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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 …
Dec 05
Report Writing
In English we have been continuing our learning about reports. After learning a report about gruffalos, we then worked together in our classes to write a report about an alien. Lions chose to write about an aliens called blobs and panthers chose to write about zappers. This week we have been working hard to invent …
Nov 26
Year One’s Trip to Reveley Lodge
On Monday and Tuesday, Year One came in to school very excited for their trip to Reveley Lodge. We helped each other to put on the high-vis jackets and listened carefully to which group we were going to be in and then we were off! We walked all the way there holding our partners hand …
Nov 21
Science
In Year 1 we have continued to learn about the 5 senses. This week, we explored our sense of smell. We discovered that the parts inside our noses are called nostrils and that a smell is also referred to as a scent. Using our sense of smell, we tried to identify and describe various scents. …
Nov 15
Maths in Year One
We have made good progress so far in Year One with addition, counting forwards and backwards and understanding ‘fewer’ and ‘less’. Now we have moved onto exploring subtraction by taking away. We have modelled working out the answers by crossing out counters on a tens frame. The children are able to identify how many are …
Nov 07
English
In English we are learning about reports. When we came into school on Tuesday morning, we were quite shocked because our classrooms had been messed up! It looked like there had been an intruder! We used our detective skills to look for clues as to who it could have been. We found purple prickles, brown …
Oct 25
Art in Year One…
This half term we have been doing weekly Art lessons in Lions and Panthers. In Week 1, we introduced our art sketchbooks and their purpose, how to use them to gather ideas and plan a final piece. After designing our title pages, we sat down and discussed the key questions: What is art? Why do …
Oct 17
Our Senses
In Year 1 we have been enjoying our science lessons. We have learnt what science is and have been keen to learn more about ourselves and the seasons. We learnt that science is: When learning about our senses we found out that living things, like humans, have 5 senses. We identified the body parts that …
Oct 11
Maths in Year One…
This half term in Maths, we have been focusing on our number skills. We have been working hard to perfect our number formation using our number rhymes to help us. We have been practising representing numbers in different ways. Then we used the language ‘more’ and ‘fewer’ to compare amounts and have practised identifying 1 …
Oct 03
English in Year One
Year One have been working hard in English to learn the story of the Funnybones by Allan Ahlberg. First we drew a whole class story map for the text, agreeing together what drawings and actions best represented the words. We used traffic light colours to show the beginning, middle and end of the story: “green …