Dreams and Goals Jigsaw Year!
Happy New Year! Year 1 kicked of the first school day in 2023 sharing all their news from over the Christmas holidays. Everybody was keen to share what they had been doing and the special memories they have made over the past few weeks. This afternoon, we #enjoyed a new Jigsaw game that Jigsaw…
Christmas Show- Reception and Key Stage 1
If you did not manage to catch this year's Christmas performance here is a filming of the dress rehearsal. An amazing performance from all of Reception, Year 1 and Year 2. Merry Christmas!
Y1 Christmas Elves Hard at Work!
In Year 1, we can’t hide the excitement for Christmas and we are looking forward to the Christmas Fayre! We have been creating beautiful baubles to sell as well as getting creative in other parts of the classroom. We have been very busy working hard to write and read words from the Tricky Words…
Y1 Science Humans and our Senses
This Autumn term, we have been learning all about animals including humans. The past few weeks we have been focusing on humans and body parts. We have played Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes related games and Fred Talk games to help us discover what we use certain body parts for. For…
Y1 Blue Penguin
Over the past few weeks, Year 1 have been reading the story Blue Penguin. A heart-warming story about friendship and belonging from the award-winning illustrator Petr Horacek. "I feel just like a penguin," says Blue Penguin. "But you're not like us," said the other penguins and they left him all…
Y1 Creating Digital Art
This week Year 1 have been learning a new iPad skill to create digital art using the tools on ilearn2. They #enjoyed learning how to re-create a mosaic with pixels, especially following the plan to make some well know characters and cartoons. See if you can spot any on the children’s…
Year 1 Maths Milestones!
Year 1 have been impressing everyone with their maths skills lately. This week we have been exploring part whole models and number lines. We have used many concrete resources to represent the relationship between a ‘whole’ and its component parts. These 4 wonderful volunteers #embraced the role of…
Year 1 Forest School
Year 1 have enjoyed their first Forest School session today. Lots of digging, muddy play and exploring!
Year 1 Anti-Bulling Week 2022 and Celebrating Differences
Last week during our Jigsaw lesson we talked about how we are all different from one another and how the world would be a boring place if we all looked and acted the same. We discussed how we look different and talked about our different interests. We then drew pictures to explain what our…
Y1 Remembrance Week Wow Moments
Check out Year 1’s wow moments from Remembrance Week.
Miss Kinsella tasked us to write lists of the things you would find in an evacuee suitcase, create poppy themed art work, make an evacuee label and order poppy numbers 1-20. We explored replica artefacts from World War 2 including…
Y1 Remembrance Week PE Session
The photos speak for themselves for this week’s blog post! Smiles all around as we #enjoyed a Remembrance Week themed PE session to finish off an exciting week! We #embraced the role of soldiers and had to cross the battlefield to get safely to no man’s land without being tagged by the bombers.…
Y1 Remembrance Week Forest School
This week Delphside have gone History mad! Miss Hanrahan has given each class a topic to focus on as it is Remembrance Week. Year 1 have been learning all about evacuees. During a forest school session, we talked about rations and ration books. We discussed why there were rations during the war,…