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title: "Year 1 - Independent Challenges"
url: "https://darwenstjames.co.uk/news/2025-10-23-year-1-independent-challenges"
school: "Darwen St James’ C of E Primary Academy"
---

# Year 1 - Independent Challenges

  ![](https://files.schudio.com/darwen-st-james-c-of-e-primary-academy/images/news/Collage_2025-10-22_11_56_02.jpg)   23 October 2025

This week, Year 1 have been amazing doing Independent Challenges! They have worked on their phonics and mark making skills, have been practicing their letter formation with 'z', 'g', and 'l' and have been writing very silly sentences to work on their writing skills! Well done.![](https://darwenstjames.co.uk/images/news/Collage_2025-10-22_11_56_02.jpg)

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