Year 1: Blog items
Date: 1st Jul 2024 @ 5:19pm
Today we explored the key question, ‘how has the Blackpool Tower Circus changed?' We began by learning about the circus in the past, the year it opened, what acts performed there and how it looked. We looked at both photo evidence and posters, discussing what clues we could see that gave us information about the past. We learnt about how the circus has changed over time and sorted a range of pictures into past and present. We then created a timeline of the promotional posters used. Finally we created our own posters for the present circus!
Date: 28th Jun 2024 @ 8:05pm
Today we all enjoyed dressing in bright and sporty clothes to celebrate 'Elmer Day' and raise money for charity!
Date: 25th Jun 2024 @ 7:14pm
Today we enjoyed a rugby workshop with Josh from Wigan Warriors! Through a range of different activities, we learnt to hold the ball, pass it correctly, run with it and how to score a try! We all had a great afternoon and loved learning new skills!
Date: 24th Jun 2024 @ 7:44pm
Today we enjoyed Sports Day! It was a very warm day but we all showed lots of determination, resilience and team work on each station. We took part in races, archery, speed bounce, bean bag throwing and cup stacking! We all thoroughly enjoyed sharing the afternoon with our grown ups and showing them our sports skills!
Date: 21st Jun 2024 @ 1:33pm
Today we enjoyed Art and Music Day! We learnt about the theme for the day and what the word 'identity' means. We then talked about the different things that make us individual and that contribute towards our identity. We completed different activities to explore our own identities before creating our own self portrait. We looked carefully at our own individual features and the shapes we can use to create our features using pastels and pencils.
Date: 20th Jun 2024 @ 6:03pm
Today, we all enjoyed takeover day with our Year 5 teachers! We were very excited to meet our new teachers and TAs and all tried our very best with everything they asked us to do.
After assembly, we began the morning by reading the story 'More or less' to recap our understanding of how to find one more and one less than a given number. We then used our knowledge to find one more and one less for given numbers within 100, showing our Year 5 teachers how we record our learning independently on Seesaw.
We then learnt how to draw a portrait of ourselves. Mr Ridley showed us a great example of his own portrait and gave us step by step instructions to follow.
We all had a super morning!
Date: 17th Jun 2024 @ 5:09pm
Reception very kindly let Year 1 borrow their ducklings for an afternoon this week. We were all very excited to see the new ducklings and learn a bit more about them! We were all very gentle with the animals and enjoyed them visiting our classroom.
Date: 17th Jun 2024 @ 5:01pm
In RE this week we have learnt the story of Noah's Ark. We read the story together, talking about the characters, key events and the meaning behind the story. We then retold the story together, before creating our own storyboards.
Date: 11th Jun 2024 @ 5:18pm
Today we began our 'moving a robot' work to learn early programming skills. We explored using the individual buttons and commands, identifying what each command for the Beebot does and using them to start to predict the outcome of the robot program.
Date: 10th Jun 2024 @ 12:32pm
Over the past few weeks, Year 1 have been practising especially hard for our phonics screening. We have completed lots of different activities in our provision to recap all our diagraphs and trigraphs and to continue to practise reading real words and alien words.
Date: 21st May 2024 @ 6:28pm
Today we finally finished our homes! We put all the finishing touches onto our final products using paints and other materials. We have worked very hard throughout this half term to look at existing homes, design our own home, make our prototype, make our final design and evaluate what we have made.
Year 1 Finding Half of a Quantity
Date: 20th May 2024 @ 5:50pm
Today we learnt to find half of a quantity. We worked through lots of examples together, seeing that to find a half we need two equal groups. We then explored practically sharing a given quantity of objects into two groups using skills developed throughout our previous lessons. We checked the amounts in each groups after sharing to ensure that there was an equal amount in each group.
Date: 17th May 2024 @ 1:01pm
Today we followed our designs and prototypes to make our homes. We thought about key ideas we needed to talk about before we started to make our homes, e.g. how can we stay safe when making our homes? And how can we make sure our homes turn out the way we want them too? We then worked to follow our own designs and prototypes to each create our home. After we had created our final product we checked really carefully that there was nothing else to do to improve our finished product.
Date: 16th May 2024 @ 7:55am
Today Year 1 enjoyed a fantastic assembly with Dan. We were all throughly engaged with Dans story about Dave the horse, who had some very interesting powers! We all listened and participated extremely well and Dans assembly inspired lots of us to want to tell our own stories about Dave!
Date: 14th May 2024 @ 4:27pm
Today we looked at the use of Murti in Hindu worship. We learnt that Murtis are often colourful and bright and that Hindus give offerings to them. We then looked at lots of different examples of Murtis, including both Gods and Goddesses, and looked at why Hindus may worship them. We then chose a Murti to represent using salt dough, thinking about why Hindus may choose this Murti to worship. Again, we discussed how these are used as a way of showing respect to the different roles of God.
Date: 7th May 2024 @ 6:46pm
Today we learnt the differences between bulbs and seeds. We learnt that a seed is part of a plant that a new plant grows from and they can be all different shapes and sizes! We then learnt that a bulb is also a part of some plants that can be found underground, storing food for the plant, ready for when it grows. We then completed a bulbs and seeds sort, looked at examples of bulbs and seeds and made observational drawings of bulbs and seeds.
Year 1 and Year 2 Move for Mental Health
Date: 7th May 2024 @ 8:03am
This week as part of Mental Health Awareness week Year 1 and Year 2 have been exploring how exercise keeps us healthy both physically and mentally. We have continued to complete our daily four laps of the playground and found lots of different ways to keep moving for our whole break time! During Always Time this week, we also danced outside to music and created chalk art.
Date: 1st May 2024 @ 4:53pm
We had all been looking forward to meeting our visitor and learning lots about Hinduism! This morning we enjoyed a whole school assembly which taught us about respect in Hinduism, the Hindu shrine and the story of Rama and Sita. This afternoon we then took part in a pracitcal workshop to learn about the use of murti in Hindu worship through storytelling, music, dance and dressing up!
Date: 30th Apr 2024 @ 6:20pm
Today we used our previous learning of recognising equal groups to now add equal groups together to find a total. We focused on counting equal groups of 2, 5 and 10 within 50, identifying and recording the number sentence to match the groups. We discussed and began to use the language of multiplication, e.g. ‘there are 5 equal groups of 2, so there are 10 in total.’
Date: 23rd Apr 2024 @ 4:57pm
Today we built on our previous learning of counting by making groups of 10 by learning to count forwards and backwards in 10s. We began our lesson with reading the story ‘Toasty Toes’ which introduced us to counting in tens by counting the number of toes on the beach. We then used a variety of representations, including tens frames, hundred squares and bead strings to support us to understand multiples of 10.
Date: 23rd Apr 2024 @ 4:53pm
Today we created a prototype for the front of our home. We continued to work safely with resources to follow our design. We evaluated our designs as we were working with our partners and after we had finished our prototypes we then discussed as a class what had gone well and what we had to change before making our final product.
Date: 19th Apr 2024 @ 3:51pm
This half term we are learning how to use shapes and lines to be able to paint using computers. We began by learning how to use the different tools on 'Paintz' and spent time exploring what we could create using these tools.
Date: 16th Apr 2024 @ 5:56pm
Today Year 1 enjoyed No Pen Day! We began our Science lesson by identifying the different parts of a tree, including the roots, trunk, bark, branches, leaves and crown. We then labelled these parts on a tree independently, either using the text tool on Seesaw or reading the parts and matching them to the correct label.
We then learnt what the words deciduous and evergreen meant. We looked at examples of each and discussed what we noticed about the different leaves. We learnt that evergreen leaves are usually thicker, leathery and waxier than the leaves of deciduous trees. We felt some examples from different trees, including holly, laurel and hazel. We then completed an evergreen and deciduous tree sort.
Date: 15th Apr 2024 @ 5:55pm
This half term our writing is based around the story 'Zog.' Today we wrote sentences about the main character, using adjectives to describe his main features and linking our Boundary characteristics to Zogs actions at different parts of the story.
Date: 10th Apr 2024 @ 3:38pm
Today we learnt how to measure in centimetres. We learnt how to line the 0 on the ruler with the edge of the object we were measuring and to read across the ruler to find the length of the object. We showed lots of determination to master accurate measing in centimetres.
