Year 1 Blog 09.01.26

Date: 9th Jan 2026 @ 6:18pm

Welcome back to the Spring Term!

We hope you all had a wonderful break and a happy New Year. It has been lovely welcoming the children back into school this week and hearing all about their adventures and special moments from the holidays. The children have really soldiered on with their change in routine and we couldn’t be prouder of them. They have shown fantastic resilience and enthusiasm.

This week, we kicked off our exciting new topic ‘Terrific Toys’ by holding our very own Toy Museum on Monday. Thank you so much for sending in such wonderful treasures – the children were absolutely fascinated! It was a joy to hear their thoughtful questions and see their awe and wonder as they explored traditional toys that many of them had never seen before.

In History, we explored the question “How have toys changed over time?” and compared a modern remote-control car with a traditional push car. The children enjoyed discussing similarities and differences and thinking about how toys have developed.

In English, the children explored a rocking horse and began word banking exciting describing words. They focused on what the rocking horse looks like and the materials it is made from, using some brilliant vocabulary.

In Maths, we have been learning about numbers 11–20, exploring how they are made using tens and ones. We also placed numbers on a number line and investigated which numbers are greater than or less than a given number.

Your child should have come home today with a new Spring Term Home Learning Grid. This will also be uploaded to our class page under the Home Learning tab at the top of our year group page.

Next week, we are looking forward to exploring more toys and continuing to develop our descriptive language and writing skills.

Have a wonderful weekend everybody!