Year 1

Today we received our ashes as a sign of the start of Lent.  Here’s hoping we can all keep the lentern promises we have made.

We have been learning the meaning behind Shrove Tuesday and have discovered that we say sorry to God to be ‘shriven’.  We then enjoyed delicious pancakes in preparation for Lent. 

Year one sent some representatives to St Benedict’s today for a multiskills tournament.  They were very well behaved and had a great time joining in on all these games.

Year one have taken advantage of the glorious weather and taken our maths lesson outside.  We were drawing pictures that were taller or shorter and larger or smaller.  We labelled the pictures and even drew around our friends to measure.  We really enjoyed our outside lesson and hope this weather…

We have had a great time learning our story Billy’s Bucket. We have made changes to the maps and are now writing our own versions. 

We have had a great time trying our experiment into will it float? 

We got lots of items and predicted if it would float. We tested our theory and recorded the results in our books. 

We have thoroughly enjoyed making dancing dragons as part of our Chinese New Year celebration day.  We even had some time to make our dragons dance to some traditional Chinese music.

Year 1 have been hearing the story of St Bridget this week and we have tried to weave a cross.  It was quite difficult but with a little help we managed to make some stunning crosses.

Year 1 had a great time today testing to see if different materials were waterproof.  We dropped water onto each material and discovered which absorbed the water the quickest and which was waterproof. 

In our gymnastics today we have been learning how to safely travel and jump.  We have also been working on landing on 2 feet and finishing with finesse.

Year One have had a great time this week focussing on the story ‘Bring the Rain to Kapiti Plain’.  We looked at the weather in the story and decided we would help end the drought by making our own rain dance to the music.  Sorry for all the rain since- oops!!

Year 1 have had a great gymnastics session today learning about core strength and balancing.  We learned new balances and helped to support our partner when needed.