Year 1 have had a wonderful final week! The highlight was definitely our Superhero day. We dressed up as our favourite superheroes, had a parade and played lots of fun games.

We also enjoyed finishing our DT project, designing and making our own playground equipment.
 
We hope you have a lovely, relaxing summer!

This week we have role-played the battle of Hastings with our beautifully decorated, colourful shields. We then moved into a new topic of superheroes and have written a description of Supertato who saved all the veggies from evil pea! In maths, we have been learning about weight and capacity. We practised weighing objects with weights and we have investigated the capacity of a variety of school containers. In PE we had our amazing sports day and during the week we practised our running and ball skills. In art we have been learning about different types of brushes and how to use them by applying different amount of pressure to make thick and thin lines. Finally, in RE, we made a mosaic of a mosque using our learning on Islamic patterns and in computing we have made a snail in the style of Henri Matisse using our paints IT package.

Year 1 have had a lovely week, with the highlight being their Forest School Day on Wednesday. The children thoroughly enjoyed making beautiful crowns and sceptres, using things they found in our outdoor areas and we hope you enjoyed seeing what they made. They also had fun building homes for bugs in the afternoon, with some very elaborate creations and luxury homes for our bugs!

In history and English this week we looked at what happened during the Battle of Stamford Bridge. The children explored, through drama and writing, what it might have been like to be a soldier in the battle and also made a story map to sequence the events. The children are so excited to find out what happens next and who eventually becomes King, which we shall reveal next week! 

In maths, we have been looking at money with a focus on coin recognition and the value of each coin. We will be continuing to look at money and making different amounts next week so any extra practice by looking at coins and paying for things this weekend will be a help.

We have welcomed the children back to their last half term in Year 1! We have had a really exciting week. We have started lots of new topics. We will be focusing on English and history together this term and Year 1 had an exciting archaeological dig to find artefacts from the past. They have been guessing what these artefacts represent and what our next topic might be! All will be revealed next week. In maths, we have been learning about tally charts and graphs. The children have investigated the favourite animals in the class and built their own tally charts and graphs. It has genuinely been amazing to see how many animals have been represented and which ones were the favourites. In R.E. we have begun looking at the religion of Islam and thought about what more we would like to know about this religion. In art we have painted our diva lamps and practised our sketching skills. We have also done lots of reading and phonics this week, the children have amazed and delighted us! Go Year 1!