Year 1J

Introduction 

How to make the best class

Ingredients: 
•     12 fabulous, fun girls 
•    9  magnificent, marvellous  boys
•    A handful of hard work
•    A sprinkle of challenge 
•    A spoonful of endeavour 
•    A heap of laughter and fun 
•    A cupful of love 
•    A pinch of teamwork 

1.    Mix together 12 fabulous fun girls and 9 magnificent, marvellous boys 
2.    Carefully scatter in a handful of hard work followed by a sprinkle of challenge 
3.    Then add a spoonful of endeavour  
4.    Don’t forget a heap of laughter and fun 
5.    Next you must carefully pour in a cupful of love 
6.    Finally don’t forget a pinch of team work 
7.    Shake it all up and you will get……………………Year 1J

This is our class page that will show over the year just how super we are and all of our achievements at school. Please keep visiting to find out what we’re up to!

Hello everyone!

Well this is the final goodbye to Year 1J form Mrs Jones, Mrs Jackson and Miss Allan. We can't believe that this is the end of the year and we are soooo sad we didn't get to finish year one with you. We have missed you all soooo much, you have all made Year 1J a truly amazing class and we wish you every success when you go into Year 2 in September.

We loved seeing all your lovely smiling faces this week, you are all getting so big. We really want to say a big well done for all the amazing work you have done during lockdown, and would also like to say a huge thank you to all your amazing parents for helping you with home learning and all of your activities. 

We hope you have a fabulous summer holiday and we will look forward to seeing you all in September. We will be there waving you on in Year 2. Miss you all and see you soon xxx

Some really exciting information has been passed onto us!! Please take a look.....

Exciting Music Scholarship Opportunity

We are really excited to inform you all that Side By Side Arts have managed to secure funding from the Big Local to allow them to provide 8 weeks of music scholarship to children in the Big Local Area. This will be for either piano, guitar or vocal tuition.

Side By Side Arts would like to offer up to 25 of these places to our pupils on a first come first serve basis.

Please find the Scholarship Agreement below – if you would be interested in securing a place for your child after reading this then please contact Stuart at info@sidebysidearts.org

This is a fantastic opportunity to learn something new and a valuable way to fill in time during these weeks away from school and is an opportunity not to be missed so get in quick!

Scholarship Agreement

Scholarships available

·      Piano

·      Guitar

·      Vocal

About the scholarship

·      This scholarship will last for the duration of 8 x 30 minute group lessons which are scheduled on a weekly basis with the same teacher

·      Lessons will be held online via Zoom

·      For piano or guitar an instrument will be required at your home to enable you to practise and also to take part in the lesson. This does not have to be a full sized piano or of really good quality, a keyboard will be more than adequate

·      Vocal tuition will not require any instrument, just your voice

·      Before the scholarship commences and after the 8 week term you will be required to complete a short questionnaire

Expectations

·      It is expected that each student will practise for a minimum of 10 minutes every day between lessons

·      Each student must be prompt to their lesson as lateness will not be made up at the end of the time slot.

·      If you can not make the lesson time please email info@sidebysidearts.org to inform us. If you give more than 12 hours notice the lesson will be rescheduled to a different time. Less than this the lesson will be forfeited no alternate time will be offered.

·      Failure to attend two consecutive lessons without a valid reason will result in your scholarship being terminated

Hi everyone- another week of home learning ahead! Only two weeks left so keep it up for those last two weeks! Hopefully Mrs Jones and I will see you on Friday when we bring your report and books!

Have a lovely week. Missing you all 

Hi all, 

What a lovely week of sunshine we have had! I love the summer! I hope you've enjoyed getting outside. I have planned a few outdoor activities this week so let's hope it's not too rainy. Keep up all your fantastic work. I must give a special shout out to Bua and Layla who have been sending so many photographs. Amazing work girls! And everyone else who has been working as hard as they can. 

Friday's maths session on White Rose isn't available so please spend this time practising the following: 

-counting in 2s, 5s and 10s

-number bonds to 10 and 20

-doubles and halves 

Play quizzes or hit the button to see how fast you can be at answering the questions! 

Just realised I've put at the top of the daily sheets that this week is about measure- obviously it is about counting in repeated groups. Silly Mrs Jackson- all of the resources are right so just make sure you use the videos about counting in repeated groups from White Rose. 

Missing you all lots xx

Here is a link for some lovely ideas you might like to get involved in....

https://earlyarts.co.uk/blog/creative-education-ideas-and-opportunities-for-families-and-schools-

You've made it to half term! What a surreal time it has been but we have loved looking at all of your home learning photos over the last few weeks! It really does put smiles on our faces. As it's half term, we will not be setting any home learning tasks. We want you to rest, spend time with your family and make more memories during lockdown! In addition to this, we will not be speaking to parents next week and will continue making calls home week commencing 1st June. As you all know, we love making these phone calls to check to see how you and your family are so we'll look forward to speaking to you all again soon! We hope you have a fabulous half term! Keep safe and continue smiling!

Dear Year 1J,

I have loved looking at all the lovely things and super work you’ve been doing at home.  You all look like you’re having so much fun! Your Mummies and Daddies are doing a super job at being your new teachers!!

Thank you so much for all your lovely letters I have received. I’ve read them all and they made me smile lots! You are all so kind! I am missing you all so so so much but I can’t wait to see you when you go back to school. I will definitely be popping back to Brighton Avenue to say hello and see all your lovely faces!

Stay safe and take care! 

Lots of love 

Miss Allan 🌈🌈🌈

Week 7 here we come! Hope you're all ok- we miss you all so much. This week we are hopefully going to get some nice, sunny weather so try to get out and active but stay safe! If you are getting out and active we'd love to see this as well as all of brilliant pictures of your work! We hope you are all behaving- if you have any pictures of you helping around the house please let us see those as well. 

Take care and keep smiling 

Hi everyone- I've put some ideas for things to get you active outside on the Outdoor Learning page. If you go to the menu, then click on curriculum and the select outdoor learning you will see the document of ideas attached. 

Please send if any pictures of you taking part in these, 

Keep smiling 

Mrs Jackson x

For any parents/ children interested in growing please follow the link below. A local company have put together some growing kits for either indoors/ outdoor growing for any donation you can afford. If you do decide to take part/ buy a kit please take some photos, we would love to see what you produce!

https://www.blgateshead.org.uk/gardeners-corner/get-growing?fbclid=IwAR1NIsBjCxoQuVUTRi6NKtDOtr8n1QDtAACdpsIgMB4OmWDXhdQf262zOIg

Hi everyone,

Once again we are so impressed with all of your wonderful work, it is lovely to see all of your happy faces and also super to hear your voices when we catch up with you during our weekly phone calls. I hope you have had a lovely weekend and enjoyed some lovely time with your family.  Don't worry if you can't get all of the activities we set you completed, the most important thing is that you stay safe and be happy.

Can you believe we are on to week 5 of home learning? You have all been working so hard and we are immensely proud of you all. We miss you lots and can't wait until our phone calls again on Tuesday! Please keep trying your best to do all of your school work and sending us the fabulous pictures. 

Here's another little challenge for this week.....Could you help your  parents/ carers with a job around the house. This is a tricky time for adults too so it would be lovely if you could help them out maybe by tidying your room or setting the table for a meal? Send a picture in and we will put your name on the virtual happy side. 

Miss you all lots, keep smiling

Well done to everyone for working (and playing) hard this week. Don't worry if you haven't managed to complete all of our activities. There are so many things you can be doing at home and we know you are learning through play all of the time! 

I hope you have enjoyed the maths white rose activities in week 1 of the summer term. This week we will be looking at week 2 of the summer term, there are lots of activities on capacity. If you haven't completed week 1 could you please complete those activities first.

We are all loving your fantastic photographs, it is just lovely to see your happy faces and so seeing the great work you have done. You are all truly amazing. It is so lovely to see you making cards and writing letters to each other. Well done everyone, we miss you lots!

Mrs Jones, Mrs Jackson and Miss Allan.

Hi everyone, hope you are all well and managed to do some nice activities over your Easter holidays. It certainly hasn't been same for me but we are trying to make the most of this situation. We are missing you all so much, it has been lovely to catch up with some of you on the phone over the last few weeks- we really look forward to that time of the week. We can't wait to see all of your smiley faces but for now we  hope you are staying safe with your families. 

Back to home learning this week- it has been brilliant to see what you've been up to with all of your pictures so please keep sending them in, it brightens up our day to see them. 

Maths has changed slightly from what we've planned as there are some super videos on line to support your learning so we've decided to use them but I've explained more in the document attached. 

Let's hope we continue to get some lovely weather. I've been for a run in it today and it was so hot! I ran 5k and then donated £5 to Captain Tom Moore's charity. If you haven't heard about him he is raising lots of money for our NHS workers by walking 100 laps in his garden and he is almost 100. Maybe as a little extra activity (if you would like to) you could make him a birthday card to wish him a happy birthday. I have done this with my little girls and it was great fun. We have posted them to him to this address Captain Tom Moore, C/O Post Office Limited, 67 Bedford Road, Marston Moretaine, Bedfordshire, MK430LA. If you are struggling to post your cards then just take a picture and email it to school and we can share it for you so that Captain Tom might see it online. 

Again we are missing you all so much (parents/ carers too) but please stay safe and remember 'We're all in this together' (we hope you've seen our silly video we have made to cheer you all up!) 

Well done to everyone on your first week of learning from home. Seeing all of the work you're doing and your pictures really brightens our day. We are missing you lots but we know you'll all be having a lovely time at home. We won't set any work over the weekend (we'll be kind and let you have a few days off!!) but please do try and read a book either together or use your reading eggs log in to practise some of your reading.

Did any of you manage to stay awake for the clapping at 8 o cock last night? We thought this was brilliant and I know the doctors and nurses really appreciated it. Could we maybe go one step further? Could you record yourself saying a little message to the doctors and nurses and then we could share these on our website? I know some doctors and nurses personally who would love to see them! Can't wait to see some of your messages!

Let's hope the nice weather continues, keep smiling!!

Mrs Jackson, Mrs Jones and Miss Allan x

To raise money for Sport Relief we walked ten laps of our daily mile track. We had so much fun! 

In Science we have been looking at different materials. We did an investigating using different materials and water to find out which material would be the best to fix an umbrella. We knew we needed a material that was waterproof because we didn't want to get wet! The best material was fabric A which was a form of plastic.  

In our Geography lesson we looked at OLQ: How is the seaside different from other places? We began by sorting out pictures showing different areas without any categories. We managed to sort them into countryside, town and beach independently. We then looked at lots of vocabulary and tried to match this into the piles thinking about what each word meant. We then thought carefully about the words rural, urban and coast and applied these to the piles of pictures. We looked carefully at the pictures of coastal areas and began to look at the specific features. We came to the conclusion that the coast is an area where the land meets the sea.

Peter Calver, an engineer from Siemens, came to launch our DT project. We learnt how to improve our cars so they can go down a ramp! 

Year 1 had a trip to Safety Works. We had so much fun! We learnt all about how to keep safe as part of our PHSE+c work.Have a look at what we got up to....

KS1 were part of an online safety assembly. We got to look at some amazing technology. Tommy became a Viking Warrior which he found hilarious and Nour's fireworks came to life! 

In English this week we have been looking at adjectives. 

We had a fun day on Friday to celebrate being the best school in Gateshead. We had such a fun day!

Class 1J are so excited to take their new book suitcase home. They are looking forward to having their turn to share  a bed time story with an adult,  drink hot chocolate and eat yummy biscuits that are in the suitcase.  

In Science this week we have been sorting different materials into groups. We looked at glass,fabric,wood,metal and plastic. 

Our fabulous production- 13/12/19

Our Christmas production 'Lights, Camel, Action' was FANTASTIC! We were all amazing- Hollywood here we come!