This week, the children have settled in really well and we have been really impressed with their learning behaviours. They have all enjoyed seeing their friends again and getting used to the rules and routines of Year 1. The children all completed a self-portrait of themselves which is going on t...

We have loved getting to know our new children this week. We have got to know each other by doing lots of activities, such as finding out our likes and dislikes, what we would rather like and we drew our class animals. Thank you for bearing with us at home time, we are doing our best to get to know...

We had a lot of fun on our visit to the beach on Wednesday. The children built sandcastles, dug holes and searched for shells and other beach objects. The weather was amazing and the members of the public who were also at the beach mentioned how well behaved and respectful the children were. We held...

This week in Year 1 we have been developing our design skills and making puppets. We explored the best way to make a moving part and decided that a split pina allowed the part of our puppet to pivot and we could use this to make our puppet wave. 

Year 1 took part in an art workshop this week. We joined schools from around TEAM Multi Academy Trust and experimented in using shade and tone. We use different resources to darken our lines (charcoal, crayon, pencil and fine liner). 

In computing we looked at multitasking. We needed to give algorithm to each of our sprites. We worked as teams to give a set of instructions to each character so that they all moved at the same time.