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"You are the light of the world... let your light shine

before others, that they may see your good deeds

and glorify your Father in heaven." Matthew 5:14-16

"Pupils thrive on the positive, aspirational approach"
Ofsted 2017

"The school has achieved an award for extending pupils’ understanding of world religions." SIAMS 2019

"As confident young learners, pupils are ambitious for themselves and supportive of each other." Ofsted 2017

"Worship is invitational allowing pupils of no religious affiliation to contribute with integrity."  SIAMS 2019

"The school has achieved an award for extending pupils’ understanding of world religions." SIAMS 2019

"Pupils are encouraged to think for themselves and to be curious." Ofsted 2017

"Your team are instilling a passion for learning that pupils find infectious." Ofsted 2017

Let Your Light Shine - Matthew 5:16

Year 1: Voyager

Staffing:

Teacher: Miss Howe 

Teaching Assistants: Mrs Watts, Mrs Comley and Miss Lovell.

Welcome back to Term 4!

We hope you have all had a lovely half term. I can’t believe we are halfway through the year already. We have lots of exciting learning planned for this term with some of my favourite units.

In English, our core text is Meerkat Mail. This is about a Meerkat called Sunny that travels around the world trying to find the perfect home. I know lots of you have borrowed this story from our school library before. We will keep practicing using the past tense by adding ed to the end of regular verbs. We will also introduce question marks and exclamation marks. We will continue to do weekly spelling of red words and daily phonics lessons.

In maths, we are going to continue our unit on place value within 20 and then move on to addition and subtraction within 20 and then 50.

Our core text, Meerkat Mail, links nicely to our Geography unit as we will be learning about the 7 continents and 5 oceans.

In Science, we will be learning about animals including humans. We will be exploring different animal groups, what animals eat and the functions of the human body.

This terms Art unit is collage. We will start this off by making natural collages in forest school.

In RW, we will be exploring why Easter matters to Christians.

Our PE days continue to be Tuesdays (with me) and Wednesdays (with Mr Ledbury) and Forest school on a Monday.

School starts Monday 19th February at 8:45am. Please remember to pack a healthy snack for morning break and fruit or veg for their afternoon snack (afternoon snack is optional as fruit is provided).

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Term 3  

We had such a busy term with lots of excellent learning achieved. 

Well done to Albie who was our Learner of the Term. Albie tries exceptionally hard in every lesson and in provision. He is always showing our school rules and values and is a very valuable member of Voyager Class. Well done to Lexa who read the most out of everyone in Voyager Class and won a trip to the Warmley Station Cafe. Voyager Class came 3rd out of the all the classes for stars in the jar which is great and means we have been reading lots at home. I hope we can win in term 4. 

We all wrote amazing stories in English based on Coming to England. We used capital letters for names of people and places, used ‘and’ to join words and used the past tense. 

In Maths, we explored subtraction within 10 using lots of different resources. We enjoyed using our rekenreks to show subtraction. We then moved on to place value within 20 that we will continue in term 4. 

We loved testing different materials in Science. We used our experiments to design and make our own bridges. We found out that metal would be the best material for a bridge as it has the best properties such as waterproof, hard and rigid. 

In History, we finished our unit on Transport over Time and learnt lots more about influential figures such as Isambard Kingdom Brunel. Lots of the children in Voyager visited the SS Great Britain and Clifton Suspension Bridge in the half term. 

In Geography, we also finished our unit on the United Kingdom. We completed amazing booklets on the UK that told us about the countries in the UK, the capital cities and human and physical features of the UK. I was very impressed with their knowledge. 

Term 2  

We had an exciting but busy term in Voyager class. 

Lots of our time was used practicing our fantastic nativity – The Animals Christmas. Year 1 and 2 were brilliant and did us very proud. 

In Maths, we recapped 2d shapes and moved on to learning about 3d shapes.

In English, our writing on Leaf was amazing! We learnt when to use a capital letters and full stop. We used our knowledge to write brilliant wanted posters. 

We started our History unit, transport over time. We started to explore why Isambard Kingdom Brunel is a significant historical figure and how trains have changed over time. We will carry on with this unit next term. 

In Geography, we explored different parts of the United Kingdom. We started in Scotland where we looked at the capital city, where it is on a map of the UK and the world and the human and physical features of Scotland. We used an atlas for the first time to explore the maps. We then learnt about England. We are going to continue our learning about the UK in Term 3. 

We also started our first science unit – everyday materials. We looked at what a material is, explored different materials, discussed what materials were in our classroom and learned about the properties of materials. 

Term 1  

We have had a fantastic term in Voyager Class.  

We have been very impressed with how well you have settled into Year 1. It’s been lovely to see you growing in confidence and independence over the first term and we are very proud of what you have achieved. Well done to the children who have won certificates this term for being Learner of the Week, Handwriting Star or received a praise postcard.  

A big well done to Charlie who was our Learner of the Term! 

This term, we have really enjoyed learning about what history is and how we know about the past. We have looked at lots of artefacts to find out clues about the past. We couldn’t believe what things looked like in the past! We have looked at different family trees and drawn our own, we know that the oldest people in our family always go at the top.  

We have also enjoyed looking at different maps in Geography to practice our maps skills. We have drawn lots of different maps – our bedrooms, a map of St Barnabas School and of our classroom. We walked around the school to look at things from an aerial view. We are getting very good at knowing the compass points and location words to describe the position of things on a map. We are going to continue using our map skills in Term 2.  

We have been very impressed with their writing this term. At the end of the term, we all wrote the story of Grandad’s Island and they look lovely on our display. Voyager class have been doing exceptionally well in phonics and they are using their sounds and Fred fingers when completing a piece of writing.   

In Maths, we have secured our understanding of place value. We have enjoyed embedding our knowledge by completing tasks practically and working with our partners. 

We hope you enjoy our pictures from Term 1!