Chinese New Year
Gong Xi Fa Cai ! Happy New Year ! We have been busy. Year One have read Dim Sum Palace. It is a fantastic book! We have watched and listened to how people celebrate with their families. We…
Computing: Grouping Data
Year One have been busy grouping and sorting objects. To help understand how we group and name groups we we set a task to work in groups we used Round Robin to support us. This week Year One have continued…
Snow Flake: Year 1 Class Trip
Year One have Visited our Local Library Touch Base Pears. We watched the theatre production of Snowflake courtesy of The Rep. We made snowflakes using pipe cleaners and learnt a song about snowflakes. We thoroughly enjoyed the…
History: Finding out about toys
Year 1's Topic for History is toys. We have been busy thinking of questions that we can ask to help us find out more information. Year 1 worked in groups to ask Mrs Zafar questions about her childhood toys: "How…
Design Technology: Joining Fabrics
Year One have been investigating the best methods to join pieces of fabric together. We have trialled gluing, safety pinning and stappling pieces of fabric together. Before beginning we discussed the importance of safety and the correct methods to…
Art: colour mixing
Welcome back! Year one have been busy colour mixing. We have revisited primary colours and focused on key vocabulary: blend, mix, secondary colours. To help us understand colour mixing we used playdough. We were able to see the colours changing.…
Bar models
Year One have been working hard in Maths using Bar Models with the support of Rally Robin. Building on our prior knowledge using fact families. We are able to create number sentences e.g. 5 + 3 = 8, 8= 5…
Why do we have rules?
For RHSE Year 1 have revisited classroom rules. Using Rally Robin we discussed why we have rules around school and if they are the same or different. We understood that rules are there to keep us safe, to learn, to…
Part- whole model
This week has been a busy week. In Maths Year One have been learning about part- whole models and using these to create number sentences. Using our KAGAN: Rally Robin we are now beginning to understand fact families: 3+5 =…