Year 1

The Great Fire of London (Manningham)

We have been learning about The Great Fire of London. We decided to make our own houses and set one on fire so that we could see just how the fire spread. We even had the wind helping us spread the fire just like when the real fire happened. We were amazed after just setting ONE house on fire how quickly it spread across all the houses. We really enjoyed watching them burn down.

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Christmas fun!

Wednesday 16th December was Christmas Jumper Day, Christmas Crafts Day and Christmas Lunch! Have a look at all our festive fun...

Exploring Micro Habitats in The Hive

As part of Year 1s Science topic, we visited The Hive to investigate what creatures lived in the soil and under rocks and wood piles. Here's what we discovered.

Searching for minibeasts in The Hive

Remembrance Day

Ahlberg and Donaldson class have been finding out about Remembrance Day. We watched a CBeebies animation, read a story called Where the Poppies Now Grow about 2 friends called Ben and Ray who grew up to be soldiers in The Great War and found out why people wear poppies to remember soldiers who died in battle.

We painted poppies onto pebbles to place on soldiers graves as part of the veteran's charity Project Nova initiative for people in Bradford to paint a poppy on a pebble and place it on a war memorial or headstone of a veteran to mark this year’s Remembrance Day.

Where the Poppies now grow

Pumpkin fun

To celebrate the end of Autumn 1 we did lots of activities with pumpkins. We carved scary faces into the pumpkins to make Halloween lanterns, created paper pumpkin faces, roasted the seeds from inside and made pumpin soup. Most of us thought the seeds and soup were delicious. We read the story Winnie's Amazing Pumpkin with our spooky halloween lanterns lit.

Here is the pumpkin soup recipe we used

A Magic Reader, Alex-Winnie the Witch-Winnie's Amazing Pumpkin-English Storybook(Read Aloud)

Maths: Fact Families

This week in maths we have been exploring addition fact families.

Fact Families: Addition

Maths in Year 1

Comparing Numbers: Greater Than and Less Than

Maths

Number recognition, counting 1-1 and ordering

Misty, by Shirley Hughes, performed by Donaldson Class

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'Misty' written by Shirley Hughes and performed by Ahlberg Class

We have been learning the poem 'Misty' by Shirley Hughes from the Power of Reading book 'Out and About'. We hope you enjoy our performance.

P.E.

We have been practicing our ball skills with the P.E. coach. It is good fun but we definitely need more practice.

Here We Are by Oliver Jeffers

Listen to this wonderful guide to planet earth and look at the beautiful illustrations.

Year 1 have started this year by looking at the book Here We Are, notes for living on planet Earth by the author Oliver Jeffers. We have really enjoyed this book especially the beautiful illustrations. Please ask your child to tell you about their learning.