Year 1

Welcome To Year 1 at Holy Rosary Catholic Primary School

Our teachers are Miss O'Toole (Infant 3) and Miss Hornblower (Infant 4).

Our teaching assistants are Miss Fagan and Mrs Armstrong.

For those families already with us, please see our CLASS DOJO pages for updates and photographs. This is the best way to interact with us!

A snapshot of our curriculum...

Maths:

'First, then and now' stories using small world and part-whole models to solve addition problems...

Using concrete manipulatives to show 'greater than, less than and equal to...'

Part whole model...

Ordering numbers...

Fact families...

Maths – Number Bonds to 20

We have been exploring all the different ways we can make 20 using tens and ones. We used a range of resources from our maths choose-to-use area to practically show our number bonds to 20.

English:

English – Sidney, Stella and The Moon

Last week, we woke up to the shocking news that the moon was missing! The children were in complete disbelief and even mentioned they had watched news reports about it before school. We decided to create missing moon posters, using adjectives, in the hope of bringing the moon back. Later in the week, we began reading a new class book, where we discovered that the moon went missing because Sidney and Stella wouldn’t share a bouncy ball. The ball flew out of the window and smashed the moon into pieces!

Little Red: Using adjectives to describe ginger beer...

The Naughty Bus...

The Comet...Writing questions

Billy and the Beast- Writing predictions to guess who has created this mess in our class!!!

History:

This term, we've been exploring the evolution of transport. We considered all the modes of transport we use daily and realised that our legs are a form of transport too!

We studied sea transport, starting with the first sea vessel, the pesse canoe, and compared it to the Mersey Ferry. To truly understand the difference, we decided to experience it first-hand. It was an amazing day!

Geography:

Local area walk...

We walked alongside the Leeds Liverpool Canal, found our local doctors' surgery and visited a range of shops near our school...

Sorting human and physical features in Geography...

Science:

Exploring our senses...

Touch...

Taste...

Smell...

DT:

Homes...

This term, we've been exploring various types of homes, examining their shapes and differences. To start, we put ourselves in the shoes of architects and designed our ideal homes. We then transformed our designs from 2D nets into 3D structures. Our creations included a mansion, castle, tent, boat, and a block of flats. We brought them to the playground and had a great time playing with our designs!