Class 1
What a first week back!
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9th June 2023
I can't believe we have started our last half term in Year One already, time has flown by! We have had a fantastic time and are looking forward to a busy half term.
On Monday, we were lucky enough to have a visit from a french horn quartet in our assembly. We got to listen to a variety of different pieces of music including Let it Go from Frozen. We were surprised by getting to see a giant horn which someone even got to play!
We learned a lot about bees when we were in the wild area this week. In our story, Omar, the Bees and Me, we found out that bees need flowers to survive and to make honey. We followed the instructions to plant our own bee bombs and wild flowers and some of us had a go at making honey cake in our mud kitchen!
On Thursday, we had an orientering event to launch our new equipment that we have got in school. We learnt the different symbols that are using on orienteering maps including buildings, trees, fences and play equipment. We then had to go and find different numbered cards located all over the playground and surrounding fields.
Have a fantastic weekend and stay safe in the heat!
Mrs Parker and the Year One Team xxx
Exploring London
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26th May 2023
During our Geography topic this half term, we have been looking at the difference between our captial city, London, and the countryside that we live in, Netherthong. We looked at the famous landmarks of London this week. We saw real-time videos of their location after finding them on Google Earth. It was really intresting finding out different facts about them! We then matched pictures of the landmarks with the facts we had learned.
We have been having lots of fun during music sessions! We have been exploring the piece of music by Anna Meredith, Nautilus. We have created our own images to represent the different sounds that we could hear in the music and have explored how this music has been used for ballet performances, TV adverts and even watched Anna performing her composition live! We compared these different interpretations and took a democratic vote as to which we prefered.
Have a fantastic holiday everyone, have fun hopefully in the sun and see you in a week for our last half term here in Year One!
Mrs Parker and the Year 1 Team xxx
Blown away!
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19th May 2023
During English session recently, we have been looking at the book, The Queen's Hat. It is a very funny book written by Steve Antony about the journey a hat is taken by the wind through lots of different London landmarks. This week, we have planned and written a diary entry, written by the Queen, about the journey her hat made and how she felt at the different points of the journey. Look how amazing our writing is!
We have been outside for our boxersice recently. We were practicing our footwork and dodging skills, where we had to move from side to side, forwards and under a skipping rope while practicing our different punches we had learned.
In computing, we have started to explore the world of coding. We have started to use terminology like algorithm, object and action. Yesterday, we had fun with fish, where we had to programme fish to move in certain directions in a fish tank and had to fix coding that had been done incorrectly.
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12th May 2023
We were lucky enough this week to be involved with a Read Bookshop event with author, Matt Carr. We got to listen to him read through his new book, Captain Looroll. We had lots of fun listening to how he came up with his ideas for his books, how he tried to link his books to cover relevant topics and we finished the session by drawing our very own Captain Looroll! Thank you so much to the Read Bookshop team for organising this amazing event!
During math sessions this week, we have started to look at dividing. We have been using cubes to share between each other, making sure that we have shared them equally. Towards the end of the week, we have moved on to using pictures, sharing between groups of 2, 5 and 10.
We managed to use our motte and bailey castles for imaginative play this week. We had so much fun creating different scenarios and stories, using something that we had made collaboratively.
Have a lovely weekend!
Mrs Parker and the Year One Team xxx
King Charles Coronation Celebrations!
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5th May 2023
This week we have been celebrating King Charles Coronation in style here in Year One!
We worked collaboratively to create a poster to take out with us for the Proms on the Playground and here it is ...
On Friday morning, we had our very own street party indoors due to the weather! We created our own crowns to wear as party hats out of natural materials, used felt tips on material to create bunting, drew a profile of the King, created placemats inspired by the Union Jack and even had a picnic!
To finish our week, we performed I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles) by The Proclaimers in our Netherthong Proms in the Playground. All classes learnt a song from the seven decades that the King has been alive. Everyone went out onto the playground and starting with Year Two who performed a song from the 1950s, we listen to a wide genre of songs! We finished the concert by singing the national anthem as a school.
Mrs Parker and the Year One Team xxx