by Sian ATHERTON | Mar 12, 2026 | Grade 1
We have tried to focus our attention to Maths this week as we need to repeat and reinforce to learn and remember things. Continuing with place value, we use different methods and activities to understand that where the number is denotes it’s value. As we learn...
by Sian ATHERTON | Mar 5, 2026 | Grade 1
Students have been working hard and show progress weekly which is marvellous! We continue to work on understanding the number system and build the numbers regularly with tens and ones blocks, explain how many tens or ones we have and then say the number. We transfer...
by Sian ATHERTON | Feb 25, 2026 | Grade 1
This week we started the Ramadan timetable with shorter days but still packed with learning. Students have been keeping up with number work in a variety of ways- through individual, paired, group or whole class learning. We continue to practice writing numbers, check...
by Sian ATHERTON | Feb 19, 2026 | Grade 1
Students continue to surprise me with their ability to be good inquirers this week as we had a special visitor to help us with Our Unit. We are learning about how people help us and provide us with our needs and wants. One of our parents is a doctor and very kindly...
by Sian ATHERTON | Feb 11, 2026 | Grade 1
With just 4 days this week we still managed to do as much as possible and the students have worked very hard so deserve a good 3 day break. We continue to do daily phonic, sound blending, word and sentence work. Our reading groups are settling into a rhythm and...
