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!

1 Red and the best week back!

13th January 2023L Chisholm

1 Red have hit the ground running this week by coming back to school energised and ready to learn. Our new theme is ‘Never Eat Shredded Wheat’ and within this theme we are looking at map reading and using a compass to find directions. In Maths we have been looking at making larger numbers by thinking how many 10’s are in the number and how many ones.  In our English we are looking at questioning words and how we use them and what replies they generate. We have had a brilliant first week back.

Oh I do like to be inside my igloo!

25th November 2022L Chisholm

This week we have been learning about how it would feel to live in an igloo. We thought about the life of an Inuit and what they ate, where they lived and what they wore. We even tried some Inuit throat singing! We decided that we are very lucky to live in this country and eat the food we eat, we really don’t fancy walrus nuggets!

1 Red made sliders

18th November 2022L Chisholm

We took part in a design and technology lesson and used our theme of ‘Come Fly With Me- Arctic’ as inspiration.  We decided to create an Arctic scene and then create a slider to show the sun rising and setting.  We carefully snipped two slits in our card then inserted our sliding piece. We then created our scene and made our sun rise and set. We had lots of fun learning this new skill.

1 Red love the Inuits

18th November 2022L Chisholm

This week we have been learning about what the Inuit people eat and how their clothes are made.  We looked at the materials they use in their every day life and created our own Inuit collage using the material that we thought was best suited for that weather.

1 Red are scientists at the Arctic!

14th November 2022L Chisholm

Throughout this theme of ‘Come Fly With Me: Arctic’ we have been looking at the different animals and how they survive in a harsh environment.  We discovered that many Arctic animals have blubber to keep them warm. We decided that we wanted to see what difference blubber makes to an animal.  We became scientists and we placed our hands in icy water.  We then placed our hands in blubber (zip pocket with butter in)  and put them back in the water.  We concluded that the blubber stops the animal feeling cold.  It was great fun!

Bollywood comes to Hebburn Lakes!

5th November 2022L Chisholm

KS1 took part in celebrating the festival of ‘Diwali’ carried out by Kz Entertainment (a London based drama and dance group). Diwali is the five-day Festival of Lights,celebrated by millions of Hindus, Sikhs and Jains across the world. Diwali, which for some also coincides with harvest and New Year celebrations, is a festival of new beginnings and the triumph of good over evil and light over darkness.Children will listen to Diwali stories, learn some Bollywood dances and then take part in the tradition Dhandiya dances (stick dancing) which is a dance celebrated at this festival. As you can see the children had a great time!

1 Red are going potty!

13th October 2022L Chisholm

As part of our ‘Happily Ever After’ theme we decided that our favourite story character would benefit from a pot to keep their favourite item safe eg. Cinderella could keep her jewelery in or Granny could keep her biscuits in it to hide them from The Big Bad Wolf. We used clay and made a thumb pot.  We looked at how to pinch, mould and manipulate our clay to make our desired shape.  We then used a range of tools to ‘score’ our clay to make it patterned.