Year 1/2 | Christopher Pickering Primary School

Tens and ones within 50

By Mrs K SMITH13th February 2022

Year 1 have been looking at numbers within 50 in our math lessons..

We have looked closely at how these numbers are made with tens and ones.

We used our tens rods an ones cubes to make numbers before we told our partners how many tens and ones we had used.

We used lots of STEM sentences when telling our partners what we needed and what we had used to make a number.

I’ve got 2 tens and 8 ones. My number is 28.

I’ve got 3 tens and 3 ones. My number is 33.

I’ve got 1 ten and 8 ones. My number is 18.

We are getting very confident using numbers to 50.

Here we go round the mulberry bush

By Mrs K SMITH13th February 2022

This week in music Year 1 have been singing ‘Here we go round the mulberry bush’.

We really enjoyed listening to and appraising this nursery rhyme.

We liked how the sounds of the words are loud and soft as we sing. We also like how some of the words repeat like the words in ‘London’s Burning’ did last week.

We found out ‘Here we go round the mulberry bush was created in the Victorian Era and Beatrix Potter would have sang this song as a child.

We were really confident singing this nursery rhyme and knew lots of different verses.

We decided to make up actions for some versions of the song.

Internet safety day

By Mrs K SMITH10th February 2022

Year 1 listened to the story of ‘Digi Duck’ to help them understand about being safe

online and what to do if something worries them.

We talked about messages we might get and what to do if this happens.

We also talked about putting information online and who we should speak to before we ever do this.

The world is a special place

By Mrs K SMITH6th February 2022

This week in RE we discussed why the world is a special place.

We recalled how Hindus believe Brahma created the world and how Christians believe God created the world. We think Hindus and Christians think the world is a special place because of how they believe it was created.

In our class discussions, we also decided the world is a special place for many different reasons.

Some of us thought the world is a special place because it’s where we live. Some also thought it is a special place because there are lots of important things in the world.

London’s burning

By Mrs K SMITH6th February 2022

This week in music Year 1 have been singing the nursery rhyme ‘London’s Burning’.

We found out the song is about the great fire of London from 1666.

We have found singing in rounds very hard but enjoyed playing about with this song.

We sang in an echo because we noticed each line of the song repeated itself like and echo in a tunnel.

We also had fun making new lyrics up. We made our own verse.

“Hull is calling, Hull is calling

See the Humber bridge, see the Humber bridge

Go to town, go to town”

The United Kingdom

By Miss P STATHERS4th February 2022

In Geography this week, Year 2 have been learning about the four countries that make up the United Kingdom. They can now locate these on a map and label the surrounding seas. They have also been learning about the four capital cities.

We have learned that Queen Elizabeth II lives in London and we will be learning more about London next week!

positional language

By Mrs K SMITH3rd February 2022

In geography this week year 1 have ben talking about positional language.

We know lots of words like next to, in front of, behind, above and below.

We used these words to tell our friends where we wanted them to stand on a grid with pictures of Beatrix Potter characters.

We had lots of fun giving instructions to each other and then checking the instructions had been followed correctly.

Stand above the start

Stand next to Peter Rabbit.

We also looked at a compass and had a go at giving instruction to each other to move around the grid using North, South, East and West.

Take a step North from the start.

Stretching our learning

By Mrs K SMITH31st January 2022

This week in PSHE, Year 1 had lots of fun.

We started our lesson with playing pass the smile. We really enjoyed copying the smile and then passing it around our circle. Smiling at each other made us feel happy.

We then listened to our special chime. This makes us feel relaxed and ready for the lesson. We listen to the sound until it stops. We hear it more clearly when we close our eyes.

We all tried to stretch ourselves as high as we can. Some of us wanted to stretch as high as the trees!

This week year 1 were challenged to make a stretch flower. They had to use skills they had not used before together with skills some of us are still perfecting.

We had to colour, cut and wind things to make a stretchy flower.

The first thing we had to do was colour our flower before we cut it out.

Then we attached a pipe cleaner to the back before we wound the pipe cleaner a pencil to make our flower stretchy.

We felt really proud of our flowers and learning new skills.

Singing in a round!

30th January 2022Sophie Dale

In Year 1 we have been appraising nursery rhymes with a focus on where they originated from. Last week we looked at the song ‘Hot Cross Buns’. We discovered the song was more than 300 years old and was used by bakers to help sell their delicious buns. We performed our song in a round. At first we found this extremely tricky as we would sing each other’s parts. As a result, for this week Miss Dale sang one part and the children sang the other. Here was the final outcome.

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This week we were determined to keep practicing singing in a round. We appraised another traditional nursery rhyme ‘Row, row, row your boat’. We then looked at more additions to the song that have been invented over the years. We agreed our favourite was the crocodile one so we decided to perform this in a round and WE DID IT! So proud Year 1, well done!

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