Year 1 know all about plants!

9th March 2023L Chisholm

In our theme of Unity In The Community we have been looking at our local area and discussing what we can see around us daily.  The children realised that their area has lots of trees and plants and we discussed what these plants needed to grow.  We then planted our own Lima bean and we can’t wait to see if we get beans from it.  We then labelled a plant and if  you ask us,

we can tell you the difference between an Evergreen tree and a Deciduous tree (Yes we are that clever!)

Year 1 were out of this world!

3rd March 2023L Chisholm

Year 1 loved our theme of ‘Out Of This World’ on world book day.  They came dressed as all manner of intergalactic oddities.  We based our activities around the book, ‘There’s an alien in your book’ by Tom Fletcher. We firstly created our own alien using playdough and thought of its name, which planet it came from and what it likes to eat (I’m a little scared by how many aliens are out there who want to eat Teachers!).  We then built a rocket to take our aliens back to their home planet (phew).  In the afternoon we enjoyed learning about electricity and gas reactions with a Scientist.  We found out that our bodies conduct electricity and if we hold hands we become a circuit.  We also found out that trapped gas eventually has to be released and we used this knowledge to blast off some rockets.  We have had a great day and can’t wait until next year!

Learning about Judaism in 1 Red

2nd March 2023L Chisholm

This term we are looking at the religion of Judaism in our R.E. sessions.  The children have looked at a Synagogue and the important artefacts it holds.  We also looked at some of their celebrations and how they differ to the ones we know.  We created our own star of David and a Menorah and were very respectful recognising and understanding differences.

 

I Red went litter picking

17th February 2023L Chisholm

We have been looking at our community and what we can do to make it better.  1 Red decided that the wind had blown everything towards our classroom and because we are a school community they wanted to clear the area.  The children did a brilliant job just in time for the parents coming.

Year 1 Coffee Morning

17th February 2023L Chisholm

Year 1 hosted a coffee morning for their parents as part of their ‘unity in the Community’ theme.  They shared reading, maths and physical games with their adults and it was a great success.  Many of the parents said what a great time they had had and that they wished they could have stayed longer.  Our children, as usual, were brilliant and showed off many off their skills and even introduced their parents to each other to increase their community. Well done Year 1!

1 Red are making music

9th February 2023L Chisholm

Unity In The Community is a lovely theme which teaches us all about our surrounding areas and to look at them in different ways.  We have been looking at not taking our lovely area for granted and to think about it with positivity.  We had a look at some very boring signs that we often see in the area around us and we decided to allocate each sign a sound.  After a while we realised that we had become composers and had created a musical story.  We then used 2Simple to generate our story and listened to our creations.  Look out Top Of The Pops!

1 Red are safe on the roads

9th February 2023L Chisholm

This week in our ‘Unity In The Community’ theme, we have been looking at the importance of crossing the road safely.  We looked at the Green Cross Code and worked with our partners to design our own posters and discuss what is right and wrong about certain scenarios that we have witnessed both in the community and on the class videos.

1 Red back to back drawing and brilliant counting.

7th February 2023L Chisholm

This week in our Maths we have been matching numerals to its picture form then trying our best to write the number word.  This has been very tricky, especially the writing of the word in its number form but we didn’t give up.  We then used our great communication and language skills to explain to our partner what picture we were looking at.  Our partner had to listen very carefully and draw what we had said, sound easy? Well we did it back to back so we really had to concentrate on our partners words and directions.  It was geat fun!

I Blue can spot the difference.

6th February 2023L Chisholm

Today in our Learning Means the World lesson we worked with our partner to spot the difference between 2 pictures of a classroom.  We used great communication skills and team work in order to find all the differences.  We realised how hard it was to find them all if we didn’t concentrate on each section and communicate appropriately with our partner.  We took turns to tell each other what we could see and shared our results with the class.

1 Red are Geographers!

19th January 2023L Chisholm

This week in our theme of ‘Never Eat Shredded Wheat’ we have been looking at maps and how to read them. We have been giving each other directions to find places on a map and we know the difference between human and physical geographical features. We even created our own maps and matching key. We then thought about the sounds that each symbol on our key could make and we composed our own geographical music score!