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Nov 27
Victorian Adventures: Learning About School in the Past
We have had a busy and exciting start to our new History topic about the Victorians. In our first lesson, we looked closely at old and modern photographs to see how schools have changed over time. We noticed that Victorian children wrote on slate boards with slate pencils instead of using whiteboard pens, and we …
Nov 21
English in Year 1
Over the past few weeks, Year 1’s English lessons have been focused on ‘writing to inform’. This means that our writing shows that we are telling someone about something. Our lessons have been based on the book ‘Gruffalo Crumble and Other Recipes‘ by Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler. We began by reading the story of …
Nov 13
Year 1 Design and Technology (DT) – Moving Pictures
ChatGPT said: This half term in Year 1, we are exploring Design and Technology (DT) and learning all about what DT stands for — Design and Technology is all about designing, making, and evaluating! Our focus this term is on moving pictures, and the children are really enjoying discovering how everyday pictures and books can …
Nov 07
Welcome back!
We have made a great start to the new half term in year one and have quickly settled back into our learning! We began the week by recapping our new Behaviour Curriculum – the Merry Hill Way. In our classes we revised our core rules of Ready, Respectful and Safe and reminded ourselves of what …
Oct 23
From Avatars to Art: Our Computing Journey So Far!
In Year 1, we have been busy learning lots of new skills in our Computing lessons! We started by learning how to use the laptops and iPads safely and confidently. We also learnt how to log on to some of the fantastic programs we use in school, including Purple Mash, Numbots, and Reading Eggs. Our …
Oct 17
English in Year 1
In our English lessons this week, we have started a new unit in which we are learning about poetry. We began the unit by looking at some poems that are very familiar to us all – nursery rhymes! We talked about all the nursery rhymes we could remember and then had our very own karaoke …
Oct 10
Art – Clarice Cliff
Year 1 have had a very exciting start to our new art topic, learning all about the artist Clarice Cliff! We began by looking closely at some of her beautiful pottery and noticed how she uses lots of shapes, such as triangles and squares, as well as bright, bold colours in her designs. We have …
Oct 03
Maths in Year 1
This week in Maths, we have been developing our number skills and working out one more and one less than a given number. We have learnt that when you find one more than a number, the original number will get bigger and when you find one less, the original number will get smaller. We have …
Sep 25
Science in Year 1
This half term in Science we are learning all about ourselves. We started the topic by thinking about the names of some of our different body parts. We drew around some of our friends and labelled the different parts of their bodies. We made sure to include lots of body parts like ankles, wrists and …
Sep 19
Year 1 authors!
Due to a technical error, we have been unable to publish photographs this week. Over the past two weeks in English, we have been learning a range of skills to help us create books about ourselves. We have created a page each day about our self, our family, where we live, our favourite food, our …