Blog by Tag: class 1

In English we have been looking at explanation texts. We have worked with partners to research information about London landmarks, such as Big Ben and Buckingham Palace. We have created information leaflets for visitors.

World Book Day! Amazing costumes and lots of fun! Thank you to everyone who joined us for “Rock up and Read”.

In RE this week we discussed our own emotions at various points in the Easter story. We showed compassion for Jesus.

Our maths this week has been all about length and height. We have completed lots of practical activities with standard and non-standard units.

Everyone has been enjoying our new role-play area. A London Tourist Information office!

Our English text is “Katie in London.” We have been busy creating missing posters about Katie and Jack. We used a range of adjectives to describe them.

It’s Girl Guide World Thinking Day today. Some of the girls wore their Rainbows uniforms and told us all about it!

In Geography today we identified countries and capital cities within the United Kingdom. The children used a contents page to locate the maps they needed within an atlas.

Year 1 have started a new maths topic to develop their place value skills. They have practiced counting to 50 and using base ten to partition numbers.

We completed our History topic “How have explorers changed the world?” by creating coats of arms to reflect the stories of each explorer. We also looked at how exploration has changed over time.

Investigating our sense of smell! Class 1 had 6 mystery items to identify. Most were able to sniff out the chocolate, some were more tricky!

Over the past two weeks we have been looking at giving robots different commands. We previously looked at forwards and backwards before moving onto left and right this week. We carefully followed instructions and predicted which symbol our bee bot would land on.