Year 1 enjoying their first week back!

14th September 2023L Chisholm

Welcome to the first post showcasing the amazing work completed by year 1. The children have all settled back into school life with ease and are taking on their new challenges with excitement and creativity.  We have been looking at sorting objects in various ways in our maths lessons and ‘The Colour Monster’ has been our book of choice in English where we have been talking about our feelings.  Our PE sessions this term are with our sports coach and we are focussing on different ways to move and jump.  Our Learning Means the World lessons have been around safe playing with our friends and looking at habitats and life cycles of animals.  As you can see we have been really busy but have had so much fun and can’t wait to share more of our experiences with you throughout the year!

1 Red can handle data!

28th June 2023L Chisholm

In 1 Red this week we have been looking at ways in which we can show information. We decided to ask our friends their favourite fruit and then discussed the best way to show this. We decided a tally chart was a good way but after a while this became confusing as we couldn’t be sure that we hadn’t already counted that answer. We then decided that creating a bar chart was the easiest and best way to show our results. We are fantastic!

Shadows in 1 Red

16th June 2023L Chisholm

This week in our ‘Light Up The World’ theme we have been looking at light and dark; what creates a shadow and how shadows change over time.  The children have measured shadows throughout the day, made their own shadow puppets and figured out that a solid object does not let light through and that is how a shadow is formed.  They had great fun using the torches to create big and small shadows.

1 Red went to the Centre for Life

9th June 2023L Chisholm

Year 1 went to the Centre for Life as part of our theme ‘Light Up The World’.  We had a really great day exploring our universe.  We completed some map work by looking at different continents and which animals came from which country.  We then took part in a ‘Gross Bodies’ theatre show where we discovered what horrible things our bodies do to keep us healthy.  We explored space, its planets, a space rocket and mission control; then took at tour through the stars in the planetarium.  We explored different machines and how they worked and what a great brain we have.  It was a brilliant day and we have learnt so much!

1 Red Knowing their Directions

24th May 2023L Chisholm

In Maths this week we have been looking at position and direction.  We used lots of mathematical vocabulary to describe where we were or give our friends directions.  We know full turn, half turn, 3/4 turn and 1/4 turn.  We then moved onto forwards, backwards, left and right.  We had great fun directing our friends around the classroom, completing dances that included directions for us to follow and, possibly the most fun of all

……we programmed a Beebot with directions to arrive at a given destination!

1 Red are composers!

12th May 2023L Chisholm

We have just started our new theme ‘Light Up The World’ and one of our first lessons was to look at the difference between light and dark in all aspects of our life. We looked at a few pieces of music and decided which instruments played ‘light’ music and which ones were best suited to represent ‘dark music’. As a group, we then composed a light and dark tune.

Measuring Masters in 1 Red!

30th March 2023L Chisholm

This week we have been measuring using objects, scales and rulers.  We have been estimating how heavy, light, tall or short our chosen objects were. We even used a ruler and were able to measure using centimetres and half centimetres! It was great fun using the resources and finding out if our estimates were correct.

1 Red are computer wizards!

14th March 2023L Chisholm

In our Learning Means The World theme we looked at programming and the algorithms we can make.  We used Scratchjr to start looking at programming commands and making our sprite move across the screen.  We worked with our partner and wrote a set of commands together to complete our activity.  It was great fun!