The first half-term of the new year is almost over and despite the miserable, damp, cold weather, Year 1 have brightened up our days with their enthusiasm, zest for learning and resilience for trying their best.

The children have thoroughly enjoyed our English lessons. They have been generating interesting vocabulary to use in their writing, writing their own endings of the story ‘The way back home’ and finding out about Neil Armstrong to create a fact file.  

For DT, the children have been exploring joining materials and designing their own alien puppet. Many of them had interesting features.

Thank you for your continued support at home — it does make a difference. Please keep reading regularly, practising phonics, letter formation and talking to your child about what they are learning in school, particularly related to our new topic. 

We are looking forward to the next half-term. Have a wonderful half-term holiday. 🌈

Miss Shaha & Miss Binmore

We are almost at the end of Autumn term! It has been a wonderful roller coaster ride of learning and adjusting from Reception to Year 1. Our Christmas performance definitely showed us how far they have come and what a wonderful year group they are becoming!!! 

We are looking forward to seeing you at our fantastic finish on Wednesday 17^th November at 2pm, which will be held in the hall.  In Literacy, the children have amazed us, they are trying their best to write independently ensuring they are using full stops, capital letters and finger spaces. 

In Maths, the children have continued to use  'a Whole-part model' and use the method counting on to help them solve and understand addition. Counting on has been tricky for the children, but many are persevering to use this method. In History, we have discussed childhood from the past and comparing it to their childhood in the present. Finally, staff and children had great fun watching a panto yesterday. 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 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!