Year 1

St Maria Goretti Catholic Primary School

Learning the Our Father

The children have been learning the words and meaning to the Our Father.

Year 1 retelling Genesis - The Story of Creation

Year 1 have been learning all about the story of creation from the book of Genesis in the Bible and they retell it in this video.

Year 1 Christmas song

Sports day 2021

A sports day race

Paddington by Michael Bond. Read by Mrs Vango

Listen to the story carefully before using the Time to Talk sheet provided in the home learning section of the class page, to discuss the story. There is no need to write answers for each of the questions as this is simply a prompt to encourage the children to talk about what they have heard and to show how much they have understood. Enjoy !

Oliver’s milkshake by Vivian French Read by Mrs Vango

The final one of our ‘Oliver’ series. In this story Oliver’s Aunty is on a mission to help him like milk. She takes him somewhere special to buy milk and makes him something yummy, scrummy, fruity, frothy, icy, nicey, tip top tasty, dreamy, creamy!

An Undersea Adventure with the Dolphins

Feel the joy of swimming with dolphins.

Wonderful Waterfalls

Listen to the waterfall and let the water wash away your stresses and anxieties.

Mindfulness - Beautiful Bubbles - Let your worries float away with the bubb

The Vegetable song

Oliver’s Vegetables by Vivian French Read by Mrs Vango

Oliver visits Grandpa's garden again. This time he discovers that he does like vegetables after all.

A fun little fruit song to learn

Oliver’s Fruit Salad by Vivian French Read by Mrs Vango

Oliver has been to Grandpa’s and talks about all the fruit Grandpa grows in the garden. Mum takes him to the shop to buy fresh fruit. I wonder what will happen when they get it all home!

The Tiny Seed By Eric Carle (UK)

The Tiny Seed By Eric Carle

Dear Dinosaur T-Rex on Tour by Chae Strathie & Nicola O’Byrne

As equal to Dear Dinosaur which the children loved when we covered it in class. Max write to his Dino pals as they set off on a round the world tour.

Do Not Open This Book By Andy Lee Read by Mrs Vango

Despite the title of the book I went ahead and opened it anyway. See what happens!

Ladybird Moves Home by Richard Fowler Read by Mrs Vango

Ladybird needs a new home. I wonder who she will meet on her search for somewhere else to live.

Zog and the Flying Doctors by Julia Donaldson & Alex Scheffler

A fab story read by Mrs Vango with a guest appearance from Matilda Dragon! Enjoy!

Dragon Post by Emma Yarlett Read by Mrs Vango

A lovely story about a boy and his dragon, with a guest appearance from Draco Dragon!

Spider Sandwiches by Claire Freedman and Sue Hendra. Read by Mrs Vango

A fun story for half term. I wonder how many of these tasty treats you would like to eat?! As it is half term there is no work attached. Just Enjoy the story!

Honeybee’s Busy Day by Richard Fowler and Read by Mrs Vango

The Ugly Bug Club by Gail Abbitt Read by Mrs Vango

Minibeast non-fiction - an introduction. Literacy and science linked

Please listen to the main story for the week... The Ugly Bug Club before listening to this. Thanks.

I'm a Snail - a great information song all about snails

Norman the snail with the silly shell by Sue Hendra. Read by Mrs Vango

Norman is a slug who just loves snails. Find out how Norman tries to become one and the consequences it has for Norman.

Sam’s Sandwich by David Pelham. Read by Mrs Vango

Would you like your brother or sister to make you a yummy sandwich? You might think twice after hearing this story!

Geography - The Equator

The Disgusting Sandwich story

A last dance with Freddie Fit!

Limbo Limbo with Freddie Fit!

Hoola hoola hoola with Freddie!

Hoola hoola with Freddie Fit!

Even more hoola hooping with Freddie Fit!

More hoola with Freddie Fit!

Hoola hoops with Freddie Fit!

Fun with Freddie Fit!

Using our own Dandiya sticks as we dance

Dandiya dancing

We began by using music sticks (claves) to try Dandiya dancing. It was lots of fun. We then made our own Dandiya sticks to use as we danced.

Our final dance

Brilliant Bhangra!

Our Bhangra dance is progressing

More Bhangra!

Bhangra dancing with Mr Gupta

Mr Twit’s beard song

Mrs Vango’s own composition to accompany the Roald Dahl story ‘The Twits ‘. We made messy beards to wear as we sang the sing.