--- title: "Year One Weekly Blog - WC. 9.11.26" url: "https://strathmore.herts.sch.uk/blog/2026-11-13-20-52-year-one-weekly-blog-wc-9-11-26" school: "Strathmore Infant and Nursery School" --- Reception and Nursery Tours for 2027 Admissions Now Open - Please go to our Admissions page to book a space # Year One Weekly Blog - WC. 9.11.26 13 November 2026 [Erin Smith](https://strathmore.herts.sch.uk/blog/author/esmith) [Year 1 Weekly Blogs](https://strathmore.herts.sch.uk/blog/category/year-1-weekly-blogs) # 🌟 Year 1 Weekly News 🌟 What an absolutely wonderful week we have had in Year One! We were so proud of how beautifully the children represented Strathmore on our trip to The Barbican and watching their faces stare in amazement at the talent of the performers was just so special. We would like to say a HUGE thank you to our parent volunteers - without your support, we could not provide our children with such exciting opportunities so from the bottom of our hearts, thank you. ## 📚 English This week, we have continued our excellent instructional writing but this time, we wrote a recipe for how to make a Mud Pie fit for a Gruffalo party! Last Friday afternoon, the children worked together to make the mud pies themselves before writing a 'You Will Need' list on Tuesday. As we wrote the instructions for the remainder of the week, we thought carefully about starting our sentences with the relevant number to ensure our reader read them in the correct order. We have also been working incredibly hard on remembering finger spaces and joining two ideas together using the word 'and!' ## 🔢 Maths This week, the children have absolutely blown us away with their incredible mathematical reasoning and problem solving. We have focused on recognising, recalling, representing and recording the number bonds to a given number between 1 and 10. We have explored using numicon, counters and cubes, tens frames and rekenreks and made decisions about which manipulative we enjoy using the most. We have also begun to work systematically to recall our number bonds. For example: 10 + 0 = 10 9 + 1 = 10 8 + 2 = 10 7 + 3 = 10 The children were fantastic at spotting the patterns immediately. Can you see it too? ## 🔤 Phonics **Sounds:** ay, ea (/ee/), ou (/ow/), oy **Words:** day, say, sea, treat, cloud, sound, boy, joy **Tricky words:** like, little, push, put, pull, full, said, says ## Geography This week, we introduced our first Geography lesson in Year One! We understand Geography as 'learning about the world' and we compared it to our learning about History - in History, we learn about events that happened in the past but in Geography, we can learn about what the world was like in the past, what it is like in the present and what it may be like in the future. We began by looking at our school environment and deciding what makes a Human Feature and what makes a Physical Feature. The children were absolutely excellent at this and demonstrated lots of examples for each feature. ## 💛 Gentle Reminder This week, your child should have brought home a letter about our very exciting, upcoming *Wriggly Nativity!* It would be very helpful if you could have a little chat over the weekend about whether or not your child would like a speaking part in the performance. Next week, we will be holding informal auditions so that we can get a better idea of who would feel comfortable speaking in front of an audience so please do practise the line with them! [ Year 2 Blog- 13.11.26](https://strathmore.herts.sch.uk/blog/2026-11-13-16-00-year-2-blog-13-11-26) ![Strathmore Infant and Nursery School](https://files.schudio.com/strathmore-infant-and-nursery-school/images/logo/Strathmore_Infant_and_Nursery_-_logo_(1).png) ### Strathmore Infant and Nursery School Old Hale Way Hitchin Hertfordshire SG5 1XR 01462 459558 ### Useful Links: - [Newsletters](https://strathmore.herts.sch.uk/news-and-events/newsletter-half-termly) - [Admissions](https://strathmore.herts.sch.uk/about-us/admissions) - [School Day](https://strathmore.herts.sch.uk/about-us/school-day) - [Safeguarding](https://strathmore.herts.sch.uk/key-information/safeguarding) © Copyright 2025–2026 Strathmore Infant and Nursery School School & Trust Websites by [ ![Schudio logo](https://strathmore.herts.sch.uk/img/logo/light.png) ](https://www.schudio.com/)