Year 1 2018 – 2019

Today we put our taste buds to the test and tasted some delicious flavours of crisps. the children had to taste the crisp, guess the flavour and the describe how it tasted.

Then  we voted on our favourite flavour of crisp and used a tally chart and bar graph to collect the data.

Year 1’s…

Today we had lots of fun using our sense of smell to locate our smelly partner!!

The children each had a different scent on a cotton bud, they had to sniff their scent, guess what it could be then spend time sniffing everyone else’s scent to find their smelly partner.

Hannah said, ” This one…

Today the children have learnt some interesting facts all about the brain.

Did you know………..?

Jayden said, ” Our brain works like a computer because it holds all of our important memories”

Hannah said, ” Your brain is protected by your skull, which is made up of 22 bone”

Lewis said, ”…

Today we answered a big question ‘ What in life is beautiful to you?’

The children said……

Lloyd’  Flowers are beautiful because they smell good’

Harley ‘ The weather is beautiful because it’s always different’

Izzy ‘ The sky is beautiful because it’s blue’

Jayden ‘ The sun is…

In maths we have been learning how to partition numbers into tens and ones. We have used the deans apparatus to find out how many tens and how many ones are in a two digit number.

The children worked really hard with their learning partners and independently, they had to look carefully at the…

This afternoon we discussed why we make new year resolutions. We talked about saying goodbye to the old year, starting a fresh year and having a new start.

All the children decided on one new year resolution, which they will try and stick to throughout 2019.

Here are a few of…

Today, we started our new topic all about our bodies.

First, we played a fun game of heads, shoulders, knees and toes. Next, we looked at an image of the different body parts and found them on our own bodies. Then, we learnt some new words for the body parts including, torso which is also the…

This morning we celebrated our Christmas carol service at Christ Church. The children sang beautifully and made everyone feel incredibly festive.

I would like to take this opportunity to wish you all a wonderful Christmas and a happy and healthy new year!

Enjoy the holidays and the well…

Today, Yr1 looked very festive in their Christmas jumpers!

Wearing their jumpers today has helped raise fund for the charity ‘POSCH’ This charity helps and supports parents and children in our local community.

Thank you to everyone who wore their Christmas jumper and donated a pound to a…

This afternoon we all had great fun at our Christmas party. We enjoyed playing party games, dancing and the party food!

We even had a very special visitor!

Thank you RAFT for a fabulous disco, we all had lots of fun!

This afternoon the children put friction to the test and sent Santa on a journey down a ramp. He tested three different surfaces, smooth wood, rough wood and carpet to see which one caused the most friction.

First, the children made predictions, some of the children thought he would travel the…