22 May 2026 / Ashy News May 22nd 2026

Yr 1 Latest

The Grade 1 students have been very busy over the past 2 weeks! 

Some of the things we have been doing include:

  • Consolidating our knowledge of long vowel sounds in phonics
  • Learning about different ways to tell stories (pictures, music and orally) and making comparisons between the different methods
  • Practicing fluency with their fluency buddy
  • Publishing our narratives
  • Beginning to learn about informative texts, their features and how to write them
  • Learning about mass - how to heft items and then to weigh and compare items using informal units
  • Consolidating our knowledge of doubles and near doubles
  • Solving worded problems involving addition
  • Enjoying spending time as a grade 1 cohort during our Connected Learning sessions where we have been learning about “olden day” games and traditional methods of storytelling
  • Learning about resilience in SMILE and how we can apply this to classroom and playground situations