Year 1 News 15.5.26

This week, Year 1 have been incredibly busy with lots of exciting learning across the curriculum!

In English, we have been writing our own instructions about how to clean our school playground. We worked hard to include bossy verbs and adverbs of time to make our instructions clear and exciting to read.

In Maths, we have been learning about positional language and direction. We practised identifying our left and right and explored different types of turns and movements.

In RE, we reflected on our recent trip to church. We talked about how Godparents make a promise to help children follow in God’s footsteps. Inspired by this, we worked together to create our own class promise.

During Computing, we developed our editing skills by changing and improving text on the computer. We learnt how to use the undo and redo buttons to help us correct mistakes and make improvements.

In PE, we have been practising hard for Sports Day! We cannot wait to take part in all the races on Thursday and show off our teamwork and determination.

In Art, we continued exploring spirals and shells. We experimented with different resources to draw our shells using pens before using water to carefully move the ink around to create beautiful effects.

As part of our Antarctica topic, we have been learning about what people would need to survive a visit to Antarctica and how Union Glacier is set out. We were especially interested in the tents and the special two-layer sleeping bags designed to keep explorers warm.

In Science, we checked on our plants and observed how much they have grown. We noticed that everybody’s plants are growing at different stages. We also started learning about trees and discovered that there are two main types: deciduous trees, which lose their leaves in autumn, and evergreen trees, which stay green all year round.

We are so proud of all the hard work Year 1 have put in this week!