To complete our sculpture focus during our art lesson, we worked together create a 3D sculpture. We created a gigantic spider. We worked together to fold and roll news paper and then attach pieces together to create the legs, arms and body of the spider.
This half term during our science lessons, Year 1 are learning about animals. For our first lesson, we named and classified animals and understood which groups animals belonged too. We learnt new vocabulary such as reptiles, amphibians and mammals. We were already familiar with fish and birds. the children have Read more
This week in Cookery Club, the children made rainbow fruit kebabs – and what a fantastic session it was! The children began by exploring the different fruits using their senses. We talked about colours, textures and smells before moving on to an important part of Design & Technology – planning. Read more
This half-term, Year 1 have been exploring the art skill of creating 3D forms using paper. During our recent lesson, the children worked collaboratively to design and build a large spider model inspired by Maman by Louise Bourgeois. We used a variety of techniques to turn newspaper and tape into Read more
To celebrate National Storytelling Week, Year 1 took part in an online workshop with author. Annemarie taught us how to explore the magic of storytelling through music and rythm. As she read through her book ‘I am Nefertiti’ we explored how we could use our bodies to make music to Read more
Random Acts of Kindness- this year in Year 1, we have created a lovely note to pass out to our neighbours close to school to share some happiness and a random act of kindness. Children loved creating these!
This morning we have spoke a lot about things we can do together. We read the story of The Hare and The Tortoise. Although tortoise was slower, he still believed in hisself and won the race! We spoke about how we can often not feel confident to accomplish something although Read more
During our science lesson this week, we have used our senses to describe unknown objects and different scenarios where our senses are being used.
This half term, year 1 are focusing on ‘Sensitive bodies’ as our new topic for the first lesson, we identified our different body parts, labelled them and understood what they are used for we are then played a game to quickly point to different body parts
We have had such a wonderful time celebrating Christmas in Year 1. We enjoyed Christmas dinner and jumper day, enjoyed our Christmas Dojo great afternoon and of course our Christmas party day!!! Also a very exciting visit from Santa! The children enjoyed spending time together in the hall dancing and Read more