In our topic this half term we are going to be learning about the United Kingdom. Today we have been talking about Heywood where we live and what is good about it. We went on Google maps and had a tour around Heywood where we visited lots of different things Read more…
Everybody in Key Stage 1 had lots of fun this morning taking part in our annual Easter Egg Hunt. Well done to the winners from each class who collected the most eggs.
We have had some fantastic entries for the Easter Egg competition in Willows class. Everyone has worked really hard to create some really imaginative ideas. Miss Jones has had a very hard job choosing the winner. Have a look at our creations!
Year 1 had lots of fun today performing our Easter song ‘Spring Chicken’ to the rest of the school and our mummies and daddies who came to watch.
In Year 1 we have been using different media to produce artwork. We used: charcoal chalk pastel pencil We had to decide which media was the easiest to use, which was the most difficult to use and which one produced the best result. Have a look at us being artists Read more…
The children in Willows became the characters from the story The Three Little Pigs in our English lesson today. They acted out the conversation between the wolf and the first little pig when the wolf wanted to blow his house down. We worked on using expression in our voices. We Read more…
What a fun day we have had today for World Book Day – we have had such a busy day doing lots of exciting activities: Dressing up as different book characters Writing acrostic poems about sweets and chocolate Finding hidden golden tickets to win prizes Working in groups to create Read more…
Miss Jones’ group in phonics have now learnt 3 graphemes that all make the same sound: ee ea e_e We have been writing lots of words with the sound, trying to work out which spelling choice we need to use – it was very tricky!
This week in our Science lesson we have started an investigation – What do plants need to grow? We all planted a seed in some soil and decided that we need to water them every day. We have also put one of our planted pots in a cupboard to see Read more…
In maths this week Year 1 have been using different methods to help us solve addition calculations: tens frame part whole method sentences writing our own story Have a look at some of our fantastic work!