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Another fantastic week in Year 1. Our theme continues with Bright Lights,Big City. We have created some wonderful Tudor Houses in D&T. The children have enjoyed singing ‘London’s burning’ and had fun trying to burn down the houses.  In maths, we have been learning about money and adding amounts…

This week we have looked at how skilled the Anglo Saxons were when carving and creating patterns in the objects they possessed. The children designed a pattern for a brooch and they carved these onto polystyrene before printing their patterns. Look at some of their brilliant…

This week, we’ve been very busy drawing detailed, labelled diagrams of ships.

We also plotted Captain James Cook’s first voyage on a world map, and made pirate dictionaries!

We have had a fabulous week in Year 1. We have continued our theme of Bright lights, big city. We have made Tudor houses in D&T and sang the song ‘London’s burning’. It was so much fun. In maths, we have been learning all about money - making amounts up to £1.00. We have also been learning our 2…

We have had a fabulous week in Year 1. We have continued our theme of Bright lights, big city. We have made Tudor houses in D&T and sang the song ‘London’s burning’. It was so much fun. In maths, we have been learning all about money - making amounts up to £1.00. We have also been learning our 2…

This week, we have continued our learning on the Moon. The children have been learning about different types of craters on the Moon and how they are formed. They conducted an experiment to see if the size and height at which an object is dropped alters the size of the crater that is formed. 

In…

Unfortunately we can't have real ice-cream everyday in nursery, so today we made our own. 

This morning we made our very own ice-cream using real cones, sprinkles and foaming soap. We explored different textures and smells. The children used words such as, pink, soft, wobbly, smelly, and…

We are really excited to have a go at making our own Ice-cream tomorrow.

The ingredients and recipe are shown in the photograph.

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This week, our learning has been focused upon the Moon. The children researched fascinating facts and we looked at the moon's phases. Using Oreos to demonstrate this was a great idea and the children loved it - what a surprise!

On Friday, the children explored space using Virtual Reality (VR)…

We have had a lovely week in Year 1. I would like to say a big thank you to your children for welcoming me into their class. We have learnt about The Great Fire of London and read the diary of Samuel Pepys. We had a drama lesson acting out the terrible scenes of the fire. We have some budding…

As part of our Land Ahoy topic, we used our graphic organiser to make fact files all about Captain James Cook.  We then used our fabulous ICT skills to type up our facts and add images to our Microsoft Publisher documents.

Take a look at our amazing work!

During our 'Time to Talk' session this morning, we got that chance to explore crabs really closely.  We watched a short video showing different places we might find crabs and we saw them using their claws to pick seaweed from the rocks.

We thought the crabs looked a lot like spiders when…