Design and Technology
Cutting and juicing
In DT we are going to be designing and making a healthy smoothie. Over the last 2 weeks we have learnt lots about fruits and vegetables, how we know a food is a fruit and where fruits and vegetables grow. This week we focussed on preparation skills. We learnt how Read more
Careers Related Learning
Y1 World Book Day- Raising Aspirations
This week St Luke’s celebrated world book day and careers week, with the theme of ‘raising aspirations’. The children have learnt about a number of careers through videos and books, including the ‘Little People Big Dreams’ books. We used this knowledge to create a careers list poem in our writing. Read more
Learning for Life
Year 1 Random Acts of Kindness
This week, the whole school celebrated ‘Random Acts Of Kindness Day’ with each class choosing an act of kindness to do. Year 1 chose to make cards for the neighbours of the school. We had some lovely emails back from the neighbours, telling us how their kindness put a smile Read more
Art & Design
Year 1 dojo treat
As a reward for earning so many dojos this half-term, Year 1 had a treat today. We completed colourings, crafts and created valentines bear biscuits. Have a lovely half-term Year 1
Breakfast & After school club
Questions
This morning Year 1 completed a grammar lesson on questions. We learnt about what a question is, how we know if a sense is a question, learnt sentence starters for questions, learnt KungFu Punctuation of how to draw a question mark and played stand up sit down for question or Read more
Mathematics
Tens and ones
Year 1, have been learning about ‘teen’ numbers. To help us understand, we have been using tens frames to learn about ‘tens’ and ‘ones’. The children worked really hard during their practical lesson and have shown great understanding.
Art & Design
3D Paper Play
In Art this half-term, Year 1 have been working with paper to explore creating 3D art. We have used a variety of techniques to create a range of art work. We have had to use our ‘problem solving’ skills and our skill of ‘staying positive’ to create these pieces.
Computing
Year 1 Computers – Coding
In computers we have been learning about events, objects, actions and commands, we put our skills and knowledge into practice by completing some challenges on purple mash. We had to make algorithms to move and pop bubbles on our screens, we then added events, such as; when clicked the bubble Read more
Forest school
Signs of winter
As we are currently studying the topic ‘weather’ in Science, and ‘Hot and Cold places in Geography’, we took the opportunity to wrap up warm and head outdoors to explore the changes created by our recent , very cold, snowy and frosty weather. We looked closely at the frost and Read more