Category: year1

Art – Clarice Cliff

Year 1 have had a very exciting start to our new art topic, learning all about the artist Clarice Cliff! We began by looking closely at some of her beautiful pottery and noticed how she uses lots of shapes, such as triangles and squares, as well as bright, bold colours in her designs. We have …

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Maths in Year 1

This week in Maths, we have been developing our number skills and working out one more and one less than a given number. We have learnt that when you find one more than a number, the original number will get bigger and when you find one less, the original number will get smaller. We have …

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Science in Year 1

This half term in Science we are learning all about ourselves. We started the topic by thinking about the names of some of our different body parts. We drew around some of our friends and labelled the different parts of their bodies. We made sure to include lots of body parts like ankles, wrists and …

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Year 1 authors!

Due to a technical error, we have been unable to publish photographs this week. Over the past two weeks in English, we have been learning a range of skills to help us create books about ourselves.  We have created a page each day about our self,  our family,  where we live, our favourite food, our …

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Welcome to Year 1

Welcome back, everyone! It has been wonderful to see the bright, happy faces of all the children this week and to meet with you. We’ve had a fantastic start to the new school year, and we are excited to share what we’ve been up to. In Year 1 we have been exploring our classroom areas …

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🌟 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 …

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Transition

In PSHE we got a letter from Jigsaw Jo, who is the Jigsaw friend in Year two! Jigsaw Jo made a poem from her name telling us lots of things to look forward to in our new class. We played a new circle time game called ‘This or That?’ which has quickly become a new …

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🎭 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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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