Welcome to Cuckoo Class - Year 1 at The Round House Primary Academy

Welcome to Cuckoo class page. 

Class Teachers: Mrs Pritchard (Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday) and Mrs Passan (Thursday and Friday)

Class Teaching Assistant: Mrs Stockley 

Our PE day is on a Monday afternoon - please ensure children have their full PE kit in school on a Monday. We also ask that children have a pair of wellington boots to be kept in school for the children's outdoor learning sessions. All children need to bring a water bottle into school everyday. 

Children should be accessing weekly spellings on Spelling Shed and can practice their Maths on Numbots - please ask if you need help with this. Logins for these websites can be found in your child's reading record. 

Spelling Shed: https://www.edshed.com/en-us/login

Numbots: https://play.numbots.com/#/intro

Reading five days a week. Please update your child's reading diary daily, as we count their reads and move them up on our class reading chart. This year it is Monster Inc themed.

Thank you!

Mrs Pritchard

01.10.2025

During our Music lessons this half-term, the children have been exploring the pulse of different pieces of music and learning that the pulse is the heartbeat of the music. In today's lesson, the children were introduced to the term rhythm and learnt that although you can have pulse without rhythm, you cannot have rhythm without pulse! The children practised marching to the pulse of a piece of music, whilst tapping out the rhythm on their musical instrument. It was a little tricky at first, but with lots of perseverance, we managed to do it. Well done Cuckoos!

01.10.2025

During our Maths lesson today, the children continued to think about the terminology greater than, less than and equal to. Working in pairs, they were given three Blockzilla cards and a set of digit cards. The children took it in turns to choose a number card and place it on the table. They then had to choose a Blockzilla card in order to correctly compare the two numbers. The children were also encouraged to use language in order to compare the two numbers, e.g. by saying 3 is less than 6.

01.10.2025

Some information for the children's trip to Rockingham Castle tomorrow:

Please be at school promptly at 8.35am.
Children to wear shoes that are suitable for walking.
Your child will need the following things in a rucksack that they will need to carry:

A packed lunch. Please ensure that all items are disposable (no fizzy drinks, yoghurts or chocolate).
A named bottle of water (no glass bottles or cans).
A named coat in case it rains.

Pick up should hopefully be at the usual time from the classroom.

Thank you and I hope the children have a lovely day!

29.09.2025

During todays Maths lesson, the children were introduced to the symbols for greater than, less than and equal to. They then worked with their partner using cubes and lollipop sticks to show that 7 is greater than 3, 1 is less than 5 and 9 is equal to 9, for example. They had to count out the right number of cubes for each group and then arrange the lollipop sticks to show the correct symbol.

26.09.2025

In Maths today, we were comparing two amounts and using vocabulary such as fewer, less than, more, greater than and same. The children really enjoyed their activity, which involved rolling a dice, writing their number on their whiteboard and then comparing it using the correct vocabulary with their partner’s number. Well done everyone!

24.09.2025

In English this week, the children have been sequencing sentences based on what they could see in a picture from our book 'How to Find Gold'. They needed to remember where the capital letter and full stop goes in a sentence. They then had the opportunity to write their own sentences based on what they could see.

24.09.2025

Just a quick message regarding PE kit. If your child has an after school club, which requires them to wear a PE kit, e.g. yoga, football and multi-skills, please ensure that they bring their PE kit back into school ready for their PE lesson on Monday.

19.09.2025

In Art, the children were exploring line and mark-making to create a water effect. They looked at the artist Zaria Forman, whose work is often inspired by water. Using different drawing materials, the children created different lines and marks, reflecting what they could hear in a piece of music. They then added plants and creatures to bring their art to life and evaluated their work, as well as the work of others, using the language they had learnt.

17.09.2025

We are sending the children home with the login for Letter Join today. This website is for the children to practice their handwriting. Attached to the back of the login page there is a paper copy of all of the lowercase letters in case the children would like to practice on paper, rather than online. We are teaching the children pre-cursive letters, to prepare them for when they join up their letters in the older years. If you can fit in any practice, this will really support your child! Thank you!

17.09.2025

In Maths, we have been recognising numbers as words and using a ten frame to represent different numbers. The children did a great job.

17.09.2025

In English this week, we have continued learning about our book ‘How to Find Gold’. The children created their own treasure maps using chalk and then created a labelled version in their books. They then wrote instructions for their maps.

16.09.2025

The children will come home with a book from ‘The Reading Space’ today. This book will be swapped every 2 weeks. They can return it at any time in the designated red tray in the classroom. If books are not returned, the children will unfortunately not be able to choose a new book on our next visit in 2 weeks time. Thank you!

10.09.2025

Each week, the children will be set spellings on Spelling Shed. Please ensure that your child is engaging with this at home. We will stick the children’s log in details at the front of their reading records on Friday and the children’s first set of spellings will be set on Friday too. The children should also engage with Numbots at home, this is where they can practice their number skills. If you need a log in for this, please do let us know. Every Tuesday, we will be doing ‘Book Chat’. This is where the children will take it in turns to bring home a purple book where they can write about their favourite book to read. The children can then bring their favourite book into school the following Tuesday, to share with the rest of the class. Hope this all makes sense, but please let us know if you have any questions.

10.09.2025

In English, we started looking at our new book ‘How to Find Gold’. The children had a go at sequencing some pictures from the story.

08.09.2025

In Maths, the children were sorting and grouping different objects based on size, colour and object. They did a great job!

05.09.2025

Year 1 spent some time doing outdoor learning today. They were creating bug hotels, completing a nature scavenger hunt and seeing what interesting things they could find in nature.

03.09.2025

We have had a lovely first day in Year 1. Today we have been getting to know each other through circle time activities. We have been learning all about the expectations in Year 1, making self-portraits and we created our very own bird art. The rest of this post will contain some important information so please read it carefully. PE day is on a Monday. Children need to have their full PE kit in school on a Monday and it should be kept here for the half term. It will be noted if children are missing any part of their PE kit. If your child has their ears pierced, they either need to have their earrings removed at home or they can wear plastic retainers in their ears. Adults cannot remove earrings at school for the children. Please can all children have a named pair of wellies to be kept in school for outdoor learning and wet days. All children must have a named water bottle, containing water and not juice in school everyday. There is an expectation that children read at home for 10 minutes 5x per week. These reads need to be recorded in their reading record and will be counted on a Friday. Children who read 5 times will get a sticker and move up the reading chart. They also need to bring their book in everyday to be changed in the morning. We are really looking forward to the year ahead! 

Previous Class Learning - 2024-2025

W.C 03.03.2025

In celebration of World Book Day, the children went on a book scavenger hunt around the playground. There were different pictures of book covers with the title missing, they had to try and work out what the title was of each book and write it next to the corresponding number!

W.C 27.01.2025

This week in English, the children have been writing adjective poems. Their poems have been all about a pond. Luckily, we have a pond area at our school! In order to use appropriate adjectives in their poems, we went to the pond area to see what we could find and thought of imaginative ways to describe those things.

Read-a-thon - 17.10.2024

Today the children took part in a sponsored fit and fun read-a-thon. They had a fantastic time sharing their books with each other and also completed a range of fitness activities including: dancing, multi-skills and yoga. It was a great afternoon and the children had so much fun! Thank you to everyone who sponsored a child!

17.10.2024

Today in English, the children got to go on a treasure hunt for gold! Based on our story ‘How to Find Gold’ the children had to work together and follow the clues to find the gold Anna and Crocodile hid at our school. 

W.C 14.10.2024

This week in maths, we have been learning about part-whole models. The children have been using first, then and now stories to identify the two parts of a whole number. We have been also extending our learning to create number sentences to match our stories. 

PSHE

In PSHE this week, we have been learning all about our Learning Charter. The children worked as a team to draw different pictures to show how we could follow the Learning Charter in our classroom.

09.10.2024

Today in maths, the children were identifying parts of a whole. The children had a lot of fun by throwing the beanbags into the hoops. They then had to identify the two parts (inside the hoop and outside the hoop) and finally identify the whole. 

W.C 30.09.2024

This week in maths, the children have been learning about greater than, less than and equal to. They showed a good understanding of this concept. 

Religion and Worldviews 

In Religion and Worldviews this week, we have been exploring the question - What might some Jewish and Christian people think about creation? The children then created their own artwork based on the 7 days it took for the creation of the world. 

W.C 23.09.2024

In English,the children have been working hard to sequence different sentences based on a picture from our book ‘How to Find Gold’.

W.C 23.09.2024

In today’s computing lesson, the children were using the website sketchpad to draw shapes. The children then had a go at making digital artwork based on the artist Wassily Kandinsky through the use of concentric circles. 

Phonics 

This week in phonics, we are reviewing our Phase 2 and 3 sounds. As well as practicing to blending Phase 3 and 4 words. I have attached a phonics sheet below which outlines the words and sounds from this week (week 3). Please do use this to go over these with your children at home. They are more likely to retain information by consistently going over what they have learnt. If you would like to read more information about this, please follow the following link: https://www.littlewandlelettersandsounds.org.uk/resources/for-parents/

17.09.24

Today in English, the children created their own treasure maps based on our class story "How to find gold" by Viviane Schwarz. As it was lovely weather the children were able to go outside and create their maps using chalk. They had a great time explaining the journey Anna and Crocodile had to go on to find gold, coming up with some very creative adjectives to describe their maps such as "gooey mud" and "snowy mountains". 

History Off the Page

The children have had a lovely day learning all about what it was like to live and work in a castle. They spent their morning making many different crafts and listening to lots of different stories. In the afternoon they did a variety of activities including: jousting, singing, dancing and juggling. The children were very well behaved and the day was a success!