Summer Term
History
Bring a toy to School!
Year 1 remembered events of their own life, sharing their own toys from home.
Spring
KS1 Art Gallery
Fry visited our English lesson. He enjoyed listening to humorous poems.
Science - The Three Little Pigs and their building choices. Year 1 recreated the story of The Three Little Pigs using straw, twigs, bricks and other materials. We predicted which materials will be most successful and why.
Does it feel soft? Strong? Will it be good material for building a house? Will it blow down when the Wolf blows? Why will it blow down? What useful properties do the materials need to have, to be good materials for house building?
Story telling Week
Today we created our own stories in small groups.
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History - KS1 meet some characters who witnessed the great fire of London! The children had a great time finding out about the past and comparing different versions of the event.
Miss Thompson - Thomas Farriner the Baker
Mrs Leamon - Samual Pepys
Mrs Morgan-Bates - Person who helped put out the fire
Miss Mulcahy - Mary who lost her home in the fire
Science - We have been exploring magnets in Science. We have discovered what attracts to them and why.
Citizenship - Fry visited Year 1 to talk about his Dental hygiene. In Citizenship we are learning about Dental hygiene and how to care for our teeth.
English
We shared our thoughts and opinions of the books we are reading this week in English. Here are some of our reviews:
"I liked it when the rain started falling" "The book was colourful"
" I like the ending because the "I liked it when the animals grass became green again" pulled funny faces"
"It was sad when the cows were so thirsty" "It was good because the children " My favourite part was when tried their best" the arrow burst the cloud" "It was a funny story"
"The cows were happy in the end" "I enjoyed trying to guess the food"
"I liked Ki-Pat standing on one leg" "The pictures were so bright"
Science - Spring
This term we have been learning about different everyday materials, we investigated different materials and sorted them by category.
This week our focus was 'metal and magnets' the children learnt the difference between attract and repel.
They really enjoyed creating a fishing game with paperclips!
Jona's fish went swimming
Art
Our first unit this year was PORTRAITS, we began by creating self-portraits, then went on to learn about the styles of some famous artists, such as, Pablo Picasso, Paul Klee and Andy Warhol.
DT
In this unit learnt all about different fabrics. We explored and become familiar with the names of different fabrics and learnt how to choose and manipulate fabrics to create different effects; we then also learnt how to join fabrics in a variety of ways.
We also learnt the running stitch and then applied all of these skills to create our own
fabric faces.
Geography
This term we began by learning to name, locate and identify characteristics of the four countries and capital cities of the UK.
We used our observational skills to study the geography of our school and its grounds and then learnt about the key human and physical features of the surrounding local environment.
Our local area walk around our school and South Ockendon.
What would make a perfect playground?
We worked in pairs and designed a perfect playground.
English
As part of our poetry unit we have been learning and reciting various poems ...
1T - The Batman Exercise - Part 1
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We enjoyed performing the Batman Exercise, which was also part of our Poetry unit.
Science
One of our questions was:- What do pets like and what do they need to do to keep them happy and healthy?
We invited Fry along to participate in our lesson. We wrote letters to Fry to find the answer.
We also had another visitor!! This is Dora the tortoise.
Autumn 2
We have been finding out about animals in our Science lessons. Today we met Dora and spoke about the responsibilities of having a pet.
We discussed -
- There are many different types of pets.
- We observed Dora in the classroom.
- Looked at similarities and differences and what features Dora has that makes Dora a good pet.
- How to look after a pet well.
We can create great models using the building blocks and interstars.
In Maths we have been learning about patterns with 2D and 3D shapes. We collected natural objects to make repeating patterns.
Science Animals - Imaginary Pets. Children designed a good pet and made their own pet using junk modelling.
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