This half term in DT, we have been learning about wheels, axles and axle holders. We found out what the words meant, and how each part works. We learned that for wheels to turn, they had to be attached to an axle, then the axle had to sit in an Read more…
This term in geography, Year 1 have been learning about the UK, capital cities and landmarks. Last week we learnt about London landmarks and enjoyed completing observational drawings of our favourite London landmarks and researching to find out more about them. This week, we used directional language to move around Read more…
This half term, we are reading the story ‘Little Red Riding Hood’ in English. Last week, as part of our experience lessons, we went for a walk in forest school, pretended we were Little Red Riding Hood and used the FANTASTICS to collect vocabulary about what she might see, Read more…
This week we had a whole week of celebrating World Book Day; we made posters of our favourite books and characters, played games to practise our rhyming, shared our favourite stories, listened to our favourite author (Julia Donaldson) read some of her stories, learnt a poem, wrote a poem together Read more…
With this week being anti-bullying week, Year 1 Oaks spoke about how 1 kind word can make a huge impact on somebody’s day, we decided as a class that we would think of a word or small sentence each day that we could say to somebody to make them smile. Read more…
For the last 2 weeks, in History, we have been learning about Queen Elizabeth II and her coronation. We have been amazing at remembering facts and recalling them when quizzed by Miss Horrocks… you could even test us at home! Here are some questions we were asked: How old was Read more…
Today, we had some surprise visitors in school to visit Reception! We were all very brave; we held a bearded dragon named Boris, a tortoise called Bentley, a monitor lizard called Buzz, lots of bugs and even a snake named Woody! Some of us were a bit nervous at first, Read more…
This week was our final forest school and we had such a lovely day. We looked at the story ‘The King of tiny things’, about a little fairy who helps all minibeasts and creatures around the forest; he oiled a slug who had lost his slime, freed a caterpillar that Read more…
We had we had another fantastic forest school this week, we haunted for minibeasts, checked our bug houses from last week to see if there had been any visitors to them. We made our favourite minibeast from items we found on the forest floor and did a fantastic job! while Read more…
This week we have been looking at the story ‘Mad about Minibeasts!’ And have had so much fun investigating different minibeasts. In forest school, we went on a minibeast hunt, checking to see if any had visited the bug hotels we had made the previous week and made our favourite Read more…