Tous Ensemble, En Chemin Avec Jesus
Year 1
Thank you for all your generous gifts! We, as a staff, have been thoroughly spoilt! We hope you have a wonderful holiday and we look forward to seeing you all again in September - don't forget to give us a wave in assembly!!
Sign up for the summer reading challenge at any of the Liverpool libraries this summer.
The Summer Reading Challenge takes place every year during the summer holidays. You can sign up at your local library, then read six library books of your choice to complete the Challenge. There are exclusive rewards to collect along the way, and it’s FREE to take part!
The Summer Reading Challenge website helps you keep track of your reading all year round: find new books to read take part in competitions and play games.
Please bring in a NAMED bag for life or similar ASAP
to carry home the children's exercise books, contents of their tray etc.
Thank you!
This week: (17/7/17) Last week in Y1!
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| Monday | Y1 watch the Y6 leavers assembly | Y1 watch the Y6 leavers assembly |
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| Thursday |
Infant Sports Day Presentation |
Infant Sports Day Presentation |
| Friday |
Whole school assembly School closes at 1.30pm |
Whole school assembly School closes at 1.30pm |
Dates for your diary:
School closes for Summer Holidays on Friday 21st July at 1.30pm
School reopens for staff INSET on Monday 4th September
Children return to school on Tuesday 5th September
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There will be no more reading books or homework sent home until the children are in Y2.
Please take a look at home and return any school books you may find
- there is an amnesty!!!
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Merit Winners
Colour Mixing
Great Great Brill Brill!
Southport
Find out more about travelling by bus around our city this summer on the Better By Bus website. Click on the picture link to meet the Better By Bus Club gang and decorate your own bus!
As part of our Pupil Well-Being Week we have been learning about making healthy choices for our breakfast, drinks and snacks. Have a look at this website to see who much sugar can be found in the cereals, drinks and snacks we enjoy.CROSSRIGHT - Road Safety Training
Reward for all their hard work with phonics!
This is a fun game to play with a friend or family member as we practise adding 10 to numbers. See if you can add 10 successfully to beat the other submarine.Sorry, this game requires Flash so won't work on mobile phones or tablets - computers only 
Art week with visiting artist, Eimer
African Dance
Fruit Tasting!
Each of us is a flower
The needs of a plant
2D and 3D Shape hunting!
Planting bulbs in Croxteth Park
Planting our beans
3D Shapes
Hunting for 3D Shapes
The Easter Bunny Visits Emmaus!
Mad Science Assembly
Halton Castle Trip
We use this website to show the children how to correctly form their continuous cursive letters in preparation for joined up handwriting in Year 2! If you peek through the windows of the classrooms in the morning you will see this on the interactive whiteboards. Any of the activities in the 'letters' tab at the top are appropriate for our Year 1 children. This link will take you directly to the page for the lowercase letters but you can also practise capital letters or numbers via this website. * We have now moved on to the 'joins' tab and are working on continuous cursive joins.*
Please encourage the children to sit straight at a table or desk, to hold the pencil (not pen) carefully and to sit their letters on the line. Any questions, please do not hesitate to ask us. We appreciate all the help you give your children at home - it really does make a difference. 
For the next 6 weeks both Y1 classes will be enjoying PE / dance lessons on a MONDAY morning with GLS Dance Company. The juniors were treated to these lessons in the first half term of 2017 and they loved them so we're really forward to our turn. Please make sure that all PE kits are returned on the very first day back as our first class is on Monday 27th February!
On a similar note, please can you ensure that ALL PE kit is clearly labelled with your child's name? Try as we might, somehow 5-6 year olds frequently manage to pack their next-door-neighbour's T-shirts, shorts and pumps as well as their own and we've had a few wandering items this term. We really are doing our best to return them to their rightful owners!
Perseverance - Derek Redmond's Story
Perseverance - The Brownlee Brothers
Christopher Columbus
We've been practising our halves with this fun game and the best bit is...we can play it on iPads and tablets as it doesn't require Flash! 
Have fun with it at home too. Can you beat your record?
Sorry parents, this is a bit of a rude version of LOOK, READ, COVER, WRITE, CHECK! Following on from the well-known method of learning spellings, this game can be used to practise high frequency words and tricky words. Check out the view from each toilet cubicle and spot which country you're in. Don't forget to flush and wash your hands after you've been to the toilet! Sorry, this is not a tablet-friendly game. KS1 Judo demonstration and after school club
We have been practising ordering and spelling the days of the week. This is one of our favourite games - we have to tap the bouncing balls in the correct order to spell the days. Have a try at home on your computer (sadly this will not work on tablets/mobile phones).Have a try of this quiz too!
As part of our new computing topic we are looking at greetings cards and are going to design and make our own. This means we need to know how to find the letters on the keyboard. We had a lot of fun playing these games and finding the letters against the clock! Click on the link to start with cup stacking which is the easiest one.
We are now working with real money and enjoying counting all our coins! Please practise money at home and maybe even have a little trip to the shops so that your child can experience using coins in real life situations.
This game on the left is a good way of practising counting out the correct amount.
The Solar System Song
Counting in 2s.mp4
Counting in 5s.mp4
Counting in 10s.mp4
We have been working so hard on these songs for our Christmas play. Have a practise of the first verse for each song below!
All Around the World
Gabriel Calling
Little Star
The Donkey Song
The Tree of Light
Christmas day on the Beach
Three Kings from the East
Kuyimba
Come to the manager
Children of the World
Christmas Candle
Santa Claus is coming to Town
Christmas Hit
The Tiger
Noisy fun with Jeff Rich (Ex Status Quo drummer)
Number Pairs Song.mp4
The Alphabet Song
Andy Goldsworthy Art Work
Andy Goldsworthy is an artist from Scotland. He makes sculptures and other works of art out of natural materials: like wood, leaves or stones. In class we have looked and some of his amazing creations. We used leaves, conkers, beech nuts, twigs and acorns from Croxteth Park that we collected on our Bear Hunt, other natural items found on the school playground and field and our imaginations to create these wonderful pieces of artwork.
We have been learning about odd and even numbers. Here are some games that we can play on the computer to practise sorting numbers into odd or even. Click on the picture to try them out! (Sadly this activity requires Flash and so cannot be played using a tablet, sorry.)
We have been learning to differentiate between our -teen and our -ty numbers in numeracy. We find this tricky as they sound so similar. We watched the video below to help us with this too.-teen and -ty numbers
Owl Babies
Using our senses
We have been practising our mouse skills in the computer suite with these games. Several children have asked for them to be added to our class page so they can play them at home. They are not educational games but are useful for getting to grips with a mouse as a method for controlling a computer...the children are all experts at using a touch screen on the school iPads or touch pad on the laptops, but the "old-fashioned" mouse proved tricky for many! Click on the mouse to access a selection of simple mouse skill games.
Have a play on Pick A Picture which we have been using in our Phonics lessons.
