Category: year1

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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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, …

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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 …

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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 …

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A Trip to Bushey Synagogue

In RE we have been learning about special books. We started the topic by thinking about books that are special to us. Now we are learning about books that are special to some religions. We are learning about the Torah, the Bible and the Qur’an. On Tuesday we visited Bushey United Synagogue. We learnt that …

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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 …

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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 …

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