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:

https://www.qdpsurvey.co.uk/OnlineQuestionnaire?code=25846-47596-27885666

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?

CLICK ON THE IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

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