Year 1 Blog

What a fun week we are having in Year 1! We are doing lots of activities based around Tiddler and sea creatures so to start with we performed puppet shows of Tiddler. Then we baked tasty biscuits in the shape … Continued

Last week, year 1 had fun learning about amazing animals. We enjoyed a virtual rock pool tour, a trip to Port Meadow and a visit from some birds of prey!

A number of our pupils who play stringed instruments recently took part in a community outreach project with the Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra to record a track together. The song, entitled ‘This is Me’, came from the soundtrack to the film … Continued

Year 1 created their own houses based on those of London 1666. As a grad finale to our term, we had fun watching them burn down re-enacting the Great Fire of London!  

Today in 1C we used a map of the playground to find clues about an animal. We had to use our map reading skills to work out where the clues were. We had to put the clues together and work … Continued

On Monday we had some very special visitors join us. We had a visit from the fire service and their fire engine! They taught us all about how to keep safe if there is ever a fire in our house. … Continued

This term, we have been learning all about the Great Fire of London! In maths, 1BC enjoyed going to the bakery to buy a cupcake and cutting it into quarters.      

Year 1 have enjoyed gardening this term! We are learning all about plants and can name the different parts of a plant. A few weeks ago we planted broad bean and cress seeds. Lots of them have grown roots, leaves … Continued

We went on an Easter Egg hunt! But our eggs were a bit different… there was string inside the eggs. We measured the string and had to find another piece for string that matched! We measure in cm and we … Continued

Our topic this term has been perfect places. Today we learnt about cold places and made snow globes!