16 Jan

A Snowy Break Time!

We had a lovely break time today playing in the snow. We made snowballs, snow angels, snow men and lots of other creative ideas!

We could barely hold our excitement when we saw the snow falling outside so you can imagine what we were like when we were finally outside!

 

13 Dec

Investigating properties of Materials

We investigated the different properties of materials. We looked to see if they were bendy, waterproof or transparent.

20 Nov

Bossy Verb Hunt

We enjoyed exploring the classroom for bossy verbs, these were spotted through our instructions.

14 Nov

Adventures with Traction Man

We really enjoyed making our own adventures with Traction Man.

7 Nov

Special Toy Day

At the start of our toy topic, we brought toys that were special to us. We looked at their materials and everyone told us why they were special to them. 

2 Nov

Y1- Part whole Models

We enjoyed using a range of resources in our part whole models.

16 Oct

Building a Sukkah

Today we learned about how Jewish people celebrate harvest. They build Sukkahs - temporary huts in which Jews may eat, sleep or spend time in during their week long festival of Sukkot. We tried building our own and made sure that there was a way that the stars and sky could be seen.
 

10 Oct

Y1 Taste Testing RE

We did some food tasting with fruits and vegetables that had been brought in. We spoke about how harvest is different all around the world and The Bible tells us we should show our love through sharing, and that is how we have all these foods from around the world. We also discussed whether we…

10 Oct

Y1 Taste Testing

We really enjoyed discussing which foods we should eat and shouldn’t eat as part of our ‘Brilliant Bodies, Brilliant Brains’ topic. We used our sense of ‘taste’ to try the delicious fruits and vegetables that the children brought in. We even had some avocados fresh from Nigeria ! 
We enjoyed…

6 Oct

Y1 Greater Than and Less Than

We were investigating greater and less than numbers using lots of maths resources. 

6 Oct

Y1-Tony Peek Visit

We enjoyed a visit from the poet and author, Tony Peek today at school. He shared some of his poems and songs with us. We did some amazing fish dancing and laughed a lot. 

3 Oct

Senses-smelling experiment

The children enjoyed predicting what they could smell. It was interesting that some children thought it was chips when it was tomato sauce!