Blog Author: Nikita Carvill

Today, we spent all day exploring the Victorian era. We identified some similarities and differences between ways of life comparing life back then to today.

Did you know that not all Victorian children went to school? Some of the children from poorer families went to work in factories, coal…

Today, our enthusiastic year 1 children had a fantastic practical lesson exploring the incredible diversity of leaves on the trees in our school grounds. 

 The children embarked on an exciting journey of discovery, learning about the unique shapes, colours, and textures of the leaves…

Year 1, delved in to the world of programming during their last Computing lesson. We learnt some new key vocab such as programming, de-bugging and tinkering. The children completed a cutting and sticking activity which showed the importance of following instructions. We later learnt that the world…

Today, our Year 1 students had a blast as they experienced a day in the life of a Victorian schoolchild!

Year 1 have started planning their next independent write. In our story a little boy goes on a bus journey with Grandma and what better way to experience all those feelings, sounds, smells and conversations than going on our own bus journey.

We started at the bus stop, paid the bus driver,…

Year 1 have been learning all about different families in Jigsaw. We discussed our own families and how other families can look very different. The children enjoyed asking each other questions and widening their understanding of the meaning 'family'.

Great work Year…

Year 1 had an exciting Science lessons. We used all the key information we had used over the last couple of weeks to identify and categorise images of animals in to Mammals, Amphibians, Reptiles,Birds and fish. We also used key vocabulary to explain why we thought the animals would belong to that…

This week in Maths, Year 1 have been learning all about measuring height and length. We carried out some practical activities using different objects to measure height and length. 

Year 1 enjoyed a juicy Jigsaw lesson, we looked at we can keep ourselves clean and healthy. We discussed how germs stay on our hands and how we can prevent spreading them. 

We then looked at some common house hold items and catergorised them in to 3 different groups based on where they…

Year 1 had a fantastic World Book Day!

Fantastic costumes and cosey pyjamas.

The children enjoyed a mystery reader and they created their own book cover after choosing a story they would love to read.

Year 1 have been getting creative in Computing over the last couple of weeks.

We have created our own Where's Wally challenge for our partner using images. The children learnt how to re-size and the image and drag them on to their screens. 

Well done Year 1!

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Y1 loving some outdoor learning. Today we made a human number line to support our understanding of jumping along the number line to complete addition number sentences. The children then challenged their partners with an addition number sentence before using the human number line to work out the…