Year 1 were fantastic scientists this week as they placed animals into different groups including mammals, reptiles, fish and birds. We discovered that humans are mammals too! Keep up the hard work year 1. 
Category : Year 1/2
What a fun lesson year 1 had labelling things that can be found in our classroom. To make our labels more detailed we used adjectives. Our classroom was covered in sticky notes! Amazing job year 1. 
Year one have been working really hard in maths comparing different amounts. We have started to use mathematical language that represents biggest/smallest such as greater than/less than and more/less. We then looked at the signs <,> and = and used them in our work. Super maths!
Hot Seating!!!
Year one had a fantastic time hot seating Geronimo the character from our story by David Walliams! We asked him lots of questions about how it felt to not be able to fly and what it’s like living in the Antarctica. Our Geronimo was a super actor and our audience were spectacular! We followed up our hot seating session by using some brilliant adjectives in our work!
Today we have been learning about history again and how to work historically. We have learnt lots about Antarctica already and know that it is really cold there and that there is ice in the sea! We also know that we have not always known it is there because it is so hard to reach!
We used sources of evidence to look at different boats and ships and had lots of discussions about why we thought they were old or new and if we thought they were able to get to Antarctica and why. We had lots of fantastic discussions then ordered the boats and ships in chronological order.
This week in Science Year 1 have been learning all about the inspirational David Attenborough and the impact impact he has had on our planet! We loved learning about the places he has travelled- from the cold regions of Antarctica to the rainforests of South America! We wrote a fact file dedicated to David’s important works and read the biography ‘Little People, Big dreams’ based on his life, work and aims for the future! We really loved this lesson and enjoyed talking about big issues and big words like ‘endangered‘ and ‘extinction’. We thought about what those words meant to us an how even as little people we could change them…
Our first Computing unit in Y2 this year is Coding. Using Purple Mask, we are learning to create a background, create an avatar and make our avatar move.
Year 1 are learning how to become historians – we have looked at what ‘history’ is and even got to see a VERY old photograph of Mrs Yardley to help us to begin to understand chronology!
We have been using sources of evidence to identify things that are from the past and things that are from the present – we looked at photographs and paintings and had fantastic discussions with our classmates about why and how we categorised the sources we looked at.
Year 2 are studying the story ‘The Way Back Home’ by Oliver Jeffers. So far, they have learned signifiers for the story and created their own story maps. Today, they acted out the story and performed to rest of the class. There were some brilliant performances!
Year 2 are studying ‘The Starry Night’ by Vincent Van Gough in Art. They have also used the painting as a stimulus for the Star Poetry unit this week. They have worked together on their own lines for a poem and used them to create Star Poems. Brilliant job Y2!
