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The Good Shepherd
Catholic Primary School
“I am the Good Shepherd; I know my own and my own know me”. John 10:14"
Year 1 - St Raphael the Angel
Ravenscourt Park Glasshouses
Laudato Si' - Father Mark Visit
Addition - Using Cubes, Part-Part-Whole and Operation Signs
Decorating Biscuits on Mental Health Day!
Computing - Build and Debug Algorithms
Cooking!
Tricky Words - Snakes and Ladders
The children read tricky words as they played snakes and ladders.
Science - Senses
The children had so much fun exploring their senses. The children were blindfolded. They has to taste, smell and feel different objects.
RE - Independent Prayer
The children explored the different ways we can pray. Each child said a silent prayer to Mary in the Mary Garden.
RE - How I Feel When I Pray Paper Chain
We explored how we feel when we pray and different ways we can pray. The children drew picture and wrote different ways on a strip of paper and we created a class paper chain.
Maths - Part, Part, Whole
Cooking - Where Food Comes From
RE - Creation Paintings
Tricky Words - Roll the Dice and Read
English - Sentences
Science - Sound Walk
Cooking - Healthy Breakfast Foods
Maths - Using a Number Line to Find 1 More and 1 Less
Games - Noughts and Crosses
PSHRE - Pants Rule
Collective Worship
Phonics - Finding Tricky Words
PE - Circuits
Maths - Counting to Zero
Computing - Algorithms - Following Instructions
D&T - Cooking
Religion - Creation Story
Maths - Numbers 0-10
Our Frist Day in Year 1
What a lovely day we had at Bocketts Farm! The day was a great reminder of our last topic - On the Farm.
We're having a lovely summer of sport! As well as multiskills with Jack on Monday afternoons, the children enjoy weekly sessions of tennis with Ms Mamuda and a one-off session of golf. They are becoming increasingly confident using equipment like clubs, bats and racquets to control balls in simple, fun games.
On the Farm, our summer 1 topic, is giving us lots of scope for finding out about where our food comes from. This week, we've learned about the journey of bread from wheat being sown as seed in fields by farmers to baking our own with the magic ingredient of yeast. We even made our own deliciously creamy butter, churning double cream in a jam jar with a marble to speed up the process and tipping off the buttermilk to leave the butter. Even children who said they didn't like butter tried it and loved it!
Our spring 2 topic, Long, Long Ago, has helped us to think about time as a long line running back from the present moment. We plotted when the children in the class were born and went further back to look at when Leanne and I were born! The children enjoyed playing with the old fashioned toys we had like puppets and spinning tops. More recently we went millions of years back into pre-history when dinosaurs roamed the earth. We became paleontologists, searching in the sand for fossils and bones. We learned about herbivores, carnivores and omnivores and, with Miss Chavez, made a volcano erupt!
Our first spring topic On the Move allowed us to investigate how we make things move using the forces of pushes and pulls. We thought about our journeys to school and made maps and pictograms. We investigated how a range of vehicles move on land, sea and air. We made out own boats to sail and boat sandwiches to eat! In ICT we learned how to programme Beebots to move forwards and backwards and to turn to reach a specific destination.
We've been very busy during Advent getting ready for Christmas including baking Christmas cakes with Miss Molloy for homeless people who attend the Upper Room near Wendell Park, acting out the story of Mary and Joseph's journey to Bethlehem and the birth of Jesus and being stars in our school Nativity performance. And we loved seeing Father Christmas at the Lyric Theatre and popping in to Ravenscourt Park on the way home for a little play!
This half term's topic, Who Am I? has given us all a chance to get to know each other, to think about our similarities and differences and to understand that we are all made with love and that our happiness depends on us treating others with kindness, gentleness and respect. We are learning the importance of working cooperatively, listening to each others ideas and opinions and taking turns. We are learning to be a good friend to everyone.
This first half term, the children have been given lots of opportunity to explore mathematical concepts, matching by number, function and amounts, identifying sets and sorting by size and colour and understanding and creating repeated patterns. They complete their workbooks consolidating what they have learned.
Bi-weekly PE session in the hall and outside enable the children to develop movement skills such as balance, coordination, reaction, timing, strength and flexibility as well as self-morale and determination. We aim to foster a positive attitude to keeping fit so children see the benefits of this to their own well-being and good health.
The children need little encouragement to be active outside in the garden, too!
Regular cooking sessions enable the children to practise a range of physical skills particularly hand-eye coordination. Movements such as cutting, peeling, grating and stirring strengthen children's hands. Preparing their own food also gives children a sense of pride and competence. It becomes even more fun if a trip to the local shops is invoved!
We loved looking at artists' portraits in Kite Studios and creating portraits of our own using a range of materials including clay, paint and collage.
80th Anniversary of D-Day landings
On 6th June we marked the 80th anniversary of D-Day. This was an opportunity to talk about peace, bravery and remembrance in an age appropriate manner.
We thought back to Remembrance Day where we made poppies and where we learned that poppies are used as a symbol of remembrance for those who fought in wars. We know we have poppies in our garden, we went outside for a moment of prayer and we talked about the importance of peace, friendship, empathy and understanding.
Making our wormery
5 Little People in a Flying Saucer.....
We created a painting to sell at the ball!
We enjoy building with H blocks
We love to express ourselves through art
We enjoy stories and songs together
We have enjoyed taking care of the babies in our baby clinic.
The Good Samaritian
Do you regognise the ingredients? What did we make?
Signs of spring in our garden
Patterns
We have been practicing making patterns in lots of different ways.
Planting
Planting
Paloma’s mum kindly came in a planted some bulbs with us. We will be keeping a really close eye on the planters in the garden waiting for them to grow. We gathered compost from our compost bin and worked together to plant bulbs. We even found a worm!
Bird Feeders
We know during winter there isn’t many berries around for the birds to eat.
We decided to make some to hang in the garden.
We painted the cardboard tubes with honey and rolled them in a bird seed mix.
We then decided where in the garden would be a good place to hang them.
We helped clean our mud kitchen utensils.
Epiphany
We celebrated Epiphany by listening to the story and creating crowns and taking gifts to Baby Jesus.
Opposites and The Holy Family
4th January 2024 - 9th February
We have begun this term looking at the Epiphany, when Jesus was visited by the Wise men, who brought gifts of Gold, Frankincense and Myrrh. We made crowns and presents for Jesus.
We have discussed our new topics of Opposites and The Holy Family.
Throughout Opposites we will be looking at light and dark, holes, contrasts and opposites.
Within the Holy Family we will be looking at Jesus as a small child, Jesus love for small children and the story of The Good Samaritan. Thinking how we can be compassionate and caring for others each day.
Storm Ciaran
We enjoyed listening to and watching the rain Storm Ciaran brought!
One day a fire fighter came to visit…
He told us all about his job. We got to try on some of his uniform. Firefighter Lewis showed us how water travels through the hose using our own hoses and water tray. We created some small world play where we had to put of the fires.
All Saints Day
This week we have begun our new topic of Autumn Magic. We have been observing the changes around us. We have been working of our fine motor control with activities such as threading, using tweezers and moulding playdough. Together we are settling back into the routines of our nursery day.
This week we have been learning lots about fireworks, we have thought about some words to describe fireworks, talked about firework safety and created our very own firework pictures.
How can you help your child to settle in?
Practise our prayers
Each day we gather together to say a morning prayer, a lunchtime prayer and an afternoon prayer.
Morning Prayer | Lunch Time Prayer | Home Time Prayer |
Oh my God, You love me, You are with me night and day, I want to love you always, In all I do and say, I try to please you Father, Bless me through this day.
Amen | Bless us O Lord As we sit together, Bless the food We eat today, Bless the hands that make our food, Bless us O Lord. Amen | God our Father I come to say, Thank you for your love today, Thank you for my family, And all the friends you give to me Guard me in the dark of night, And in the morning send your light. Amen |
Read a story under our awning before school
We have a selection of books to read under our awning. You can spend a few quiet minutes reading with your child before the day begins to settle them before you say goodbye.
Build their confidence to become an independent individual
Each child has their own peg, please encourage your child to hang up their coats, jumpers and cardigans here. Build their physical skills by practising pulling clothing up and down, before and after using the toilet. Practise going to the toilet and washing and drying hands properly.
Say goodbye to your child
Get to school in good time so you can say a proper goodbye to your child with a reassuring hug, particularly if they are occasionally worried about coming to school. If you are late, your child may feel rushed and this may make separation difficult.
Collect your child with a smile
Your child has had a busy day. Greet them with a smile not your phone. Talk to them about their day, tell them about yours, get down to their level if you can. It is a long day; they have missed you.
Share their WOW moments with us
Please share your child's WOW moments with us. We want to know about their WOW moments and love finding out about some of the positive things they have done at home; we will share them with their friends, too. There are WOW moment slips on our nursery board.
Curriculum Map Autumn 1
