Spring term - March 2024
We have had a wonderful term in Year 1 and have learnt so much!
We celebrated World Book Day by dressing as our favourite storybook characters.
In RE we have been learning about the last week of Jesus's life. Here is a photo of us acting out what happened on Palm Sunday.
We loved our recent visit from the planetarium. We have been learning all about Neil Armstrong in History and were fascinated to 'visit space' for ourselves.
On Friday 22nd March we were delighted to invite our special adults in for our 'Supertato' story cafe. We had to find all the 'escapees' around the classroom, make our own super potatoes, create wanted posters for the evil pea and much more! Thank you to those of you who joined us - we had so much fun!
We planted some sunflower seeds at the beginning of the half term. They grew so tall in their pots that we had replant them outside! We wrote some fantastic explanation texts about how to grow a sunflower.
Our WAGOLL explanation text was 'How do frogs grow?'. We visited the school pond to do some pond dipping to see if we could find some frogspawn.
w/c 23rd January 2023
A big thank you to Mr Sweetman who came in to class this week to talk about his adventure to Antarctica. The children had lots of questions for him and we all learnt so much.
This week we have also been practising our peeling, grating and chopping skills in preparation for making our fruit salads in a couple of weeks.
w/c 16th January 2023
This week we have been learning about what happens during a baptism. We acted one out as a class and lots of the children have been sharing photographs of their own special celebrations from when they were babies.
We have also been taste testing a variety of fruits for our fruit salad learning in Design and Technology. We tried pomegranate, peach, grapefruit, honeydew melon, cranberries and apricots and gave them all a rating out of 5.
w/c 9th January 2023
When we came into school on Monday morning we found a very strange collection of things. We found a snowboard, winter clothing, a torch, a compass and a penguin among other things! We investigated the objects and had to guess what our new Geography topic was from the clues.
We found out we are learning all about Antarctica!
w/c 12th December 2022
This week we finished off our Tudor houses for Design and Technology. We are so proud of how they turned out. Also a huge congratulations to all of Key Stage 1 for their brilliant performances at our Christmas shows - you were all FANTASTIC!
Year 1 also loved their Christmas party on Thursday afternoon. They were very excited to open their new Golden Time toys.
w/c 5th December 2022
This week we have been making Advent promises. We thought carefully about these promises during our whole school mass on Friday. We have also updated our prayer area in class.
w/c 28th November 2022
This week during our Golden Time we spent some time decorating our classroom ready for Christmas!
We have also begun to decorate our Tudor houses for our Design and Technology project. We have painted the walls white and the roof yellow. Next week we will be adding the black pitch stripes to our houses.
w/c 21st November 2022
This week we have been busy investigating the properties of materials. We have been working out which objects float and which objects sink.
We have also been learning how the people of London managed to put the Great Fire out in 1666. Here we are testing how long it would take to pass a bucket of water across the classroom. It took us 34 seconds!
w/c 14th November 2022
In our D&T lessons this week, we have been investigating the different shapes we can see in houses. We then made mini-houses using the polydrons.
In Maths, we have been discovering the different types of coins.
We also welcomed some visitors in for our RE this week. They told us the stories of Abraham and Moses to support our Judaism learning.
w/c 7th November 2022
To celebrate Remembrance Day this week we made this beautiful poppy wreath. We worked together to make the leaves out of our handprints and then collaged individual poppies to stick on.
w/c 31st October 2022
It has been a very busy week in Year 1 beginning all of our new Topics. We have enjoyed reading our new English text 'Amazing Grace'. We have also started our new History unit - Great Fire of London. We ordered some historic events on a timeline.
w/c 17th October 2022
Year 1 have been busy creating their sketch maps of our local area following on from our school trip last week.
In PSHE, we have been learning about the importance of hand washing. Miss Nobes tricked us with "special soap" so we could see which parts of our hands we weren't cleaning properly. We then learnt how to wash our hands properly before washing the "special soap" off.
w/c 10th October 2022
What an exciting week Year 1 have had! On Tuesday, we discovered that a mysterious creature had broken into our classroom and left a trail of footprints on the carpet and marmalade sandwiches on the tables!
Thankfully the children have created a great plan to help catch Paddington and get him safely back home.
This week we also went on our Geography field trip to answer the question "What is in our local area?". The children walked very sensibly and pointed out many different buildings which we will draw onto our maps next week. Thank you once again to the parents who volunteered to walk with us.
w/c 3rd October 2022
In Science, the children set up an experiment outside the classroom. We are aiming to find out which day this week has the most rainfall. Please can we ask parents to make sure younger siblings do not touch this at the beginning and end of the day.
w/c 19th September 2022
This week the children have been developing their mouse skills using a paint program in the Computer Suite.
We have also been consolidating our knowledge of numbers to 10 using the playdough to fill empty tens frames.
After all of our hard work, some of the children have been enjoying spending time in our class Reading Area during Golden Time.
Roald Dahl Day - 13th September 2022
We have been loving reading ‘George’s Marvellous Medicine’ during our story time. Today to celebrate Roald Dahl Day we wrote a list of our own ingredients for a medicine. Some of the children made nice choices but some children had some nasty ingredients!
W/C 23rd May 2022
On Wednesday, Year 1 visited Africa Alive with Reception class and Year 2. We saw so many different African animals. The lions, rhinos and giraffes were our favourites!
W/C 16th May 2022
On Thursday Year 1 went to the beach to create some sketch maps of the coast. We were incredibly unlucky with the weather but the children insisted that we carried on regardless. We are so proud of how they behaved and the beautiful maps they produced.
W/C 9th May 2022
For our deeper thinking question in Science this week we created some animal riddles using some of the new vocabulary we have learnt. We will be using our riddles in our retrieval session at the beginning of next week's lesson.
In our English lessons we have been learning the beginning of our Tiddler fable ready to innovate in next week's lessons.
W/C 2nd May 2022
In Computing this week we have been using directional buttons to move online Beebots around a map. We worked in pairs to create simple algorithms .
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W/C 28th March 2022
Thursday 4th March 2022 - World Book Day
We had a visit from Steve Day an author to celebrate World Book Day with us. The children dressed up and took part in a workshop with the author.
Yr 1 Raffle - Promoting children having school meals
Michal, Auguste and Iwin won our class raffle and loved their prizes.
CHILDREN IN NEED DAY - FRIDAY 19TH NOVEMBER 2021
ROALD DAHL DAY - FRIDAY 17TH SEPTEMBER 2021
