We’ve had a brilliant week in Willows. We have been very busy and have had lots of fun playing maths games outside, sharing stories, building using Lego and Duplo and playing on Numbots alongside lots of other fun activities! Today, we have been doing lots of craft activities to celebrate Read more
For our English lesson today, we had an experience day where we went for a walk in the deep, dark wood. We used the FANTASTICS to collect vocabulary to use in our writing. We discussed what Little Red Riding Hood might see, hear hear and feel and how she might Read more
This half term our Design and Technology Topic is ‘Fruits and Vegetables’. This afternoon, Willows have had fun sorting fruits and vegetables in to the correct categories. We discovered that fruits have seeds and vegetables don’t! Even though, we thought tomatoes, pepper and cucumbers were vegetables at first we now Read more
In art, we have been improving a range of art skills. Before the half term, we enjoyed mixing shades of paint to make different shades of green. We also enjoyed printing using Lego blocks to make lovely bright patterns and we loved making our own stamps Read more
We had our first Design Technology lesson in Year 1 this afternoon and were learning about how wheels work. We investigated how wheels move on a variety of different objects like cars, shopping trolleys and bikes and we also learnt some new vocabulary. We then we had a go at Read more
This afternoon we have had our Euros 2020 party. We made flags, played lots of games and had delicious party food! We also talked about the game last night and how we reacted to the penalties.
Today we took part in a rock pool experience. We learnt lots of interesting facts about sea creatures, beaches and how we can better take care of marine life. We first had a talk and then we were able to hold lots of the creatures. This included crabs, starfish and Read more
This afternoon we have visited Kayden’s Garden. We looked around the garden to see what interesting things we could find. Then we created pictures in our planter using different coloured stones.
This afternoon we have been playing with old fashioned toys as part of our ‘Memory Box’ topic. The children had time to try out each of the toys and figure out how they work. We then discussed how they’re different from our toys at home and which we enjoyed using.
Year 1 Willows had such fun during their time at Forest School. With the forest school teachers, Miss Steele and Mr Tomkins, the children worked really hard to listen to instructions to keep themselves safe. We went to explore the forest and looked for some creatures1 We found snails, Read more