Welcome to our Year 1MT class page!

Here you will be able to find out about what we're learning and see photos of what we have been doing each week. 

In our class we are all unique and individual characters.

With support from Miss Thompson and Miss Chelmowska we will be...

Making new FRIENDS

Learning new IDEAS

Reading new BOOKS

Solving new PROBLEMS

Playing new GAMES

Reaching new GOALS

Making new MISTAKES

And having lots of FUN the whole year through!

Please keep popping back to our page each week to catch up with our Year 1 highlights.

There is also a section below where you can find links to excellent learning resources that you can use with your child at home.

Harvest Festival 8th October 2026

We have worked so hard at learning the words to Big Blue Tractor for our Harvest Festival and loved seeing all of the grown ups who came to watch us perform! We did a brilliant job and Miss Thompson and Miss Chelmowska are so proud of us - we know you all are too! 

Pupils of the week 9th October 2026

Congratulations to our Year 1 pupils of the week! This week, both of the children were chosen for similar reasons as they have both been showing a fantastic attitude to wards their learning! We have loved seeing them getting involved in their lessons and trying their best all day every day! Keep it up and well done!

Fortnight beginning 28th September 2026

Another busy couple of weeks in Y1MT! The children are loving our Autumn themed challenges in our classroom and are all blowing our us away with their knowledge when using our continuous provision!

The children really enjoyed our Macmillan Coffee morning, wearing non uniform and sharing biscuits and juice - we were really happy to be able to help raise money for such a worthy cause. 

We have been lucky enough to have two visitors into school this fortnight. We spent time in our outdoor learning environment with Jess from Teaching Trees at the Royal Forestry Society, who helped us to explore the parts of a tree and how to tell the difference between deciduous and ever green trees as part of our Science unit. 

Eve from Alive Church also came to visit us and we thought about what makes us unique, in line with our Religious Education unit on Christianity and what Christians believe. She talked to us about how she is a Christian and she believes that God made everyone unique and we explored what makes each of us in our class unique, including looking at how our fingerprints are different! 

In Maths we have explored how to half objects, shapes and quantities and are now confident in this, and we have started to add numbers using bead strings and number lines. 

In English we continue to look at different texts - using Rainbow Fish, and Gorilla over the last couple of weeks, to build on our skills of writing simple sentences and have even started to add adjectives to our sentences!

Our sustainability monotors have been keeping things in check too, making sure we are keeping on top of our recycling and doing our part to look after our planet!

Pupils of the week 18th September 2026

Well done to our very first pupils of the week for this academic year! Both of our wonderful Year 1 children have settled so well into life in Year 1. It is such a big step up from reception and we have been blown away with how well both children have taken it all in their stride and shown that they are ready to learn every single day. Well done and keep it up!

Week's 1-3 September 2026

What a busy start to Year 1 we've all had! The children have settled straight into our daily routines, have loved exploring their new environment and have blown us all away with their attitudes towards Year 1 learning - just wow!

So far we have began learning about trees in Science and loved using our forest school area to extend our learning. In geography we are thinking about our local area as well as looking at maps of Gateshead, the UK and places around the world where some of us were born! In English we looked at the story Whatever Next by our author of the term Jill Murphy, before moving on to the story Ruby's Worry. This week we started learning how to build and write our own sentences about different events in the story and have been practising writing with capital letters in the correct places, finger spaces and full stops. In maths we have been counting forwards and backwards, recognising numbers as words and exploring different amounts that make 10!

We have also started to learn about what Christians believe in RE, big and small body movements in gymnastics as part of our PE unit and have started to practice our Harvest Festival song - which we are already amazing at!