Growing a beanstalk...
Hopefully the children have told you all about our mysterious seeds. After a lot of thoughtful discussion we decided to plant them for the weekend as there would be no one in school. Mr Pickersgill is on standby incase a beanstalk really does grow. The children made some great warning signs and…
Leaf Painting
Keeping with our plant theme the children have been exploring painting leaves. We have been using thick paint and mixing shades of green by dipping the brush in different colours. We used different tools to scratch leaf patterns in the thick paint. We thought carefully about the different…
Plant Detectives
The children really enjoyed getting outside and exploring the grounds looking for plants with Mrs Bartlett. The children worked with a buddy and photographed plants and then made a picture collage on the iPad of all of the plants that they saw. We were surprised just how many different plants we…
Spellings for W/B 19/04/2021
The spelling rule for this week is based upon compound nouns.
We have learned that they can be written in different ways. This week’s list follows the joined (or closed) format.
This week’s words are: silly, football, cloakroom, breakfast, playground, fingerprint, skyscraper, sunlight,…
Spellings for W/B 19/04/2021
The spelling rule for this week is based upon compound nouns.
We have learned that they can be written in different ways. This week’s list follows the joined (or closed) format.
This week’s words are: silly, football, cloakroom, breakfast, playground, fingerprint, skyscraper, sunlight,…
Helping your child at home
Although I know we are all very pleased that 'Home Learning' during the lockdown periods is over there are still lots of ways that you can support your child's learning at home. I know a few parents have been asking me about homework and are really missing having books sent home from…
Design Technology Project Rainsticks
Linked to our topic based on the story of Lila and the Secret of Rain we decided to take on the challenge of making our own rainsticks. So many of the skills we have learnt this term helped us. We used our sense of hearing to decide which filling would sound most like rain. We needed our…
Easter Measuring
Our measurement work has moved on to comparing mass and weight. We have done lots of great learning comparing using our hands and bucket balance scales. We have also been measuring mass using cubes and other non standard measures. Easter was a great opportunity to use a digital scale to measure…
Rainbow Making
2020 and 2021 have been a year full of rainbows. The national day of reflection gave us a great chance to practise our measurement skills and make our own paper rainbow. The strips of paper all had to be different lengths and we all helped each other with this tricky new skill. It was hard work…
Marvellous Measurement
The Year One children have been working hard in Maths learning all about measurement. They are experts at comparing length and height and enjoyed learning how to measure length using different non-standard measures. We thought about what the problems with a non standard measurement were and spent…
Scientific Senses.
As part our Science work we have been exploring using our senses. It was great to focus on just one sense at a time and a good chance to practise setting up and recording the results of simple tests. We learnt which part of the body is important for each sense and have had lots of fun too. Super…
Exploring Watercolour Paints
We have been exploring the different effects you can create using water colour paints. We tried mixing different shades of blue for our patterned raindrops. The children were keen to try the other colours so Mrs Bartlett brought in beautiful coloured tulips to inspire our paintings. The…