Melling Primary School

Year 1

WELCOME TO YEAR ONE

We're really going to GO FOR GOLD this year and

BE THE BEST THAT WE CAN BE!

Come along and visit our page for lots of pictures and information about what we've been getting up to...

...such a smart, grown-up class!

Wait a minute, don't forget the rest of the gang...

Poppy and Buddy

Gruff...going places!

Barnaby Bear the travelling teddy, Miss Roberts and Mrs Randall

What a great start to the year...

Remember, just click on the images to see the close-ups!

Happy Birthday goes to...

Sadie and Lyla

BIG 6 IN MAY!

Help your Y1 child learn about capacity!

As we are doing a measuring topic in Maths, we need to explore how much containers hold. You can help at home by finding any opportunities to fill and empty different containers.

Well done Olivia, an Olympic star in the making...

WHAT A GREAT TRIP BACK IN TIME

AT CROXTETH HALL

We had a BRILLIANT day at Croxteth Hall, learning about the past and about how one very rich local family lived in the past in a beautiful home near to school!

Well done children for joining in so well and asking and answering lots of great questions!

Living History!

History came alive for a whole morning in Year One when we were transported back to the Victorian times. We spent the morning as Victorian children, with the girls dressed up in pinafores and mop caps and the boys dressed up in waistcoats, neck ties and flat caps! What a fun, interesting and hands on morning we had, learning about and playing with Victorian toys and learning how to play the sort of games that Victorian children would have played. THANKS PARENTS WHO CAME IN FOR THE MORNING TOO!

Y1 - Victorian Children for the Day!

Happy Easter!

"La Fheile Padraig Sona Dhuit!"

As part of our geography learning, Barnaby Bear has just arrived from Dublin! We made cards, listened and danced to Irish music, made leprechaun biscuits, made lucky shamrocks and learnt all about the history of St. Patrick, who turned out to be Welsh!

PUPPET POWER!

We're all getting stuck in to our Puppet Making D.T. topic. We will be exploring different kinds of puppets and even writing instructions on how to make them. Watch this space for the instructions soon but here's our...

FINGER PUPPET FLAPDOODLES

(In case you don't know, they're good monsters that scare away bad monsters!)

Go on bad monsters, we dare you to come near us!!!

NI HAO

XIN NIAN KUAI LE

from Year One

Still Loving Our SCIENCE Activities!

We had a great time during Science Week.

Thank you Y6 for the great investigations!

GOING CRAZY FOR THE CRITTERS!

We have been working really hard learning about 2-D and 3-D shape and about symmetry. How many 2-D and 3-D shape names do you know? TAKE THE Y1 SHAPE QUIZ BELOW TO CHECK OUT YOUR KNOWLEDGE OF SHAPE NAMES!

Are you maths fit? Take the Year One Shape Challenge with your family and find out!

Section 1 - 2D Shapes:

1. How many sides does a pentagon have?

2. Does a triangle have 3 corners or 4 corners?

3. Which shape has four sides of equal length: rectangle or square?

4. Which of the following shapes have curved sides: circle, triangle, octagon, semi-circle and hexagon?

5. If you cut a circle in half down the middle, which shape would you get two of?

Section 2 - 3D Shapes:

1. Which shape has 6 square faces?

2. Which shape has one curved face - sphere or cuboid?

3. Which of these shapes roll - cylinder, cube, pyramid and cone?

4. How many faces does a cylinder have?

5. Which shape has only one vertex?

NOW SCORE YOURSELF OUT OF 10 AND TELL YOUR TEACHER!

It's a History Mystery!

Look at all those SUPER DETECTIVES checking for clues about the Victorian household objects.

We LOVE Science!

So you think you know all about animals?

Do you know the difference between a carnivore and a herbivore? Can you say what an omnivore would eat? Do you know if a frog is a reptile or an amphibian? Check out these pictures of Y1 working in science lessons to find out more...

Y1 newsletter spring 2016.doc

2015...WHAT A SUCCESSFUL YEAR!

WELL DONE Y1, YOU MADE YOUR SCHOOL AND FAMILIES VERY PROUD!

MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR! What a great party we had!

A Musical Christmas

10th December 2015

2 pm

(tickets will be allocated nearer the date)

CHRISTMAS COMES TO YEAR ONE!

We had the BEST TIME EVER performing our Christmas Show this year. Do you recognise everyone in these pictures?

Learning about the history of the canal in Melling and about canal and water safety.

We think spelling is COOL (with the oo sound)!

Here are some of the words we've been spelling:

stare, share, cares monkey, donkey, turkey chairs, stairs, fair

power, flower, tower flood, wood, hook boat, soap, moan

near, spear, gears grow, throw, snow light, fright, sight

smile, hide, bride cake, snake, whale home, smoke, stole

chips, chicken, cheese ship, shed, fish songs, fangs, wing

Can you spot the sounds that are the same in each set?

OOH-LA-LA!

With a great big "BONJOUR" from Y1!

We came over all French for the day to finish our half term in style. Check out those Eiffel Tower models...WOW!

ART ATTACK!

With a focus on drawing skills, didn't we have a fine time in Y1 working as artists for two days...

Year One welcomes some inspirational people into class.

Windmill Farm

What a fabulous day...and sunshine too!

Here's what Ryan wrote:

We went to Windmill farm on a coach. First I went on a big scary slide. Next we went to see some funny animals and I fed them with my hand. Then we washed our hands for our lunch. After that we went on a little train and we stopped to play at an outside play area. We played again. Finally we went home.