Year 1
Welcome to Year 1!
At Stockton Wood, we Lay the Foundations for Life.
Year 1 Staff:
1C: Mrs Cunliffe
1J: Mrs Jones
Teaching Assistants: Miss Marland, Miss Quirk & Miss Brady
Information for Parents
Stockton Wood is a Restorative School. In Year 1 we use emojis to check-in to share how we are feeling and this helps us to manage our feelings.
The children are looking forward to a great year of learning, including listening to stories by new authors, learning outdoors, exploring the world around them as scientists and being physically active.
Class Dojos are used to celebrate achievements and praise efforts!
Year 1 Timetable
1C P.E Day: Thursday
1J P.E. Day: Thursday
P.E. kit includes: a plain white t-shirt, navy shorts/ jogging bottoms and a pair
of black pumps or trainers to take part in PE. Your child can come to school
wearing their P.E. kit on their class days.
General Reminders
Reading is at the heart of everything we do, so please try and read with your
child every night. Ask them questions about what they have read, encouraging them to talk about the book, whether it is a story or non-fiction. This will help them with their reading comprehension.
Your child can bring a water bottle to school, containing water only.
Look out for our homework matrix! These activities will explore our wider curriculum, offer creative challenges and an opportunity to earn dojos!
Curriculum Overview Y1 2024 2025
Year 1 Summer 1 2025 Homework Matrix.
Year 1 Spring 2 2025 Homework Matrix
Year 1 Spring 1 2025 Homework Matrix
Year 1 Autumn 2 2024 Homework Matrix
Year 1 Chatter
Digital Painting – Year One
Great use of paint tools during computing this week to create work in the style of Wassily Kandinsky.
Mental Health Week – Year One
Lovely listening to mindfulness music and colouring with our friends to relax and unwind at the end of a busy school day.
Design Technology – Year One
Good research skills displayed in class today. Good discussion work all about the difference between fruit and vegetables. We now know which fruit grows on trees, bushes and vines.
Year One – PSHE
Lovely circle time discussing the food we like and dislike. Good range of healthy food added to packed lunch boxes using the ‘Eat Well’ plate.
Year One – Big Friday Quiz
Wonderful retrieval of prior learning in our Big Friday Quiz today. Well done everyone! Our winning team scored full marks!
PSHE – Year One
Year One has been busy watching and discussing videos from the British Red Cross. We have enjoyed learning about basic first aid.
Making Equal Groups
As a class we grouped 30 counters into equal groups. We could do this in groups of 2,3,5 and 10.
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English- hook
Today we looked at the different items that introduce our new story. We then wrote a prediction about what we think our story is about using the items.
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Making arrays
Today we having been looking at arrays in maths. We have looked at columns, rows and completed the stem sentences.
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Year One – Maths
Great adding equal groups in Maths today. Good partner work, use of counters and hundred squares to solve each question.
Year One – PE
Super rolling skills displayed during our sending and receiving lesson today. How many targets did you hit? How did you challenge yourself?
Computing
We started today’s lesson by watching a e-safety video. Then we used a QR code get on to a painting tool. We then explored the app and the different tools/icons within it.
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Looking after our environment
We walked around our school environment and talked about how we can look after it.
don’t pull flowers, recycle, pick up your dogs mess, use your bike not your car.
Church Visit
What a fabulous afternoon in All Saints Church learning all about Easter
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Year One – Stay and Learn
Lovely stay and learn session with our family members learning all about plants. Who is going to grow the tallest Sunflower?
Year One – Religious Education
We have thoroughly enjoyed learning all about the festival of ‘Eid Mubarak’ and have made special cards.
Year One – PE
Wonderful control displayed today when exploring rolling in gymnastics. Which is your favourite roll? The pencil, tuck, teddy bear or forward roll?
Year One – Religious Education
Good role-play and retelling of The Last Supper. We now know that this is a special meal for Christians to remember Jesus.
PE- gymnastics
Today we have been leaning to roll. We have done a pencil, tuck, teddy bear and forward roll.
Maths- capacity
we have been exploring the language:
full, nearly full, nearly empty and empty.
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Year One – Celebrating Neurodiversity Week
This week we have been watching a range of video clips and learning about how we are all different. We now know that our brains work differently and is ok to think in a different way to others. Everyone is welcome in Stockton Wood.
Art- clay
Today we were so lucky, we got to work with an artist to make a tile with tress and buildings on. Finally we made our mouse to go on it. We have learnt so many new skills during our lesson and mostly importantly had fun.
Year One – Mathematics
Super skills displayed whilst exploring the mass of objects. Good use of ‘lighter and heavier’ vocabulary when comparing the mass of classroom objects.
Neurodiversity Celebration Week
A huge thank you to Mr Boyd for hanging our neurodiversity umbrellas! Neurodiversity is an umbrella term used to refer to all of the different ways of thinking. This week the children are learning about Autism, Dyslexia, ADHD and Dyspraxia. Ask your child if they know any famous people who are neurodivergant!
Parents Get Involved in Neurodiversity Week.
Below is a list of workshops available to parents during Neurodiversity Celebration Week. Simply click on the workshop your would like to attend to register. You will be able to access the workshops via your mobile phone, tablet or computer. If you need help speak to Mrs Kent (SENCo)
https://www.neurodiversityweek.com/_files/ugd/46eb70_e3ce426f85ca411ebf75ef1d9ce61b10.pdf
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Year One – RE
We have been retelling the story of Palm Sunday and talking about why it is important to Christians. Look at our lovely Palm leaves.
Maths
We are looking at height and length using the language, tall, taller, short, shorter.
we organised ourselves into height order.
Science Week -Year One
Great start to Science week in Year One exploring different types of “beak” tools (tweezers, spoons, straws and chops sticks) to pick up different “food” (rice, gummy worms and marbles.)
Year One & Year Five Reading Buddy Time
We have thoroughly enjoyed sharing and reading a range of books to celebrate World Book Day.
Year 5 World Book Day -Reading Buddies
We have loved sharing stories with the younger children this afternoon. Some of the stories were really funny too!
Computing
Programming, coding and robotics.
Today we had to give the Bee-Bots commands to make them move.
A Beautiful visitor
We loved seeing MissQuirk and asking questions all about her baby.
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Some of our book covers
We wrote a character description for the ‘Wild Things’ and drew them.
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PE- Gymnastics
During our PE lesson today we were learning how to move our bodies in different ways. We had to create different letters using our body such as ‘L,I,S,V,O’.
Year One – Maths
Amazing partitioning into tens and ones in maths today! Good use of base ten and part whole models.
Year One – Computing
Great coding skills today whilst exploring ‘Bee-Bot Online’ resource. Did your Bee-Bot reach the target each time?
LifeSavers
Its lovely to see our year 1 children saving money each week. Our year 6 cashiers are doing a great job.
Gymnastics
Today in our PE lesson we started gymnastics. We have looked at different ways of moving and travelling. We moved high, low, in different directions and different speeds.
LGBTQ+ week
Today we read the story of ‘Pirate Mums’. As a class we discussed different types of families, we talked about families with 1 mum, 2 mums, a mum and a dad, 1 dad, 2 dads and how we are all different but we are still loved and cared for.
Winter Planting
Today in science we planted some seeds, we are very excited to watch them grow. Today we looked at the words: flower, stem, leaf and roots.
Stay and Learn
Year 1 had a lovely time learning all about the history of St Valentine. We had fun with some Valentines maths problems too! Thank you to all our families for coming along!
Year One – Stay and Learn
We’ve had a fun filled afternoon learning all about the history of St Valentine and used our problem solving skills to solve calculations using numbers up to 20.
Internet Safety – Year One
Excellent internet safety session today learning all about ‘Trusted Adults.’
PE
Today we have been learning how to use a tennis racket 🎾 we had to balance the ball on the racket and get to the other side of the room.
Year One – Super Kind
We are so proud of our Year One Change Makers! Following our assembly last week these pupils have made posters encouraging people to recycle! #Super Kind
Partnership Week – USI
It was lovely to share stories and examples of pupils writing with United School International this week. 1J Stockton Wood met 1D United School International.
Year One – DT KAPLA
Wonderful creations from Year One whilst exploring the KAPLA resource. Look at the amazing chairs and train tracks that have been created.
Year 1 Maths
1C worked really hard in maths this morning. We used concrete resources and pictorial representations to calculate near doubles. We will carry on with this learning next week!
PSHE- ask permission before sharing
Today we watched a video about asking our friends permission before sharing videos or photos.
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Computing- algorithm
We enjoyed giving Daisy a command and making her move in different ways across the screen.
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Year One – Computing
Great computing skills using Daisy Dino app to create simple algorithms. How did you make Daisy move across the screen?
publishing our writing ✏️📝
This morning some of our children are publishing their very own story. It’s very exciting we can’t wait to see it finished.
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Year One – Milo’s Money
Super sharing of ideas from Year One to answer key question number 3 – What can we use our money for?
Year 1 Big Friday Quiz
Great teamwork today in class to retrieve lots of prior learning. Well done everyone!
Music
Year 1 enjoyed using the glockenspiels to find a beat. I think we have some future musicians!
