Stanway Fiveways Primary School

Thursday 13th February 2025

The final week of our first Spring term in Year 1 has been a busy one. In English, we gathered lots of ideas to describe a rainforest and a desert setting. In maths, we explored subtracting within 20 and worded problems. We learnt about the key components for our sewing unit and answered questions about the Royal family. We are looking forward to the half-term break!

Friday 7th February 2025

This week, we learnt the story map for our new text (Lost and Found) in English. In Maths, we practiced our addition for numbers within 20. We explored our senses in Science and discovered our responsibilities in PSHE.

Friday 17th January 2025

This week, the children started planning and writing their innovate text: How to Wash a Neox and continued to identify the place value of digits for numbers to 20 using base 10.

Cherry class have enjoyed their art lesson with Ms Fisher and Magnolia class have enjoyed stamping this week, in preparation for designing a wallpaper suitable for the King.

Friday 10th January 2025

The first week back at school since the Christmas break has been a very exciting one! The children were introduced to their new text (How to Wash a Woolly Mammoth) for English and they have also started work on place value for numbers up to 20. In History, we have started to explore the Royal Family. In Music, we learnt a fun song called Over the Oceans.

On Thursday, Year One had a scooterbility lesson which the children thought was fantastic. They really impressed us with their scooting skills!

The final week of the Christmas term has been a busy one in Y1. In Design and Technology the children designed and made a healthy fruit snack. The children could choose whether to make a smoothie, kebab or salad with their fruit. They then went over to the D&T kitchen to prepare the fruit, make their healthy snack and taste it.

This week the children also investigated 3D shapes in Maths, finished their Paddington goes to the Beach stories and read The Christmas Pine by Julia Donaldson.

Finally the children made Christmas cards to exchange with their friends.

The children are definitely ready for their two week Christmas break!

Friday 10th January 2025

The first week back at school since the Christmas break has been a very exciting one! The children were introduced to their new text (How to Wash a Woolly Mammoth) for English and they have also started work on place value for numbers up to 20. In History, we have started to explore the Royal Family. In Music, we learnt a fun song called Over the Oceans.

On Thursday, Year One had a scooterbility lesson which the children thought was fantastic. They really impressed us with their scooting skills!

This week, the children performed their Christmas play, Prickly Hay, in front of their families. They did a fantastic job and the Y1 teaching team were all very proud of them.

In Maths, the children began to learn about shape. We have been focussing on 2D shapes this week. We learnt about their properties, how many sides and vertices each shape has, and then sorted them into groups using these properties.

During COOL time, the children have enjoyed completing phonics, maths and writing challenges. They also used some of the resources to recreate the rock workshop that the children participated in on Wednesday morning!

This week, Christmas has really begun at Fiveways. On Monday, the children enjoyed a visiting pantomime show, Scroogical. Then on Wednesday it was Christmas jumper day and Christmas dinner. Finally, on Friday, the children performed the Prickly Hay nativity to their siblings and Year 5 who were all very impressed.

The children have also been working hard on their learning. In English, the children have been writing their own Paddington story, Paddington visits the Forest. The Y1 teachers have been very impressed with the children’s presentation and their stamina for writing.

This week, the children completed their maths unit focusing on addition and subtraction with numbers to 10. The children have shown great progress in their understanding and we are very proud of them.

In Design and Technology, the children went to the DT room to practice their chopping, peeling and grating skills in preparation for making a healthy fruit snack at the end of term.

We also participated in a whole school positive noticing day as part of Agents of Change. The children loved receiving tags where their classmates had written positive things they had noticed about them.

The children have also been enjoying maths, English and phonics challenges in the outdoor area.

This week, Y1 started their new Talk 4 Writing unit – Paddington Visits London. To launch this new text, the children all enjoyed making and eating marmalade sandwiches, just like Paddington!

In Science, the children went on a nature walk around the grounds looking for signs of autumn. They also went to have a look at our class tree. We will be visiting this tree throughout the year, so that we can see all the changes it goes through during the different seasons.

The children have also been completing lots of tuff tray challenges in the outside area. These included: a London landmark hunt, seasons matching activity, addition number sentences and a phonics sorting game.

Wow, what a busy week we have had! The children returned from their half term break full of enthusiasm.

In English this week, the children finished off their non-fiction unit. The children innovated using their own ideas and they adapted the model text about Tree Giants to write about Ice Giants. Lots of great adjectives were used to describe what an Ice Giant looks like and what they eat.

In Science, we began learning about the seasons. The children learnt the names of the four seasons and thought about what the weather and nature is like in each.

The children have all enjoyed completing the tuff tray challenges this week. They got creative making their own Ice Giant, practised matching lower and upper case letters and began to think about cold and hot countries.