Mar 23
At Merry Hill we teach Art and Design through a Monday morning extended session, beginning the week with ‘Mindfulness Mondays’ which give the children a soft start to the week, easing transition from the weekend back into school life. In DT the children have been working so hard, using their creativity and imagination to …
Mar 14
This week has been an eventful week at Merry Hill School. We started off the week with an assembly led by Miss Honnor, who is our Science Leader. She explained that we were going to have an exciting week learning about Science. She reminded us about some key scientists we have been studying across the …
Mar 09
Over the last week in Lions and Panthers we have been deepening our understanding of part-part-whole models. We have been using numbers less than 20 to problem solve. Our key sentence for problem solving is ‘When solving a problem I will use what I know’. We found one lesson in particular very exciting as it …
Mar 02
Today we celebrated world book day in our community. We joined Ashfield school in wearing our pyjamas and comfy clothes which we like to read in. We completed several activities throughout the day such as, secret reader, storytime and holding a book swap. We know that we don’t judge a book by its cover so …
Feb 07
This week we have put all of our knowledge of recounts to work. We have started to complete our hot tasks. Hot tasks showcase our understanding of the genre of writing we have been learning about; the children work hard to implement all of the success criteria from that style of writing. We have been …
Feb 03
We have been learning about Yayoi Kusama. We have been learning facts about her life and her style of work. We found out that she loves dots! We imitated her famous artwork of dots on a pumpkin. How to help at home: – Use books or a computer to discover more of her famous artwork. …
Jan 26
In Science this half term, Year One have been learning all about plants. This has been running alongside our English learning of Jack and the Beanstalk. Both Panthers and Lions have been working really hard- as well as producing some amazing hot tasks in English, they have been growing a bean from a seed and …
Jan 19
In Year 1 this week we have been learning to measure. We started the conversation around this learning by measuring length and height. We measured pieces of paper and compared their lengths using vocabulary such as: long, longer, longest. We rotated them to discuss height, using taller and shorter. We continued our learning by measuring …
Jan 11
Year one would like to wish you all a happy new year! We have come back to school ready to go and ready to learn after a wonderful break. Lion Class and Panther Class visited Reveley Lodge House and Museum this week. The children will be using this shared experience to write a recount of …
Dec 15
In Science this week we learnt about what seasons are. In year 1 we say that the seasons are the four parts of the year- autumn, winter, spring and summer. We explained that each season has 3 months- Autumn is September, October and November. Winter is December, January and February. Spring is March, April and …