This week in maths we have been looking at length and height, we have being learning vocabulary and thinking of actions to remember the words long, short, tall, short. We really enjoyed finding objects to measure around the classroom, we used cubes to measure each object and then spoke about Read more
Over the half term, Miss Horrocks set us a reading challenge: To build a reading den or nook to read your favourite stories in. Thank you so much to everybody who completed the challenge, you have all done a fantastic job, your dens and nooks look so comfy and we Read more
In English, we have been practising our sentence structures, adding conjunctions to make our sentences more interesting and seeing if we can make sentences from packs of words that we were given. We worked in pairs and helped each other to make our sentences, then read them back to check Read more
This half term, in RE, we are learning about sacred places, this week we were looking at places that are sacred to Christians and so we visited St Lukes church. It was lovely to be able to identify objects we have been learning about in the church. We had lots Read more
We’ve had a lovely Christmassy time in Willows. We’ve enjoyed Christmas dinner, Christmas crafts, making Christingles, nativity and we even had a visit from the Big FC himself. We hope you have a magical Christmas and a wonderful New Year! Love from all the Year one staff 🎅🎄✝️🧑🎄
This week in forest school we had lots of fun; we used our knowledge of seasons and weather to discuss changes we could see in the environment and how forest school had changed since we started coming again in September – there are lots more leaves on the floor and Read more
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