Mar 17
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 …
Feb 10
Mental health is all about how we are feelings, the thoughts we are having and how this affects the choices we make and how we behave. It is also how we are able to cope with what is happening in our daily lives. At Merry Hill we know how important it is to be mentally …
Feb 08
This week in Year one we have been developing our practical skills and confidence with subtraction questions. We have used counters, tens frames and cuisenaire rods to build on our understanding of whole numbers, different parts and using the word ‘equal’ in our explanations. Today we were playing a game with our partners where they …
Feb 03
In science we have been learning about plants. First we investigated trees. Outside we noticed our play ground had a variety of deciduous trees (loses leaves in autumn) and evergreen trees (leaves all year round). Here our some photos of deciduous and evergreen trees in our playground. Then we discussed flowers and the parts of …