Year 1 Home Learning
There will be Home Learning Packs available in the school office, packs will be available to collect on Wednesdays only, please call the office on 01254 52065 or email audley.infant@audleyinfant.blackburn.sch.uk to arrange a time to collect.
Welcome to our Year 1 home learning page!
We will be uploading a selection of activities for your child to complete at home . Please encourage your child to complete the activities on the website. Please spend time each day going over all previous spellings. You can challenge your child further by getting them to put their spellings into a sentence, reminding them to use a capital letter and full stop. Each week we add a mental maths test in the Maths folder - you could complete this every Friday as we did in school. We have given your child 3 reading books, please visit https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk to access over 100 free ebooks - look at the colour band your child is on and match it to the correct level on the website. Your child should be reading for at least 10 minutes each day!
The Year 1 Team will be uploading lots of activities during the forthcoming weeks to help you with your child's learning. Please look regularly for new updates especially in the Maths, English and Topic folders below. Your child can also login to their purple-mash account and education city daily, to complete at least 1 activity. Please try and work with your child each day and encourage them to complete given tasks so they don't fall behind in their learning.
Many thanks for your support
Year One team
13.7.20
Good morning everybody!
Can you believe it's the last week of the school year! It's such a shame we have not had chance to see you before the holidays but we can't wait to see you all again in September. We will pay a special visit to your new Year 2 class to say hello and see how you have settled in.
Mrs Khan's class are going to Mrs Tyldesley
Mrs Massey's class are going to Mr Barker
Mrs McGarry's class are going to Mrs Taylor
You should have received your school report by now and we will be ringing you sometime this week to see how you are getting on. You have all worked so hard and we are very proud of you all - Well done to all of you!
There will be a new learning pack available on Wednesday for you to work through during the Summer holidays if you choose. There are also lots of activities in the folders that you can be looking at and working through during your time at home. We really do hope you have a lovely holiday and let's hope the sun shines! Take care and keep safe.
We would like you to try and get involved with the Summer Reading Challenge 2020 - this is a great opportunity to get your child reading more and develop a love for reading! You can apply online and it's free!
The all-new digital Summer Reading Challenge with its Silly Squad theme will launch earlier than usual to keep children reading over the Summer and support parents and carers with
children already at home. The programme reaches over 700,000 children each year, motivating them to keep reading during the summer holidays and helping to maintain reading skills and confidence.It's easy to take part please look at the information below for more details.
You can find the Summer Reading Challenge website at www.sillysquad.org.uk where you can take part, find book recommendations, fun and silly events, downloadable activities, competitions and play games.
Our topic this half term - 'Wish you were here!'
Launch of the Oak National Academy online classroom and resource hub
The Oak National Academy has this week launched its online classroom and resource hub. It offers 180 video lessons each week for you to use, across a broad range of subjects. The lessons are free and easy to use. Please take a look. The Oak National Academy can be accessed here.
Launch of BBC Bitesize
The BBC has also launched an education package across TV and online, featuring celebrities and teachers, helping to keep children learning at home and supporting parents. BBC Bitesize can be accessed here
6.7.20
Good morning everybody!
Hope you are all keeping well. You will be receiving your school report this week and then a call from your class teacher - we look forward to speaking to you. It's good to hear a lot of you are coming into school on Wednesdays to pick up the learning pack, we wanted to let you know there will be another new one available this Wednesday. Please continue to write to us and send in the photographs of the work you have been doing and any other activities you would like to share with us in our fabulous gallery. As always, we are so incredibly proud of the effort you are making to learn at home! Keep it up, you are all doing so well. This week in English we would like you to share your memories of Year 1 with us, it would be great to read them, please do share via email!
Take a look in the folders to find your English, Maths and Topic activities for this week.
Have fun and keep learning!
29.6.20
Good morning everybody!
Hope you are all keeping well, it's good to hear a lot of you are coming into school on Wednesdays to pick up the learning pack, we wanted to let you know there will be another new one available this Wednesday.
Please continue to write to us in emails and send in the photographs of the work you have been doing and any other activities you would like to share with us in our fabulous gallery.
Take a look in the folders to find your English, Maths and topic activities for this week.
Enjoy and keep learning!
22.6.2020
Good morning everybody,
Hope you are all keeping well, it's good to hear a lot of you are coming into school on Wednesdays to pick up the learning pack, we wanted to let you know there will be a new one available this Wednesday.
Please continue to write to us in emails and send in the photographs of the work you have been doing and any other activities you would like to share with us in our fabulous gallery.
Have any of you joined up for the Summer Reading Challenge? You can find the details below.
Take a look in the folders to find your English, Maths and topic activities for this week.
Enjoy and keep learning!
15.6.20
Good morning everyone,
We hope you have had a lovely weekend with your family. We are looking forward to speaking to you all again this week and hearing what you have been up to!
As always, we are so incredibly proud of the effort you are making to learn at home! Keep it up, you are all doing so well. Look in the English, Maths and Topic folders to find this weeks exciting and interesting lessons!
A reminder that learning packs are available from the school office but only on Wednesdays and please remember to ring school before you come.
Please continue to send us emails and send in photographs of the work you have been doing and any other activities you would like to share with the year group so that we can add them to our gallery. The gallery is a wonderful display of activities showcasing your fabulous work!
We would also like to ask you to take part in the 'Summer Reading Challenge 2020' - a fantastic initiative inspiring children to read for pleasure. See below for more details.
Take care and have fun learning!
8.6.20
Good morning everybody,
We hope you all had a lovely weekend! We have set you lots more work this week, remember to check the English, Maths and Topic folders for your weekly activities. Some parents have been asking about learning packs, these are now available on Wednesdays but please ring school before you come. Just a reminder about the Year One gallery, we have received some super pictures and work from children, please keep sending us pictures - we love to see what you've been up to!
Remember if you have any questions or need any help, you can email us at the email addresses below.
Take care and keep learning!
1.6.20
Good morning everybody! We hope you all had a lovely, relaxing break last week and enjoyed Eid if you were celebrating! Can you believe we are about to start the last half term of Year 1 - where has the year gone! You have all worked so hard and we are very proud of how you have thrown yourself into home learning. We will start setting work again this week, remember to check the English, Maths and Topic folders for your weekly activities. We have added the overview for this half term topic - 'Wish you were here!' please look at this to see what we are learning over this next half term.
Remember you can email us if you have any questions or need any help at the email addresses below. Take care and keep learning!
Mrs Khan - sereena.khan@audleyinfant.blackburn.sch.uk
Mrs Massey - sarah.massey@audleyinfant.blackburn.sch.uk
Mrs McGarry -pamela.mcgarry@audleyinfant.blackburn.sch.uk
22.5.20
We would like to wish all our families celebrating a very Happy Eid. We realise that Eid will be very differnt this year and that you will not be able to pray Eid namaz in the mosque and celebrate with your wider family and friends in the same way. However, we hope you will still be able to enjoy some quality time with your family and mark this very special occasion after a month of fasting. Eid Mubarak!
Next week is half term at school. During this time we will not be setting work for children to complete. This will enable everyone to enjoy their celebrations and will allow parents to spend quality time with their children without the need to make sure they are doing school work. We will start adding learning tasks for children to complete again from Monday 1st June.
Enjoy your week and remember if you would like to share any pictures of your celebrations with us then please email us at
the addresses below and we will add them to the Year One gallery. We would like to share some special pictures of Maryam in Mrs Khan's class who has been busy making Eid decorations after watching Mrs McGarry's video in the Topic folder!
18.5.20
Good morning everyone, hope you're all keeping well.
Thank you to all the families sending in pictures of the children - have you had a look in the Year 1 gallery?
This is the last week of Ramzan - hasn't it gone quickly! It will be Eid soon, you must all be very excited! You could send us some pictures next week of your Eid Celebrations!
Learning this week..
English - This week we will continue with Information Texts, finding out facts about trains and aeroplanes, look in the English folder for the activities. Please note we have also added some new writing activities and reading comprehensions.
Maths - We would like you to work on addition and subtraction, look at the activities in the maths folder.
Topic - 'Getting ready for Eid' - make some Eid lanterns with Mrs McGarry!
Remember if you need to get in touch you can email us at the addresses below.
Thank you for your continued support.
The Year 1 team
11.5.20
Hello everyone!
We hope you are all well. It was lovely speaking to you and your parents last week and hearing about how hard you are working at home. Thank you to the families who have been emailing children's work and photographs. We really enjoy seeing what you are up to! This week we are setting up a folder in the gallery section where you can see what your friends in the year group have been up to! Remember If you need to get in touch with us or send us any work or photos our emails are below..
Mrs Khan - sereena.khan@audleyinfant.blackburn.sch.uk
Mrs Massey - sarah.massey@audleyinfant.blackburn.sch.uk
Mrs McGarry -pamela.mcgarry@audleyinfant.blackburn.sch.uk
Learning this week
English - We are moving onto 'information texts' this week, where we will be finding out lots of information on different types of transport. This week we will be trying to find out interesting facts about boats and cars.
Maths - Can you name all the 2D and 3D shapes? How many different shapes can you find around your house? Look into the Maths folder for more exciting activities!
Topic - Another video for you to enjoy from Mrs McGarry and more fun activities linked to our topic 'transport' - go and take a look in the topic folder!
Have a fun week and keep learning!
The Year 1 Team 
4.5.20
Good Morning everyone! Hope you are all well. Thank you so much for the emails last week, we received 2 fantastic Mr Benn stories - you can read them in the English folder. We really enjoyed reading them, please keep sharing! Over this next week we will be ringing you to see how you all are - we really miss you and can't wait to speak to you!
Our learning for this week ..
English - our last week of Mr Benn. This week you get to plan and write your very own Mr Benn story! You will find the work for this week in the English folder.
Please remember to keep learning your spellings, can you put them into sentences? Remember your daily phonics - use the links below. Also don't forget to keep reading, you can use the 'Oxford owl' website or access more books in the 'additional activities' section at the bottom of the English folder.
Maths - Lots of counting this week, counting forwards, backwards, counting in 2's 5's and 10's and don't forget the mental maths test on Friday - just like we do in school!
Topic - There's a surprise in store for you in the Topic folder this week - a video of Mrs McGarry!!!! Go and find out what she's planned for you, it's very exciting!!! Please send us pictures of the work you do so we can share them on our learning page.
Have lots of fun and take care!
The Year One Team 
Transport Topic - what will we be learning!
27.4.20
Hello everybody! 
We would like to start off by wishing our families a peaceful and happy Ramzan - Ramzan Mubarak!
Have you had a busy week? Did you enjoy the Mr Benn stories! We have set some more work on Mr Benn in the English folder below and this week for Maths we would like you to do some work on Subtraction. We have also given you the 2 websites below 'Oak National Academy' and BBC Bitesize - we have been on the websites and they are fantastic! In addition to this we have added some optional work in the English folder provided by Lancashire - there's lots of fun things for the children to do, please do take a look! We know there is plenty for the children to do on here but we are offering these additional websites to ensure that the children have a variety of activities to keep them busy. Remember If you have any work or photos that you would like to share with us or any questions please email us at
audley.infant@audleyinfant.blackburn.sch.uk, we would love to see what you've been doing. We appreciate this is an unusual time and thank you for your continued support. Please let the children know that we are missing them very much and can't wait to hear all about their home learning adventures!
Purple Mash help sheet
20.4.20
Hello everyone!
We hope you've had a lovely break, we have seen some of your work on Facebook, there were some super entries for the Easter egg competition! Well done to the winners!
Our topic this half term is 'Transport' - the overview of the topic is included below. Remember to keep checking the Maths, English and Topic folders where we will be uploading new tasks. Please continue to support your child with their learning and continue with the daily phonics, spelling, handwriting and reading activities below. Did you enjoy the reading comprehensions? Check out the English folder for some new ones.
We miss you all, stay safe. 
30.3.20
Hello everybody!
How are you all? We hope you are all well and staying safe at home.
What's new this week? We have uploaded lots of exciting activities for you to work through this week. Remember to keep checking the folders, we have some new Reading Comprehensions in the English folder and some work on Money in the Maths folder.
Have fun! 
Daily Phonics
Please try and fit in a daily phonics lesson with your child. The best website for this is https://www.discoveryeducation.co.uk/video/item843568 (phonics) there are lots of videos and activities available teaching the different sounds; your child has the login for this.
Another popular website that we use a lot in school is www.phonicsplay.co.uk
Login- march20
Password- home
Please also follow Mrs Hewitta's Spellings at Home YouTube clips everyday to help your child with their learning.
We are also providing you with some phonic activities and examples of the phonics test on power points, please go through these materials with your child.
Handwriting
Please encourage your child to practise their cursive handwriting whilst at home.
Joe Wicks
Start your day the Joe Wicks way everyday by clicking on the link below for his 9am daily PE lesson.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAxW1XT0iEJo0TYlRfn6rYQ