'Riley Can Be Anything' is the story we have been reading. So we decided to be scientists this week. We had lots of fun learning about the many colours we saw as we experimented with milk and food colouring....
We went on our first class trip to the post box! We wrote a wonderful letter to LuLu's mummy highlighting all the reasons we thought LuLu was ready to get a real cat. Then we added her address and a stamp before heading out to...
We have been exploring using positional language and directional concepts. We used the story ‘We’re Going on a Bear Hunt’ to begin and created our own obstacle courses that went ‘through’, ‘over’ and ‘under’. We then created our own story and explored different ways we...
We have been strengthening our spatial awareness skills in Maths this week. Here we are throwing bean bags into a hoop in a friendly but competitive game. We used positional language to describe where each bean bag landed in relation to the hoop. We even...
We have been learning some songs called Spirituals in our music lessons this week. Here we are practising the words and actions to the song 'Swing Low Sweet Chariot'. Have you heard this song before?...
We have been practising counting in Year 1, making sure we don't double count or miss some out. [gallery ids="3767,3766,3765"]...
We have been learning all about the life of Mary Seacole! We have learnt about the incredible sacrifice she made and how her work has impacted modern medicine. We are going to be writing a character description about her so have been using our acting...
We have been focussing on teamwork. We have thought a lot about what an effective team looks like and how a team talks to each other. We put our teamwork to the test during PSHE and we created a “human knot” which we had to...
In our Art lessons, we have been learning about the artist Bernard Hoyes. We recreated one of his pieces of work named ‘Dancing Lady’. First we carefully sketched our outlines using grid lines to help us. Next we chose either water colour paints or pastels...
We have been learning about the history, culture and geography in Jamaica and studied the flag, made our own and then wrote about what each colour represents....