Welcome to Year 1

Class Teacher: Miss Langston

Teaching Assistant: Miss Laughton

Welcome to our Year 1 class page, where we take pride in celebrating the wonderful learning that is taking place here at St. Francis Xavier. We're extremely excited to support your child this year, enabling them flourish as individuals. 

Thank you for your support

Miss Langston

Welcome back to Summer 2 half term, I hope you have had a lovely break! Our topic this half term is Seaside now and then, we will be exploring what a the seaside is, what we would do there and what it used to look like compared to modern day.

Year 1 Summer 2 Messages

• PE is every Wednesday afternoon
• Reading books and reading records to be brought to school every day (to be taught to read with staff)
• Homework is sent out every Friday and is due in the following Thursday. 
• Please look at the class pages links for further information about curriculum/learning for our child this half term 

Our Learning 

Year One had an amazing time at the seaside. We visited the RNLI centre which gave use lots of information about what they do and the different features of the lifeboat. Then we had lunch on the beach and played with buckets and spades in the sand. We had lots of fun and we are excited to learn all about our topic seaside now and then.

Year One had a wonderful Pentecost Party to celebrate the birthday of the church. We made flame hats to reflect the disciples receiving the Holy Spirit.

Year One have been identifying and ordering the 12 months of the year. We linked this to our previous lessons of ordinal numbers by saying which is the 3rd month, etc. We made a paper chain of the months of the year.

Year One loved learning the national anthem and celebrating the coronation of King Charles.

Today we explored quarters. We learnt that splitting something into quarters has to be four equal parts. We split paper, bread and a biscuit into quarters. We also looked at splitting shapes into quarters.

Today we explored halves. We learnt that splitting something into half has to be two equal parts. We split paper, bread and a biscuit into halves. We also looked at splitting shapes in half.

In Year One we have been reading Paddington and for our Literacy journey we tried marmalade and toast and tea just like Paddington in the story!

We have really enjoyed making our own Easter cards for our families and our community. We used watercolours to create a beautiful background behind the cross. "He is not here, he has risen!" Matthew 28:6

We dressed up as what we aspire to be in the future. We had fire fighters, doctors, police officers, teachers and engineers.

Cristian- "I have come as a PE teacher because I like working out."

Daniel- "I want to be scientist to make people better."

Jakob- "I am an astronaut because I want to go to the moon."

Olivia- "I want to be an author to write book for people to read."

❤️ Remembrance Day ❤️

Thank you to all the children at St Francis Xavier for helping to make our Remembrance service so special. The children in Year 1 shared a beautiful story called ‘Where the poppies now grow’ and created their own poppies which we hung in our playground as our sign of remembrance. ❤️

Key Information:

Our PE day is on a Tuesday afternoon. However, I would advise that you bring your PE kit in on a Monday and take it home Friday.

Homework and new reading books will be handed out each Friday. Your homework pack will include; handwriting, a maths/literacy task, and spellings to be practiced. 

I would ask that homework is please returned by the following Thursday. A spelling test will take place each Friday.

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to ask and we will support you the best that we can!