YEAR 1 BLOG

Year 1 have had a lovely Christmas week in school. We have made Christmas cards and enjoyed Christmas crafts. We have written the nativity story, been to mass and enjoyed carols around the tree. On Thursday, we all enjoyed our Christmas dinner. Have a great Christmas!
 

Year 1 have been busy thinking about growing.

We have planted crocus bulbs in grass and we have planted some bulbs in pots so we can watch them grow.

We enjoyed getting a bit muddy filling our pots with compost and we made sure we planted the bulbs roots down!

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Year 1 showed their respect and manners on their walks to the war memorial today. Everyone was very polite and a represented our school so well. We enjoyed seeing the memorial to those who died in wars and reflected on the sacrifice they made. 
 

Year 1 Sacrament are settling in to their new routines well. Today, we enjoyed our PE outdoors. We finished just before the rain began!

Year 1 have had great fun this afternoon for the start of their new topic in history. We are learning about the history of the seaside. I am sure they will tell you all about it. 

The Tiger came to tea on World Book Day in Year 1 and shared their favourite story ! Children enjoyed a range of book related activities throughout the day.

Year 1 Sacrament enjoyed learning and singing The Lords Prayer today. They were respectful and enjoyed singing together.

And just like that we have completed our first week in Year 1.

We are planning to take a photo every month as part of our Science observation of the seasons.

We have been getting ready to move on to year 2.  We have been thinking about our feelings and how we can have lots of different feelings inside us at the same time.  Our craft activity with fish in a pond helped us to think about how we stay in control of our…

We have been investigating plants and naming the different parts of the plants. We went into the garden and pulled up some weeds so we could see the roots.  As you can see, some of the weeds didn’t want to come out of the ground!  We enjoyed looking at the different parts under the…

Year 1 have been looking at shadows this week and thinking about how our shadows change throughout the day.  We enjoyed drawing around our shadows and playing shadow tig.

In DT, we have been practising our cutting, spreading and grating skills ready for making our own Jubilee sandwiches.