Life Cycles!

By Sophie Dale10th June 2021

In PSHE, Year 1 have been exploring the different life cycles of animals and humans. At first we looked at our own life cycle and discussed our different life experiences of having older/younger siblings and shared these with the rest of the class. We then ordered these as a whole class.

We discussed how we grow and the changes that happen to our bodies and how this is OK! It happens to all of us! We then discussed that it isn’t just humans that grow but animals also have life cycles. In groups, Year 1 worked hard to order different life cycles. Some groups had frogs, others had chickens or butterflies! It was so interesting to see how they changed and learn the key vocabulary such as frog spawn, froglets, chicks, cocoon etc!

Human VS physical features found at UK seaside’s!

By Sophie Dale10th June 2021

Year 1 have been fantastic Geographers this week. We have loved exploring seaside’s learning key vocabulary such as coastline and landlocked to help us understand what a seaside is and what countries have them. In the previous lesson we identified and located the 4 countries of the UK and their capital cities. This week we built on our knowledge and explored different beaches found in the UK. At first, year 1 thought that all beaches would be the same and have the same physical and human features.

As Geographers we wanted to find out more so we looked at 3 contrasting beaches and discussed what we could see.

                                 

We found that beaches can be very different even in the UK! Although they do share the same physical features such as: cliffs, sand, sea. They have different human features. Some had towns, shops and rides where as the beach in Scotland was deserted and had nothing around it. One child said “I bet the Victorians didn’t go to that beach it looks boring!” We all agreed!

We then labelled the 3 seaside’s with their different features to visually see their similarities and differences.

As a plenary to our lesson we took advantage of the nice weather and explored our school grounds for physical and human features. Here are some of the things we found!

Y1 Creative Club Fun

By Sophie Dale28th May 2021

Following the requests of the children, in Creative Club this week, we developed our origami techniques and made puppets from paper.

We found folding the paper tricky at first but after some practise we became experts at it! We decided to make a variety of animals and used different coloured paper, different pens and lots of glue to create the finished effect! We think they look great!

Who is special to us?

By Sophie Dale26th May 2021

In PSHE we had a brilliant discussion about the people in our lives who are special to us and why.

Here were some of our answers:

“My Mum because she gives me cuddles and looks after me”

“My Dad because he plays with me and helps me if I fall over”

“My Grandad and Grandma and they buy me sweets!”

It was lovely to share the special people in our lives with our friends!

Fish fact files!

By Sophie Dale26th May 2021

In year 1, we have been looking at non-chronological reports. Linking to our English book ‘The Rainbow fish’ we were eager to find out more about fish! We learnt the facts using simple signifiers that helped us remember them!

 

We focussed on the different features of a fact file such as an introduction, sub-heading, pictures and captions.

In pairs we read the facts and placed them under the correct sub-heading in order for it to make sense for the reader.

We then presented our facts to the class to check they made sense.

Well done year 1!

 

 

Year 1 are incredible!

By Mrs K SMITH21st May 2021

In PSHCE this week, Year 1 have discussed what qualities each of us have.

We first got to tell Jigsaw Jack how special he is and what we thought he is good at.

Then, we talked about how good it feels when somebody tells you that you are good at something and how it’s also important to tell ourselves.

We found out that some of us are good friends, some of us are good at sports and some of us have special skills.

We listened as each member of the class told us why they are amazing.

We think our Year 1 children are just incredible!

Computer Coders

By Sophie Dale20th May 2021

This afternoon in Y1 we have been learning what coding means in computing – we found out that all of our favourite computer games we play on at home are all made by coding and that it is basically giving characters and objects instructions to move!

We were able to programme a range of sea creatures to move left, right, up and down! We understood we needed to give the computer very clear instructions or the creatures wouldn’t move properly.

 

We have some budding historians in Year 2!

By Mandy Graves20th May 2021

We have been learning about Christopher Columbus as part of our topic, ‘Explorers of the Sea.”

First, we looked at some sources of evidence.

We looked at diary entries, paintings and drawings.

Next, we ordered some information on a timeline.

Finally, we wrote our own timelines using the evidence and resources we had looked at.

Fantastic discussions during PSHE in Year 2!

By Mandy Graves19th May 2021

This week, Year 2 have been discussing secrets.

We talked about which secrets we should keep and which secrets we shouldn’t keep.

We shared our ideas with our friends.

We thought of lots of secrets that we were happy to keep, such as birthday surprises and parties.

Then, we talked about secrets we shouldn’t keep. Year 2 thought they should tell an adult if they knew a secret about somebody being unkind or mean.

Finally, we drew some pictures to represent our ideas and completed to some sentences.

Fantastic Food Chains in Year 2

By Mandy Graves19th May 2021

In Science, we have been learning about habitats and the animals that live in them.

As part of this unit at work we have investigated food chains.

We began by talking about which plants and animals other animals ate.

We looked at lots of different pictures of animals and plants from a variety of habitats.

 

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Next, we sorted our pictures into food chains.

Finally, we drew our own scientific diagrams and created a food chain with explanations using the key words we had learnt.