Whiteley Year one

 Friday 27th February World Book Day Next Week-  Thursday 5th March  On this day we will be walking to Waterstones to spend our World book day voucher and listen to a story. 1B and 1R are very short of volunteers to accompany them to Waterstones on Thursday morning.  Please can you let us know if you can support them. This week we have started our history learning about the Titanic.  We have approached this from the point of view of a passenger - Delia McDermott who travelled on the Titanic as a third class passenger.  Delia bought a new hat for her journey and we discussed the differences between the clothes worn by different groups of people, rich and poor in 1912.  We discussed how the lives of rich and poor people were very different in 1912.  Next week we will learn more about how Delia travelled on the Titanic and what happened next. Science This week we continued our science longitudinal investigation - finding out about the animals that li...

Thursday 12th February This week we continued our Design Technology unit of work, where we learnt about creating stable structures.  We designed and made our own tent frame, after talking about how in 1666 people had to live in tents after the Great Fire. English In English this week we applied our learning about past tense verbs to write our own versions of Toby and the Great Fire of London. Phonics In Phonics this week we  have continued to revisit our Phase 5 graphemes to develop our confidence in reading and writing words with these sounds.  This week we have revisited  alternative graphemes for the "igh" digraph .  These include ie, i_e, y and i. You might like to play the games on Bug club which practise these sounds. This weeks allocated books are "Flying High", "What the wind can do" and "Butterfly Pie". P.E. Kits Over half term, please could you check that your child's P.E. kit and trainers still fit them. Many thanks! Class Performa...

 Friday 6th February Design Technology This week we have been carrying out our Design Technology unit of work, where we learnt about creating stable structures.  We explored construction kits and materials including straws, pipe cleaners, wooden sticks and elastic bands.  We learnt how to join materials to make stable, free standing shapes. English In English this week we have been learning to put words into the past tense by adding "ed", where no change is needed in the root word e.g. walk - walked. We wrote sentences about our Toby story to practise this skill. Phonics In Phonics this week we  have continued to revisit our Phase 5 graphemes to develop our confidence in reading and writing words with these sounds.  This week we have revisited  alternative graphemes  for the ee digraph .  These include ea, e_e, ey, y and ie.  You might like to play the games on Bug club which practise these sounds.  We have also allocated the books; Easy...