Year 1 Weekly Blog WB 28.5.2025

Date: 1st May 2025 @ 2:15pm

We’ve had another exciting and busy week in Year 1, full of learning, exploring and discovering new things together. Here's a little peek at what we've been up to!

This week in English, we read the wonderful story Meerkat Mail by Emily Gravett. We had so much fun following Sunny the meerkat on his travels away from his family. After listening carefully and talking about the story, the children had a go at retelling Sunny’s journey in their own words. We focused on using full sentences, time words like “first”, “next”, and “finally”, and remembered to use capital letters and full stops. 

In Maths, we’ve been practising addition using a number line. We learned how to start at the first number and jump forward to add on. The children loved using their fingers and number lines to solve problems. Keep practising those number jumps at home.

This week in Topic, we looked at a real atlas to find some countries in Africa. The children found Kenya, Nigeria, and Egypt on the map, and we talked about what each country might be like. We also looked at where they are in the world compared to the UK. The children were fascinated and asked brilliant questions – we definitely have some budding geographers in Year 1!

Our new Science topic is all about plants! We went on a plant hunt around the school grounds to see what we could find. The children spotted flowers, trees, and even some herbs in our coutyard area. We talked about the different parts of a plant and what they need to grow. We can’t wait to plant our own seeds soon!

In RE, we continued thinking about the idea of belonging. We shared stories and talked about all the different groups we belong to – our families, our class, our school, and other special communities. The children shared thoughtful ideas about how it feels to belong and how we can help others feel included too