This week we have been learning all about Pablo Picasso! We looked at his style and then watched a video on how someone else did a picture that was similar to one of his. We decided we would do one like Picasso using Primary colours. We now know that the Read more
Just an update of the revised routine for Year 1 Willows. There will also be a letter to go out to explain this. Mondays – Spellings go out Tuesdays – P.E. Thursdays – P.E., hand homework in (Starting on 16th January), including the Maths Passport homework Friday – Spelling test Read more
If you go down to the woods today, you might get a big surprise! Willows definitely got a lovely surprise when they went down to the woods. We received a very special email from Little Red Riding Hood… So we went down and had a look around… Read more
Children in Willows had lots of fun practising our coding skills! We had to direct the bee to the flowers using left, right, forward and backwards. We also learnt how to print our pictures!
Children learnt about why we make Christingles and what each element represents. We had lots of fun making them but the sweets were so tempting and our classroom smells like oranges now!
Willows have been learning all about Sir Francis Beaufort who made the wind speed scale for sailors. He was the captain of a Royal Navy ship and he made a scale based around whether it was safe enough to go out at sea or not. We looked at the Read more
This week we have learnt about Jonah and the Whale. We listened to the story and then part way through discussed how Jonah might’ve felt, along with how God might’ve felt. It was interesting to hear some of the opinions within our class.
In our topic we are looking at seasons and how things change over each season. We used different colours to represent what a tree might look like during each season. We used red/pink for the blossom on a tree in Spring. We used green for a Summer tree. We used Read more
We had a lovely morning in Maths! We just started ‘subtraction’ and used every day word problems to solve the calculations. For example, Mrs Nuttall had 10 bananas and she ate 2. How many did she have left? Putting the calculations into real life problems help the children to understand Read more
Last year at Parents Evening, quite a few parents asked for useful links to help with their child’s learning, particularly for Phonics and Maths. I have copied and pasted a number of websites we use regularly at school to support your child’s learning. I hope these are helpful 🙂 Read more