This week, Year 1 have been writing beautiful poems about their hair during our English lessons. They have been using expressive language and have even used some rhyming words in their poem. The Year 1 team are so proud of what they have produced!

In Music, Year 1 have been looking at Music through film and in our lesson we listened to Andy’s Birthday from the Toy Story Score and created a graphic score. The children had to listen carefully to identify the different sounds they could hear.

In Computing, Year 1 began an exciting introduction to programming and algorithms. The lesson was split into two activities. First, the children worked in pairs to practice giving and following instructions. One partner took on the role of the programmer, using key terms like turn left, turn right...

Year 1 has been very busy this week. In Art, we have been researching line drawing portraiture.  We sat opposite our partner and drew them without looking at the paper. Last week, we explored a pumpkin in English and to follow our learning we wrote instructions and made our own delicious pumpki...

Year 1 have been practicing throwing in PE this half term and this week we played a game focusing on our teamwork and developing simple tactics for attacking/ defending. They had so much fun!

In Geography, Year 1 are learning the topic 'Our Local Area'. As a class, we used a compass to label the playground with NESW. The children were given simple directional instructions to follow. For example, walk to North, skip to West, side –step to East, walk like a robot to...