Year 1

During the school year we will be looking at and learning through a range of different topics:

Our Colourful World

When we go down to the Woods.....

Fabulous Fashion

On the Move

Jack and the Beanstalk

Under the Deep Blue Sea

Let's meet some of our Year 1 friends on their very first day of school...

It is fun in Year 1! 

Look at us as busy as can be! ...Can you see me?

Hola!

We are enjoying learing Spanish in Year 1 with Mrs Lowry

Adios amigos

We were fondly remembering the life of Queen Elizabeth II in Year 1. We all loved her crown, her corgi's and her carriage. We drew beautiful portraits to honour her life and work.

Our topic is 'OUR COLOURFUL WORLD' and we are exploring lots of colour themed rhymes, songs and stories....Can you work out the colours in them all?

We have been thinking about Noah and his big ark. He put lots of animals inside. We were making animal patterns. We all loved the beautiful colourful rainbow in the story. We made colourful necklaces, we had to thread the coloured beads. We use paint and a sponge to make our rainbow pictures. Our rocking arks look great and they are packed full of animals! 

Look at our beautiful butterflies - they have lovely colourful patterns on their wings

We made colourful circle art just like the artist Kandinsky - we had to draw, cut and stick. They are bright and beautiful! 

We celebrated European Languages Day with lots of fun, songs, stories and treats. Estupendo!

We read the lovely story about Rainbow Fish who learnt how to share his beautiful shiny scales. We have been thinking about how we can share too! We printed Rainbow Fish pictures and added glitter to make them shimmer and sparkle! 

ELMER is a colourful patchwork elephant. He looked a bit different than all his other friends but he knew all the elephants in the herd were special no matter what they looked like! 

Another of our favourite topic stories was 'Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What do you See?' We had fun learning to remember the story characters in order. 

The nights are getting dark early and we have been thinking about how to keep safe at when we are out and about ...... KEEP BRIGHT AT NIGHT! 

We enjoyed our colourful JELLY PARTY to finish off our topic...yummy yummy in my tummy! The strawberry flavour was the most popular but we also loved blackcurrant, orange, lemon and lime! 

Well done Year 1 for learning our Sound Rhyme for our Spellathon challenge! You were all super! Congratulations everyone!

We had a great day out in Gortin Forest looking for signs of Autumn and we found lots of animals along the way...

Some reindeer came so close to say 'hello' to me, a red squirrel scampered up a tree but was so fast some did not see!

We made homes for a hedgehog....some Grand Designs!

Food and fun ended our day away...

Autumn leaves are falling down -  red, yellow, orange and brown.

We have had fun exploring lots of curriculum activites around the theme of Autumn and our woodland friends from .................'The Gruffalo' 

Year 1 are authors - we shared our ideas and worked together to make up our own night time story about the forest. Download our story below and have a read....Enjoy!

We had a visit from Samantha in Year 1 today, she told us all about keeping our teeth healthy. We need to eat healthy foods and clean our teeth and gums twice a day.

'A Little Bird Told Me'......that it is Nativity season in Year 1! You were all fabulous, what great singing and acting!  We are so very proud of each of you!

Let's meet the cast.......

Year 1 parents - please check our Parents Private Page for some more lovely photos of our cast.

Thanks to all the cooks and kitchen staff for a delicious Christmas dinner...yummy! 

We are doing lots of different fun activites all about Christmas

Look who came 'first class delivery' to Edwards today!  We have all been so very good in Year 1 Santa gave us all a gift. Thanks so much Santa! 

Roy from Senitus (focusing on STEM subjects) came to Year 1 today to help us build some houses from different materials for the 3 Little Pigs - we had a straw house, a brick house and a stick house. Some of them fell down when we huffed and puffed like the big wolf! We discovered that they needed firm foundations to be strong. A triangle was a great shape for building with and Roy was impressed with our team work! 

Such a lot of hufffing and puffing! 

A part of our Fabulous Fashion topic we are listening to lots of stories and song all about clothes and shoes. One of our favourites is about Pete the Cat who just loves his new shoes...

A huge 'well done and congratulations' to everyone in Year 1 for saying our 'Higglety Pigglety Pop!' poem to Rois today. She was super impressed and loved our clear voices and our storytelling faces. Great job! 

Well done to our medal winners: 

1st - Hollie, Ollie and Jack

2nd - Isla, Harper and Theo

3rd - Brianna, Adam and Tommy

Get ahead...get a hat! Year 1 folded a very stylish paper hat

We have been investigating and testing lots of different materials to find out if they are waterproof or not.

We had a 'SOCK SCIENCE' day when we were all scientists carrying out different tests on socks. In our 3 labs we did experiements for sock strength, sock stretch and sock soak...

Postman Stuart popped into Year 1 to talk about his uniform and his job. I think we have some budding Royal Mail employees of the future! Thanks Stuart....you were 'First Class'! 

We had lots of fun today in Year 1 - we had a pancake party to celebrate Pancake Tuesday! We had a go at flipping pancakes, we enjoyed a pancake song and story and we got to eat pancakes!! Delicious! 

We were bending and stretching today with Annie. She showed us how to move our bodies, stretch our muscles and have fun as we exercise. We made our bodies turn into elephants, lions, trees, tables, crabs and lots more shapes. Have a look and copy our poses! 

Today we celebrated WORLD BOOK DAY at school. Can you guess which book character we came dressed up as? Well done everyone you all looked just great! 

We had a story time book share session in the hall with Year 7 pupils. They read us lots of lovely stories...thank you Year 7! 

Thanks to everyone who brought in books for our book swap shop. We all got to take a new book home.

We all had to decorate our classroom door to match one of our favourite stories...Year 1 designed a truck for the duck! Oops...he seems to have got stuck in the muck! 

Click below to link to the online story.....

Duck in the Truck by Jez Alborough

Our 'ON THE MOVE' topic helps us to explore lots of different types of vehicles.  Here are some snaps of us during play sessions

We did a car colour survey at school - we had to look at all the colours of cars in the car park and record it on our chart. We found out that white was the most popular colour of car

Geoff the Motorbike Man came to show us his protective motorbike gear and tell us all about riding his motorbike...keep safe Geoff.

We had fun drawing snow scenes today using chalk...great artists in Year 1!

We had a visit today from the PSNI - they brought their vehicle with them....it was a bit noisy! Have a listen to the video below. We even got to sit in their car. It was good fun! 

Ian brought some birds of prey for us to see. He had two different types of owls and a peregrine falcon. They were lovely. He told us all about them, their habitat and what they eat. 

We did an experiment in the hall using the benches and some toy vehicles...we discovered they went down at top speed if the bench was at an angle and if we started at the top....it was fun!

We love fact finding surveys - this time we took a walk to see what numbers we could find on number plates of vehicles in the school car park....we found lots of numbers but we think 2 was the most popular! 

We went on a space adventure today.....check out our rocket launch! 

We got creative and enjoyed making our spacecraft and rockets out of recycled material....10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1......blastoff! 

Look who hopped in to say 'hello'..... thanks Easter Bunny for all your treats! 

We decorated and rolled some eggs.

Take a peek at us in action on the class private page.

'Happy Easter' to all from everyone in Year 1

We are joining in with the celebrations for the Coronation of King Charles III. We bought buns at the Royal bake sale, we had a go at throw the sponge and we bounced on the bouncy castles. 

We has some fun circus skills to entertain us at our fun day celebrations

The school kitchen has a meal....fit for a King!

Look at all the Royal Year 1 family....such a lot of Kings, Queens, princes and princesses and even some guards to look after us all!

Thanks for the special gifts we got to mark this historical occasion...a big thank you to the RBL Castlederg for our lovely keepsake badges.

We have been busy in Year 1 learning all about Jack and the Beanstalk. We have been thinking about the life of a cow and a hen, money, planting, castles and of course beans! We planted some bean seeds and are patiently waiting for them to grow...they are not just as fast as the one in the story! 

WOW! Year 1 sure do have green fingers! Look at our bean plants now...they have grown so much. We had to water them and they sat on the windowsill to get lots of heat and light. We can plant them out at home to see how they grow.

We walked to Castlederg Castle to see the ruins and had a wee visit to the playpark. We didn't see any giants so he must live in a different one!

Keelings Fruit and our local Spar came to visit us and tell us all about how different foods grow in different countries. They gave us all lots of fruit and vegetables to take home....thanks! 

We had a great time at Sports Day.....we were all so speedy and got a yummy ice cream to celebrate our success!

Well done to Kesiena who represented Year 1 girls in the Foundation sprint race finals & won!.......you did a great job....speedy girl!

We went on our trip to Tropical World today ...we had a great time and saw lots of animals. We had fun in the play park and enjoyed our picnic lunch before travelling back home.

To finish off the term our School Council pupils organised a crazy hair and sock day! Well done everyone for all your creative and crazy looks! Congratulations to Albie and Mason for getting a certificate. 

It is so hard to belive our time together in Year 1 has come to an end! We have had fun and adventures together...... and of course lots of learning!

I wish you all the best for an exciting year ahead in Year 2. Have a great summer holiday everyone. Keep safe and enjoy! 

Many thanks  to all pupils and parents for their very kind words and generous gifts to the Year 1 team. We so appreciate all your support throughout the school year. x