A huge welcome back to everybody. We’ve had a busy week getting to know each other and Mrs Graham has been really impressed with how well we have all settled back into school. We have started learning about The Great Fire of London and the children have all showed fantastic Read more…
This week in Literacy we have been learning all about India and have focused on the story ‘Festival Of Colours’. The children use the flowers they have to create powder colours and use it to throw during the Holi Festival. In writing we have been able to write down the colours Read more…
This week we have been learning about South Africa, our focus has been the story ‘Handa’s Surprise’. In literacy we started by retelling the story using our own character masks. Handa put seven delicious fruit in a basket for her friend , Akeyo. However those cheeky animals took a different Read more…
This week in Literacy we have been learning all about healthy eating. We know all the superheroes need to eat healthy food to make sure they are super strong to save the day. We have been tasting fruit to decide which fruit we liked the most. We came up some Read more…
This week when we arrived at school we had a letter at the front office. When we opened the letter it was from The Evil Pea. The Evil Pea had captured all the fruit and vegetables in our classroom and taped them to the floor. It was our job to Read more…
When we arrived at school we noticed footprints left by Father Christmas, we quickly read the note he had left us. Father Christmas left us a book and this week we have been reading the story ‘Harvey Slumfenburger’s Christmas present’. We found out that Father Christmas travelled in lots of Read more…
We came in the classroom and noticed underpants everywhere! We had no idea who had left them there and someone had left us a letter. The letter was from the pirates and they needed our help to find the golden underpants. We read the story and decided we needed to 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…
Over the past few weeks that Year 1 have been in, we have had lots of fun! Here is a selection of photographs that we have taken over the weeks.
This morning, I received an example of some fantastic writing from Zak from Willows class. He has worked so hard at home to follow the home learning videos to create this lovely piece of writing! I love the picture prompts that you have created for each step of the story. Read more…