Today, Year 1 had a fab Christmas party. We ate party food, played party games, sang, danced and even had a special visit from Father Christmas, who brought us all a gift. Merry Christmas to all our Year 1 Children and their families. We hope you have a fabulous half-term.
In our ‘Reflective Friday’ worship, we often use something called ‘Picture news’. This is a discussion based on something that is currently in the news and it links both with the Bible and Christian values, and our British values. We decided to take part in the picture news Christmas challenge, Read more
Today Year 1 learnt all about Christingle, including how it began and what each part of the Christingle represents. They then made their own to take home.
In history, we have been learning about and comparing toys of past and present. Today, our classroom was set up to look like a toy museum. We used post-it notes to ask questions about the toys and discussed how we thought they were used. We then spent some time playing Read more
Thank you to everyone who came to school dressed for our spotty theme and made a donation to Children in Need. Each class learnt more about the charity, discussed the importance of charities and how we can play our part in helping others, as well as additional activities.
Year 1 are starting a new writing unit based on the story ‘The 3 Little Pigs’. Today we explored the story by reading it, talking about the vocabulary (including nouns, verbs and adjectives) and discussed ideas of how we could improve the story using our fantastic adjective ideas. We then Read more
In Science last half-term, we learnt about materials and their properties. This half-term, we are using all of this knowledge in our new topic ‘Building Things’. We talked about a class of children who went on a school trip to the rainforest who had to quickly use the things around Read more
Today, our School Council went on our first visit to Springbank care home. As this was our first visit, the school council children took some games and colourings to get to know the residents. As you can see from the pictures, both the children and the residents absolutely loved their Read more
During Reflective Friday, we looked at this weeks picture news which was about a man who had broke a new world record for running. He was in the news because other people weren’t happy that he was wearing ‘super shoes’. We discussed if we thought this was fair or not, Read more
Today we set off in our rockets to travel around the solar system answering missing number addition problems. We showed excellent team work in working with a partner to answer the question written on each planet and write the completed number sentence on our worksheets.