We were very happy to have Miss Sara come into our Year 1 class and begin our Art learning sequence for this half term. The children learned how to draw different types of lines and listened to music for inspiration whilst drawing. It was fascinating...
Year 1 have been learning all about Bessie Coleman, a famous female African-American pilot from the past. We found out that she moved to France to attend Flight School. We talked about why she needed to do that and learned all about our neighbouring country...
This week in Science we discussed the different questions we had about the Earth and everyday life around us. We thought about how we could ask questions and respond to each other in a positive way. The children came up with great questions about the...
This week in Religious Education we learned all about the Creation Story in the Bible. We role-played each of the 7 days to help remember what God created on each of them. Afterwards, we made beautiful detailed creation story maps and put them in our...
This week in Art, Year 1 looked at using different types of lines and shapes. The children started by using pieces of string on a black sheet of paper so that they could look at their designs and rework them where necessary. Afterwards, they practised...
We have been using the numicon in our classroom for counting, ordering the numbers and for understanding the composition of numbers 1 to 10. In this photo the children worked successfully to put the numicon in order from the smallest to the largest. The children...
In our Art lesson we made Rainbow collages with tissue paper. We used scissors carefully and made sure we used a suitable amount of resources for the task. We also talked about our favourite part of the story, Ruby's Worry, when she becomes happy again...
We have been using ten frames and fruits to practice counting a group of objects. We talked about the rules for counting and we confidently told our partners how many we counted....
We had a wonderful day out at Hampstead Heath. The sun shone and we were able team sports, splash out friends in the mini-pool and even climb to the top of Parliament Hill to admire the view of London including the Shard, the Gherkin and...
Year 1 had a fantastic day at the Young V&A! We particularly enjoyed the giant magnetic marble run as there seemed to be endless possible arrangements. The giant building blocks were also hit and we loved building towers to topple and tunnels to burrow through!...