During carousel activities, the children have engaged in a variety of exciting tasks, including a science experiment, sentence writing based on The Snail and the Whale, collage making, handwriting practice, and a phonics treasure hunt. They’ve also been developing their sense of touch through a mystery bag activity, where they described how different objects feel. 

In maths, the children have been learning to represent numbers in different ways and to compare groups through matching.

In RE, they explored the creation story, learning how the world was made in seven days.

Meanwhile, in Geography, they discovered the seven continents and the five oceans of the world.

In PE, we have been exploring different ways of moving safely to avoid obstacles.

Year 1 have had a great two weeks! 

Last week in history we went for an archaeological dig around the school grounds and found some interesting artefacts. We have also been learning about Edward the Confessor and made our own decisions about who we think would make a good King of England after him. 

In English we have enjoyed learning about superheroes linked to Supertato. After describing Supertato we have then created our own fruit or vegetable superhero! Children have been very creative and we have had all sorts of wonderful creations from Magnificent Mango to Powerful Pickle! 

In maths we have continued learning about position and direction and how to describe where objects are using left, right, above and below. We also explored quarter, half and full turns using clockwise and anticlockwise. This has also linked into our PE where we have been orienteering using a map of the school.

In computing we have been using the BeeBots and had a lot of fun programming them to get to different places. 

Over the past couple of weeks we have become expert weather forecasters in our geography lessons and we are delighted to inform you that the sun is here to stay for a while! This week we also looked at how meteorologists use special equipment to forecast the weather.

In science, for our topic on plants, we have been looking at the trees in our playground and carefully observing the leaves to decide whether they are deciduous or evergreen. We also combined our maths skills to measure the leaves using cubes (please see pic above!).

In art, we used our paper sculpture skills to create a ‘Tree of life’ (It appears to have been a very tree themed kind of week!)

In our English lessons, we have continued our topic on traditional tales with a focus on the ‘Hare and the Tortoise’.  With this, we have looked at the prefix ‘un’ and the suffix ‘er’ and included these in our sentence writing.

Finally, in maths, after a unit on multiplication, we have started division and have practised sharing objects in equal groups. We then moved on to representing the objects by drawing counters and groups.

We are also looking forward to our trip to Hobbledown on Friday to support our science learning (animals). Only one more sleep to go! Have a super weekend.

The Year 1 team.