Class 1
Sports-tastic week!
admin on: Class 1
21st June 2024
This week is national sports week which celebrates the impportance of school sport for children's mentl and physical health.
What a fantastic Key Stage One sports day we have had today! We are so proud of all the children who completed all the races and we even got some sunshine! A massive thank you to the house captain's and vice captain's from Year Six, who came and helped us out by adding up the scores, deciding on the order each child came in the race and setting up the various races that we did. The races we did were:
Caterpillar Race
Shuttle Race
Shot Putt
Javelin
Sprint
Obstacle Race
Balance the Ball
Sprint
Caterpillar Race
In science, we have been looking at everything we have learnt about in Year One. We looked at how we can tell the difference between evergreen and disiduous trees. We then made our own leaf dials which could help us to name common trees that can be found in this country.
I hope the sun stays out, shining for us this weekend!
Mrs Parker and the Year One Team xxx
Buzzing about and having fun!
admin on: Class 1
14th June 2024
I am incredibly proud of all the children this week. They have been fantastic and retained a lot of knwoldge that we have been learning this year!
We had a fantastic yoga session with Abi on Tuesday morning. We learned the child's pose, the cat, the cow, the cactus, the tree pose and the serpent. At the end we had a very relaxing wind down listening to calming music.
What a fab afternoon we had on Monday! We read a fantastic book called Omar, the Bees and Me. It's all about looking after the bees and each other. We spotted all of the seasons in the beautiful illustrations. We learned how to use palm drills and made homes for solitary bees and also planted wild flowers for them.
Have a fantastic weekend!
Mrs Parker and the Year One Team xxx
Strange things happening!
admin on: Class 1
7th June 2024
We have had some strange visitors in our classroom this week! Mrs Parker found some footprints in our classroom on Wednesday morning and we had to describe the animals that we thought they belonged to using noun phrases. There was one set of prints which we were unsure as to what had made them. We wrote descriptions of the animals that we thought had made them which were either a vulture or a chicken. We then discovered that it was in fact a dodo bird!
As this week was the 80th anniversary of the D-Day landings, we discovered why we commemorate this event during key stage assembly. In cass, we watched a clip about the project, Standing with Giants, where children have helped to create silhouettes of soldiers which have been placed in Normandy, by the British Normandy Memorial. We then designed a medal which could be given to the people who took part in this event and are still alive today, as a thank you for what they did.
Hopefully the sun will stay out for us!
Mrs Parker and the Year One Team xxx
What a way to end a half term!
admin on: Class 1
24th May 2024
This week, the other half of the class have planted their bean plants. Hopefully, they are going to continue growing over the holiday and we will update you on their progress here, after our Spring Bank break! They have definitely been getting enough water this week ...
During our art topic, we have done our final sketch of a rose! We carefully looked at a flower, like we did in Autumn 1 and Spring 1, and then sketched this in our art books. We made sure we added in details that were on the stem, leaves and petals.We then looked back at the first sketch we did in September and compared both images to see how our skills have developed. Look how amazing we are ...
During our computing sessions, we have been developing our skills on Microsoft Word. We created lost posters for Ted by typing a description using these sentence starters like Ted is ... and Ted has ... We are definitely finding it easier to locate the different keys on the keyboard, even using the backspace, enter and space bar to improve our writing!
Have a fantastic holiday everyone, have fun hopefully in the sun and see you in a week for our last half term here in Year One!
Mrs Parker and the Year 1 Team xxx
Look at us grow!
admin on: Class 1
17th May 2024
We thought we would start by updating you on our bean plants! Look how they have grown! After an uncertain start, we have had to re-pot our bean plants as they are beginning to flourish. Our scientific predictions were true, that the beans would need sunlight and water to thrive and thriving they are! We ventured down to our woodland to complete our observations for our bean diary. Fingers crossed for some beans soon ...
In music, we have been listening to a piece of music by the composer, Anna Meredith. This week, we listened to Nautilus and drew what we thought we could hear. Lots of us chose to draw zig-zag lines to match the pulse while others chose to draw swirls for the changes in instruments. What fun we had drawing the music composition!
We have started looking at fractions in maths and this journey begun with halves. We exploring what it meant by the term half by discovering that this meant 2 equal parts. We have been uing practical food and shapes to help us find halves of objects and counters and multi-link to help us find half of quantities.
Get some rest ready for the last week of the half-term!
Mrs Parker and the Year One Team xxx