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Jul 10
🎭 Year 2 Leavers Show – A Celebration of Our Journey! 🎭
We have been working incredibly hard preparing for our Year 2 Leavers Show, and we can’t wait to share it with you! As we get ready to say goodbye to Year 2 and look forward to the exciting adventure of Year 3, our end-of-year performance is a special way to celebrate everything we’ve learned and …
Jul 03
Telling the Time
In Year 1 we are learning to tell the time. We began by securing our knowledge of some of the vocabulary related to time, including before, after, past, earlier and later. We also learnt the difference between seconds, minutes and hours. We were interested to find out that there are 60 seconds in 1 minute …
Jun 19
Science in Year 1
🧊 Saving the LEGO Men! A Year 1 Science Adventure 🧪 This week in Year 1, we had a very important mission! We received a letter from none other than the Chief Inspector at the LEGO Factory. 😮 He told us there was a big problem – some LEGO men had gotten trapped in ice, …
Jun 13
Fruit Kebabs
Hello children, parents and carers! We’ve had an exciting and hands-on start to the week in Year 1 as we’ve launched our brand-new Design and Technology (DT) unit – all about fruit kebabs! The children in Lion Class and Panther Class have been busy learning the skills they’ll need to safely prepare food and will …
Jun 05
English in Year One
We have started reading a new story called Little Red and the Very Hungry Lion by Alex T. Smith. At the end of this unit the children will be writing their own version of a traditional tale. We used props and resources linked to the story of Little Red and the Hungry Lion to hook …
May 14
Super Science
We kicked off our super science this half term by identifying and describing plants in the world around us. Lions and Panthers used their Forest time to find and take photos of plants. They carefully hunted down roots, branches, bark, stems, buds, flowers and leaves in our school environment. We looked at different types of …
May 08
Amazing Art
First we answered ‘What is the difference between Art and DT?’ We decided Art is creative whereas Design Technology is making something practical and involves problem solving. Then we started learning about a new focus artist called Edward Tingatinga. He lived in Tanzania in East Africa. Edward Tingatinga taught himself how to paint and did …
Apr 24
English in Year One
Welcome back after the Easter holidays everyone! We have started a new topic in English called Free Verse Poetry. Free Verse poems are very special. There are very few rules of what you must do or have. Poems don’t need to rhyme or follow a pattern. You are free to write what you wish and how …
Mar 27
Design and Technology – Puppets
In DT this half term we have worked 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 joined …
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 …