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Mar 14
Celebrating Science Week
This week, Year 1 had a great time celebrating Science Week! The wee began with an exciting whole school assembly where we learnt about some inspiring scientists and were introduced to our whole school investigation. We were going to work collaboratively to find the average height of the children within each year group at Merry …
Mar 06
World Book Day!
Today has been World Book Day and at Merry Hill a love of reading is at the core of everything we do, so today was especially exciting for us. We began the day with our parents visiting us for a morning read, what fun it was sharing some of our favourite books with our parents! …
Feb 27
Science in Year One
We have really enjoyed welcoming everyone back after February half term and continuing our Animal Science topic. Lesson 6 Lions and Panthers could name different types of animals and decide which animal group they belong to. They used the features of each animal group to justify their answers. They used a stem sentence to organise …
Feb 14
The UK
This half term, our little explorers have been diving into the fascinating world of the British Isles! We have been learning all about the four countries that make up the UK—England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland. Each week, we focused on discovering the highest mountains, longest rivers and capital cities of each country. It has …
Feb 06
English in Year 1
This week the Lions and Panthers received a surprise letter and an unexpected visitor! We have been asked to help our visitor catch a missing star! We came up with different ideas of how to do this, including laying a trail of star snacks to tempt the star down from the sky, going to Scafell …
Jan 28
Science in Year 1
Firstly we want to say well done and thank you for the overwhelmingly positive response we have had so far, to the new homework format Merry Hill are using on Seesaw. Fantastic! This term our science topic is Animals, including mammals, fish, birds, reptiles and amphibians. We started by identifying and comparing mammals. We learnt …
Jan 21
Art in Year One
This half term at Merry Hill we are learning about a new focus artist called Yayoi Kusama. She is better known as “the princess of polka dots!” We are going to be imitating her style for several weeks before experimenting independently and making our own mixed media collage of a vegetable. Last week we picked our …
Jan 16
Teen Numbers
This week in Maths we have been learning about the teen numbers. We have been thinking about each number as 10 and some more. For example, 11 is 10 and 1 more. We have been using ‘Base 10’ equipment to show the tens and ones within these numbers. We also looked at the …
Jan 09
English in Year One
Happy New Year! We have come back from the Christmas holidays ready to learn and have been listening to and reading a range of stories which provoke different responses. Our new key text/class story is ‘I Can Be Anything’ by Diane Dillon. In the story, a little girl dreams about what she wants to be …
Dec 12
Maths in Year One
Recently in Maths, Year One have been developing their understanding of comparison. We already understand the language of more, fewer, greater, smaller and less so have been starting to use this Maths language more fluently and confidently within our learning. We have been working out the difference in a range of contexts, firstly practically and …