Blog Author: Mrs Halsall

Year 1 Design & Technology 

The children have really enjoyed working as a team to make cardboard towers. We talked about towers that topple and lean. Which team could make the tallest tower? 

Year 1 Music 

We started our new theme ‘Fairytales’ in music today. We listened to the story about The Three Little Pigs and changed our voices to represent the different characters. 

Year 1 PE Sending and Receiving 

The children enjoyed playing the ‘bucket ball’ and ‘hit the bucket’ games in PE this afternoon. 

Year One Geography - The Four Countries of the UK

In today’s Geography lesson we located the four countries of the UK on a map.  We also learned about their capital cities.

Year 1 Geography

Year 1 have been learning about the four countries of the UK. We have talked about the different places we may have visited and the capital cities. The children matched the labels and pictures to the map. 

Year 1 Design Technology

We have been looking at structures and identifying different types of building blocks. We talked about how the size of a base affects the stability of a tower and how tall it can be built. W e looked at the picture of The Leaning Tower of Pisa and how it was built on…

Year One Maths

In today’s maths lesson we learned about addition by ‘adding more’.  We used ten frames and counters to help us with our addition, ‘First, then and now’, number sentences.

Year One - Prayers to Mary

Making Hail Mary prayer cards to take home as part of our Religious Education learning about Mary, Mother of God.

Year One - Library Visit

This afternoon, the children enjoyed a visit to our school library, sharing a book with friends and discovering new reads.

Year One - Painting

Inspired by the work of Piet Mondrian, the children used their painting skills of ‘dip, dip, dab’ to create an abstract painting in the style of Piet Mondrian.

Year One - Painting

Exploring the work of Piet Mondrian through Art & Design.

Year 1- Piet Mondrian Art

We have been looking at the artist Piet Mondrian in Year 1 this afternoon. We looked at the shapes and colours used and painted our own designs.