Our Y1 children have arrived safely at Beamish and can’t wait for the exciting day ahead!
In music this afternoon, year 1 have been revising compositional skills we have already learnt. We then applied this to graphic notation to perform the story of The Great Fire Of London.
On Friday, Year 1 continued their introduction to multiplication and division. Children arranged counters into arrays and explored the meaning of rows and columns. This will support their understanding of multiplying and dividing as they move through the school. The children coped so well with quite a tricky concept!
For worship this morning, year 1 joined in an activity focusing on patience. They worked in pairs and had to listen for a keyword and remain patient in reacting to get the come before their partner.
This afternoon in year 1 we have been looking at Victorian artefacts. We looked at photos of these and matched them to their description. For our written task we then compared classroom Victorian artefacts to equipment we use today in class!
On Friday, Year 1 started their new computing unit “Programming Animations” by discussing their prior programming knowledge, linked to Beebots. Children were then introduced to the “Scratch Jr” app on the iPad and shown how to use programming blocks to move a sprite across the screen. The children blew Mrs B away with their prior programming knowledge and their ability to apply this to animation.
Year 1 started a new topic in PE this afternoon, team games. We had a discussion about what is a team game, what team games do we know, do all team games have the same rules and what character traits do you need to be a good team player. We then played basketball and put our knowledge and skills to the test.
Year 1 have had the BEST afternoon in forest school with our lovely Mrs O’Doherty. The lesson linked to our topic ‘school days’ and our aim was to understand how litter and pollution affects our local environment. The children had a discussion about how litter can effect animal habitats linked to our science topic ‘animal parts’ and how we can be agents of change by litter picking in our nature garden and taking pride in our school. We also created our own posters to spread the word on looking after our environment and not littering. The children loved going inside the chicken and duck coop, wow we found so many eggs! Finally, the children had free play, exploring the nature garden with all of their friends.
Reminder – we have our chicken and duck egg coop at the front of the school building and it is full with freshly laid eggs. These are available for a welcomed donation.
In history this afternoon year 1 have been continuing their topic, school days. The children sorted statements about what Victorian schools were like into true and false.
