Category: Year 1
As part of our history learning this half term we have researched Grace Darling and how she helped save sailors during a storm. Grace Darling lived with her family in a lighthouse. We have learnt when lighthouses are important and the features of an effective lighthouse. In DT we have been experimenting with joining paper
We have had a fun and creative afternoon doing our carousel of activities. Today we were painting a lighthouse with watercolours, sketching a sunflower, cutting and sticking, working on the laptops and listening to the music of Fantasia and drawing our responses
We are currently reading 'Sharing a Shell' by Julia Donaldson as part of our English sessions. The children have been having fun creating stick puppets to retell the story as well as writing sentences for each part of the story. Some of us have even been joining 2 sentences together by using 'and'. Here is
On Wednesday afternoons we have started to have ‘Creative Afternoons’. This is where we revisit skills we have learnt in art, DT, music and computing. Wednesday 5th October: This week we have been painting using a water colour paint palette, observational drawings of plants and shells, using ‘sketchpad’ on the laptops, practising our cutting skills
27th September 2022 Our topic this half term is Islands. We are learning all about the Island we live on in geography this week. Our focus for writing has been based on the story ‘Grandma Bird’. The children have been doing independent writing challenges each week. In PE we have been using the large gymnastics
Year 1 have been so busy practising and performing for our Spring performance – Rise and Shine. They have all done so well; learning their lines, the songs, dances and creating their own headdresses and props. We would just like to say a huge thank you to those parents that were able to come in
Autumn 2 - week 1 Our topic day this week was focused on History. We have been looking at the history of Seaside Holidays, comparing seaside holidays now to what they would have been like 100 years ago. The children were very taken by the thought of a 'bathing machine' the beach hut style carriage