Year 1

This week we have continued learning about our current affairs topic on the area of disability. We learnt about the ‘Invictus Games’ introduced by Prince Harry and discussed why he had started them. The children designed their…

We were so impressed this week with the amazing effort that had gone into the half-term project on Black History Month. We shared the children’s work in our assembly and even had a show where…

Year 1 performed amazingly at the ‘St Joseph’s The Musical’ this week. Everyone could see the brilliant effort the children have put into learning all the actions and words of our song ‘It’s a Hard-knock Life’. After half term…

This week we had a great time learning about instructions in English. We had to make our own jam sandwich using instructions that we wrote ourselves. We had to think about verbs we were going…

This week in Year 1 we celebrated National Poetry Day. KS1 were treated to a special visit from poet Kate Wakeling who was the winner of the CLiPPA, the award for the best children’s poetry…

This week in Year 1 we have been doing some fantastic learning. In Maths we were looking at using greater and less than signs when comparing different amounts. We found it a bit tricky at…

This week in English we have been learning about using adjectives in our writing to describe. In Maths we looked at counting backwards and forwards from any given number between 1-10. Some children challenged themselves…

Thank you to everyone who joined us this morning at the Year 1 information talk! For those who were unable to attend or who would like to have another look at the slides here they…

This week in Year 1 we have been working hard learning about the story of ‘The Gingerbread Man’. We particularly enjoyed acting out the story in groups and sequencing the story. We have been so…

This week the year 1 children enjoyed getting busy in the kitchen making fruit jelly! Not only was this our chosen activity for the Make your Money Grow project but the children also learnt about  following…