15
Sep
Finding the pulse in Music in Year 1
In Music, Year 1 focused on finding the pulse. Here we are having lots of fun waving coloured scarves to the pulse of the music....
Year 1
17
Jul
Making fruit smoothies and enjoying the Curve garden in Year 1
It was our final session at the Dalston Curve Garden this week! The children had the chance to make their own fruit smoothies and discuss all of the information they have learnt during the entire project. Furthermore, it was wonderful to see the children receive...
07
Jul
Sharing our favourite stories in Year 1
In Year 1 we had a long think about our favourite books that we have read from our classroom library this year. The children chose their favourite stories / non-fiction books and then proceeded to tell everyone why they liked it so much and what...
30
Jun
Bouncing and bumping, coding the Bluebots in Computing with Year 1
In 1H we explored the Bluebots for the first time. At first we played with the Bluebots and simply tried to figure out we could find out about them. After this we challenged ourselves to create algorithms that would make them drive under a bridge,...
23
Jun
Year 6 helpers in our Year 1 PSHE session
In PHSE we had some Year 6 children help us to think about what we could do when we were younger....
23
Jun
Young and adult animal matching game in Year 1
In PSHE we have been learning about how humans and other animals change as they grow. Some get taller, some change colour and some change shape completely! Here we played a matching game with young and fully developed animals....
16
Jun
Year 1 trip to the Queen’s Gallery
1H and 1T had their trip to the Queen's Gallery. We learnt about how people would pose for portraits and the clothes that they might wear in the past. We then drew some sketches of our own! We looked carefully at what we could see...
09
Jun
Creating self portraits using pop art in Year 2
In our art project, year 2 have been inspired by pop artists such as Andy Warhol to create our own self portraits. We created our outlines using our iPads and we coloured each image using a different medium that we had learnt about during year ...
09
Jun
Magical measuring in maths in Year 1
In Maths year 1 have been measuring and comparing mass. We used balance scales and non-standard units of measurement (lolly sticks, unifix cubes etc) to measure the mass of a toy car. We challenged ourselves to say a sentence about the mass of the toy...
26
May
Making a bean salad in our instructional writing topic in Year 1
In Writing, we have been practising the skill of Instruction writing using bossy verbs. Our focus text is Jack and the Beanstalk and this week we wrote instructions for how to make a bean salad. Naturally we started off by making a yummy bean salad...