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....
In Maths we began our learning about numbers from 11-19. We made teen numbers using the unifix cubes. We pointed to the tens and the ones and said how many of each there were. We understand that all ten numbers have one ten in them....
This week, to kick off our Science topic about plants, we read a book called ‘The Extraordinary Gardener.’ In the story, a little boy plants a seed from his apple core and then forgets about it. Eventually, he creates an extraordinary garden! In our lesson...
In Maths we were learning about the difference between consecutive odd numbers and consecutive even numbers. We discovered that the difference between consecutive odd numbers is always 2 and consecutive even numbers is always 2. We used tens frames and unifix cubes to prove this....
In R.E. this week we answered the question, ‘What happened on Good Friday and what does this teach us about Jesus?’ We thought that when Jesus was carrying the cross he must have been very tired and worried. We thought that the Bible story showed...
In Computing, Year 1 are learning how to make a simple robot move. We explored the Beebots for 5 minutes to try to discover what they could do. The children tried to complete challenges such as making the Beebot turn in a full circle using...