This is our Year 1 related news. You can find this along with more Year 1 related information on the Year 1 page.
This week, the children have been retelling the story ‘Lost and Found’. They enjoyed coming up with fantastic actions and using loud, clear voices to retell the story. In Collective Worship, the children learnt about Jesus’ Sacred Heart. They reflected on how they could show kindness to other people. The children have also looked at the miracles Jesus performed and how he helped others. They then wrote prayers and thought about things they might want help with this week.
The children enjoyed using clay to make a sculpture inspired by Andy Goldsworthy. They began the lesson my experimenting with different tools and then worked the clay and moulded it into an egg shape. They did a fantastic job! Well done Y1.
The rain decided to stop for our field trip. The children enjoyed walking around the local area and used maps to find different places. When we got to the park, we looked for different flowers. The children had a great time!
Years 1 and 2 had great fun watching Tango’s Big Adventure. The children listened and interacted well throughout the performance. They were the perfect trainee zookeepers. The children learnt that no matter how different we are, we are all family and are all loved.
GIFT Team delivering their Advent collective worship to Year 1.
In Year 1, we have had great fun making and delivering Christmas cards to the local community. It has been lovely to receive messages of thanks from people who have received our cards.
As part of our morning routine, the children enjoy opening their two Advent calendars. Today, our Church calendar focused on taking turns. In our social group today, the children ensured that they waited their turn to allow other children to have a go and completing the jigsaw.
In Year One this week, the children have enjoyed getting creative. They have made a class advent calendar outlining twenty-four things that they can do to show kindness to one another. Some examples that the children came up with was being a good friend, sharing things and using our manners to say ‘please’ and ‘thank you’.
In Science this week, the children in Year 1 have been considering how they can encourage more birds to visit the school grounds. The children decided that we should feed the birds.
In Science this week, the children in Year 1 have been considering how they can encourage more birds to visit the school grounds. The children decided that we should feed the birds.
The children had great fun in writing a set of instructions containing imperative verbs, then following their instructions on to make a successful bird feeder. Take a look at the different bird feeders that we have made and hung in the trees for the birds to enjoy.
Olly and Faith have both been hard at work at home. Olly has been keeping up with his maths whilst Faith has been mixing colours in her artwork.
Year 3 continue to lead the way with their exceptionally hard work. Raymond has been working hard learning about the parts of a plant and keeping up with his RE work; at home Connor has been concentrating really hard and produced some brilliant work; whilst Fern has written a wonderful poem about walking in the PE district; Logan and his brother Hadley made decorations to celebrate VE day, which looked wonderful and Noah has been learning about British inventions, heiroglyphics and keeping up with his reading. Well done to all of you.
Some more brilliant home learning this time from the children in year 1. They have been finding out Eugenie Clark and the fascinating underwater creatures, producing magnificent artwork in the style of Kadinsky, finding out about old toys by asking Grandparents what they used to play with in the 1960s
and getting well under researching everybody’s favourite food for their science work. Miss Davies is extremely impressed with your hard work. Keep it up.
Eugenie Clark Information Video
Isabella and Jasmine continue to be busy keeping up with their home learning. Isabella has produced a fantastic report all about St. George, whilst Jasmine has been finding out where our food comes from. Well done girls and keep up the hard work.
More brilliant examples of home-learning from the children of St. Mary’s who are getting thoroughly involved with the work set on the school website. From planting and observing seeds, looking at the differences between leaves and also finding out about our patron saint to celebrate St. George’s day. Fantastic work by all of you. Keep it up and keep the pictures coming in.
Home learning for all year groups is now available on the class pages. Some of the work may need downloaded to look at but the majority should be able to be completed within the children’s home learning books.
For maths there are also links to both the Power Maths scheme of work which we follow in school and has been adapted for use at home and also the White Rose Hub which is very similar, easy to use and navigate.
Please continue to use Times Tables Rockstars (we can see who has been using it regularly) and reading on a daily basis.
Finally, don’t forget to keep fit and active with PE with Joe Wicks each morning.
Year 1 and 2 put on a fabulous of Babushka last week. The year 1 choir were an amazing support to our year 2’s, well done! This week we have also made some beautiful Christmas cards and delivered them to our neighbouring community. Merry Christmas everyone!
The school council would like to thank all KS1 children who entered the Book Review Competition. They had a hard task reading over the wonderful reviews in order to select the winners but eventually managed to choose 2 winners from each class and a further 2 runner-ups. Well done to everyone who entered and especially the winners and runners up.
In Art this week, Year 1 have been looking at starting points in their work. They talked about the foreground and background and explored using different techniques. They produced beautiful pictures showing poppy fields for remembrance day.
Year 1 had a fun filled day at Portland Basin museum to learn all about childhood in the past. We had a brilliant day learning all about schools and toys from Victorian times. We found out that schools have changed alot since then and that some Victorian toys are still popular today!
Years 1 and 2 had a great morning out at the Romiley Forum watching Aladdin. The morning was full of laughs, dancing and singing. The children thoroughly enjoyed themselves and their behvaiour was excellent throughout. Well done to all.
Years 1 and 2 put on two fantastic performances of their nativity Prickly Hay on Tuesday and Wednesday. The children have worked exceptionally hard over the past few weeks rehearsing, learning lines, singing songs and perfecting dance routines and their dedication paid off as the children were brilliant. The audiences thoroughly enjoyed the children belting out such classics as Prickly Hay, Christmas is for Everyone and Stable Hoedown. Also, some of the dancing was a joy to behold. Well done to Year 2 for their fantastic acting and performance and well done to Year 1 for being such an enthusiastic and brilliant choir. Thank you to Miss Davies, Mrs Cheug and Mrs Ratcliffe for their help and support.
On Monday, Year 1 had some special visitors in class. The children thoroughly enjoyed learning about and handling animals from around the world. They particularly liked holding the Royal Python but weren’t quite as keen on stroking Spinderella the spider!
Congratulations to our Y1 and Y2 children on their fantastic performance in our Nativity play – Baubles. It was great to see and hear such lovely singing, confident speaking and acting. The children thoroughly enjoyed themselves and may have discovered new talents! Thank you to everyone who came along to watch the performances and to the school staff for preparing the children so well.
Year 1 visited Portland Basin to explore toys from the past. We had a fantastic day with Hattie from Victorian times and learned a lot about Victorian toys and Christmas traditions. We found out that lots of toys in the past were made from wood and some toys are still popular today.
St. Mary’s ended National Poetry day with each class performing a recital of a famous poem. The poems ranged from, ‘The Ning Nang Nong’ by Spike Milligan to ‘Macavity – The Mystery Cat’ by T.S. Elliot. Enjoy our videos below.
This morning, Year 1 discovered a spaceship crash in St. Mary’s garden and used their detective skills to try and work out who it belonged to. They found many usual items such as stripy gloves with 3 fingers, glasses with 4 eye holes and many silver nuts and bolts. Afterwards, they wrote fantastic ‘wanted’ posters to try and track down the alien creature. Take a look at some of their fantastic writing!
Congratulations to our Y1 and Y2 children on their fantastic performance in our Nativity play – A Midwife Crisis. It was great to see and hear such lovely singing, confident speaking and acting. The children thoroughly enjoyed themselves and may have discovered new talents! Thank you to everyone who came along to watch the performances and to the school staff for preparing the children so well.
Year 1 visited Portland Basin museum to learn all about toys from the past. We played with skittles, diabolo, yo-yo’s, ball and cup, music boxes and many more toys from the Victorian times. We compared old and new toys and even learned about a Victorian Christmas.
Class 1J have been writing stories based on Hansel and Gretel and solving problems in maths so they can escape from the Witch’s Castle and have invited their parents to come into school on Friday morning to share their work with them.
The Victorians certainly came to life in Year 1 when the children visited Portland Basin. They discovered the similarities and differences between their life in Denton today and that of Victorian children living in Tameside – at home, school and at work!!!! The children also found out why canals were built and also paid a visit to a replica Victorian pub!!
Santa was able to squeeze a visit to St. Mary’s into his busy schedule. First of all he had requested a ‘pupil progress’ meeting with Ms Reeves, then with a big smile on his face he visited our EYFS classes and Years 1 and 2 who all sang their favourite Christmas songs for him.
Congratulations to our EYFS and KS1 children on their excellent performances in their Christmas production. Our EYFS children sang a selection of Christmas songs with great joy and gusto. While our Y2 gave a very confident performance of Babushka even enough many of them were feeling under the weather, ably supported by our Y1 choir, who showed tremendous promise for next year.
Congratulations to our Year 1 children who raised a fantastic £126.74 for Macmillan Cancer Care during their Rainforest Cafe morning.
The children sang specially chosen songs and acted out the story of ‘Dear Zoo’.
They then read their individual ‘Dear Rainforest’ stories to their mums and dads.
