Year 1

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Thursday 3rd April 2025

Final Destination!  

In DT, we have been building up to creating our own freestanding structures. We took inspriation through playground equipment and decided on swings as our desired structure. We have taken information in, tested it out and planned what we think would work best before constructing our final piece. 

Friday 21st March 2025

Today, we enjoyed the weather and tested our skills on our oreinteering course.

Friday 7th February 2025

Today we made fruit salads! We used the chopping skills that we learnt throughout our DT lessons to prepare our lovely creations.

Wednesday 29th January 2025

Knowledge day!

Today we completed our second knowledge day of the year. Throughout the day we conducted science experiments, made computer art, created cards using sliders and levers, and consolidated our knowledge on the Christmas story and changes within living memory.

Tuesday 21st January 2025

After tasting lots of different fruits, we had a go at testing our knife skills in preparation for our fruit salads.

Thursday 12th December 2024

Knowledge day!

Today we conducted our first knowledge day. This is where we consolidate the knowledge from our foundation subjects.

Monday 9th December 2024

Experience Christmas! 

Today we went over to church and completed a varitey of different activites linked to Christmas.

Friday 22nd November 2024

Takeover day! 

We've had an exciting day that consisted of Year 6 children carrying our the roles of all the teachers, followed by an afternoon with some fascinating guests!

Monday 4th November 2024

Today we learnt all about space through our fantastic WonderDome experience! We had a presentation all about space that inspired us to then create space art in our computing lesson.

Monday 14th October 2024

What a fantastic week we have had! We have enjoyed exploring all the different books in the book fair. We have taken part in some roleplaying and hot seating in our English lessons. Also, we have continued our work on the laptops and are now getting more used to using the keyboard.

Friday 4th October 2024

Today we have been outside looking at signs of autumn. This links to our current science topic where we are looking at seasons.

Thursday 26th September 2024

Happy European Day of Languages! To celebrate we have put a twist on our orienteering by combining it with Spanish. We have learnt the numbers up to 10.

Thursday 12th September 2024

This week we have done lots of work on our new book Traction Man is Here. We have had lots of fun learning to sequence the story. We have also enjoyed our dance lessons, where we have begun to learn our Greatest Showman dance.

Friday 6th September 2024

This week we have done lots of different team activities. One of our favourite ways to do this has been by exploring our new orienteering course.