"The juicier the mistake, the better we learn!"

Welcome to the Year 1 page!

Here you will find the resources and information to help you with life in year 1.

Your teachers in year 1 are Mrs Palmer, Miss Hodges and Mrs Neuenhaus and our teaching assistants are Mrs Broomes (1P), Miss Taylor (1H) and Mrs Bhathal (1N). 

Working from home whilst awaiting a PCR result

Please log in to your Google Classroom account to access work ideas whilst awaiting a PCR result. Look for a folder called 'PCR - Remote Learning'. Your teachers have uploaded some learning resources you can work through if you feel well enough to do so. Remember, you also have the Oxford Owl website to access reading books.  

Working from home after a positive PCR result

Please log in to your Google Classroom account to access your work if you are working from home due to a positive COVID result and are well enough to do so. Your teachers will upload any learning resources you will need.  

Please contact your year group email (year1@blackwood.walsall.sch.uk) if you have any questions related to the work. 

Thank you,

The Year 1 Team

During our transition into Year 1, we learnt about the artist, Frida Kahlo! We listened to a story about her and learnt that Frida had had a hard life but that didn’t stop her painting. We looked at her paintings and thought about which ones we liked and didn’t like.

Frida Kahlo grew up in Mexico. We spent some time looking at Mexico and finding out about their schools, music, weather, food and famous places.

We used Frida’s style to have a go at some of our own pieces of art.

We created:

A Mexican style sun – focussing on different ways of making marks and cutting and sticking paper

Sombrero – focusing on cutting, tearing and sticking and creating patterns

Frida Kahlo inspired art – focussing on cutting and sticking

Self-portrait – focussing on drawing from observation and using lines to represent an outline