Year 1

Year 1 enjoyed a fascinating and fun interactive Planetarium Show in the Wonder Dome.  It showed Year 1 how wonderful and intriguing the universe is.  The Wonder Dome created a magical learning environment to learn all about the wonders of space with a 360 degree immersive experience. We learnt…

As part of British Science Week Year 1 had a scientific enquiry based on this year’s theme of ‘Connections’. We learnt how sound travels in ‘sound waves’.  We created cup and string telephones. We investigated if sound could travel along the string to send a message.  We started with measuring…

As part of our number day fun today we made our own ‘Number Museum’.  We worked in pairs and chose a number.  Then we made our number in different ways.  We practised writing it, drawing it and making it using cubes, ten frames, base 10 and Numicon.  Next we displayed all the ways we made our…

Today we welcomed back Zozo to continue our learning playing African Drums. We learnt about the syllables in our names and used the Djembe (drums) to create the beats. We learnt how to hold an open hand position on the Djembe.  Zozo taught a new song about a chicken and we loved putting actions to…

Year 1 loved celebrating World Book Day. We enjoyed dressing up as our favourite characters. In class we made our own poems and shared our work together. It was fun sharing our favourite stories and listening to new ones. 
 

Year 1 enjoyed their first Forest School session today at Longlands Lake. We enjoyed exploring the woodland, jumping in muddy puddles and being outside. It was so much fun to relax in hammocks. Walking to the Forest School we enjoyed spotting all the different wildlife around.  We can’t wait for…

In Design and Technology Year 1 have been learning about food and nutrition. We have already made Rainbow Wraps and today we created Vegetable Kebabs. We used courgettes, red, yellow and green peppers, cherry tomatoes and mushrooms. We used all the cutting techniques to chop the vegetables safely.…

Year 1 enjoyed an action packed day in Bowness-on-Windermere. First, we visited The World of Beatrix Potter. In English we have been reading The Tale of Peter Rabbit so it was amazing to learn more about the author and the other stories she created. We enjoyed getting up close with the different…

As part of ‘Safer Internet Day’ Year 1 learnt about what a digital footprint is. They discovered that a digital footprint is a trail that we leave behind every time we go online.  We learnt that websites can record that we have visited sites.  Knowing our digital footprint is part of staying…

On Thursday 2nd February Year 1 enjoyed visiting Egremont Library. Tracey the Librarian explained all about her job. We learnt we could borrow a book and then return it in 3 weeks time. We enjoyed exploring fiction and non-fiction. After we had enjoyed sharing books we checked out the book we had…

Today in R.E. we welcomed Mrs O’Neil into class.  We have been learning about people who help in our parish.  Last week the children prepared questions to ask Mrs O’Neil about how she helps in church, singing in the choir; helping within the parish centre and why she does this. We learnt about…

In our Materials topic we have been investigating whether materials are waterproof or not. We tested kitchen roll, tinfoil, fabric, plastic bags and tissue to see if they let water go through them.  After testing all the materials we concluded that plastic bags and tinfoil are both waterproof. We…