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Year 1 – Aqua and Sky

Flora and Fauna continued!

Hi everyone, As part of our Art Topic and Science Topic we have been looking closely at wildflowers. We have used our observations to create flora and fauna artwork using paints and black marker pens. These will be on display on the boards in the corridor next week. They all did a great job! Our …

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Flora and Fauna

Hi everyone, Our Art Topic will be over the next couple of weeks. The children will study different flora and fauna and create detailed pencil drawings of different wildflowers and use their fingerprints to create minibeasts. They will use the skills learned  to create flora and fauna artwork using paints and black marker pens. In …

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Being Responsible

Welcome back! It’s hard to believe the children are now in their last half term of  Year 1. This week, our PSHE topic is about being responsible. The children talked about the things they are responsible for now and how those responsibilities will change as they grow older. The children looked at different scenarios and …

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What time is it?

Hi everyone, This week in Maths, we have been exploring the concept of time.  We have looked at the difference between clockwise and anti-clockwise as well as quarter turns and half turns.  As part of our learning, we have studied the features of a clock face and begun to read the time to o’clock as …

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Past or present

In Phonics this week we have spent time recapping the phase 5 split digraphs e-e and a-e and the digraphs ey and au. We have been working on reading these sounds within words by adding sound buttons and sound bars to the words before we read. We have also spent time writing words and captions …

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Human or Physical Features?

Hi everyone, This week in Drawing Club, we have been reading the text Are the Dinosaurs Dead, Dad? By Julie Middleton This book is about Dave and his dad. His dad takes him to the dinosaur museum, on his way round he sees the dinosaurs move and tells dad. Dad always replies ‘It’s just your imagination’. …

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What do you know about the United Kingdom?

This week in Drawing Club, we have been reading the text Lost and Found by Oliver Jeffers.  The story is about a young boy who finds a penguin at his door.and thinking he is lost, embarks on a journey to return him to the South Pole only to find he is lonely.  The children drew …

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Amelia Earhart

Hi everyone, This week the children have loved our new topic all about Amelia Earhart! We started the week by reading  the story ‘Little People, Big Dreams Amelia Earhart’ by Maria Isabel Sánchez Vegara. We then thought about why Amelia Earhart is such a significant person in history and wrote sentences to describe key events in …

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London’s Burning!

Hi everyone, We hope you had a good break. In  English and History for the next two  weeks,  we will be exploring the events of the Great Fire of London. In English we will study the events through the story of Vlad the Great Fire of London by Kate Cunningham. This week the children, made …

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Where did the joey go?

This week in English, started our new  text, ‘One Day on our Blue Planet…in the Outback’  which takes us on a delightful journey through the Australian Outback. The children enjoyed looking at the images in the story and we worked on the skills of using adjectives in our sentences. The children also made predictions about …

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