What can you hear?

Date: 8th Dec 2024 @ 11:37am

Year 1 have been learning about the senses in science. This week we have been exploring the sense of hearing. We went on a listening walk around the school and recorded all of the sounds that we could hear on our observation sheets. We especially enjoyed exploring the upstairs areas of the school as we don't usually visit these areas. We heard lots of different sounds and shared them as a class.

DT houses!

Date: 24th Nov 2024 @ 11:29am

1HB have been learning how to make attachments to models. We have explored how to attach a flange and tabs so that we can then use these skills to make a stable model house for someone living in Clayton. The flange was very useful to make a chimney and the tabs were perfect to make a moveable front door. We had lots of fun designing and making our models. Next week we will evaluate our models to conclude what worked well and what we could do to improve them.

Exploring House Materials!

Date: 10th Nov 2024 @ 8:25am

In writing, are preparing to write a non-fition book to describe the materials used to build a house. First we started by learning about how a house is built and what materials are used to build them. The next day, we explored some of the materials by visiting stations in the class room. As a class, we used our senses to describe brick, wood, slate and plastic to generate lots of adjectives for our working window. We will use these adjectives within our non-fiction books when we come to write them.

Houses

Date: 3rd Nov 2024 @ 9:27am

We have launched our writing topic this week by reading the traditional tale of "The Three Little Pigs". We have explored the features of a brick house and considered why it was the best house. We have also completed lots of different challenges to label the features a house. We have designed and labelled a house using graph paper and then used the constrcution blocks to build our designs. We have used card, tissue paper and shiny paper to create a collage houses and named their features. We have been busy in our funky fingers area, using the sticks or peg boards to make houses, we then labelled the features using post its. 

You can't take an elephant on the bus!

Date: 26th Oct 2024 @ 7:52am

In English, we have been reading the story 'You can't take an elephant on the bus!' In writing, we decided to write a fact file explaining why you can't take an elephant on the bus. We generated lots of adjectives to describe the elephant and we also explored what the elephant might do on the bus. Take a look at our amazing pieces of independent writing!

Sketchpad

Date: 13th Oct 2024 @ 3:56pm

We have enjoyed our computing lesson this week. We have been learning about the importance of logging on using a username and password. We have also been developing our mouse control skills using the website Sketchpad. We had fun using the different tools and drawing pictures on the Chromebooks. 

Greater than and less than!

Date: 27th Sep 2024 @ 2:28pm

In maths this week we have been learning about more than and less than. We have been exploring different objects by comparing quaitities. We have also been learning about the <, > and = symbols and using them to write number equations to compare numbers.

LAUNCH - What is in our local area?

Date: 22nd Sep 2024 @ 1:38pm

This week 1HB launched our new topic 'What is in our local area?' We went to explore the boundaries of our school from the outskirts of our playground. We enjoyed looking at the houses and sharing where we live with our friends! We were also excited to talk about our experiences of visiting the local chip shop and of course the sweet shop! We learned about how Clayton is the town where we live and that Clayton is a town in the city of Manchester. Next week we will exploring maps of our local area as well as using them to plan and follow routes.

Globes

Date: 18th May 2024 @ 9:09am

This week we have been exploring globes as part of our connected curriculum topic Why is the weather wonderful? We have been learning the definition of the word climate and how the places around the globe have hotter and colder climates. We could identify the North and South Pole on the globe and discovered that they are the coldest climates due to their positions and distance from the sun. We also learned what the equator is and how countries close to the equator have a hotter climate because they are the closest to the sun. Afterwards we made models of the globes and presented our facts to the Reception Class. They were very impressed with our knowledge about the climate around the globe.

Doubling and Halving!

Date: 12th May 2024 @ 9:27am

This week we have been very busy in year 1!

In Maths, we have been learning about halving and doubling numbers up to 20! We have learned that doubling means adding the same number to find what they are equal to and that halving means sharing between two. We have enjoyed using the Numicon and the ten frames to explore doubling and halving. We have also completed challenges were we have to spot the mistakes where we have found quantities have not been shared or doubled equally. We have also discovered that we can count the equal amounts of doubles by counting in 2s!

Flowers!

Date: 6th May 2024 @ 10:51am

In science this week we have been learning about the different types of flowers including wild flowers and garden flowers. We went out into our school garden to search and collect wild flowers and we also looked closely at some garden flowers. We were able to name the flowers using identification charts, discuss the difference between wild and garden plants and share the different places wild and garden plants will grow. We really enjoyed looking closely at the flowers especially as the sun was shining for us!

Why is weather wonderful?

Date: 26th Apr 2024 @ 3:07pm

We launched our CC topic this week; Why is weather so wonderful?

We shared what we have learnt about the weather so far and posed questions about what we would like to learn during our topic. We looked in the rainbow bag and found items related to the weather. We discussed and shared what they are used for and what type of weather they relate to.

Computing - Rocket designs!

Date: 24th Mar 2024 @ 7:41pm

In computing we have been using the chromebooks to plan and design a model rocket! Last week we word processed a list of materials and equipment which we will need to create our model rockets. This week we have used the sketchpad to draw our designs on the chromebooks. We are looking forward to using our designs to create our models next week!

Red Nose Day!

Date: 17th Mar 2024 @ 12:10pm

We had lots of fun on Friday raising money for Comic Relief. We all came to school dressed in something red and some of us even painted our noses red! We designed our own Red Noses for a competition and can't wait to find out who the winners are on Monday! We also decorated a circular biscuit in the style of a red nose!

KS1 Wacky Rockets Exhibition

Date: 17th Mar 2024 @ 10:14am

Adam from Sublime Science finished off Science Week with KS1. He put on a exhibition in the playground all about how to create some rockets using fizzy water, a pump and mentos sweets. He used different sized bottles and changed the amount of mentos sweets that went into the fizzy water to see how far each rocket would go. Some rockets went out of our school playground!!

It was so much fun!!! 

Manchester Airport Trip!

Date: 7th Mar 2024 @ 1:38pm

We had such an amazing day yesterday on our visit at the Manchester Airport Viewing Park!

We climbed aboard the Monarch aircraft and explored inside, we were even invited to the flight deck and pretend to fly the plane like a pilot! We also learned about other roles and responsibilities of the people who work at the airport and got to try on some of their uniforms.

Next we went to see the impressive Concorde, it was huge! We walked underneath it and counted how many wheels it had. We also found out that it flew faster than the speed of sound! 

Later on, we loved watching the aeroplanes taking off and landing on the runway. There were alsorts of different colours and they were all very noisy! 

We had the best day ever and enjoyed our visit very much!

Exploring wind direction!

Date: 10th Feb 2024 @ 7:21am

In science, we have been learning about weather patterns and seasonal changes. This week we have been meterologists! We created our own wind socks to explore the direction of the wind. First we decorated cardboard to make the sock and then we attached tissue paper to the base as a means to test the direction of the wind. We had so much fun going outside to test our wind socks and had the perfect windy day to find out about the direction of the wind. We questioned if the wind direction changes and which direction the wind is blowing. We found out that the wind was travelling in one direction to the west.

Old Games!

Date: 4th Feb 2024 @ 7:10am

On Friday for our topic work we learning about asking and answering questions. The classroom was set up with lots of old games that we had not seen before! This prompted us to question: how they were played? what were the rules? How do you set the game up? How do you win? What are the pieces for? We had lots of fun learning how to play the games and afterwards we expert players. We played marbles, Jacks, Shut the box, Pick up sticks and dominoes! Afterwards we were able to answer the questions and explain how to play all the old games. We also created a class block graph to find out which was our favourite old game.

Number Fact Families

Date: 28th Jan 2024 @ 3:26pm

This week we have been learning how to use the plus and equal sign and to record number fact families within 10! We used Numicon and our knowledge of part and wholes to build the expressions. We could explain the representations to our partners and were very confident to explore the number facts to generate the families.

Toy Museum Workshop!

Date: 21st Jan 2024 @ 8:38am

On Wednesday he had a visitor named Alison. She was a Toy Museum Curator and she needed our help! She showed us around her Toy Museum and we saw lots of different toys from the past to the present such as teddy bears, dolls and moveable toys. We also role played being different toys and joined in with the doll disco. In the final room, Alison explained why she needed our help and she asked us to invent toys for her imagination room in her toy museum. We were able to use our imaginations to create some exciting toys and she was very glad for our help.

Next week we will be writing a recount of our experience to share with our parents. We will be using time connectives to sequence the events of the experience and using superlatives to compare the toys and the conjunction but to extend our sentences.

2D shape sorting!

Date: 7th Jan 2024 @ 6:19pm

In Maths, we have been exploring 2D shapes. We have been learning to recognise and name the common 2D shapes such as square, rectangle, circle, triangle, hexagon and pentagon. We are all very confident at recognising the shapes by identifying their properties. Today, we have been sorting the 2D shapes into groups and Venn diagrams. We sorted the shapes according to their names, colours and properties.

Baarmy Bethlehem!

Date: 7th Dec 2023 @ 7:30pm

Wow what a busy week!

1HB has been very busy and it's beginning to feel alot more like Christmas! We have made some Christmas cards, our Christmas party hats and table decorations for our Christmas lunch. However the highlight has been performing our school nativity 'Baarmy Bethlehem' We have worked very hard to learn all the songs and remember our lines! Our parents and teachers are very proud of us!

North, East, South and West!

Date: 25th Nov 2023 @ 9:05am

In Geography, we have been learning to use directional language. We learned about the compass points North, East, South and West. In pairs, we used directional language to give instructions. We also learned how to use directional language when using a map! With our partners, we directed the Wolf to visit the Three Little Pigs houses on the map. 

Wolf Sock Puppets!

Date: 19th Nov 2023 @ 10:00am

For the past couple of weeks, we have been reading different versions of the traditional tale 'The Three Little Pigs' and we especially enjoyed reading about the naughty Big Bad Wolf! 

As a class, we decided that we wanted to make a Big Bad Wolf sock puppet. We read some instructions and watched a You Tube video clip on how to make one. The next day we made our very own sock puppets which was very exciting and they all looked fantastic! Look at this one!

Afterwards we all wrote our own instructions on how to make a wolf sock puppet. We included a title, a list of things you need and sequenced steps to follow.

This one is Hau Chings!

This one is Emily's!

This one is Ayaan's!

Four Countries of the United Kingdom

Date: 11th Nov 2023 @ 7:23am

We have been learning about how the UK is made up of four countries! We have been exploring globes, maps and Atlases. We were able to look at a map of the United Kingdom and locate England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland then we created and labelled our own maps. We have also begun to learn about the capitals of these countries by looking at photographs and locating the places using Atlases. We have also learnt a fun song to help us recall the names of the countries and capitals.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RvDIZoQLgIE

Click on the link and listen to the song!