Year 1: Blog items
POP day - Science, by Miss Collier
Date: 8th Jan 2024 @ 9:39pm
POP Protect Our Planet Day!
Today we watched a video all about the Eden Project and learnt how we can protect the worlds rainforests.
Anti-bullying week, by Miss Collier
Date: 8th Jan 2024 @ 9:22pm
In the week commencing 13-11-23 we looked at Anti-bullying, we focused on what we can do to help those who are being bullied and what we can do to stop bullying.
Science - Everyday Materials, by Miss Collier
Date: 7th Nov 2023 @ 4:53pm
During our first Science topic, Everyday Materials, we looked at the different properties of materials we use and we created an experiment looking at waterproof or not?
We created a table, made predictions about each of our materials and then completed the experiment.
Science - Human Senses 3-11-23, by Miss Collier
Date: 7th Nov 2023 @ 4:46pm
3-11-23
Today we started looking at our new Science topic, Human Senses. We started the topic looking at the question, who we are?
We created a mind map including all our ideas about the question. We then watched a video about humans and added more learning to answer the question (red pen).
National Poetry Day, by Miss Collier
Date: 6th Oct 2023 @ 4:29pm
On National Poetry Day in 2023 we are looking at poems with the theme of refugees. In Year 1 we looked at a poem called My Treaures.
Maths Day, by Miss Collier
Date: 6th Oct 2023 @ 4:21pm
Friday 6th October 2023.
Today at school it has been Maths Day. In KS2 they introduced Times Tables Rock Star and the whole school got to dress up as either a rock star or something else to do with Maths (eg colour, shapes, numbers). In KS1 we enjoyed some different Maths worksheet and Maths games throughout the day to celebrate Maths.
Sports Day 12-7-23, by Miss Collier
Date: 14th Jul 2023 @ 3:59pm
Thank you to everyone who came and supported us on Sports Day! We really enjoyed showing you how good we are at sports.
Turton Tower -26.6.23, by Miss Collier
Date: 28th Jun 2023 @ 4:05pm
On Monday we had a great day at Turton Tower. In the morningwe pretended that we were in a Victorianclassroom and in theafternoon we got to play with old toys and some Victorian parlour games.
Circus Trip - 25-5-23, by Miss Collier
Date: 26th May 2023 @ 3:58pm
Yesterday we loved our trip to the Circus! We got to watch a showand we learned some new tricks, had astory in the library andeven got to have a go in the Sensory room.
Supermarket Salad, by Miss Collier
Date: 18th May 2023 @ 4:17pm
This afternoon we have been busy creating our own SupermarketSalad. Yesterday we planned ouringredients and today wecreated our own salads. We chose between raspberries,blueberries, strawberries,lettuce, carrots and tomatoes. They alldid extremely well at chopping, slicing, mashing, grating andeatingtheir own salads.
Divergent Drama -The Great Fire of London., by Miss Collier
Date: 28th Mar 2023 @ 6:13pm
This morning we had a super time recreating The Great Fire ofLondon with Divergent Drama. We got to join inthe story, beimportant characters from the story and to wear lots of different costumes.
D&T Making our wheels, axles and chassis., by Miss Collier
Date: 16th Mar 2023 @ 4:52pm
In D&T we are getting ready to make our own London buses. On Wednesday we spent the afternoon practicing putting together our wheels, axles and chassis. We tested the finished product before we analysed what we had built.
We also designed what our final bus would look like so we are ready to build our London bus.
14-3-23 NFU, by Miss Collier
Date: 16th Mar 2023 @ 4:14pm
How are tractors connected to space?
On Tuesday we watched a live zoom with the NFU all about farming and tractors. We learnt how tractors are connected to space and what they are made out of.
We really enjoyed it and loved getting involved in the activities they had organised.
13.3.23 -Making our own Barometer, by Miss Collier
Date: 14th Mar 2023 @ 5:19pm
In pairs this today our Science experiment was to build a Barometer. We made our own Barometer to measure the air pressure. When the pressure is higher the water in the tube will rise meaning the weather should be warmer, the less water in the tube means low pressure and more chance of rain.
Science visitor -13.3.23, by Miss Collier
Date: 14th Mar 2023 @ 2:51pm
This week is British Science week and to start the week off we had a talk off Mrs Kos who helps to design and build hospitals. Mrs Kos told us how she uses Science in her job every day when designing hospitals for doctors and nurses.
Measuring height and length, by Miss Collier
Date: 10th Mar 2023 @ 7:04pm
During Maths this week we have been learning about height and length. We have learnt some key vocabulary such as longer, shorter, taller and smaller to describe different objects. We have also been looking at measuring length and height using objects (such as cubes) and rulers.
World Book Day - 2.3.23, by Miss Collier
Date: 7th Mar 2023 @ 9:09pm
On World Book Day we used various books to link with our Maths,English and Science lessons.
PSHE - 18.11.22, by Mrs Chidgey
Date: 22nd Nov 2022 @ 6:15am
To finish off the work we have done for anti-bullying week, we recapped what our whole school definition of bullying is. We then looked at the theme of 'Reach Out ' which is the focus of the week for 2022. We identified adults in our lives that we can reach out to if we feel worried or bullied at any point. To finish our work, we looked at ways we could reach out to others who may be experiencing bullying in school to stop them feeling isolated and unhappy.
RE - 15.11.22, by Mrs Chidgey
Date: 22nd Nov 2022 @ 6:12am
In RE this week, we used the experience of Wangari Maathai to drive our lesson, which focused on how people are spoiling God's creation. We learned about the actions Wangari took to help stop God's creation being spoiled, by studying the story Wangari's Trees of Peace. We then created a poster to show other simple things we can do to help look after God's creation in our daily lives.
Maths 11.11.22, by Mrs Chidgey
Date: 15th Nov 2022 @ 6:30am
After playing find the missing number game with our friends in Thursday's maths lesson, we then used the part, part whole templates to find the missing part of our number sentences. We enjoyed being maths detectives this week.
RE - 8.11.22, by Mrs Chidgey
Date: 13th Nov 2022 @ 10:33pm
This week in our RE lesson we listened to a song called 'Weird and Wonderful' by Fischy Music. The song's lyrics share some weird and wonderful facts about some of the animals that live in God's creation. The children had to listen to all the facts highlighted in the song, then choose which animal fact they found the most interesting, draw a picture of it and write down what the unusual fact is. The children were fascinated to discover dolphins sleep with one eye open, polar bears are all left-handed and kangaroos can't walk backwards. It left the children with a sense of awe and wonder about the animals in our world.
Maths 4.11.22, by Mrs Chidgey
Date: 5th Nov 2022 @ 3:10pm
In maths this week, the children have been learning how to work systematically to find all the number bonds of any number. We have used tens frames to support us in our work and looked for patterns in the calculations that were created to then help us find missing numbers. We then applied the strategies we learned to solve a number of different problems and open-ended challenges.
RE - 1.11.22, by Mrs Chidgey
Date: 5th Nov 2022 @ 2:30pm
To start our new unit of work on God and Creation in RE, the children were all given the chance to enjoy being creative. Christians believe that God created us all to be creative in the same way He was when he created the world. The children were able to choose what media or materials to use and what they wanted to create. They then had to reflect on how it felt to be creative, how they felt about sharing their creations with others and how they might feel if someone was to spoil their creation. It was lovely to see the children enjoying their learning so much.
Computing 21.10.22, by Mrs Chidgey
Date: 29th Oct 2022 @ 7:20pm
The children are becoming more confident in their computing lessons now. They are able to login more independently and navigate their way around Purple Mash with more confidence. During our last lesson, the children created simple pictograms to show their peers' favourite colours using 2Count and composed a simple piece of music using 2Explore. They were able to save their work in the Year 1 folder and open it again to make some final changes.
Maths 21.10.22, by Mrs Chidgey
Date: 29th Oct 2022 @ 5:56pm
This week in maths, the children have worked hard to understand the relationships between the different parts of addition calculations. They have used this knowledge to create addition fact families for a given set of 3 numbers. Once they were secure with the idea of fact families and how they work, they applied their knowledge to work out missing numbers and break the codes to find the numbers needed for a given answer. We finished the week by creating number sentences for 'first, then and now' number stories. We then had to think of our 'first, then and now' number stories to go with given calculations.
