Class 1
Eureka!
admin on: Class 1
23rd June 2023
What an exciting week we have had!
I am incredibly proud of all the children for how they represented the school on our trip to Eureka on Thursday. We had an brilliant time exploring all that Eureka had to offer, including The Gross Lab show where we discovered lots of interesting, if not a little gross, facts about how our bodies work including how and why scabs are formed and why we burp!
Vansh told us about a honey mango from Pakistan last Friday and his mum very kindly brought some for us. Vansh showed everyone the fruit to us and described the texture and taste to us. We then all tried the honey mango and it was truly delicious! Thank you to the Signh family for introducing us to this yummy fruit!
I hope you all have a brilliant weekend and get lots of rest after pur trip!
Mrs Parker and the Year One Team xxx
And relax ...
admin on: Class 1
16th June 2023
We have had an exciting week here in Year One! It has been very full-on with our fabulous phonics alongside all our other exciting lessons! Thank you all for your amazing support that you have given at home, we really appreciate it!
We were lucky enough to have Simeon Woods come in to our school on Thursday. He is a flautist who explained how he started his musical journey with the recorder when he was only 5 years old and when someone came into his school and played the flute when he was 6 years old, this inspired him to learn to play it. Simeon likes to use unusual objects to create his music. Along with his actual flute, where he showed us his amazing skills, he also used a walking stick, bicycle pump and the udder bot which is a bottle and rubber glove to create a range of music and sounds. He was completely inspiring and we loved listening to him! Thank you!
We enjoyed the sunshine during our PE session this week by taking part in our yoga outside on the school field. We have found this very relaxing! We have been practicing lots of different yoga poses like the mountain, downward dog and even started each session with a sun salutation. It is good practice for our balancing skills!
Have a lovely weekend with lots of rest, ready for our school trip next week!
Mrs Parker and the Year One Team xxx
What a first week back!
admin on: Class 1
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
admin on: Class 1
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!
admin on: Class 1
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.
