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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 …
Feb 24
The Discovery of an Enormous Turnip
We recently made a discovery buried in our playground… a turnip! We are excited to be learning about the traditional tale, The Enormous Turnip. After our discovery, we got straight to work describing the turnip and used a number of adjectives. Then we acted out the middle of the story. We went outside and played tug of …
Feb 23
Design and Technology- Making Puppets!
Every Monday we look forward to starting our week with Mindfulness Monday. Last term in art we explored and replicated the brilliant work of Andy Goldsworthy, a sculptor who only works with natural materials. This half term our learning in Design and Technology will be making our own puppets! Most importantly, we will be learning …