This week in Maths we have been finding half of two digit and one digit numbers. Please follow and like us:
Category: KS1
Our Litter Pick
Last week we arranged with the local council to do a litter pick in our local area. We invited someone who works for the council into school and he discussed the issues around litter and recycling. The council provided us with litter pickers, bags and vis vests and we loved it! The children collected so […]
Home Learning in 1/2WH
Look at the fantastic efforts of Home Learning from our children and parents! Our topic this term is ‘What a wonderful world’. The children have made models using recycled materials, globes made out of paper mache and balloons, tasted food from around the world and visited the library to research a country of their choice. […]
KS1 Litter Pick
Our key stage one children have been out and about in the local community picking litter, they were supported by many of our parents and grandparents. The council provided us with a range of equipment and spoke to the children about how they can help clean up the local environment. The children had such a […]
Exploring our senses
In science we have been exploring our senses. We felt a smooth conker, smelt sweet perfume and strong coffee, heard birds singing and cars beeping and looked at optical illusions. Please follow and like us:
Literacy in Year 1
This week in literacy we have been learning how to write instructions. On Monday we made a fruit salad which we are going to write our very own instructions for. Lots of us tried kiwi for the first time, it was yummy! Please follow and like us:
Our Visit to Longshaw
The children enjoyed our visit to Longshaw. We learnt all about our natural environment and recycling linked with this terms topic ‘What makes our world wonderful?’. We went hunting for minibeasts, found lots of different types of leaves, made plant pots from recycled materials in the kitchen garden and went on a hunt for materials […]
Applying our phonics skills in our Guided Reading follow up task
The children in1/2WH love using the ‘character’ phoneme spotters in their Guided Reading book. Look at all the words they found! Excellent phoneme spotting skills guys! Please follow and like us:
Our visit to Longshaw Estate
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Maths in Y1S
This week in Maths we are learning how to add 2 numbers together. We used different Maths equipment to support our learning. Please follow and like us:
Maths in Y1S
In our first week in Y1 we went outside for Maths and used chalk to draw our own number lines. Please follow and like us:
Applying our counting skills.
Today we used the counting skills from last week to add 2 numbers together. Some children added a 2 digit number to a single digit number using numicon. Max was great at counting in tens and ones! Please follow and like us:
Human number lines!
Drawing our own number lines and counting backwards and forwards as we jumped. We are getting better at counting backwards! Please follow and like us:
Improving our language by using adjectives.
In Literacy we have been reading ‘Dinosaurs and all that Rubbish’. We found dinosaurs in the sand pit and picked the adjective cards that we could use to describe them to a partner. Please follow and like us:
Transition 1S
In Y1S during our transition week we have practised our number bonds to 10 using counters. Please follow and like us:
Pirate Rafts!
The children reflected on their learning about Materials from the Spring Term to plan, design and make their raft. The raft needed to float and be big enough to hold a playmobil pirate. We will test the rafts and evaluate our designs later in the week. Please follow and like us:
Capacity learning in 1/2W
Following on from the learning of our text ‘The Pirate’s Next door’, the children used their skills in numeracy to make ‘Pirate Grog’. There was a lot of collaboration as the children had to follow instructions and measure the correct amount of each ‘ingredient’ using the scale on the jug in millilitres. Please follow and […]
Land Ahoy Fish and Chip Supper
To celebrate our topic ‘Land Ahoy’ coming to a close, we came together to have a lovely fish and chip supper and be pirates. We went ‘Old School’, put away the mobile phones and played good old fashioned board games with each other and completed word searches that the children had made. Some parents had […]
Let’s go shopping! – Adding 2 amounts using coins.
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Recognising coins and making amounts in 1/2WB
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Talk for writing – The Magic Train Ride
We have been learning to retell a story using actions. We are becoming really confident! We are going to use this learning to help us with our writing later in the week. Please follow and like us:
Reasoning about addition.
The children in 1/2WB have been reasoning about adding numbers using a ‘whole, part model’. The children have used their counting skills to find the missing number. Please follow and like us:
Computing using Book Creator
Thank you to the Y4 experts who came to show the children (and adults!) in 1/2WB how to use book creator to add pictures and sentences about our visit. The children loved working and learning together. Please follow and like us:
NSPCC activity
Year 1 did 5 activities to earn our 100 points for the NSPPCC – Speak out Stay Safe fundraising activity. The children did really well and embraced all the activities. We love PE! Please follow and like us:
English Institute of Sport- Keystage 1
30 of the Key stage 1 children were selected to go to the English Institute of Sport for a fun Multi skills day. The children thoroughly enjoyed their day and learned lots of new sports that they might like to try in future. They also had to use their problem solving skills to rescue each […]
Conisbrough Castle Educational Visit
The KeyStage 1 children had a cold but great time finding out about Conisbrough Castle and its history. During the visit, Seth became a spit boy who would have worked for 4-6 hours without a break, turning a pig over the fire for the lords and ladies whereas George’s job was to clean out the […]
Learning to tell the time.
Some of our Y1 children learning to tell the time. Please follow and like us:
Amazing Home Learning!
Just look at this castle! It tasted as good as it looks. Thank you for your superb effort. Please follow and like us:
Bee bots to the rescue!
Last week in our computing session, the children had to programme the bee bot to help Shrek to rescue Fiona from the castle. They had to endure dragons and obstacles on the way! Please follow and like us:
Scientists investigating in 1B
In our Materials learning in Science, we were investigating which would be the best types of paper to a)mop up water and b) paint on. We had great fun with the investigating. The conclusion we came to was that paper towels were the most absorbent paper for mopping up water and art paper was the […]