Year 1
Year 1 Class Blog:
03.05.2024
We had a great time this week climbing and taking part in the Archery - and glorious weather to enjoy these activities in too!
In Art this week we used modelling clay to create our own gargoyle faces. I was very impressed with how the children used images of gargoyles to create their own unique gargoyle face. We will be painting them next week - so watch this space!
We are enjoying our new class text, The Jungle Book, and beginning to get to know the characters in the story really well. We have also seen some very impressive sentence writing about the text too.
15.04.2024
This week we had a visit to school by the Life Bus.
Year 1 had a very interesting time learning about food and our body.
We learned about the food that is good for us and the different types of food we need to stay healthy.
We learned about how doing exercise keeps our body working well - our lungs helping us to breathe and our heart helping us to pump blood around our body.
We met up with Harold the giraffe and help him enjoy a picnic with his friends, making healthy food choices.
This was a fun, interactive experience.
11.03.2024
Having had such success producing bar graphs when we were studying the weather, we had another go for science week.
The topic was the passing of time.
Each child made a tally chart by completing a survey - finding out which month each child in the class was born. We then collated this information onto a frequency table, before transfering it onto a bar graph.
Once again, I was impressed with all the children's abilities to do this quite complex gathering and presentation of data.
01.03.24
Our first swimming session on Friday was a great success. All the children had fun splashing around in the water and I have never had a class before when everyone was so enthusiastic to have a go. The children who had said they were nervous, quietly and independently overcame their fears. Everyone tried really hard and I saw leaps in progress right from the start of the session. I also had a huge amount of fun helping my group, who grew in confidence every time they swam the width of the pool.
I am really impressed. Well done Year 1!
16.02.24
It was a pleasure to meet Year 1 parents on Thursday evening and discuss the hard work and progress your children have made since the beginning of the year. I think you will agree from looking at the work in books and having a peek at the assessment data that the children have worked incredibly hard.
A huge thank you to you all for the prizes you sent into school for the BINGO event - it will be lovely to see you all there.
09.02.24
Year 1 had a fabulous class assembly. Thank you to the children and parents who came to see it. The children worked incredibly hard to make it a success. We enjoyed hearing the story of Peter Rabbit being retold, the weather reports showing their knowledge of geography and science, the parables that had been learned about in RE and the information about pitch and pulse in music.