Welcome to Autumn 2! It has been a great start to this half-term. The children have settled back quickly into school routines after the half-term break and have been eager to learn. 

As part of our topic 'Everyday Heroes', we began the term focussing on 'Remembrance Day' through our History and Literacy lessons. The children have been fascinated by the two world wars and how the armed forces keep our world safe today. This was also enhanced by our visiting author, Martin Impey' who talked about 'Flo' a remarkable dog.  

In Maths, the children were introduced to 'a whole-part model' to help them solve and understand number bonds. We will continue to use this model and other resources to solve addition calculations.

In Science, we are using our investigative skills to test a range of materials, which focusses on finding out about their properties ie waterproof, magnetic etc.

Please remember to take the time to go onto 'X' where we will post learning on a daily/weekly basis. We continue to look forward to sharing our fun-filled learning with you regularly.

Miss Shaha & Miss Binmore

Welcome to October!!September has been a busy and wonderful month of learning.......In Maths, the children have been focussing on numbers to 10, ordering, comparing, writing and recognising both the digits and words such as 8 - eight. This week, we have focussed on reading & writing our own simple poem on colours to coincide with National Poetry Day. In Science, we used our sense of sight & hearing to find signs of autumn. As part of our learning about autumn, we would love the children to collect some “autumn treasures” on a family walk. These could include things like colourful leaves, conkers, acorns, pine cones or interesting twigs.     Please bring the treasures into school in a small bag or box so we can explore and talk about them in class. This will help the children notice the changes in the seasons and share their discoveries with friends.

In Geography, the children have been fascinated by 'Google Earth' looking at the world, countries & United Kingdom. Using an ariel map of Stevenage, the children located a park, the town centre and of course Roebuck Academy. Please take the time to go onto 'X' where we will post learning on a daily/weekly basis. We continue to look forward to sharing our fun-filled learning with you.

Miss Shaha & Miss Binmore

Year one have been having a slime-tastic time recently, where we have taken part in our science day experiement.... making troll bogeys from Harry Potter.  We were given PVA glue, contact lens solution, food colouring and bicarbonate of soda, mixed it all together and made our slime. We made predictions about what might happen and spoke about what we could do if the slime was too runny or too stiff.

In art we have been looking into the tree of life and created our very own using paper craft. We folded, ripped, curled and creased the paper to create our wonderful trees.

We were also very lucky to have visiting artist Amanda Jewitt visit us, and she showed us how to sew fabrics together to make gem shaped pieces of felt. Our work was then placed onto a gold thread - we can't wait for you to see our final piece at our art exhibition soon.

In Year One we love hands-on, practical learning - and the past few weeks have been no different. We have kicked off our new art topic and have been learning all about sculpture. We made our own paper sculptures by rolling, cutting and shaping the paper. Our teachers were so impressed. In maths, we have been grouping and sharing objects, to help us with multiplying and dividing.  We make sure our groups and parts are equal too. We have also been lucky enough to use glockenspiels in music too. In Maple and Elm we are sculptors, mathematicians and musicians!

WOW what a busy start for year one! 

We have kicked off the term by learning all about Pirate Blackbeard in Literacy. We will be writing a non-fiction information book all about the Pirate Blackbeard. We even got to eat, drink and play like a pirate! 

In maths, we have been focussing on numbers to 40! Thinking about how many tens and ones there are to make any given number. To help develop our understanding of numbers, we have been using dienes and ones. We have been enjoying counting up in 10s and 2s using an interactive number grid and noticing the patterns!

In science, we have been thinking all things plants. We went for a walk around the school searching for wild plants and identifying where they were growing.

In History, our focus was Grace 0'Malley- who she was, and what she did? We had fun ordering her life to make our very own timelines! In year one we are adventurous!