Blog Author: hdawson

We have had an amazing trip to wildlife oasis today. These photos show the first part of our day. Zack the animal keeper gave us a guided tour of the animals inside and we learnt some great facts. I wonder if anyone can tell their grown ups facts about any of the animals!

In DT this half term, Year 1 are learning about structures and joins. We have learnt three different ways to join cardboard; hole punching and string, slots and tabs. Last week we slotted cardboard together to make a bridge. Today, we used tab joins to create a building front inspired by the…

Year 1 had great fun measuring different objects with the scales.

Year 1 continued their Toy Story dances. Part of the lesson was to consider our facial expressions and body language for when we fall out with a friend and then make up.

In Year 1, we do lots of counting and thinking about numbers. This week we have been representing numbers using base 10, finding numbers on a 100 square and ordering numbers. Counting is a great activity to support your child’s learning, this can be done in any location; sat in the car, at home or…

Year 1 are all ready for their Nativity tomorrow and can’t wait for their families to see them perform. Here is a picture of each Year 1 child in their nativity outfits. 
 

All of Key Stage 1 have been practicing hard for next weeks nativity. Today, Year 1 we wore their costumes for the first time. Here are a couple of pictures, more photos will be added next week of each child in their costumes.

There are opportunities to read every day in Year 1. After lunch, we have a daily guided reading lesson. Each week children completed range of different activities including a guided reading session with an adult, an independent activity and chance to read a book of their choice from our reading…

Every Tuesday morning this half term, Year 1 will be taught gymnastics by Dan our PE specialist. The class were asked to challenge themselves on the equipment, to do things that maybe they were nervous to try. Everyone joined in and we saw great examples of how individuals were challenging…

Today Year 1 have been learning how to mix paints to make lighter and darker fire colours. They then used fire colours to painting their own flames.

We have had a very busy afternoon in Year 1 today. Everyone has been using Purple Mash to create an image and save it in their account. We have been singing, reading and played with our friends in the learning areas of the classroom.

Year 1 have been learning how to log onto Purple Mash and have created their own avatar. Purple Mash can be used at home and each child has a username and password at the front of their reading journal.