YEAR 1 BLOG

Yesterday we explored our school garden. We recorded the types of flowers and trees we found. We took care to draw the shapes of the petals and leaves correctly to help us make a leaflet to identify them. 
 

Year 1 are busy learning number bonds to ten so we have a really quick recall of these number facts. We have been using a ten frame to make as many different ways as we could. Miss Moore has challenged her class to use the game called Hit the Button on the Top Marks website to improve speed! Why…

This week year 1 have completed their phonics screening check. Every single child tried their best and have impressed us so much. We are all very proud of them and thankful for your support at home in reading with your child. 

This week we were very lucky to be able to handle artefacts from the past. We have a museum loan in Year 1. It was a brilliant opportunity for the children to handle the old objects. The children shared their knowledge of what they were and used their fantastic drawing skills to make detailed…

Today we began our new design and technology topic. We will be designing our ideal sandwich and making it. We will be learning the skills of peeling, spreading, chopping and grating.

We tasted four types of bread today to decide which was our favourite. We tried brioche, white, brown and…

Today, Year 1 Sacrament have been out in the garden to identify trees. We learnt about the different types of trees, evergreen and deciduous. Ask your children what the difference is… We also checked on our seeds. We can see some signs of growth!

Year 1S have been busy planting seeds. We have planted snap dragons, kale and cucumber in our newly weeded bed. 

Year 1B have sewn the same seeds in the poly tunnel. We shall see which seeds have the best environment to grow!

What a nice day to be beside the seaside!

Year 1 Sacrament have had a lovely time on their trip today. Their behaviour was brilliant and we have all learnt lots.

We learnt about steam trains, had an afternoon tea during Victorian times, made a seaside themed mosaic, dressed up for…

As part of our DT lessons we are making a puppet. Last week we designed a puppet. We had to think about the colours we would use, the features our puppet would have and, most importantly, the materials we would use.

This week we sewed our puppets. The children were ”sew” amazing at…

May is the month where we remember Mary. This week we made a decade of the rosary as a bracelet. The children were fantastic at threading their own beads! We hope this bracelet will become something to treasure.

Year 1 Sacrament had an outside science lesson today. We weeded our flower bed and prepared the soil ready for sewing seeds next week. We discussed what a seed needs so it can grow, while we worked. We will keep you updated on our progress. 
 

In science we are learning about plants and trees. This week we learnt about trees and the different parts of them. We made bark rubbings of the trunk. We investigated different types of trees to see if all the bark was the same. Ask us about what we discovered!