Apr 07 2022
As part of our drive to provide our pupils with enriching experiences, we arranged for EYFS and KS1 to take part in a ‘Junk Music Orchestra’. This orchestra, led by the Junk Music Man, gave children the opportunity to listen to and respond to a piece of created music, explore different musical elements such as …
Feb 09 2022
Today, we raised money for the charity NSPCC whilst celebrating numbers! To celebrate the day and get into the spirit we dressed up as anything to do with a number. We then a full day of just MATHS MATHS MATHS! In Year 1, we used Purple Mash to play fun number games, we also created …
Jan 23 2022
In Year 1 this week, we have been practising our numbers to 20, and have represented them using bead strings, numicon and tens frames. In English we created our own friends for the lonely alien Beegu, we thought about words to describe our friends and wrote a character description for them. In Science we have …
Jan 16 2022
This week our Year 1’s have started reading our class text, Beegu. To start off the week we had a surprise call from the Police on Monday morning! There was a report that something unusual had landed in our Year 1 garden. To our surprise it was a UFO and the alien has gone missing. …
Jan 06 2022
In November, as a school we took part in Maths Week 2021! The aim of Maths Week is to raise the profile of Maths throughout the school and enable all children to access interesting mathematical experiences. Our Maths lessons this week were engaging, fun and practical! Below is an explanation from each class teacher about …
Dec 05 2021
Our Egg Box Dragon has been on a few adventures around our classroom, we have created dragon footprints out in the playground, made dragons out of play dough and written letters to him too. We also collected clues about where he may have been in the classroom. This week we have been practising our addition and …
Oct 28 2021
In Year 1, we have been working hard on our number formation. We spent time in our garden, practicing writing our numbers wherever we could find a space to do so. Whilst we were writing, we also spent time practicing our counting, counting as high as we could. Here you can see us writing our …
Oct 13 2021
Year 1 have been busy learning about the properties of materials. One of our class teddies had a hole in his umbrella, so we had to investigate which material was the most waterproof so that we could help teddy to fix his brolly. we investigated which material by pouring water onto each material. We worked …
