inspired To Be Successful’

Year 1

Welcome to Year 1!

To get in touch with the Year 1 team, email: year1@parkspringprimary.co.uk

1A

Teacher – Miss Wolfe

Teaching assistants – Mrs Place

1B

Teacher – Miss Wykes

Teaching assistants – Miss Lawrence

Additional teaching staff

Mrs Ali-Damant, Mrs Herron, Mrs Barran

 

Important dates

Reading bags and home learning need to be brought in every Monday morning and will then be given out on Monday afternoons. Each child will get reading book to please read x3 at home, as well as a class library book that they can enjoy with a grown up. The reward for this is x5 Dojo points per child!!

PE: Tuesday and Friday – please ensure children come to school in their correct P.E kits.

 

Class Readers and Author of the half term

Our author of this half term is Mick Inkpen

Our class reader this half term will be – Kipper’s Toybox

What are we learning about this half term?

In geography we are learning all about the local area, here is the lozenge showing all the children are learning –

geography

In design and technology we will be learning all about different mechanisms to make our own pop up card!

2024-2025

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Week 5

This week Year 1 have been making their own fruit kebabs in cooking lessons. The children practised peeling, bridge hold and chopping skills. It was great to see all the children try new fruits and start thinking about what they will use next week for their own breakfast cups.

Week 4

Year 1 have started their cooking topic this week – in the lead up to making our own healthy breakfast pots, we tried some different kinds of fruit. Year 1 tried bananas, raisins, raspberries, blackberries, pineapple and apricot. It was great to see everyone try all the fruit and start thinking of ideas for their own fruit pots!

Week 3

This week we have been so impressed with Year 1’s retelling of Kipper’s Toybox using time connectives. In art this week we have been looking at making our self-portraits using charcoal and ink. See if you can recognise any of these faces!

Week 2

What a busy week it has been! It was great to see the children spreading care and kindness with our focus on Children in Need and Anti-bullying Week! In art 1A have been making junk sculptures and 1B made tools for digging in forest school.

Week 1

What  a super first week back after half term! 1B have enjoyed going to forest schools and 1A are excited to start their art topic on self-portraits. On Friday we went on a walk around our local area to see if we could find any human and physical features. We can’t wait to use what we have found in our geography topic!

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Week 8

What a fun week Year 1 have had! We have completed our very own Oi 1A/1B books – don’t forget to have a look at these at Roll up and Read! Year 1 loved the pumpkin trail and we really enjoyed seeing all the spooky pumpkins. Well done to Sammy, Amelia-Grace and Isabelle who won our quiz!

Week 7

Year 1 enjoyed their trip to St. Mark’s Methodist Church – we sang ‘Cauliflower’s Fluffy’ and handed over Harvest donations to the church. A massive thank you to all who donated.

Week 6

1B enjoyed using charcoal and ink to make their self portraits this week – thankfully we didn’t get too messy! We are also becoming maths experts – year 1 are doing amazing learning in comparing numbers up to 10 too!

Week 5

Year 1 finished their awesome Autumn poems this week – we are super impressed with their amazing adjectives and use of the senses! We have been enjoying Leeds Rhinos teaching us for PE too – we have been practicing attacking and defending!

Week 4

Year 1 have been learning all about how shopping has changed from the 1960’s e.g. the till system, types of shops and ways of payments. They have loved using their imagination in our role play area as shop keepers.

Week 3

Year 1 are beginning their writing project of writing an Autumn poem. We explored an Autumn tuff tray, describing how different objects looked and felt and even had the taste of some delicious hot chocolate!

 

Week 2

The children in year 1 have been super scientists this week! We used our 5 senses to explore the world around us by observational drawing, hearing outdoors, taste testing crisps, smelling different things and guessing what is in the bag by feeling!

Week 1

We are super proud at how the children have settled into year 1 this week! This week we started our science topic with a focus on our bodies – the children really enjoyed playing Simon says and Body bingo.

 

Recent News

Puppets for Jesus

Year 1, 2 and 3 had a special assembly today – a puppet assembly, and they told the story of the nativity in a fun and exciting way! The children were a great audience and Read more…

Year 1 Reading Mastermind

The Year 1 children had a go at a reading quiz, answering questions on the books we have focused on as a class over the year. 8 children were selected to compete in the Year Read more…

Year 1 Great Fire of London Outdoor Learning Day!

Last week the Year 1 children enjoyed an outdoor learning day led by ‘Alfresco Learning’. They were challenged to build a wattle wall using sticks, as a team. They then had to use willow to Read more…

Black history

Well done to our Black History Month competition winners and entries! I am incredibly proud of your hard work and enthusiasm in researching your chosen hero and presenting them, AND in your own time. Amazing! Read more…

Summer reading challenge!

The Summer Reading Challenge at Pudsey Library has began, please watch this video to find out more about the challenge. Kate at the library is looking forward to seeing you over the Summer!  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPf0dGrYCv4

A message from the author Tom Palmer on World Book Day!