We have had a wonderful first week back. This week has been Maths Investigation And problem solving week. We have been working to develop our problem solving and reasoning skills during this week and have great fun as well! We had a super end to our week during our Rugby Day. We showed our support […]

We have had a great project week. We have been learning all about the picture book Zog by Julia Donaldson. The children have been developing their reading and comprehension skills this week as well as attending ‘Dragon School’ where they learned dragon skills just like Zog in the book. The children were able to sequence […]

Our spelling scores have really improved this week in 1 Blue! Well done to all the children who achieved 10/10 this week! We still have some children who need to practise at home! Come on children we know you can score 10/10 too! Remember for your first 10/10 you win a special gold star badge!

Today we are learning about positional language in Maths. The children thought about all the key vocabulary to describe position. They then went onto the Adventure Playground and used this key vocabulary to talk about position and some of the children used this language to write their own sentences to describe where something is positioned.

We are so upset in 1 Blue. Today our classroom was destroyed! There were chairs and tables everywhere! The worst news is that our beloved classroom pet Fred the Frog has gone missing! The children in 1 Blue are desperate to find him! If you have any information about his whereabouts please let us know! […]

This week in Science we are exploring our sense of smell. We smelt four different boxes which each had a different object in for us to smell. We used our noses to smell the box and guess what was inside. We were able to talk about our favourite smells.

In Year 1 this half term we are learning about ‘Our Senses’. This week we are learning about our sense of touch. We have been looking at a variety of different objects and have been using adjectives to describe how they feel. Can you think of any other adjectives to describe objects around your house?

We have had a great week in 1 Blue this week. We have been learning all about the artists Graham Sutherland and Patrick Heron. The children have been able to notice similarities and differences between the two artists and comment on which art work they like the best. They have been developing their opinions by […]

We have had a lovely day! It has been delightful to hear of all your stories and tales from your Summer break! We have been busy bees today, this week is Art week and we are learning all about two different artists – Patrick Heron and Graham Sutherland. We have been looking at some of […]

This week we are learning poetry. We have been learning a poem called ‘Meet the Pirates’ and today we worked in small groups to learn part of the poem which we then put together. This has helped us to develop our reading skills and Speaking and Listening skills.

We had a fantastic day at Coombe Abbey, we enjoyed pond dipping and exploring the wildlife. What was your favourite part of the trip?

We are developing our knowledge of partitioning and have been using dienes to subtract two two-digit numbers. The children have been working using concreate methods today and those that could developed this into pictorial representations.

We had a superb Sports Day this year! The children all tried really hard to compete in their track, jumping and throwing events! A big well done must go out to Red Team who were the overall winners for KS1 Sports Day!