History

Some exciting household objects from the past arrived in class today. We looked at the items and discussed how we know they are from the past.

Y1 Museum Trip

We enjoyed a trip to the museum to take part in a workshop about toys. We compared toys from the past with modern day versions and spoke about the difference in materials and design.

A Special Visitor

We had a very special visitor in school on party day, every class had the opportunity to visit the grotto and they left with some gifts.

Diversity Day

For Diversity Day we read ‘Ruby’s Worry’. We thought about the different themes in our story and discussed what a worry is. We spoke about what we can do when we feel worried and thought about the different people we can share our worries with.
Our P4C question was ‘Is it ever useful to worry?’

Art

During art we have been researching Henri Matisse and looking at his style of work. We enjoyed using oil pastels to create the background for our final design.

PE

This week in PE we enjoyed using different apparatus. We had to learn how to travel and use the apparatus safely.

DT

In DT we practised the running stitch using a needle and thread. We had to carefully sew around the edge of the fabric. We are looking forward to making our puppet. ?

Programming, coding & Robotics.

This morning Class 1 has been recapping what Algorithms are and why they are used when coding. Today children had to create algorithms to get a robot to complete different levels, we focused on moving forward and how we can use the turn right and left blocks to change direction. Children then looked at how we could apply this knowledge to a Beebot and created a ‘help sheet’ to use in the next lesson.

World Book Day

The children wore some wonderful costumes and outfits today, as they celebrated World Book Day. The children were also excited to take home their free book.

Class 1 Computing

This morning Class 1 have been using their knowledge gained from the past few weeks to program Beebots and Sphero Indi’s to move. Children worked to get the robots to do a series of instructions that included turning and moving forwards and backwards, children also completed different levels on the Beebot app.

Sefton Park

We had a fantastic afternoon at Sefton Park. We used a map to follow our planned route and a compass. We visited Sefton Park Lake, Old Nicks Cave, Sefton Palm House and The Fairy Glen. We identified human and physical features in the park.

DT

We enjoyed tasting different fruits in class. We discussed the fruits we liked and disliked.

Computing

We collected data about our favourite fruit and favourite pets. We then represented our data by creating pictograms.

Phonics Parent Meeting

Thank you to all of the Y1 parents who joined us for the Phonics Screening Information meeting. If you have any questions about the test, please do not hesitate to ask us.

DT

We enjoyed making our own fruit salads. We followed the instructions we made and carefully chopped up the fruit. We took our fruit salads home to enjoy.

Listen and appraise

This week we enjoyed listening to ‘Yellow’ by Coldplay. Lots of us had heard this song before and liked hearing the guitar.

PE

We enjoyed practising our throwing and catching skills. We then learnt how to hold a tennis racket and hit the ball to our partner.

Maths

This week we have been working hard doubling numbers.

In science today we have been looking at seeds and sorting them into groups.

Y1 Beatles Trip

Y1 enjoyed visiting Strawberry Field, John Lennon’s childhood home and Penny Lane as part of their History topic based on The Beatles. They viewed artefacts and information, took part in a sing-a-long with a musician and had the chance to ask the expert guide, Chris, lots of questions along the way.

Maths

We have been working hard to compare numbers with the same tens.

Art

We collected some natural objects and created our own piece of art work. We tried hard to design work in the style of Richard Long.

Music

We enjoyed playing the djembe today.

Water Safety

Thank you to our visitors teaching us the importance of staying safe in and around water. We learnt techniques how to keep ourselves safe and what to do if we see anyone in need of help.

Distance from Liverpool to capital cities in the UK.

We used blocks to help us work out the distance from Liverpool to each capital city in the United Kingdom. We discussed which capital city was the closest to our city and which was the furthest away.

PE

Some fantastic bating, throwing and catching skills in PE today.

UK

We have worked hard locating the surrounding seas and oceans of the UK. We used atlases to help locate them and discussed the difference between a sea and ocean.

Forest School Club

Each week in Forest School Club the children enjoy an activity of their choice, this weeks task was a “Bug Hunt”. We had so much fun exploring the Early Years outdoors looking for different insects.

Listen and Appraise

Classical Music

Maths

Exploring different ways to sort

Yoga

Today year 1 enjoyed our yoga session with Georgia. We talked about what makes us happy and focused on our breathing.

Programming, coding & Robotics

Class 1 started their new unit of work, programming robots. The focus today was on children becoming familiar with a Beebot. Children worked in pairs to explore a Beebot and figure out the different functions, children then created a help sheet on how a Beebot works to use in future lessons.  

Counting to 50

Today we have been working in groups practicing counting forwards and backwards to and from 50.

Different types of churches.

Today in R.E we learnt about different types of churches. The children enjoyed talking about churches and what they are special for.

Puppets

In D.T we are looking at puppets. Today we looked at puppets in the classroom and talked about what we liked and disliked about them. We then started to practice our sewing skills.

Writing detectives.

Today in English we read the story ‘The land of the Wild Things.’ We worked in partners and found adjectives, nouns, capital letters and full stops and exclamation marks in the story.

Partition 2 digit numbers

We have been learning how to partition 2 digit numbers into tens and ones and practised doing this with dienes.

Colours and animals.

Today in Spanish we have been learning our colours and animals. We played a guessing game which helps us remember the colours and animals.

Yoga

In yoga we have been practicing our breathing and practicing our stretches which is called ‘down wood doggy’.

DT – final design

In DT we made our final design with our puppets. The children had lots of fun making them.

Programming Robots

Class 1 continued to look at how Beebots worked. Today the focus was on being able to predict and debug a task the Beebot needed to complete. Children worked in partners to be able to get the Beebot to go towards person A, turn around and come back. We recapped how the clear function works and the best way to program a Beebot. Children then had the chance to complete some different levels on the Beebot application.

Maths – 1 more and 1 less

As a class we practised counting forwards and backwards between 0-50. Then, we made numbers and in partners worked out 1 less and 1 more than the number we was given.

Spanish – Animals

In Spanish we are learning how to say different animals, we sang a song to remember the name of the animals.

Maths – longer and shorter

Today in maths we compared the length and height of different objects and toys in class. We talked about using the words ‘taller’ and ‘shorter’.

P.E

Today in P.E we used a football and practised our balancing skills, we then had a go at dribbling the football in between our feet by using our ‘instep’ and ‘out step’. We then worked in partners passing the football to each other.

Geography – Sefton park

In geography we are learning about Sefton Park. Today we made our own timeline to show when Sefton Park was made. The children put down the dates when the teachers were born and compared them to when Sefton Park was made.

Maths – Taller

Today in maths we measured objects with cubes using the word ‘taller’.

Maths – measuring

Today we practised using a ruler to measure different objects in centimetres.

Spanish – Colours and animals.

Today in Spanish we played a game of matching the correct animals to the correct colour.

Maths – Mass

We have been learning about mass in maths. We found out that the mass of the glue stick was the same as 22 cubes.

Sefton Park Geography Trip

Year 1 had a great time on their Geography trip to Sefton Park. They explored Old Nick’s Cave, the Palm House and the Fairy Glen. They used compasses and maps to navigate around the park.

Programing and Coding Robots

Yesterday children had their final computing lesson of the unit. They spent the morning looking at the similarities and differences with different coding challenges compared to controlling a Beebot. Children worked in pairs using prediction, debugging and sequencing to complete the coding challenges.