Blog by Tag: Year 1

We were looking at which material is the best for Traction Man to wear in an underwater adventure. We predicted which ones we thought would be the best and used a pipette to test which ones resisted water.

We have loved reenacting the Traction Man book this week. We have escaped the ‘evil cushions’ and delved into the ‘soapy waters’ to escape the ‘poisonous dishcloth!’ We have enjoyed making up our own adventures too. 
 

Look at our amazing costumes! Thank you to everyone who donated or brought in dog food. 

We have continued being scientists by exploring ‘Materials’ and testing the properties of them. 

We have explored sliders and levers and now we have begun to make our own. We have used our cutting, glueing and hole punching skills to make this. We will be exploring these in preparation for our end product.

This week in Year 1's RE lesson, we looked at God's creation and how it is being spoiled by the actions of people. We talked about how we have choices to make everyday, some of which help the world and others that actually harm it.

The children set to work and cleared 'the beach' of litter,…

Year 1 started their new RE unit last week: God and His Creation!

We started by discussing what being creative actually means and how it makes us feel, through watching video clips of characters being creative in different scenes. (see below for these video links) We looked at how the…

We have written some safety instructions and we enjoyed sharing them with Reception class today. 

This week, we started our RE unit: God and His Creation by exploring our imagination and creativity through artistic challenges, and then reflected upon the experience of being creative!

We thoroughly enjoyed creating the wonders of the natural world and felt immensely proud of ourselves when…

Following our work on the artist Arcimboldo, we used real fruit to make fruit faces. 

We have enjoyed exploring the sense of taste this week. We had to guess the range of fruit and vegetables and whether we liked it or not. It was lovely to see the children trying different foods and some children found out they actually liked it !