Year 1 Team
St. George
Teacher
Mrs N Catena
Learning Support Assistant
Mrs N Papia
St. Andrew
Teacher
Mrs J Peacock
Learning Support Assistant
Mrs B Kettle
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🗣️✨ Speak Like an Expert at St Mary’s! ✨🗣️
This term, our pupils took part in a ‘Speak Like an Expert’ challenge, developing their disciplinary oracy across the curriculum. We were absolutely blown away by the quality of talk, vocabulary and confidence shown by the children! 🤩
Each year group became experts in a different field:
🎨 Year 1 – Artists
🏅 Year 2 – Sportspeople
🙏 Year 3 – Theologians
🔬 Year 4 – Scientists
📜 Year 5 – Historians
➗ Year 6 – Mathematicians
Children practised the four strands of oracy:
🧠 Cognitive – organising and explaining ideas
🗣️ Linguistic – using ambitious, subject-specific vocabulary
👥 Social & Emotional – listening and responding respectfully
🎤 Physical – speaking clearly and confidently
The discussions, explanations and expert vocabulary we heard across the school were incredible. We are so proud of how confidently our pupils can now speak like experts! 🌟
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Take a look at some of our fabulous Year 1 silly, super sentences created from our class words the children came dressed as!
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Happy World Book Day from Year 1. We have had the most amazing day dressing up as words. We started our day with an assembly, celebrating our love of books and reading.
We shared our favourite books, took part in a book quiz and word wizard workshop as well as freeze framing our words . We designed book marks and book tokens and had so much fun creating silly sentences using words from our class word bank. I think you would agree their handwriting is fabulous too!
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For Mental Health day , Year 1 created a welcome circle to help us to explore the feeling of belonging . We used our puppet Doris the dragon to share our ideas about what makes us happy. In our safe space art activity the children drew themselves and around it they mapped out all of the things they like to do and the people and things that help them to feel safe.
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During this learning block, Year 1 have been exploring the Music unit ‘Sound Patterns’. Throughout this unit, the children experimented with creating different sounds using a single instrument. They explored how to change the way an instrument sounds by tapping, shaking, scraping and striking in different ways, discovering just how many possibilities one instrument can have!
They also learned how to read and play simple rhythmic patterns, including beats and rests.
To finish the unit, the children used their new musical skills to retell the story of The Three Little Pigs. Through rhythm and sound effects, they brought the story to life – from the building of the houses to the big bad wolf’s huffing and puffing! 🐷🐺
We are so proud of their creativity, focus and enthusiasm in Music this term. Well done, Year 1! Here is a snippet of your excellent work!🌟🎵
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