Category: year1

Science in Year 1

Firstly we want to say well done and thank you for the overwhelmingly positive response we have had so far, to the new homework format Merry Hill are using on Seesaw.  Fantastic! This term our science topic is Animals, including mammals, fish, birds, reptiles and amphibians. We started by identifying and comparing mammals.  We learnt …

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Art in Year One

This half term at Merry Hill we are learning about a new focus artist called Yayoi Kusama. She is better known as “the princess of polka dots!” We are going to be imitating her style for several weeks before experimenting independently and making our own mixed media collage of a vegetable. Last week we picked our …

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English in Year One

Happy New Year! We have come back from the Christmas holidays ready to learn and have been listening to and reading a range of stories which provoke different responses. Our new key text/class story is ‘I Can Be Anything’ by Diane Dillon. In the story, a little girl dreams about what she wants to be …

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