Gold Pin Badges ⭐️

A huge well done to these children on being awarded the gold pin badge for their hard work, humour, resilience and overall fantastic progress this term. All of your teachers are very proud of you. 👏🏼

UV Experiments in Year 1

As part of our British Science Week, Year 1 had lots of fun learning about UV light and experimenting which materials are the best protection against it. We even got to take our own bracelets home with beads on which change colour in the sunlight! 

World Book Day Competition

Congratulations to some of our wonderful children who were winners of our World Book Day competitions. They have picked their prizes and are all set to read. Happy Reading!

Ice Man in Year 1

Last week the children had to choose their own equipment to free a Lego character from the ice.  A mean ice monster had frozen them.  They all used different materials and methods to try and be the quickest.  Afterwards they evaluated how they did and decided what they would do differently next time. 

Trees in Year 1

Year 1 have started to learn about trees and plants.  We learnt the names of parts of a tree and learnt about what the different parts do.  We found a way to measure the trees and calculate how old they are.  The oldest one we found was 118 years old!  We also went into the […]

The Bread Goblin in Year 1

Ahhh, it’s the Bread Goblin! The Greap sent him to steal the bread. He took all the bread from the Little Red Hen and left a trail of slime and some black hairs. Year 1 have made posters to try and catch him to help our Faithful Friends and Professor Klunk on our Curious Quest. […]

Experiments in Year 1

In science we have been experimenting with adding vinegar, baking soda, dishwasher soap and food colouring. We then decided to change our experiment by altering some of the ingredients- Coca Cola instead of vinegar, shampoo instead of soap and changing the order of adding the ingredients to the cup. We found that the original experiment […]

Bee-bots in Year 1

In our Computing lessons in Year 1, we have been learning how to use Bee-Bots for the first time. This week, we worked in groups to create maps for the Bee-Bots to travel on and then we listened to instructions from our friends to program the Bee-Bot to move to different spaces. We had so […]

Number bonds in Year 1

To help with our addition and subtraction skills we have been practising our number bonds to 10 using Numicon to support this.

Stained glass windows in Year 1

Year 1 have been very lucky to visit Hereford Cathedral this week and take part in a stained glass windows workshop, linked to our Art topic. The children really enjoyed having a tour of the cathedral and admiring the windows before creating their own stained glass windows to take home.