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
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
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
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
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.
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.
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
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
In geography this week, we have been learning about temperature and how we measure temperature. We looked at different thermometers before spending time using digital thermometers to test the temperature in different areas. The children have enjoyed using the thermometers independently during COOL time too.
Year 1 have been learning about ‘part- whole models’ and how we can use them to help us think about fact families. We have used lots of manipulatives such as 5-wise, base 10 and cubes to show different fact families. This week, we have been using our knowledge of number Read more