Hi Venus Class,

Please click on the link below to read the welcome message from Miss Ellis. 

Thank you

Hi Venus Class Letter

Home Learning Web

Please read the letter below that outlines the new home learning format which started the week commencing 8^th June.

Best wishes, Miss Craggs.

Letter to Parents – home learning

Please see below for photographs of the children’s work both in and out of school.

W/C 6^th July

Thank you again for all your efforts with the children at home. The photos are fantastic and all of the Year 1 team love seeing you what have all been up to.

Maths

Below are some websites for the children to practise some key skills.  Please spend a bit of time looking at the games before using them as each one accommodates for a wide range of abilities. Some look quite simple, but do in fact challenge the children as they practise skills in a different way to what the children are used to. You can also use MyMaths where there is a good range of activities you can practice. Topmarks is a great website for all sorts of maths games so do have a look around the site.

If you have any queries, please do not hesitate to get in touch on our new class email.

We are happy to help: venus@barlbybridge.n-yorks.sch.uk

For parents and carers: Delivering online safety at home

We are working with THINKUKNOW to find ways to help you make sure your child is safe whilst using online streaming apps and websites. Does your child use Tik Tok or follow live streams? Here’s a handy guide for you to help them keep safe:

THINKUKNOW – Live Streaming Guide

If you would like any useful activity packs to support teaching your child about online safety, just contact us via the class email and we can send you a pack straight over!

Celebrations

Week 4  was another busy week. Thank you for all of your effort with the children at home. It’s been lovely to see all of your work relating to Barry the Fish with Fingers. Here’s just  a snippet the pieces I received the week commencing 29th June :

Celebrations

We had a go at the DT work on our Home Learning Web. We designed them first and then made them using different recycled materials. We had lots of fun!

W/C 29^th June

Here you will find this week’s home learning web based on our topic, Oceans.  Home Learning -Venus Week 4

PLEASE NOTE: this week’s chosen lessons for maths are taken from the set titled ‘Week 9 (w/c 22^nd June)’, not Week 10 (w/c 29^th June).

Spelling Shed – https://play.edshed.com/login 

This week we are looking at either:

the digraphs ‘ay’ and ‘oy’ usually found at the end of words

or

the split digraph ‘u_e’.

Reading Planet https://my.risingstars-uk.com/

5 minutes of daily reading is greatly beneficial to your child, even if this is just you reading to them.

All the tasks can be done simply with paper and pencils but here are some extra resources, should you wish to use them:

Maths – Week 4 Video Links.       English – Shopping List Template

Maths – Lesson 1 – Counting to 100.       English – Invitation template

Maths – Lesson 2 – Partitioning numbers.       English – Story Writing – fish border

Maths – Lesson 3 – Comparing numbers (1).       English – Story Writing – Superhero border

Maths – Lesson 4 – Comparing numbers (2).       DT – Design Sheet

Wellbeing – My Day Learning Log.       Wellbeing – Fishy Bubbles of Gratitude

Wellbeing – P.E circuit cards

Here are all this week’s links, just in case:

Our weekly story, Barry the Fish with Fingers by Sue Hendra https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ewsgwj-wM4w

Maths – https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-1/

Celebrations

Week 3 was another fantastic week for home learning. Thank you for all of your effort with the children. It’s been lovely to see all of your Rainbow Fish writing and pictures. Here’s just some of the fantastic pieces I received the week commencing 22nd June :

And here’s what the children inside school have been up to:

W/C 22^nd June

Another fantastic week for home learning. It really is wonderful to see so many of you responding to our work set. The children who have returned to school have also loved seeing what you have all been up to.

Here you will find this week’s home learning web based on our topic, Oceans.  Home Learning -Venus Week 3

PLEASE NOTE: this week’s chosen lessons for maths are taken from the set titled ‘Week 6 (w/c 1^st June)’, not Week 9 (w/c 22^nd June).

Spelling Shed

the short vowel sound /u/ made by the digraph ‘oo’ making the long vowel sound

or

the digraphs ‘ue’ and ‘ew’ which make the long vowel sound /u/.

All the tasks can be done simply with paper and pencils but here are some extra resources, should you wish to use them:

Maths – Video Links for Week 6 – Mass        English – All About Me Template

Maths – Lesson 1 – Measure Mass             English – Rainbow Fish Review Template

Maths – Lesson 2 – Compare Mass             Geography – Plastic Polution PowerPoint

Maths – Lesson 3 – Introduce Capacity and Volume             Wellbeing – What makes you happy

Maths – Lesson 4 – Measure Capacity             Wellbeing – Spell Your Name Physical Activity

Wellbeing – How do you feel Activity

Here are all this week’s links, just in case:

Our weekly story, Rainbow Fish by Marcus Pfister https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nb2msIQo6TI

Maths – https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-1/

Celebrations

Another fantastic week for home learning. Thank you again for all of your hard work. It’s been lovely to see all of your Commotion in the Ocean videos and pictures. Here’s just some of the fantastic pieces I received the week commencing 15th Jun :

W/C 15^th June

What a brilliant first week for the new home learning format! I was pleased to see many positive very responses to it and it has been fantastic hearing from you all. Big shout out to William, Mason and Andrei for sending pictures across. 

Here you will find this week’s home learning web based on our topic, Oceans. Venus Home Learning Web – Week 2

All the tasks can be done simply with paper and pencils but here are some extra resources, should you wish to use them:

Maths Video Links – Week 2                   English – Fact File Templates

Maths – Lesson 1 – Lengths and Height                   Music – Carnival of the Animals PowerPoint

Maths – Lesson 2 – Measure length                         Music – Musical Instrument Activity Idea

Maths – Lesson 3 – Measure length                        Welbeing – Wordsearch

Maths -Lesson 4 – Introduce weight and mass

Here are all this week’s links, just in case:

Our weekly story, Commotion in the Ocean by Giles Andreae – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9pRhgZ8Jffs

Maths – https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-1/

Topic work – Music – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCUtOKsmOZ8

Cosmic Yoga – Squish the Fish  – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LhYtcadR9nw

Celebrations

Our first week of for home learning has been brilliant. Thank you to all parents who have sent work in. I would love to share with you some of the fantastic pieces I have received on the week commencing 8th June:

What a busy first week we have had in class. Here’s a peak at what we have been doing in school:

W/C 8^th June

Below you will find our first home learning web based on our topic, Oceans.

Venus Home Learning Web – Week 1

Spelling Shed has been updated for all children and this week we are looking at the digraphs ‘ir’ and ‘ur’.

Reading Planet has also been updated for those who have finished their books from last week.

As this is a new format, if you have any queries, please do not hesitate to get in touch on our new class email. We are happy to help.

venus@barlbybridge.n-yorks.sch.uk

All the tasks can be done simply with paper and pencils but here are some extra resources, should you wish to use them:

English – Diary Entry Template                    Maths – Lesson 1 Count in 2s

English – Week 1 – Missing Poster Template                      Maths – Lesson 2 Count in 5s

Wellbeing – My Day – Learning Log                        Maths – Lesson 3 Count in 10s

Wellbeing – Week 1 – Mindfulness Colouring Fish.                    Maths – Lesson 4 Add equal groups

Maths – Video Links- Counting in 2s 5s and 10s

Here are all this week’s links, just in case:

Our weekly story, Tiddler by Julia Donaldson – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBRT5vsfE3U

Topic work – Habitats in Science – https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zx882hv/articles/zsfkd2p

Joe Wick’s PE Lessons – https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAxW1XT0iEJo0TYlRfn6rYQ

Reading Planet – https://my.risingstars-uk.com/

Spelling Shed – https://play.edshed.com/login

Don’t forget to kickstart our topic, it’s ‘World Oceans Day’

Visit the website below for some fantastic activity ideas, as well as live lessons that will get your child motivated to keep our oceans clean! https://worldoceanday.school/

Other useful resources:

Daily Reading – Update Letter

Questions to ask your child whilst reading – Year 1 Reading Questions

3 daily phonics lessons from Letters and Sounds – https://wandleenglishhub.org.uk/lettersandsounds

W/C 1st – PROUD CLASS TEACHER ALERT! Class Venus, you have done it!! You have reached the top of the class league tables. Your continued playing on Spelling Shed over the half term holiday means that you have reached the number 1 spot. Miss Craggs is VERY proud of you. Log in later on today to find your whole-class Honeypot Reward. Well done! Now let’s see if we can keep the top spot!

REMEMBER – 50 Honeypot Points for taking part each week and extra Honeypot Points for Top Spellers (regular users) too!!

Venus Class Newsletter Autumn 2019

Venus-Class-Newsletter-Spring 2020

September 2019

Undertaking a maths investigation.

How many different ways can we group these objects?

Tuesday 17th September

In the Tiger Who Came To Tea, Sophie and her mum have to go shopping to replace all the food that the tiger has eaten. So Venus class went to our local supermarket to help us learn about mapping skills and the landmarks in our local area.

When we navigated our way back to school we created a journey map. We made our own maps and models of the things that we had seen.

Wednesday 16th October

Today we had some incredible visitors to class! Lots of different creatures from snakes to snails and bearded dragons to chinchillas came to visit. We learnt so many facts and we had the chance to hold or stroke them if we wanted to. Well done Venus. You were excellent creature carers!

Thursday 17th October

What a brilliantly busy start to our day today as our parents and families came into school to join us for our curriculum open morning. We launched the next part of our ‘Journeys’ topic by creating a Stephenson’s Rocket using collage. Each team had a section and when it was complete we put all the pieces together. The children had great fun working with their grownups and each other. We look forward to learning all about the Rocket and train travel after half term.

Tuesday 12th November

We had a fantastic day at the National Railway Museum. We had gone to see Stephenson’s Rocket and to explore how trains have changed since its invention in 1829.  We were told the story of the Rainhill Trials and how Stephenson designed the winning entry with the help of his father and the engineer Henry Booth. We learnt about the science behind how steam trains work. We saw lots of famous and interesting trains from around the world including the record breaking Mallard and the Bullet Train, before coming back to school. Thank you Venus for a brilliant day!

Friday 6th December

Venus have been very busy over the last 2 weeks learning songs and lines for our Christmas production ‘Born in a Barn’. We are joining our friends in Earth class for the show with everyone having a part to play. It has been brilliant to watch the effort and enthusiasm that the children have put into their rehearsals and it will be a great show. The final practice is over and now for our performances next week but here is a sneak look at our superstars in action!

Tuesday 21st January 2020-

Our science unit this half term is all about materials. We have been busy exploring and investigating materials and thinking about their names and properties. We went on a hunt around school to look for the everyday uses and properties of different materials. In class we sorted objects according to their properties and used this knowledge to make posters. Super science work Venus!

Tuesday 28th January

We had a special visitor in school today, Dan ‘The Skipping Man’. He worked with us to help us learn the art of skipping. We started with how to hold the rope correctly and then progressed to moving the rope over our heads. We learned two different jumps that we can do before we put it all together and had a go ourselves. It was very cold but the skipping helped us to warm up by using lots of different muscles and getting our hearts beating faster. At the end we came inside to have a game of ‘under the rope’. This is the start of skipping with partners using the big rope. Some of us showed what we had learned in a special assembly at the end of the day. We have bought lots of new skipping ropes so that we can all continue to practise at play times.

Thursday 8th February

We started our day with a very special reading session. We invited our adults to come and share stories and books with us from the school library. We had a great time listening to stories and reading ourselves. We looked at different non fiction books and learnt new facts to share with others. We even had a drink and a light snack before saying goodbye and going back to Venus for our lessons. Thank you to everyone who was able to join us!

Wednesday 12th February

Our design and technology work this term has been to design and produce an object that moves. We were inspired by our learning about Stephenson’s Rocket to make our own version. We worked in pairs to draw a design, think about the materials that we would need and then make and paint the finished piece. We displayed our ‘Rockets’ outside the classroom, just like the real Rocket is displayed at the NRM.

Monday 9th March

In geography we have been learning about the United Kingdom. This has built on our learning about Selby and the local area and differences between towns and the countryside. We looked at flags, national symbols, capital cities and each countries location within the UK. As a team we then had to match the correct information with each country. Our teams collaborated really well and ensured that we had a good knowledge of these national elements.