Welcome to Year 1 - Willow

Mrs Andreas and Mrs Morgan

This week in Literacy, we enjoyed reading Pig the Pug by Aaron Blabey. Pig is the main character and lives with his friend Trevor, a sausage dog. As the two characters have very different personalities, we thought of lots of adjectives to describe and compare them. We also researched different pets, including parrots, cats and rabbits, learning about what they eat, what they look like and other interesting facts.

Inspired by our learning, we wrote our own stories about selfish and rude animals who refuse to share their toys. Some of our creative titles included Scratch the Cat and Claw the Parrot.

In RE, we have been learning about the Buddhist festival of Esala Perahera. This special festival takes place each summer in the city of Kandy, Sri Lanka, and features a magnificent parade. During the procession, a replica of Buddha’s tooth is carefully carried through the city in a special casket, traditionally by an elephant.

We brought in a special item from home and designed our own caskets using junk-modelling materials, gems and sequins.

In Maths, we have started our new topic on time. We explored the vocabulary before and after, and learned the days of the week and the months of the year. We enjoyed asking and answering questions such as, “What month comes after September?” and “What day comes before Sunday?”

Next, we will be learning how to tell the time to the hour and will begin exploring hours, minutes and seconds.

We are looking forward to sharing our learning with our families during our class assembly next week!

 Summer Term 2025

Links to Summer Term learning are in the process of being uploaded.