Year 1: Gallery
Y1 - Care of the Environment - St Francis of Assisi
Date: 22nd Oct 2026 @ 1:47pm
We reflected on how well our school has done over the past three years in achieving our Live Simply award from Cafod. To celebrate this, we used water colours to paint a picture of St Francis of Assisi.
Y1 - Care of the Environment - Planting
Date: 22nd Oct 2026 @ 1:45pm
Year 1 enjoyed getting their hands dirty planting plants in our new garden!
Y1 - Care of the Environment - Cheshire Wildlife Trust
Date: 21st Oct 2026 @ 3:12pm
We learned all about the wildlife that the Cheshire Wildlife Trust help and how they do it. We looked at some of the animals that they support like kingfishers, squirrels and grass snakes. We then collaged Some of these animals to display in school.
Y1 Care of the Environment Day - Butterflies
Date: 21st Oct 2026 @ 11:30am
As part of our Care of the Enrivonment days, we learned about butterflies and why they matter so much. We learned they were pollinators and without them, we would have less food. We didn't realise that butterflies were so important.
We used leaves to print the wings of butterflies into our sketchbooks. We loved how they turned out!
Date: 16th Oct 2026 @ 3:32pm
Year 1 planned a Celebration of the Word about St Teresa of Avila.
I liked hearing from the Bible. - JH
I enjoyed doing my lines. - SR
I'd pick a different song next time. - ER
Cereal Domino Foodbank Collection
Date: 16th Oct 2026 @ 2:38pm
We held our annual Foodbank collection again this year and set up our cereal domino train in the hall. This year everyone joined in together and we managed to collect 155 cereal boxes to donate!
Thank you to everyone who brought some boxes in the last few weeks.
Date: 16th Oct 2026 @ 1:38pm
As the Earth was God's gift to us, we created our own Earth as a gift for someone else.
Date: 16th Oct 2026 @ 1:33pm
We played a game to find numbers greater than and less than other numbers. We had to complete the sentences "___ is greater than ___" and "___ is less than ___".
Date: 16th Oct 2026 @ 1:31pm
We listened to and sang a song called Little Acorns. We found the pulse of the song in a variety of ways like patting our knees, clapping our hands and tapping our shoulders. Our partner had to copy us finding the pulse.
Date: 13th Oct 2026 @ 10:42am
We had lots of activities set up in the Blue Room this week to help us practise our gross motor and fine motor skills.
Date: 13th Oct 2026 @ 10:40am
During our PD lesson, we thought about what to do when we were feeling angry. We discussed what happens to our bodies when we feel angry and what the best way to react to this is. We practised some mindfulness including breathing and tracing around shapes with our finger. We also explored the activities available to us on the self regulation station in class.
Date: 13th Oct 2026 @ 10:38am
During our netball lessons, we practised a bounce pass. The aim was for the ball to only bounce once and for our partner to be able to catch it. We practised the correct position to hold the ball and how to hold our hands to make sure we could catch it.
Date: 8th Oct 2026 @ 11:54am
We read to the end of our text 'Lost and Found' by Oliver Jeffers. We freeze framed the most important sections of the story. Then, we ordered the story and retold it to our partner.
Date: 8th Oct 2026 @ 11:52am
The children in Year 1 really enjoyed playing Picnic on Pluto on Phonics Play! They had to read a word and work out if it was a real word or a silly word. The alien called Bob ate the real words and the alien called Obb ate the silly words. The really made us giggle when Bob would burp after eating! You can play this game too on https://www.phonicsplay.co.uk and it will really support the children with their phonics development!
Date: 8th Oct 2026 @ 11:49am
This week in the Blue Room, Year 1 have been working extremely hard! We have been using play dough to improve our fine motor skills by making things that the animals on our play dough mats were missing. We have been practising our long legged giraffe letters using rainbow writing on huge pieces of paper! We have been continuing to practise our number bonds to five and saying one less than a number to 10. We loved creating alien names for the new aliens in the room and using our phonics to sound it out - some of the names really made us laugh!
Date: 5th Oct 2026 @ 2:50pm
Some of the children from St Basil's enjoyed a visit from the Book Bus today! They took back books we had borrowed in the past and exchanged them for new books they wanted to read! Thank you to ELS Cheshire for visiting us!
Date: 2nd Oct 2026 @ 2:03pm
Today, we explored our likes and dislikes and found that we all have different ones. Some of us loved apples and some of us loved chocolate. Some of us liked polar bears and some of us disliked polar bears. We said that that was ok!
Florence said, "Jennifer doesn't like junk food and I do. That is ok, we are still friends."
Luca said, "Koby doesn't like rabbits and I do but that's ok, we're still friends."
Bodhi said, "Aurora doesn't like candy but I do. That's ok though, we are still friends."
Date: 2nd Oct 2026 @ 1:57pm
This week, we explored The Lord's Prayer. We used watercolours to create our own paper chain of the prayer to have and say at home.
Date: 29th Sep 2026 @ 4:29pm
We used our fine motor skills to create shapes using the Geo boards. We also had to count the number of sides the shape had.
Date: 29th Sep 2026 @ 4:26pm
In our Mastering Number sessions, we practised number bonds to five by partitioning cubes with our partner. We have been chanting our number bonds to five as we line up for dinner time! Test us on them so we can show you how great we are!
Date: 29th Sep 2026 @ 4:24pm
During our time in the Blue room, we were able to practise the phonics and helpful words that we have been learning in our Floppy's Phonics sessions.
Date: 23rd Sep 2026 @ 3:11pm
Today, we learnt about the Jewish festival of Yom Kippur in our whole school assembly. We learnt that during Yom Kippur Jewish people wear white and think about asking God for forgiveness. They also pray five special prayers during that special day.
Y1 Counting from a larger group
Date: 18th Sep 2026 @ 9:37am
The children in Year 1 enjoyed playing a game today where they took it in turns to count numbers of cubes from a larger group after rolling a dice. The winner was the person to pick up the last cube. The children had to think about which number they want to roll to be able to win.
