In Science this week, Year 1 focused their learning on the senses of taste and touch. We began with a “feely bag” activity, where the children took turns placing their hands inside and using their sense of touch to describe and guess the object inside. Some children repeated the activity Read more…
This half-term, our Science topic is Animals: Sensitive bodies. In our first lesson we began by singing heads, shoulders, knees and toes to warm up and activate our prior knowledge before sharing the names of body parts we already knew. As a class, we used our teamwork skills to draw Read more…
Last week we enjoyed making our Christingles in class. Before making them we learnt about their importance and what each part of the Christingle represents.
When we arrived at school this morning, there was a rocket on our school field, which must have landed over night. When we arrived in the classroom we could see on our class screen that we had been sent a special mission. The mission was to plan for building a Read more…
Year 1 are loving our Mini Muay-Thai lessons this half-term. We are improving our fitness and learning the basics of martial arts. Our lessons are supported by videos from Kelly Haynes, who is a British champion of Muay Thai Boxing. We are also putting lots of work into our essential Read more…
During our RE lessons this half term, we are focusing on fights and giving sand the story of Christmas. We have particularly focused on one part of the Christmas story where baby Jesus is born and lies in the manager. We spoke about the importance of knowing the true meaning Read more…
As a reward for a fantastic first half-term in Year 1, and receiving enough dojos, Year 1 have enjoyed a treat morning. They put their creative skills to the test, completing leaf pictures, Autumn colouring and biscuit decorating. Well done on a fantastic start to Year 1! All the staff Read more…
This week is financial awareness week. In Year 1 we have been focusing on job and skills. We have thought about which jobs and skills are going to help us to communicate, problem solve, use creative thinking skills and work as a team which also ties in with our skills Read more…
In Science, Year 1 have been learning about materials and their properties. Over the last 3 weeks, we have completed experiments to find out the answers to questions such as ‘Which materials float or sink?’, ‘Which materials absorb?’ and ‘Which materials are magnetic?’ The children have learnt the meaning of Read more…
We have loved taking our Geography learning about weather outdoors into our Forest school lessons. Take a look at our lesson about wind, in which we made wind-catchers, and our lesson on rain, in which we made umbrellas. We are really enjoying our outdoor learning!