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6 December 2020

Moon printing

We are creating moon postcards, this is the first step in our postcard.  We used lots of different printing blocks to create the texture of the moon.  We thought about colour and shade too.  
 

When our postcards are complete we will show you our finished work.

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6 December 2020

Place Value

We have been learning about place value, seeing how many tens and ones make up a number.  We have been playing place value basket ball to help us practise, why not have a go at home. 
 

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/learning-to-count/place-value-basketball
 

You could practise making groups…

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27 November 2020

Learning about Diwali

We have been learning about the festival of Diwali and how light is a symbol for good triumphing over evil.  We made our own handprint diva lights. We made them in soft squashy salt dough which became hard when we cooked it.  We made them bright and colourful. 

 

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23 November 2020

Football fun

Enjoying our football sessions with Mr Lofthouse.  We are all learning lots of new skills.

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9 November 2020

Fabulous fireworks

We have been developing our computing skills creating firework art, we needed to change the brush size and colour to create the picture.

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1 November 2020

Improving our knowledge of number bonds.

We have been working hard developing our maths skills learning about parts and wholes.  This is a key way that our White Rose Maths scheme supports the children to understand addition and subtraction.  Understanding that a whole can be broke up into parts and that the parts will equal the whole Is…

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1 November 2020

Collage People

The children have been developing their collage skills using different materials to make their mini people.  Super teamwork and lots of persistence was required, well done year 1.

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12 October 2020

Wonderful World

As you may of heard from the children, we have created our very own Year1 version of the song Wonderful World. The children have really worked hard to think of what they love about the world, and what makes it wonderful. Each child has drawn, helped to write and sung this beautiful song, and I am…

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5 October 2020

Super Self-portraits

The children have been working very hard on their drawing skills.  They have been looking closely In the mirror And thinking carefully about shape, size and colour.  It took a few drafts before we got it just right but we are really pleased with the finished results. Can you guess who is…

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25 September 2020

Working hard in PE

Miss McCormick was very impressed with everyone’s super effort in PE today, great job Year One.

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25 September 2020

Out and about in nature.

This week, despite the weather, we have been trying to get out and about and explore nature.  We have been gaining first hand experience to write our own out and about poems.  We used all our senses and thought of lots of great describing words for our poem.  We also found lots of creative ways to…

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18 September 2020

Wonderful world...

This week we have been thinking about what makes our world wonderful, we have been learning the song too. For our Art challenge we have been creating rainbows using different brushes and different materials to add texture.  For an extra challenge we have been learning to mix all the colours of the…

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