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Jul 17
🌟 A Year of Wonder in Year One at Merry Hill 🌟
Oh what a year it’s been in our bright Year One,A chapter of memories, laughter and fun.From first nervous hellos on that September morn,To waving goodbye now — how much you have grown! We’ve tiptoed through time to the Victorian day,At Reveley Lodge we learned work and play.In pinafores, caps, we wrote on our slate,Pretending …
Jun 19
Money
This week in maths we have been learning about money. We begun the topic by identifying the different coins that we use in England and learning about the value of each coin. Then we worked hard to find different ways to make amounts up to 10p. We had to remember to only use the available …
May 01
Year 1 Walk to Bushey High Street
In Geography this term, Year 1 have been learning about our local area. Last week we created maps to show the route from our school to Bushey High Street. We talked about some key landmarks that we might see along the way and we added them to our maps; Ashfield Junior School, the war memorial, …
Apr 24
Mighty Maths
This week in Maths we have been working hard to find different ways to make the totals. We used Numicon to help us find lots of different ways to make 14. Then we used used values between 11 and 20 and recorded our learning using balance scales. Our teachers challenged us to record our …
Mar 27
Science in Year 1
In Science we have been learning about carnivores, herbivores and omnivores. We learnt that a carnivore is an animal that eats other animals, for example, a lion, a frog and a bat. A herbivore is an animal that eats plants, for example, a rabbit, a panda and a cow. An omnivore is an animal that …
Mar 20
Maths in Year 1
This week in Maths we have been working hard to find different ways to make the totals. We used Numicon to help us find lots of different ways to make 14. Then we used used values between 11 and 20 and recorded our learning using balance scales. Our teachers challenged us to record our …
Mar 12
Sew Much Fun! Making Animal Puppets in DT
In DT this half term we are working hard to explore, design and make our very own animal puppets. Firstly we took our time to explore different kinds of puppets such as : Finger puppets Hand puppets Sock puppets String puppets We worked out what each puppet was made from, how the pieces were …
Mar 06
World Book Day 2026
On Thursday we celebrated our love of reading during World Book Day. One of our School Development Plan objectives is to embed sustainability across our curriculum, environment and community, and so we used the opportunities that stories and reading have to offer in order to help us relay this important message to the children. We …
Feb 26
History – This Half Term’s Learning
This half term in History, we are learning all about monarchy. We started our new topic by exploring what a monarch is and identifying some of Britain’s past and present monarchs. The children did a fantastic job remembering Queen Victoria from our previous topic and were excited to share what they already knew. We also …
Feb 13
Maths in Year 1
This week in Year 1 we have been learning about 3D shapes. A 3D shape is a solid shape. They are made from surfaces that can be flat or curved. We looked at five shapes; cube, cuboid, cylinder, cone and sphere – and we used stem sentences to describe the properties of each shape. We …