Category: Year 1

In this week's Primary League Stars lesson the Year 1 children watched a film about self esteem and discuss what this means.  The children then drew a picture of themselves and wrote about self esteem.  The children also played a variety of teamwork games with cross curricular links including literacy and geography on the topic

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Year 1 have an exciting opportunity to take part in a project ran by Premier League Stars this term.  Premier League Primary Stars uses the appeal of the Premier League and professional football clubs to inspire children to learn, be active and develop important life skills.  This is available to every primary school in England and

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Today in the forest we have been learning and exploring different types of leaves.  We found leaves that are wavy edged, toothed edge and smooth edge.  We sorted them into the different groups.  We also started to look at the veins on the leaves and learnt some new words - pinnate, palmate and parallel veins! We then

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Today Year 1 met John and his dog Ruby.  Ruby loves listening to children read stories and being stroked.  Ruby will be visiting the school again soon, we are all looking forward to the next visit from John and Ruby.

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This half term we have been learning all about our senses.   We have also thought about people that do not have some senses.  We have looked at Braille, sign language and today we tried drawing and writing with our feet.  We wanted to answer the question 'Is our right foot better than our left

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Today Year 1 spent the day doing lots of activities to explore the Christian celebration of Harvest.  We made bread rolls and tasted different types of bread and talked about why Harvest is an important time for Christians and what we are thankful for.

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We have been busy practising using adjectives.  We have designed a creature to trick the Gruffalo in the forest.  We had to work with our learning partner to describe our creature for them to try and draw.  They were not allowed to look at our creatures until we had finished!  How do you think we

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Year 1 have been using clay to make a Gruffalo footprint, we have used lots of different tools to create different effects on the clay.  What do you think a Gruffalo footprint would look like?

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In Year 1 we have reading the story of The Gruffalo.  We are using this story to help with lots of learning including learning about adjectives and using adjectives to describe some of the characters. In Maths we are looking for Gruffalo footprints and reading the numbers that we find.  We have also been making

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