Year 1

Welcome to Year 1 2025-26 with Mrs Banks and Mrs Griffiths.

We would encourage you to keep an eye on these pages as we like to share aspects of the children’s learning and experiences from Cherry and Beech classes.

2024-2025

27th February 2025 - Art

Year One have been studying the artist Giuseppe Arcimboldo. He was an Italian painter who created portraits made entirely from fruit, vegetables, flowers, fish and even books!

The children worked in pairs to cut, chop and slice the fruit and vegetables before they created their own portraits.

24th January 2025 - English/Art

As part of their work in English around the text 'Lila and the Secret of Rain' the children have been looking at African fabrics and designs. The children used their fine motor skills to design their own African fabrics and patterns; they used hot vibrant colours and bold lines. The children then cut out the shapes to create the dresses for their African ladies. They were very proud of their finished pictures and showed Miss Brown, who has actually visited the country where Lila lives in Africa! She was very impressed with their artwork.

18th December 2024 - Christmas Crafts!

Year 1 have had a fantastic week with all things Christmas! We have been busy in the Elf workshop and the children have used lots of skills to make their creations. We have been using our maths skills in order to measure out, make and ice our Christmas cakes. The children have been strengthening their fine motor skills and have created no-sew sock snowmen. They have also been working hard to make some reindeer food and Christmas baubles.

A big thank you to our parent helpers that have come in to support the children making memories and these fantastic Christmas crafts. It’s such a pleasure to hear even children in KS2 who walk past and say “I remember making that in Year 1 and I still have it!”

On Monday, Year 1 also had the pleasure of working with their Year 4 partners to create Christingles. They collaborated very well and even had a Christmas sing song to round up the afternoon.

24th October 2024 - Pumpkin Day!

Year One had great fun celebrating 'Pumpkin Day' - they made delicious shortbread biscuits shaped like a pumpkin and smothered in orange icing! They used their fine motor skills to make paper pumpkins - lots of folding, cutting, twisting, bending and gluing.

21st October 2024 - DT

Year One have been making moving pictures as part of their DT work. They investigated a variety of 'pop-up' books to see how they worked. They followed instructions, carefully coloured, cut, folded, glued and assembled their moving pictures. Year One were SO proud of their finished pop-up books they wanted to share them with the reception children. They showed them how the sliders worked and read them their story sentences. Some of the grown-ups were able to come and see the work after school too. The children were inspired by the looking at the work of artist Matthew Reinhart and his amazing moving picture books.

19th September 2024 - Fine and gross motor skills

In Year 1 we are practicing our fine motor and gross motor skills - using scissors to cut carefully; drawing and colouring beautiful pictures; creating sculptures with small parts; practicing using snappers and buttons so that we can be independent when we put on our coats; climbing on the trim trail and balancing on the logs; using the scooters. In Geography we are finding out about our local area, looking at maps, creating road maps and using the remote control cars to drive around our map of Clevedon. In the Home corner we have be using kitchen utensils to make 'delicious' meals - but most importantly we are having GREAT FUN IN YEAR ONE!!

Mary Elton Primary School