Year 1 has been very busy this week. In Art, we have been researching line drawing portraiture.  We sat opposite our partner and drew them without looking at the paper. Last week, we explored a pumpkin in English and to follow our learning we wrote instructions and made our own delicious pumpki...

Year 1 have been practicing throwing in PE this half term and this week we played a game focusing on our teamwork and developing simple tactics for attacking/ defending. They had so much fun!

In Geography, Year 1 are learning the topic 'Our Local Area'. As a class, we used a compass to label the playground with NESW. The children were given simple directional instructions to follow. For example, walk to North, skip to West, side –step to East, walk like a robot to...

In English, Year 1 have been reading 'Wild' by Emily Hughes. We went into forest school to collect leaves for her hair. The children absolutely loved creating their own wild character and writing about her different features.

This week, Year 1 started their new Maths topic 'Place Value' and they have had lots of fun sorting a range of objects into different groups.  They have been able to reinforce the concept of sorting during our daily activities such as lining up.