25 March 2025

Year 1 - DT - Constructing Penguin Habitats

Year 1 have been making penguin habitats in DT!

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24 March 2025

Year 1 - Jigsaw - Keeping Healthy

Year 1 learnt all about household items that are healthy for us and some that are dangerous. We talked about things that we need to lock away to keep ourselves safe such as bleach. The children could name lots of different household items. The children then completed a cutting and sticking task to…

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21 March 2025

Year 1 - Measuring objects using cubes and paper clips

Year 1 have been learning how to measure objects this week. We quickly realised that we can not compare objects if we measure them using different units of measurement such as cubes and paperclips. The children used paperclips and cubes to measure objects around the room and themselves.

Great…

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11 March 2025

Year 1 - Fun Learning

Year 1 have enjoyed their first couple of weeks back after half term. We've done some fantastic Writing, learnt how to keep our bodies healthy with different foods, had some fun choose time and we've worked as a team to complete some wonderful Geography work.

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6 March 2025

Year 1 - World Book Day

World Book Day 2025!

 

Year 1 joined in with World Book Day Celebrations. We chose our favourite book from a given list and of we went to find our mystery reader. We shared some lovely reading with our friends, listened to a virtual story from a Y6 people and did some buddy reading with…

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27 February 2025

Year 1 - Writing - Something Special to me

Year one enjoyed their English lessons this week. We learned what it means when something is sentimental to us. We then looked at some items that the children own with sentimental value to them. The children wrote a sentence explaining why their item has sentimental value to…

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4 February 2025

Year 1 - Celebrating Mental Health Week

This week, Year 1 took part in Mental Health Week. We participated in a virtual assembly with lots of other schools to celebrate and discuss keeping our minds healthy. Miss Carvill gathered some ideas from the children about how we could keep our minds healthy and things that we enjoy doing which…

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28 January 2025

Year 1 - Grouping and Classifying Animals

In Science, Year 1 have been learning to identify animals and group them based on their features. We have been grouping different animals and identifying them for the past few weeks but today we had lots of different images of animals. The children were required to work scientifically in partners…

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23 January 2025

Jigsaw - Dreams and Goals

This week, in Jigsaw we talked about our Dreams and Goals. We used making a jam sandwich as an example to understand how we have steps we need to take before we can reach our goals. The children talked lots about their future jobs and they recognised how they needed to do things before they could…

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16 January 2025

Year 1 - A Love for Learning

Year 1 have demonstrated a real love for learning this week across all subjects. 

We have evolved our understanding of place value in Maths using base 10 equipment  to show 10's and 1's in our teen numbers. In English we are beginning  to prepare for our big independent write using our capital…

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9 January 2025

Y1 - History - Old and New Toys

This week, in History, year 1 compared old and new toys. We discussed how toys have evolved and changed over the years.

We used a Ven diagram to sort some images in to old toys, new toys and toys that fit both categories. 

 

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