Happy New Year and Welcome back!
We are excited to start our new term and new topic- Castles!
Dates for the Diary
Thursday 12th January - Skipton Castle Visit
Wednesday 25th January - Pantomime in school
Friday 20th January - Class Assembly
Friday 3rd February - Number Day
Tuesday 7th February - Phonics Parents Meeting @ 4:45pm
Thursday 9th February - Holy Trinity Church Visit
Friday 10th February - Break the Rules Day
Maths
LO- To add by counting on within 20
Today we had great fun counting on and back from 0-20. We practically added numbers together to find a total and played snakes and ladders with our friends.
Computing
LO-
- I can open a word processor
- I can recognise keys on a keyboard
- I can identify and find keys on a keyboard
RE- today we talked about special books and what morals and lessons are learned from them. Then we wrote wishes for our wish tree.
LO-
To find out about some special books.
To find out how Holy books are treated
History
Significant People and Places in our own locality
LO-
To know about the lives of significant individuals in the past who have contributed to national and international achievements.
Maths
LO- to find doubles
Music
We love our music lessons every Tuesday afternoon with Mrs Marsden.
Maths
LO- Today we explored near doubles using numicon
Art
LO- to explore different types of line
In art we completed our drawing unit by showing different types of line. We experimented with different media and type of line.
Art
LO- to identify and use the primary colours
We began our painting unit of work in art. We have experimented with water colour paints and learned to mix new colours using the three primary colours.
We loved our dancing workshop led by Punjabi Roots! So much fun!
Skipton Castle
To support our history topic work we went on a school trip to Skipton Castle.
RE- LO - Understand why saying thank you is important.
In RE the children discussed how we might say thank you to some one. Children passed around a ball of wool/string and made a web of thanks. Each time someone received the ball they needed to think of something to thank the previous person for, e.g. thank you for being kind.
They they wrote an acrostic poem together using the letters of the word thank you, pupils needed to think of things they would like to say thank you for e.g. teacher, holidays, others etc.
PSHE
LO- To recognise how a persons behaviour can effect other people
English
This week we looked at punctuation and read some sentences. We had to choose a full stop, exclamation mark or a question mark for the end of each sentence.
LO- to use a full stop, exclamation mark and question mark correctly
DT-
LO- To plan and build a castle (structures)
We have had a lot of fun designing and building castles.
Maths
LO- To compare length
LO- To measure length
We have had so much fun exploring measuring in 1D. We measured each other using cubes, pencils, hands and bricks. We all had a go at measuring our own feet using beads, lego, lids, cubes and blocks.
Number Day
We had lots of fun today celebrating number day.
RE
LO- to know about places of worship
We walked to the local church to learn about Christian places of worship.
Maths
LO- to use a number line to 50
We played a number game, children raced against the clock and each other to sequence their team from the smallest to the largest number.
SCARF
We wore our scarves to school to support Children's Mental Health week.
Spring 2
Dates for the Diary
Wednesday 1st March- Owl Visit
Thursday 2nd March- World Book Day
Science
LO-To identify and name a variety of common animals, including fish, amphibians, reptiles and birds and mammals.
Today we talked about sorting animals into different categories. We talked about how we could decide which category each animal belonged to. The children worked together to sort animals.
In English we are learning about the story, The Owl who was Afraid of the Dark. We had some owls to visit us and we all had the chance to get close to the owls. We saw them fly and had a chance to ask lots of questions.
World Book Day
We celebrated World Book Day in Year One. We talked about our favourite books and made book jackets to tempt other people to have a go at reading our favourites.
We went on a spring walk to look for signs of spring.
Science- LO- To observe the changes in the seasons
Penalty Shootout!
Maths
LO- to measure using non standard units
We measured the corridors around our school to find the longest. The top corridor measured 33 children and half of Mr Rhodes!
Maths
LO: To measure and compare capacity
Today we had a lot of fun measuring capacity.