Year 1
Easter Songs
Hi everyone, These are the songs that we would like your child to learn over the Easter break. The first one, called ‘Silly Easter Bonnet’ has a slight lyric change. Instead of ‘I’ll be the…
Read MoreWorld Book Day 2019
World Book Day at St Joseph’s Catholic Primary School, Highgate was celebrated in style on Thursday 7th March with both children and teachers coming to school in wonderful book character costumes. To encourage imagination and the…
Read MoreMaths Board Games
This week, children in Year 1 learned how to add and subtract using a number line. After that, we challenged them to create a board game that incorporates addition and subtraction. We then filmed the…
Read MoreSuper Duper Drama with Perform
Children have been truly spoilt this week. Perform, a drama company, came in to our school and delivered a great lesson on how to recycle… Through drama! The superhero was called Super Duper and he…
Read MoreScience Through Drama Workshop
We had a special visitor this week who taught the children that science can be taught through drama! The children were sent on an aeroplane to all corners of the planet to find out facts…
Read MoreMaths Blast
This week children were introduced to the fantastic J2Blast app. Children are able to learn timetables at their own speed and once they are confident, they can challenge other children around the world and in…
Read MoreSorting Animals into Categories
This week, children in Year 1 were given the task of sorting animals into different groups. They were given lots of images of animals and we discussed the different features of each. Then, the children…
Read MoreWhat’s the time Mr Wolf?
Year 1 have had an amazing first week back after Christmas. We have discussed a lot of our favourite fiction and non-fiction books. Thinking about things we want to learn about and also remembering stories…
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