On Friday, year 1 started their new topic of dance in PE. The children demonstrated their sticky knowledge of different types of dance and how we can move, then we put this into practice by moving to different types of music including Mozart and Katy Perry linked to our music topic. 
Yesterday, year 1 had the best day at the Life Centre in Newcastle. Firstly, we participated in a where on earth workshop to support our learning in Geography around the topic of our wonderful world. The children all got given an animal and they travelled around the world to discover the animals natural habitats, the countries they live in and discussing the 7 different continents.
After the workshop, the children explored the Life Centre. We absolutely loved the new light box area, even all the teachers had so much fun too! We then moved into the wow zone and space zone and had a great time being astronauts.
After dinner, we all went into the planetarium. We watched a new show called ‘bump in the night’, the children were amazed at this unique experience. We then moved into the play zone, we had the BEST time! Finally, we watched a science show and even had two stars of the show who joined the scientist on stage.
Well done year 1!
Year 1 have had the best day at The Shipley Art Gallery to further their learning in the topic “Mix it”. Our workshop was based around exploring primary and secondary colours using oil pastels. To do this, a leader from the gallery discussed the local landmark The Angel of The North. The children created human structures, then in groups used their artistic skills to create a sculpture of the Angel of The North. Lastly, the children used primary colour oil pastels to create secondary colours to draw their own pictures. The leader commented on the children’s fantastic attitude to learning and how full of ideas they all were.
On Monday and Tuesday afternoon this week, year 1 have been investigating how the properties of materials define their uses.
The children were tasked to use their sticky knowledge from Reception to design and make some bunting that will improve the look of the playground, however this had to be sustainable for the weather so together the children decided this needed to be bendy to flutter in the wind and waterproof.
We then tested a range of different materials and presented these in a venn diagram of our findings. The children used this information to predict which materials would be most suitable and why using scientific vocabulary.
As a group we helped each other to make two sets of bunting with the chosen materials, 1 to hang outside and 1 to hang indoors.
After half term, the children will observe the two sets of bunting and record their findings and conclusions.
On Friday, year 1 had a full art day covering the topic, Mix it! Firstly, the children completed a COOL task using their sticky knowledge from Reception. Secondly, they identified and used paints to represent primary and secondary colours on a colour wheel. To further develop the children’s understanding that colours can be mixed they used a folding and rolling technique to mix primary colours to create secondary colours. Finally, the children chose a template to create their own colour composition artwork.
This week, year 1 and two children from year 2 went into our local community and posted leaflets to help save our St Oswald’s church. We had a gorgeous time talking to local residents and making our voices heard. The children also posted leaflets promoting Mrs Whittle’s toddler group, please ask staff for more information about this!
In maths today, Year One have been adding together with the help of counters and part whole models. Using 2 different coloured really helped them understand ‘ adding more’ so that they could find the whole.
Today Year One have been preparing to write their riddles by learning about verbs. They children chose objects and then thought of different actions that you can do with that object. They then picked the best verb to write clues that could be part of their gold write riddles.
In music year 1 have been doing sustained listening to Rondo Alla Turca by Mozart. The children focused on dynamics and tempo and discussed what instruments they could hear. They then listened to the piece of music again and used musical tracing to follow along.
This afternoon, in PE year 1 continued with throwing and catching. We used bean bags to start with then because we have progressed so much we moved on to catching a tennis ball.
