Year One have had a fantastic morning, combining their Geography and Maths learning. They started off the session thinking about the directional and positional language that they knew and then they used it to direct Mrs Wells to different objects around the classroom. They then worked together to direct each other using the vocabulary that they had learnt.
On Friday, Year 1 started their digital art unit for Computing.
Firstly, they discussed what the different paint tools might be for, as part of their cool task. Then, they explored artwork by Mondrian, before learning how to create their own artwork in his style by using the line and fill tools. Children used paintz.app for their digital painting. This program is available for free by simply typing “paintz.app” into Google on any device.
Well done Year 1!
Year 1 had a fantastic time with Mrs O’Doherty in the nature garden for forest school on Thursday.
First of all, children discussed all of the different features of a woodland, then they went out and looked for these in our nature garden. They were excited to spot features such as bird nests and fungi.
Finally they took part in woodland management by helping Mrs O’Doherty to wood-chip the paths in the nature garden to help preserve vegetation.
Year 1 have had the best morning at Temple Park for a Christmas multi-skills festival. The children joined in with a range of fun-themed Christmas activities and really got into the festive spirit, Ho Ho Ho! 
Yesterday, Year 1 enjoyed a wonderful No Pens Day! We had great fun learning makaton sign language to the song Father Christmas and then they performed the poem Dear Zoo. After lunch, our lovely parents joined us for COOL afternoon where we used our oracy skills to discuss a perplexed picture.
As part of Road safety week year 1 put into action what we have been learning this week. The children focused on the green cross code and how to cross a road safely.
