Year one enjoyed their day exploring prayer in different ways today. They thought about tree rings and how they show the growth of a tree, then thought about how they’ve grown since they were born. They then write some lovely prayers saying thank you to God for helping them to 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.
Today, we welcomed our adults into school for our shared learning and lunch. The children were very excited to show our learning and take part in an activity with them. As we have been learning about seasons this half-term, we performed our seasons song and showed them our English books, Read more…
Year 1 have worked really hard and shown great improvement in their writing this half-term. We began by learning all about sentence structure and then read the story ‘A walk in the woods’, which is a picture book about children walking through the woods as it changes through each season. Read more…
Today, Oaks went on a hunt in Forest School to find things that were moving without being touched. When we gathered back together we talked about our findings and discovered that the wind was making things move. We talked about how this relates to God and how just because we Read more…
In Learning for life this week Year one have been discussing feelings. We named lots of different feelings such as happy, scared, excited, nervous, sad and angry. We also talked about what makes us feel different ways. The children enjoyed acting out different emotions. We then played feelings charades. We Read more…
To celebrate recycling week, year 1 have been learning about what happens to our waste and why recycling is important. This linked in really well with our science topic ‘materials’ in which we have been identifying different materials by their properties. In our enquiry area, children have been using their Read more…
This afternoon, the year 1 children spent some time completing social reading. The children chose a partner and a book of their choice, to sit and read together. The children were very grown up. They sat beautifully taking turns to read and discuss the books. I
Wow! What a fantastic first week in Year 1 Willows! We have been very busy learning about parts of a sentence in Writing, sorting objects in maths, using mirrors to draw self-portraits in art, writing prayers for our reflection area and much more. We have also really enjoyed learning about Read more…
During Art week we learnt about Andy Goldsworthy, he used lots of natural materials to create sculptures and pieces of art. We recreated a sculpture with paint and chalk. We really enjoyed it, we hope you like our artwork too.