Year 1 have had a fabulous afternoon in the sunshine for forest school today! We continued with our science learning around seasonal changes, focusing on weather. We made our very own rain gauges so we could measure the rainfall in the nature garden. To end our afternoon, we looked for the signs of spring we could recognise….the nature garden was bursting with buds and blossom which we loved finding!
Wow Year 1, our performing superstars! We are so proud of you all for your amazing singing in our grandparents concert this morning. Thank you to all our fabulous grandparents for coming along, we loved it!
Year One have had a fabulous afternoon learning all about the mover and shaker, Sir Christopher Wren. They were able to link this to their topic, Bright Lights, Big City and discovered that he was very influential in the rebuilding of the capital after the great fire. As well as learning lots of facts about his life, significance and the impact he has had, they also became architects themselves and had a go a drawing St Paul’s Cathedral just like he would have done back in 1666.
This afternoon, year 1 have been looking at how they can stay safe in the sun. Staff were very impressed with the children’s knowledge during a discussion. They then created their own posters promoting sun safety!
Year 1 started their new topic in PE today, striking and fielding. As part of our COOL task the children used a racquet and ball to practice their striking skills. We also focused on key vocabulary seen on the pic collage.
Today was International Day of Maths so we learnt about Fibonacci, who was a mathematician and a mover and shaker. We found out about his life and his achievements. Then we explored the first part of the Fibonacci sequence and worked out some of the numbers in the pattern. Finally, we discovered that the Fibonacci sequence is found everywhere in nature, including the number of petals on a flower!
For this week’s Oracy challenge, year 1 were set the challenge of writing a postcard about a visit to London and to uplevel the words we use. The children completed the challenge doing a shared write and thought of many synonyms linked to their visit and landmarks.
For computing yesterday year 1 continued with grouping data. We began by grouping and counting objects then we did an object hunt looking for particular colours and then described these, even including our Oracy challenge for this week of thinking of synonyms.
WOW WOW WOW Year 1, what absolute little superstars. Your teachers could not be more proud of you all for our Bright Lights Big City assembly today. The progress you have all made since starting in year 1 in September is nothing short of amazing. We could burst with pride. Thank you so much to all our parents and carers for supporting your children in learning their lines, we are super grateful.
For this weeks worship challenge year 1 discussed how and when we should be passionate linked to how Jesus was. We then discussed our own passions in life and recorded these.
