This week we have loved careers week with a focus on Engineering! In Year 1 we have designed, created, reviewed and show cased our Marble Runs! We planned our designed based on Marble Runs we have researched, we worked in groups and listened to one another to share ideas. We Read more
This morning we were very lucky to have two special visitors into school. Children in KS1 and KS2 had a very informative assembly about Islam. Soban and Burhan came into school to teach us some Arabic greetings, teach us about the 5 pillars of Islam and about fasting. Children were Read more
To complete our sculpture focus during our art lesson, we worked together create a 3D sculpture. We created a gigantic spider. We worked together to fold and roll news paper and then attach pieces together to create the legs, arms and body of the spider.
This half term during our science lessons, Year 1 are learning about animals. For our first lesson, we named and classified animals and understood which groups animals belonged too. We learnt new vocabulary such as reptiles, amphibians and mammals. We were already familiar with fish and birds. the children have Read more
Random Acts of Kindness- this year in Year 1, we have created a lovely note to pass out to our neighbours close to school to share some happiness and a random act of kindness. Children loved creating these!
This morning we have spoke a lot about things we can do together. We read the story of The Hare and The Tortoise. Although tortoise was slower, he still believed in hisself and won the race! We spoke about how we can often not feel confident to accomplish something although Read more
During our science lesson this week, we have used our senses to describe unknown objects and different scenarios where our senses are being used.
This half term, year 1 are focusing on ‘Sensitive bodies’ as our new topic for the first lesson, we identified our different body parts, labelled them and understood what they are used for we are then played a game to quickly point to different body parts
We have had such a wonderful time celebrating Christmas in Year 1. We enjoyed Christmas dinner and jumper day, enjoyed our Christmas Dojo great afternoon and of course our Christmas party day!!! Also a very exciting visit from Santa! The children enjoyed spending time together in the hall dancing and Read more
This half term we have created our own windmills during our DT lessons. We have thought about stable structures and how the sails would move in and out of class. We had to practice careful cutting and designing and also testing our windmills to make sure they were fit for Read more