Melling Primary School
Year 1
Welcome to Y1
from Miss Roberts
and Class of 2021-2022
BE THE BEST THAT YOU CAN BE, BE PROUD
y1.melling@schools.sefton.gov.uk
SUMMER 2022
Be ready, be respectful, be safe, be kind...
USEFUL INFORMATION FOR YEAR ONE PARENTS:
SPORTS DAY 2022
You were BRILLIANT Year One!
Jubilee Celebration Workshop with Mrs Debbie Ashby
Miss Roberts was so sorry that she couldn't watch you but heard that YOU ALL DID SO WELL! These photos are AMAZING!
Y1 Book Club is now finished for this year...
Miss Roberts says THANK YOU to all the children who took part, worked hard and were so well behaved!
Platinum Jubilee 2022
Year One and Miss Roberts had a BRILLIANT day, all dressed up and lots of Jubilee themed fun!
Great Gymnastics Sequences Y1!
Great team work - such a good sequence.
Brilliant work - such great balance!
VICTORIAN SERVANTS
We became Victorians again for the day - this time we were Victorian servants!
We all took our jobs in the big house very seriously!
We had to do exactly as we were told by the head servant!
What an EXHAUSTING day!
Miss Roberts and all the year One children say a HUGE THANK YOU once again Mrs Ashby (Debbie Ashby - Living History) - we love your visits to Melling!
Exploring algorithms with the
BEEBOTS
Victorian Children
for the Afternoon!
We had heaps of fun playing with the Victorian toys...
THANKS DEBBIE ASHBY FOR ANOTHER GREAT VISIT!
Y1 BOOK CLUB
Year One Book Club starts on Tuesday 10th May and will run every Tuesday 3.00 - 3.45 for five weeks
Rainbow Fish
Miss Roberts says "THANK YOU Y1
for all your exceptional hard work!"
The children say
"We have really enjoyed using this book in our literacy lessons."
Learning about Materials
At home, see what objects you can find made of metal, plastic, wood, glass, fabric and paper.
Your Melling Primary School - Parent/Carer - e-Safety Feedback 2022 survey is now live and can be accessed via the following link:
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Planting in Year One
We are learning what seeds need to germinate and what plants need to grow.
Isabella said "I can't wait to see my new plant grow!"
SPRING 2022
Be ready, be respectful, be safe, be kind...
Useful information for Year One parents:
HOMEWORK continues to be set every Friday, to be completed by the following Friday, on Education City and Purple Mash. E-Books are available every day for reading on Oxford Owl - there is a half-termly pack of books for every child to revise the sounds children have been learning. Please read these books as many times as necessary to help consolidate the sounds - A NEW READING REVISION UNIT WILL BE SET ON OXFORD OWL AFTER EASTER FOR THE NEXT HALF TERM OR INDIVIDUALLY AS CHILDREN COMPLETE THESE READING REVISION UNITS.
Reading scheme continues with books sent home three times a week, enough for a daily home read. Please send books in:
Boys - Monday, Wednesday and Friday
Girls - Tuesday, Thursday and Friday
ALL HOMEWORK LOG INS ARE ON READING RECORD COVERS
Happy Easter from Year One and from Miss Roberts - have a lovely holiday!
Gymnastics on Mats and Apparatus
Great work - you've really nailed those forward rolls!
Wow - such speedy forward rolls!
Painting Abstract Flowers Inspired By
Wassily Kandinsky
ADIOS AMIGOS!
learning how to say goodbye in Spanish
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We think it is so much fun learning to speak in a different language and we are going to try and say this to as many people as we can!
Spring Tree Collages
Miss Roberts was amazed at the careful paper tearing and the children thought it was a great alternative to scissors.
COLOUR MIXING
We know the primary colours and we can make the secondary colours from them.
Hola!
Spanish Update from Miss Roberts and Y1
We are learning Spanish in Year One now…please use any opportunity to count or greet each other in Spanish! You could even learn some songs! Have fun with this…you might even get to use it somewhere Spanish this year! Activities to do at home are on our website:
CURRICULUM - SPANISH - CLICK THE FLAG
Here we are learning to greet each other in Spanish.
POETRY - WORLD BOOK DAY
We listened to, learnt and wrote a range of great poetry!
Miss Roberts was so impressed with all the children's hard work and great imagination!
World Book Day
Click on the videos below to see us perform some poetry.
Gregory Griggs
Poem for a Woolly Mammoth
WORLD BOOK DAY CHARACTERS
Can you guess who they are?
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Cookery Club - Tuna Pasta
mmm...tuna pasta! We are enjoying trying lots of different foods...
S.T.E.M. Lego Engineering
What a brilliant lesson we had designing the lego models - creating algorithms to make them move and make sounds with the ipad programs was such fun!
Cookery Club - Pancake Making
Cookery Club
Cheesy Toast and Dips
GAIA Earth Art Installation
We visited this giant Earth sculpture and it was OUT OF THIS WORLD!
Tales and Toast for Well-Being Week
Now we know that nutella is Miss Roberts favourite spread for her breakfast!
GONG HEI FAT CHOY
We made Chinese Dragons for Chinese New Year.
Cookery Club - Fairy Cakes
mmm...lovely, soft cakes!
The Gruffalo Dance Lesson
We loved our dance based on the Gruffalo story.
Printing Pictures
We hoped for snow in Melling when the weather was cold and we printed snowy trees.
After School Cookery Club
We loved making, baking and eating biscuits!
We LOVE learning to play the instruments.
Making Healthy Pizzas in D.T.
Lots of children liked the sweetcorn, Miss Roberts liked the spinach.
We had great fun making, cooking and eating our healthy pizzas.
Creating Pictograms on the Chromebooks
Learning about 5 a Day
Fruit Kebabs
Messy Maps in Geography
We have been learning about physical and human features of places.
New Year Resolutions
HAPPY NEW YEAR
from Miss Roberts and Y1
Enjoying the Y1 Garden
AUTUMN 2021
BE READY, BE RESPECTFUL, BE SAFE, BE KIND...
USEFUL INFORMATION FOR YEAR ONE PARENTS:
HOMEWORK continues to be set every Friday, to be completed by the following Friday, on Education City and Purple Mash. E-Books are available every day for reading on Oxford Owl.
READING scheme continues with books sent home three times a week, with reading for every night at home. Please send books in:
Boys - Monday, Wednesday and Friday
Girls - Tuesday, Thursday and Friday
MERRY CHRISTMAS
EVERYONE!
Thank you for the lovely gifts!
Miss Roberts and the Y1 team
Christmas Dinner 2021
Drawing in Art
We drew abstract portraits inspired by Pablo Picasso.
Check out how hard we worked on our portraits...
Exploring Mark Making
Firework Poems
We have been learning about adding -ing to words and we wrote firework poems on the chromebooks.
TELLING THE TIME - HALF PAST
Can you put half past clocks in order like we can?
African Drums
We had a great time making music on the African Drums.
Edible Sparklers!
We melted chocolate to make edible sparklers for Bonfire Night...mmm!
Telling the Time - o'clock
HALLOWEEN FUN!
In Y1, we say
SHOW RACISM THE RED CARD
Windmill Farm Trip
WHAT A FABULOUS DAY!
Drawing Autumn Leaves
We studied half of some Autumn leaves then carefully drew the other half.
Counting in 10s CHAMPIONS!
WHAT AN AMAZING SCORE! Both girls were so PROUD to do so well with their counting.
Paper Collage
We love doing activities to practise our scissor cutting skills.
USING CHROMEBOOKS TO CREATE DIGITAL ART
Learning To Count In 2s
Exploring 2D and 3D Shapes
We used lolly sticks to explore different ways of making 2D shapes.
We learnt what pentagons, hexagons and octagons are and sorted the pictures into sets.
We tried to find some of the 3D shapes in our classroom and garden.
Science Week 2021
MONDAY - Learning about rainbows and creating a rainbow with a torch and mirror in a dark classroom was fun. It was great to grow our own rainbows using absorbent paper and colours.
TUESDAY - The scientist who visited was the BEST FUN EVER! It was so exciting and we loved his incredible experiments said the children.
How AMAZING to set off a homemade rocket in the carpark!
WEDNESDAY - We experimented with oil and water and discovered that they don't mix. We made glitter sensory bottles with oil, water and glitter.
THURSDAY - We had so much fun making super soft sensory cloud dough. It was hard to do all the mixing but it was interesting to watch the ingredients combine to make a new material!
FRIDAY - We explored liquids and solids and melted chocolate to make crispy cakes today...mmm! What a great way to end the week with a fun, interesting activity - DELICIOUS too!
Learning To Count In 10s
Digital Art - Autumn Trees
We have been using the chromebooks to create mosaic art using a painting program.
We can label diagrams in Science
P.S.H.E.
Learning about healthy and unhealthy food
CLICK ON THE PLATE IMAGES TO SEE WHAT'S ON THEM...
Luke said, I like to eat healthy food
Funtime Friday
Enjoying the sunshine on a fabulous Friday.
We have been making the most of the nice weather before the cold weather arrives...
Phonics Fun!
We are sounding out carefully to help us read and spell.
Adding and Subtracting
We have been using cubes to help us with our calculations. We have been learning to add and subtract and how to solve addition and subtraction problems.
The children said that the cubes helped them with their work!
Self-Portraits
Can you guess who did these self-portraits? Check out the gallery in class.
Missing Numbers
Don't forget to go FORWARDS and BACKWARDS!
P.E. on the Field
We like to be fit and healthy and practise our ball skills.
Practising Our Numbers
We are super keen to get them right!
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WELCOME BACK!
Welcome back everyone - it's just so good to be back! It has been great getting to know the children (and learning their names!) and they have been getting on with working and playing in their new classroom. The first two days has made me super excited about the rest of the year and all the great things we will be getting up to - watch this page as I will post regularly with updates of how we are getting on! Full class information will be posted in the class newsletter but for now, reading days are Monday, Wednesday and Friday for boys and Tuesday, Thursday and Friday for girls. P.E. days are Tuesday and Thursday and homework is set every Friday afternoon, due in the following Friday. Please pop in and see us if you have any questions...and I look forward to meeting you all soon in person.
Miss Roberts