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Apr 25
Our New Playground
We hope you had a restful Easter break! On Tuesday the children were welcomed back to a brand new playground at Merry Hill! We have a fantastic astro-turf pitch, obstacle course, a humongous pirate ship and so much more. It was great to see everyone so active.
Apr 01
Hunting for Signs of Spring at Bushey Rose Garden
Yesterday Year One visited the beautiful Bushey Rose Gardens. In geography we have been learning about our local area and features of a map. Miss Bates and Miss Cowley gave Panther and Lion class the responsibility to plan the route! Firstly they used their knowledge of the local area and quickly identified Merry Hill Infant …
Mar 28
Welcome to our Teddy Bear Picnic
In English we are looking forward to writing a recount. This week we have looked at the features of a recount and been practicing writing in the past tense. But, we needed an event to write about…. so Lion and Panther class came together and had a teddy bear picnic in the sun! We each …
Mar 23
Mother’s Day
This morning we had a lovely time creating a gift for someone special in our lives. First we picked the flowers. There were lots of different colours to chose from. Some of the flowers had not bloomed yet so we called those our ‘mystery flowers’! We discussed our recent learning in Science and debated whether …
Mar 17
Measurements in Maths
This week in Maths, Year 1 have been learning about different measures. Both classes came together to discuss and compare the volume and capacity of water. We started by using some key vocabulary such as ‘full’, ‘less than’, ‘more than’ and ’empty’. Then we split off into groups and compared the same volume of water …
Mar 17
Healthy Heroes
This half term in PE, Year 1 have been playing games and developing their confidence and competence in fundamental movement skills. Today on St. Patrick’s day we worked on our under arm and over arm throws. We started by warming up moving around the playground as different animals- using our imagination and bodies together. Here …
Mar 10
Identifying Plants In Our Playground
This term in science we have been learning all about wild plants, garden plants and trees in the UK. We have been learning to identify and name a variety of common wild and garden plants and telling the difference between deciduous and evergreen trees. We put on our welly boots and decided to explore what …
Mar 08
Skip Counting
This week we have started ‘skip counting’ for the first time- in Reception we learnt how to count one by one for accuracy and now we are building our knowledge of how to count and jump in 2’s, 5’s and 10’s. First we practiced counting in 2′ s by whispering some words and only saying …
Mar 04
World Book Day
Today we celebrated World Book Day at Merry Hill and our theme for this year was ‘Royalty’. To start the school day our Key Stage One adults and children from Breakfast Club did a royal procession to say “good morning!” to everyone coming in. There were lots of waves and smiles. Miss Cowley came as …
Mar 03
Discovering Human and Physical Features on our Playground
In Geography we are developing our knowledge of the local area. In the Autumn term we learnt about human and physical features and discussed the difference. This week we went outside and explored our playground to see what human and physical features we could find. Then we looked for human and physical features on a …