Class 5 | Monkton Infants School

Turning Red Thoughts, Green!

12th March 2025A Wilson

This afternoon, we’ve had Natalie from the Healthy Minds Team in to teach Year 1 how to change their negative red thoughts, into positive green ones! ☺️

We found out about a boy called Adam today who had recently moved to a new school. He had lots of unhelpful thoughts such as ‘Why did things have to change?’ and ‘I really miss my old friends and teacher’. We helped him feel better by changing his thoughts, such as ‘My teacher will look after me!’ and ‘I’ll make new friends and I can still see my old ones on play dates!”.

We also learnt a new breathing technique – hot chocolate breathing! ‍

World Book Day 2025

6th March 2025A Wilson

We’ve had a fantastic time celebrating World Book Day, with the theme of ‘jobs’. We had some brilliant outfits – from caring vets, important police officers and hardworking builders, to sporty footballers and a bossy referee! ⚽️

We absolutely loved dressing up and doing lots of career based activities throughout the week. Happy World Book Day 2025!

Marvellous Measuring!

19th February 2025A Wilson

This week, Class 5 have been learning all about measuring.

⭐️ We started with comparing heights using the vocabulary ‘taller than’ and ‘shorter than’.
⭐️ After this, we moved onto measuring using non-standard units – cubes! We measured how long and high different objects in the class were.
⭐️ Finally, we moved onto measuring with a ruler! We practised putting the ruler in the correct place and reading the ruler to the nearest cm.

Take a look below!

Magnificent Multiples of 5!

13th February 2025A Wilson

This week, Class 5 have been learning to count in 5s! We counted in 5s on a 100 square and discussed the pattern that we found. What happens to the tens? What happens to the ones? What stays the same and what is different? This aided our understanding. We then made our own multiples of 5 number cards and practised ordering them correctly! ⭐️

Marvellous Maths in Y1 with our caregivers!

6th February 2025A Wilson

Our final PACT (Parent and Child Together) morning was for our Year 1s and their fab parents & caregivers! ✨

The Year 1 children loved showing their grown-ups how they learn and practise Maths with a range of resources – such as tens frames, our tens and ones and part whole models.

We will you keep all posted about future PACT mornings as we know you’ve all loved making special memories with your children in school.

Year 1 Parent and Child Reading Morning

31st January 2025Chloe Smith

Year 1 had a fantastic time with their adults at our PACT reading morning!

The children loved showing their adults some of the reading activities we do in school and of course, showing them how amazing they are at reading!!

Fab Phonics

23rd January 2025A Wilson

Class 5 have been working incredibly hard in Phonics! This week we’ve learnt…

⭐️ the ‘le’ and ‘al’ digraphs both make the /l/ sound

⭐️ the ‘c’ grapheme can make the /s/ sound

⭐️ the ‘ve’ digraph makes the /v/ sound

We have also learnt how to read the tricky words: school, call and different.

Take a look at some of our super spelling below, using our new digraphs!

Handa’s Surprise

17th January 2025A Wilson

This week, Class 5 have read the book ‘Handa’s Surprise’. We found it so funny when the animals pinched the fruit in poor Handa’s basket – and she didn’t realise! On Friday, we wrote fantastic character descriptions about Handa, take a look at some of them below.

Number Bond Busters

9th January 2025A Wilson

This week, we learnt our number bonds to 20! First we consolidated our number bonds to 10 before moving onto 20. We worked systematically both times using the tens frames. We spotted patterns within our calculations when comparing number bonds to 10 with number bonds to 20 and made links. Then we discovered how knowing and using number bonds to 10 can help us with quicker addition!