Blog by Tag: Year 1

We enjoyed practicing our fundamental movement skills this afternoon. We spoke about the importance of being active each day. 
Thank you to the students at University of Cumbria for being great hosts! 

Team work and orienteering to find the hidden eggs. Well done for all teams showing good sportsmanship.

We have enjoyed looking and learning about the french artist Henri Matisse. We have copied his style and explored making our own collages and a group collage. 
 

Coach Steve came in to tell us all about Allstars Cricket. We practised some cricket skills e.g throwing , catching, holding a bat, hitting and controlling the ball. 
We really enjoyed it. 
If you are interested in signing up for Allstars Cricket, then please follow the details on the flyer…

We have enjoyed finding out and sorting what different animals eat. We have used the vocabulary herbivore, carnivore and omnivore. We have also thought about what we eat! 

Year 4 really enjoyed meeting up with Year 1 to read to each other for World Book Day. We shared our stories and watch The Masked Readers sent in from each class. What a lovely time we had together! 

We really enjoyed dressing up for World Book Day and all the fun activities we we did. We listened to the famous illustrator Axel Scheffler (Gruffalo, Room on the Broom, Zog) who showed us how he illustrated some characters and read us some of his favourite books. 
We also enjoyed the World Book…

We have been looking and naming the different animals and learning the animal groups ( mammals, reptiles, amphibians, birds and fish). We have been looking closely at the different animals to sort them into different groups. We have spotted similarities and differences between the animals and…

We made 2 digit numbers using a range of resources and compared them using greater than and less than. 

To start our new topic, we went to discover the animals we found in our school garden. We found out that the smaller animals (insects) like damp, dark places like under the logs and rocks. We found some woodlice, a ladybird, a snail and a slug! 

Well done to all our classes who completed their active miles this week and to everyone who walked to school rather than driving. Our miles have been logged! Well done EVERYONE