DATE: 15.05.2026

The Star of the week:    1L - Omar and Emily

                                        1R - Thomas

Congratulations!

The Welsh Speaker of the week/Siaradwr yr wythnos this week:  1L - Amelie

                                                                                                              1R - Kobe

Llongyfachiadau!

This Week’s News

Dydd Gwener Hapus pawb!

🌱 What Lives in Our Garden?

This week has been all about research as we continued developing our bug books and worked hard to answer our growing collection of big questions. The children explored fact books, Kiddle, and Google AI, and we discussed how to stay safe online when searching for information.

The children typed up their own questions, practised using safe search tools, and then wrote up their research findings in their bug books. Their independence and curiosity have been wonderful to see.

✏️ Language and Phonics

In language, revisited question words such as what, when, where, how, and who, as well as “I wonder…” sentences which the children typed into search engines to guide their research. We have also been really enjoying our Drawing Club adventures, following Bumblebear’s exciting day at Bee School. The children have loved imagining new scenes, describing characters, and adding their own creative twists to the story.

🔢 Maths

For this week's maths, we revisited tens and ones, using dienes and place value charts to build and partition numbers. We continued our work on fact families, which helped us this week when finding missing numbers in addition and subtraction sentences. The children used number lines to jump forwards and backwards, explaining how they knew what the missing number must be. We also began thinking about how making equal groups can help us with early multiplication and quick addition. 

Next week: we will be learning all about money, recognising coins and adding them together to make different amounts.

🏃‍♂️ P.E.

We have had even more Sports Day practice this week, and the children are getting very excited for next Tuesday. They have shown brilliant teamwork and enthusiasm. A reminder: please send the children in wearing their house colours on the day.

🌼 A busy and exciting week

It has been lovely to see the children so engaged in their research, creative writing, and outdoor learning. We are looking forward to another great week ahead.

Have a lovely weekend everyone,

Best wishes, The Year 1 Team 🌟