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.
A fabulous Summer fair with a great turn out.
During maths this week, year 1 Willows have been learning to recognise money and count coins. They have done some problem solving with coins, looked at real money and used coins to pay for items during shop role play. We’ve had lots of fun!
Year 1 took part in the ‘Great Science Share’. We had to investigate the question, ‘Which solution makes the best bubble?’ We made our own bubble wands and tested a solution with a little bit of washing up liquid in it and then a solution with a lot of washing up Read more…
Mrs Spears surprised Year 1 today with some new Lego! They got to choose to either play on the playground or play with Lego. There were some challenges for the children to complete. What a lovely surprise… the children loved it! Thank you Mrs Spears.
We loved Science today. We conducted an experiment to see which solution would be better to blow bubbles with. We made our own bubble wands and tested a solution with a tiny bit of washing up liquid against one with lots of it! We found the one with loads was Read more…
Year 1 Willows had their last Forest school of the term. They were given a mission to build a ‘bug city’ and they toasted marshmallows on the fire to make s’mores.
This week in our maths lessons we are learning how to find half of a number and half of a shape. Today we used cubes to help us find half of an amount. We made sure we shared the cubes equally into 2 groups.
In gardening club over the last 2 weeks, we have had lots of fun making caterpillar grass heads and creating watercolour paintings. We have planted plugs into our planters and we hope to see some growth soon.