Year 1 2024-2025

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Throughout the year our class work and learning will cover a range of different topics:

Our Colourful World

When We Go Down to the Woods Today

Fabulous Fashion

On the Move

Jack and the Beanstalk

Under the Deep Blue Sea

We are leaning all about 'Our Colourful World'

We are looking out for different colours in rhymes.

Little Boy Blue     Baa Baa Black Sheep     10 Green Bottles     

We enjoyed a colour story about Little Mouse and the Big Red Apple

We love the story of colourful RAINBOW FISH and how he learnt to share his beautiful shiny silver scales. We had to think how we could share.

We heard the story of Noah and his big ark. We were thinking about the colours and patterns of all the animals and the beautiful rainbow.

We were thinking of the animals in the ark and their different colour patterns - do you like our spotty and stripy artwork?

We loved the story of Elmer the colourful patchwork elephant.

Our 'Brown Bear, Brown Bear What do you see?' story has so many different colourful animals in it! We made beautiful story telling hangers

We had a great time moving and grooving with Justin and 'Move to the Beat'

We went on an autumn walk in school and looked at all the shapes, sizes and colours of the lovely leaves.

We had a great adventure to Gortin Glen Forest Park - we went on a long walk and we could see lots of signs of autumn.

We followed the animal clues to find the Gruffalo! 

All that walking made us all hungry! 

We had a great time in the playpark! Such a busy and fun day! 

Our autumn topic, Down in the Woods, is helping us think about natural objects we see around us. We went to our very own woodland area and collected things to help us create a artistic masterpiece...can you guess which famous character we made?

The Gruffalo story is a Year 1 favourite and we are doing lots of learning activites about it!

We have been learning all about owls.

I hope you like the puppets we designed.

Yummy! Thanks to the school kitchen for a delicious Christmas Dinner today! Lot's of clean plates..

A Marvellous Miracle

Look at the fabulous cast of our Year 1 Nativity.

They did a great job performing, acting, singing...well done everyone! 

Ho Ho Ho....look who came to visit us today at school! 

Santa told everyone in year 1 they were on his 'nice' list....he promised he would be be back in Castlederg next week again so we better go to bed early!!

We had great fun taking part in our Santa charity walk today. We did a few laps around the school and lots of pupils cheered us on! Thanks to all the School Council for organising! 

Happy 2025 everyone!

The new year started off with snow, frost and ice....we thought we would make cute snowmen that would never melt!!

We are getting active to start the new year keeping fit and healthy. Look at our gymnastic moves!!

Our learning topic is called 'FABULOUS FASHION' and we are exploring all things clothes related.

We designed our own hat and mittens to keep us warm on a cold day.

Look at our Warm Winter Woolly Wear display!        Cosy and cute! 

We wrapped our sheep in soft wool....and thought of the journey from sheep to shelf! Do you like their peg legs? Have you any clothes made from wool?

We learnt all about tartan patterns and tried to make some ourselves...we hope you like our designs. Some used paint, others paper and lots used the computer. 

We have enjoyed the story of the Elves and the Shoemaker. We used cubes to measure the length of lots of shoes and recorded the results.

We were trying to decide if this was a true story or an imaginary fairy tale......what do you think?

We measured lots of scarves to see which was the longest and which was the shortest one.

We had to remember to start at the same point to make it a fair measure test.

We did some science experiment testing to see what materials were waterproof

Little Red Riding Hood loved her red outfit with a hood. We did some data handling recording with our coats and we love our artistic story character creative display...hope you do too! 

Declan, our school cook, told us all about his work uniform and how he has to wear special protective clothing for his job. Can you think of any other jobs where people wear protective clothing?

We did lots of experiments in our SOCK SCIENCE activities - we investigated socks before and after they got wet in our sock soak test, we did a stretch test to see how many cubes we needed to measure the sock before and after stretching and we also did a fill test where we estimated how many cubes would fill a sock and then we recorded the result.

Year 1 are super scientists! 

Get ahead ...get a hat!!

Year 1 have designed their own hats, we read 'The Cat in the Hat' story and we made Cinderella crowns fit for a prince or princess.

Verse Speaking with Rois from Much Ado - February 2025

Well done everyone! Your were great ...You said your 'Humming Birds' poem so well

Congratulations to all who took part and a special well done to:

3rd place winners - Savannah, Maya and Edward

2nd place winners - Sophie, Alex and Dawson

1st place winners and overall Foundation cup winners - Indie and Carter

Pancake Tuesday 

We had a go flipping our pancakes and heard a story called 'The Big Pancake'

We had great fun decorating our pancakes with different foods...do you recognise any characters?

Look at our fabulous ideas for creating a book character from a potato! Wow, Year 1 you did a brilliant job. I love all your designs and all the detail you added. Thanks all who shared.

Well done for all your creative potato characters. Declan and Irene from our school kitchen had a look at them all and said how BRILLIANT they all were! Great job everyone! Special congratulations to Daisy for her Enormous Turnip and to Matthew for his Hungry Caterpillar. 

We had great fun dressing up in our favourite book character for World Book Day. Can you recognise anybody?

The School Council thought we all looked great in our book character outfits. Well done everyone and special congratulations to Farrah and Lukas! 

Some Year 5 pupils read lots of stories to us. Thanks to all Miss Roke's class for reading some of our favourite stories!

Our topic is 'On the Move'. We are learning all about different types of transport vehicles. We had a visit form the PSNI and they showed us their car. We loved the siren and the flashing lights. We even got to sit inside it! 

We have had lots of fun exploring transport and things that go! 

Geoff told us all about his motorbike and showed us his protective outfit which he wears when out on his bike.

Jesus Calms The Storm

We heard the story of Jesus in the boat travelling with His disciples. When a huge storm appeared the waves got so rough the disciples were worried and asked Jesus to help...Wow! A miracle took place as at His command the wind and waves stopped and were calm. 

We had great fun recreating storm sounds with musical instruments and also the rough waves with our parachute. We made watery wavy art and added our stories to make a display. 

We did a traffic survey to check what numbers we could see on car number plates in the school car park. Numbers 0, 2 and 5 were the most recorded. Thanks to all our Year 7 helpers! 

Look at our transport models we recycled from junk material. We had to design, stick together and add details. Thanks Year 7 for helping us! Can you guess what vehicles we created? There was a lot of problem solving involved to make our models.

Mike from 'World of Owls' came to visit us today and we had great fun hearing all about his lovely owls. We got to feel their soft feathers and see them fly. They were beautiful!

CONGRATULATIONS YEAR 1 .....you all did a brilliant job in our family assembly! 

Spring has certainly sprung! 

** STEM WEEK **

W5 came to show us lots of science experiments. We loved learning about the wheel, gravity, rockets and water pistols!

We had a few challenges this week in class - who could work together to build the tallest beanstalk? Wow ...look how tall our beanstalks are! We had to get Jack down using  a  zip line string. Such a lot of problem solving! 

Roy from SENTINUS came to visit us and he challenged Year 1's to make houses for the 3 Little PIgs out of different materials - which house was best when the wolf huffed and puffed? There were houses made of sticks, some of bricks and some of straws! We were all master builders!

Our STEM project was to design a beanstalk using a pulley that Jack can go up and down! 

Look at our wonderful masterpieces! Great job Year 1! 

We had great fun on our Easter egg hunt...we had to help poor Easter Bunny, he dropped his eggs and they rolled everywhere! He was so kind and gave us all a thank you egg!!

Look at those eggs roll.... We decorated boiled eggs and rolled them on the grass. It was great fun!