Welcome back!

On our first day back at school Creators went on a wonderful winter walk. This was part of our science learning as we discussed the changes in season and explored the signs of winter we could see from the playground. It was very cold and icy so we made sure to wrap up warm in our winter coats. 

Year One have been learning all about the sense smell in science today! Using our sense of smell we described the scent of mystery items and tried to guess what they were. Our favourite smell was the hot chocolate and our least favourite smell was garlic.

Year 1 went on a nature walk around school. We looked for signs of autumn and discovered lots of autumn treasures in and around the trees!

In PE we practised our throwing and catching skills. We enjoyed finding out how quickly all of Creators could throw and catch the ball and tried to improve our class time. 

Year 1 have been exploring the sense touch! We each took turns to feel what was inside the basket. We predicted what we thought was in the basket based on how it felt. We used words like rough, soft, hard, spiky and smooth to describe each item.

In geography, we have been learning all about the United Kingdom. We have learnt a song to help us remember the four countries that make up the UK! In this lesson we learnt all about England. We know the capital is London and explored some of the physical and human features of the country such as Wembley Stadium and Scafell Pike!

Creators explored the sense taste in science! We did some taste testing and described the taste of each food as either sweet, salty, bitter, sour or savoury. The chocolate cookie was very yummy and sweet but the lemon was too tangy and sour!

On Thursday we celebrated National European Day as a school. Creators celebrated by learning to sing head, shoulders, knees and toes in French making links to our current science topic!

Welcome to Year 1!

Below I have attached a letter which will provide you with lots of information about the year ahead. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact me and I will do my best to answer these for you.

Miss Eccles 

Welcome to Year One!

 I hope you have all had a lovely summer filled with lots of fun. What an amazing first day we have had! We have already been very busy in continuous provision and have shown off some amazing writing skills. It has been amazing to see how well you are already settling in as Creators. 

This term will be full of fun activities to activate our brains after a long summer off. We are very excited to start drawing club again, where the children will explore a range of books such as 'Ruby's Worry', 'Little Red Riding Hood' and 'Argh Spider'! We will be doing lots of practical maths activities, sorting and grouping objects, calculating our number bonds to 10 and recognising and naming 3D shapes. In science we will be naming body parts and linking them to our senses!

I can't wait to see you all thrive this term! Please check back on our class page for updates as I am sure there will be lots more fabulous pictures for you to see during this fun-filled year!