Year 1

  We really enjoyed World Book Day in Year One.  Take a lot at some of our amazing costumes and activities.

    Year One loved yoga!  We were lucky enough to work with Sarah from Yoga Bugs and together we zoomed off to space to find Tim Peake.  We learnt to stretch and balance our bodies on this amazing adventure.  It was so much fun!

Year one pupils have been studying materials and their properties in Science.  Today the children investigated which objects would float and which would sink.  They were surprised at some of the results!

In Year one we were set the challenge of creating a bag that was environmentally friendly and reusable.  We decided to use canvas bags and designed and printed a pattern on the front using primary colours.  We are so proud of the results and we can’t wait to use them.

This week Year One had to use picture clues of a brick, wheelbarrow, a hard hat and a trowel to work out the title of their new book for English lessons  – “Let’s Build a House”.  Then they had to follow instructions to build their own house.

Over the last week, schools have been receiving reports of an increasing number of incidents involving inappropriate pop-ups occurring when children are accessing the internet outside of school.  This has been happening across the region but there have been isolated incidents involving pupils of Ha

As the chocolate eggs in shops will be an indication of, we are now in the run-up to Easter.  Today, Reverend Mark came into school to talk to the children about the religious lead up to this special time of year for Christians. Through Reverend Mark’s assembly, the children learned about Shrove Tu

I would like to say a huge thank all the parents/carers and a family members who have added their names to the national Parliament Petition regarding school funding. As a result of the support from school communities, this issue will now be debated in Parliament on Monday 4th March.  Hopefully, alo

We are going number bond crazy in Year One.  We are trying to recall all of the number bonds to twenty as quickly as possible,  We have used part part whole models to help investigate the different combinations.

As part of our topic on “where we live”, we have been looking at houses around the world.  We read Handa’s Surprise and designed an African mud hut.