Category: Year 1
Reception to Year 2 Harvest Festival Workshop
Reception to Year 2 were very lucky to have been invited to St Michael’s Church to take part in a workshop about the upcoming Harvest Festival. When the children arrived, they were introduced to the topic through a game where they had to guess the fruit and vegetables. Reverend Pippa Ford was impressed with their…
Castle Day in Year 1
Year 1 thoroughly enjoyed and embraced their castle day last week. Their day was full of some right royal activities. The costumes were brilliant with some truly getting in character! A great day had by all with a little bit of history learnt along the way.
Messy Church!
Rev. Pippa Ford from St. Michaels Church visited the children in Reception, Year 1 & Year 2 today for Messy Church. The children had great fun creating together and learning more about the world and how to treat one another. It was wonderful to see them engaged in this and helping each other along the…
Year 1 Showcase
Take a look at our lovely Year 1 class proudly showcasing their knowledge on all things ‘Space and Planets’ in this week’s parents assembly. The children are always excited to welcome their parents into their own environment and it’s nice to see through assembly and song that they have actually retained quite a lot of…
Year 1 – Winchester Science Centre
Year 1 had a fantastic day out at Winchester Science Centre and Planetarium. They got to explore science to is absolute fullest! The children looked at gravity, how the ear works, sound waves, telescopes, contraction and much much more. We also took part in a Rocket workshop where the children got to design their own…
Storytime
Year 1 enjoyed a new book in Storytime this week.. ‘Calm Down Cooper’ was donated to the school along with some other books by Marcie in Year 2. Thank you for your donation and for taking the time to read to the younger children too who loved it! They also enjoyed selecting books to read…
Drama – Animals
The drama topic for this half term for Year 1 is animals. Each week we will be looking at different animals and their characteristics. This week we went under the sea. The children explored different physicality for various sea creatures. They became jelly fish, dolphins, sharks and crabs, they performed an under the sea movement…
Embracing Outdoor Learning
This session of outdoor learning with Reception and Year 1 truly embraced our programme LEAF! The children eagerly hunted for a different variety of leaves in all shapes, colours and sizes. They were then able to examine them up close and make sketches too.
Music fun this week
A wonderful lesson with Year 1 who had great fun experimenting with the colourful boomwhackers this week! They tried out the sticks against different surfaces and materials to see how the sound differed. We also have a fantastic display and storage for our new Ukulele’s thank you to Mr Day for building this.
Year 1 Go for Launch!
Year 1 had an amazing time creating their own blasting rockets! Linked to their outer space topic – they designed colourful rockets to sit on top of plastic bottles. They used air to send their rockets into the air and had a great time learning about how this happened. Blast off!