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,…
A Message from Year 1
As this weekend is Bonfire Night, in Year 1 we have been talking about how to be safe around fireworks and bonfires to keep ourselves and our families safe. We made rockets this afternoon and discussed why we celebrate Bonfire Night on the 5th of November.
We have some top tips to help you…
Y1 Halloween
Happy Halloween! We hope you’ve all had a spooky, fun-filled day! We had a fantastic time dancing at the Delphside Halloween disco today and enjoyed some special Halloween themed lessons in class! Looking forward to hearing all about your trick or treating adventures tomorrow morning!
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Y1 Jigsaw Being Me in My World
What does a happy classroom look like? Year 1 can show you that! #enjoy We have loved our friend Jigsaw Jack in class this term. This week we focused on what we like learning in class and how school makes us feel happy and safe. We designed our own happy classroom in small groups talking about…