Welcome to our Year 1S Class News page! Here you’ll find the latest updates, highlights, and exciting moments from our classroom. Browse the news tiles and categories below to see what we’ve been learning and celebrating…
We had a fantastic day celebrating bees today and we learned so much from the bee keepers who came to speak to us. We made our own candles with bees’ wax and we tasted some delicious honey. Now we are working on our bee fact files!
This week Year 1 did some shopping in Sainsbury’s! In history we have been learning about how shopping has changed over the last 70 years. In the supermarket we scanned our own products, printed our own labels and used the self checkout.
Year 1 have enjoyed learning about garden flowers in our science lessons. They planted seeds and hopefully in a couple of weeks we will have some seedlings. We will watch very carefully!
We had a wonderful time celebrating World Book Day in Year 1. After our whole school assembly we played charades in class, looked at a selection of books and wrote about our favourite book characters.
Year 1 read The Shopping Expedition by Allan Ahlberg and then enjoyed thinking of their own challenges to overcome on a shopping trip. They thought of erupting volcanoes, angry robots, charging rhinos and swirling tornadoes! When all the books were complete the children loved reading them to each other.
Year 1 have enjoyed creating their own sculptures in our art lessons. They did a fantastic job helping each other to roll cylinders and attach them to a base in creative ways.
This week we began our design technology unit of work about sliding mechanisms. We began by looking at examples of sliding mechanisms, then we sorted pictures of objects into those that were sliding mechanisms and those that were not.
The season of Advent began with a very special Advent workshop this week. Sister Ann and Ann led us in a reflection all about Mary. Some of us were asked to do some special jobs to set out the prayer cloth. We all reflected on how we can say ‘yes!’ to God, just like Mary
Year 1S have been using the chrome books in their computing lessons. They have been learning how to log in and sign out. They have enjoyed experimenting with the tools on Sketchpad and produced some very creative work!
Year 1 have enjoyed learning about Igbo art and creating their own colourful Igbo masks. First we looked at a beautiful mask that was carved from wood. Then we looked at pictures of masks and the different facial features. We practised drawing eyes, eyebrows, noses and mouths before using our favourite ones on our own
