In Year 1 Spanish this week we have been learning the Spanish words for body parts. We then combined this new knowledge with our previous learning about Spanish colour words. We used these two vocabulary banks to describe aliens!...
In Computing this week, Year 1 explored the drawing tool within Keynote. We are learning to create digital paintings and this week our focus was self-portraits....
In our Geography lesson this week we watched, wrote and presented weather reports. We found it interesting to look at a temperature map of the UK and also notice clouds moving across the country. In our reports, we included information about current weather, weather predictions...
During their visit to the Curve Garden this week, Year 1 went on a mini-beast hunt and then created blot paintings using coloured ink and kitchen paper. We spotted many mini-beasts including ladybirds, spiders, flies, aphids, ladybird larvae and snails....
In Maths this week, we have been learning about the value of one penny. We used real coins to give two children pocket money of an equal value. We noticed similarities and differences between one pence coins. For example, some had a picture of a...
We have been learning about time. We have been using clocks to learn how to tell the time. We made o’clock times and half past times by pointing the minute hand to twelve and six. We moved our fingers in a clockwise direction. We really...
In DT this term, we are designing cars. For our first lesson, we examined vehicles with wheels to discover how the wheels were attached and in which direction they were moving as the vehicles moved. We used the key terms axle and axle holder. We...
In Science, we observed leaves closely. We learnt that deciduous trees lose their leaves in Winter and evergreen trees keep their leaves all year round.We explored the leaves and made informed decisions about whether we thought they had come from deciduous or evergreen trees. We...
In year 1 we are super excited to see that our pepper seeds have germinated and we can see little shoots peaking through. We have been keeping them on our warm, sunny classroom windowsill and we have been watering them daily. We predict that we...
In Maths, we practised building doubles from 12 to 18. We then halved these numbers. We learnt that half is one of two equal groups. We used cubes to represent each equal group....