Year 1

3Mar2020

All of the pupils in our phonic’s lessons have enjoyed the start in their new RWI groups.  There has been some amazing fred talking of green words and excellent reading of alien words.  What a lot of Nonsense!  The children have also been excited to start reading their new book, which they are ta

3Mar2020

This week Year One have started their Design and Technology topic. They are going to be making a woven table mat. The children learnt that table mats are used during meal times and can be made out of lots of different materials. To practise the weaving technique, the children used ribbon to weave in

25Feb2020

  Children in Year One were excited to bring in  and share pictures of their homes.  Every child did a fantastic job of talking about their house and it’s features.  We also read “Handa’s Surprise” and compared how houses in Kenya are different to houses in the UK.  Look at our amazing wor

21Jan2020

This term our class text is The Princess and the Pea.  The children made a crown for the prince. They had to pretend to be the prince saying what he had a lot of but also showing his sadness at not being able to find a real princess to be his wife. The children have also enjoyed listening to a vari

21Jan2020

In computing, Year One have been learning all about algorithms. They found out that an algorithm is a set of instructions used to solve a problem. The children had to find a box of treasure by firstly writing a set of instructions using the words forwards, backwards, turn, left and right. Then they

7Jan2020

Year One have been learning all about Christmas traditions. The children have listened to the Christmas story and also learnt about the symbolism of Christingles. They learnt about what each part of the Christingle represents and found out that they are used in churches at Christmas time. The childr