Mar 07
Year 1 had a great day celebrating World Book Day. We all wore our pyjamas to school and brought in some of our favourite books. We started the day altogether with an assembly. We talked about the different ways you can enjoy books and shared some of our favourite places to read. We thought it …
Feb 29
This week in Year 1 we have been learning how to subtract by counting back. We used the taking away story of first, then and now. For example, first there was 16 birds on a tree, then 8 flew away, now there are 8 birds. After this we practically moved counters from the first to …
Feb 08
Andy Goldsworthy Over the last few weeks we have been looking at Andy Goldworthy’s sculptures. We found out that Andy Goldsworthy uses natural materials to form his sculptures. For example he uses sticks, rocks, leaves and even cow dung! [arve url=”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sngXz55b4bc” title=”Andy Goldsworthy” description=”A video of Andy Goldsworthy’s sculptures ” /] We used the natural …
Feb 02
The children looked splendiferous as they entered school today! We really enjoyed becoming word detectives to find out the meaning of new words as well as celebrating the range of words we knew. Some children celebrated words in their home language, others chose words from their favourite sport and some from books, conversation and films! …
Jan 25
Over the last few weeks in Science we have been identifying, grouping and comparing animal groups. So far, we have learnt about mammals, birds, fish and amphibians. In week 1 we learnt that mammals are animals which have hair or fur. In week 2 we learnt about the difference between birds and mammals. We learnt …
Jan 18
This half term in computing we are learning about e-books. We started the topic off by looking at books and e-books and comparing them – what’s the same and what’s different. We noticed that e-books could make sounds and sometimes the pictures move too. In week 1 we used Purple Mash to have a go …
Jan 11
This week we have been looking at different benchmarks on a number line. We found 0, 5, 10, 15 and 20! We then practised placing the benchmarks on an empty number line. This was very tricky but we knew that 5 is between 1 and 10 and 15 is between 10 and 20. After this …
Dec 19
We hope you have a great holiday and a happy new year. Thank you for your hard work over the autumn term. We have had the best time settling in to year 1 and learning new exciting things. How you can help at home: Continue reading your colour banded books Complete your Maths Mastery pack …
Dec 14
This half term in Science we have been learning about materials. We used the Word Aware approach to learn that a material is ‘What something is made from’. Then we went on a materials hunt around school. We looked for plastic, metal, glass and wood. We recorded our work on Seesaw. Then we learnt about …
Nov 30
This week in English we have been learning the text ‘Supertato’. We were very surprised to come in to our classroom to find vegetables tied up around the room. Then we spotted Supertato flying through the air with his cape on. We have been working hard to learn the text, by drawing a story map …