Year 1: Badger Class

Welcome to our Year 1, Badger Class page
Class Teacher: Miss A Hassan
Support Staff: Mrs L Clarke
PE Days: Monday & Wednesday
In Badger Class we pride ourselves on delivering a curriculum that provides enriching experiences for all children in the class.
Please click on the link below for all the information on what we are learning about this half-term.
Spotlight learning
This week 21/09/26 - 25/09/26:-
Year 1
English - The children have started to use Talk for Writing to come up with actions to retell the Gingerbread Man story. This will help us in our Big writes next week.
Maths: The children have been learning about 1 more and 1 less with lots of different resources. They have been exploring “more than”, “less than” and “the same” symbols. They have made their own symbol with lollipop sticks to practice with
History: In preparation for your grandparents visit the children have been coming up with questions they would like to ask our visitors. If you have any grandparents or parents who were born in the 1950s/1960s, we would really love you attend next Thursday 1st October at 1:15pm. Please let the office or Miss Hassan know if you can make it!
Art: the children have been drawing shells with felt tips and exploring different effects by dripping water on top
14/09/26 - 18/09/26:-
Year 1
English: The children have been doing drama – acting out the story of The Gingerbread Man and hot-seating the characters. The week culminated in preparing and baking delicious gingerbread men!
Maths: Year 1 have been counting on from a particular number and drawing chalk number lines.
Art: Observational drawings of shells.
07/09/26 - 11/09/26: -
Year 1
English: The children have created their story maps of 'Little Red Riding Hood'. They are really good at retelling the story using their actions. Please ask them to retell the story!

Maths: Year 1 have been counting out 10 objects from a larger group. We have also started to recognise numerals as words. It has been a little tricky but we are learning some tricks to help us remember what each word says.
History: The children had great fun exploring toys from the past. We had detailed discussions about the similarities and differences between the toys we have today and toys from the past. One thing we noticed was the materials used, toys back then were mostly made out of wood whereas a lot of our toys are made from plastic.

01/09/26 - 04/09/26: -
Year 1
What an amazing start to Year One for our Thorpe Acre Infants. We have already enjoyed lots of activities to help our teachers to get to know us.
In English we have been learning about traditional tales, starting with Little Red Riding Hood. We have been writing labels, lists and captions.
In Maths we have started our mastery maths lessons, learning how to work well with our partners. We have been counting objects to 10 and sorting objects into groups.
In Art we have enjoyed drawing spirals in different ways, and in History we have been comparing new and old houses.