The first half term of year 1 was a very busy one but we’ve made such a brilliant start to the new year! We absorbed ourselves in so many new subjects and have already learnt so much across our topics in science, RE, geography and computing just to name a few.  

We took advantage of the sunny weather back in September and did a lot of our learning outside. Our science topic was all about different plants and trees, so we had a lot of fun exploring our playground to identify trees, wildflowers, garden flowers and investigating what the rings in tree trunks mean! We then continued our study of nature in art and foraged natural recourses to create mandala patterns inspired by the artist Anthony Goldsworthy.  

Our work so far in English has taken many different forms, including freeze frames and character descriptions. We thought tracked the emotions of our character in our book Grace and Family as she travelled to meet her dad in the Gambia. We then applied all our hard work on freeze frames to recreating the entire story of How the Leopard got his Spots as part of our Black history month work.  

In RE we also spent time thinking about what makes us all special and unique, and decorated pegs for a classmate to celebrate all the ways in which they are brilliant for being themselves. This helped us to understand how Christian’s belief that they are made in God’s image helps them to look after the world and their community and celebrate our individuality.  

We can’t wait for the rest of Autumn term – we are already looking forward to supporting year 2 in their nativity and of course finishing the half term with our first-class assembly in year 1!  

The first half term of year 1 was a very busy one but we’ve made such a brilliant start to the new year! We absorbed ourselves in so many new subjects and have already learnt so much across our topics in science, RE, geography and computing just to name a few.  

We took advantage of the sunny weather back in September and did a lot of our learning outside. Our science topic was all about different plants and trees, so we had a lot of fun exploring our playground to identify trees, wildflowers, garden flowers and investigating what the rings in tree trunks mean! We then continued our study of nature in art and foraged natural recourses to create mandala patterns inspired by the artist Anthony Goldsworthy.  

Our work so far in English has taken many different forms, including freeze frames and character descriptions. We thought tracked the emotions of our character in our book Grace and Family as she travelled to meet her dad in the Gambia. We then applied all our hard work on freeze frames to recreating the entire story of How the Leopard got his Spots as part of our Black history month work.  

In RE we also spent time thinking about what makes us all special and unique, and decorated pegs for a classmate to celebrate all the ways in which they are brilliant for being themselves. This helped us to understand how Christian’s belief that they are made in God’s image helps them to look after the world and their community and celebrate our individuality.  

We can’t wait for the rest of Autumn term – we are already looking forward to supporting year 2 in their nativity and of course finishing the half term with our first-class assembly in year 1!