12th April 2024

Year 1 has had a lovely start to the Summer Term. We thoroughly enjoyed our first Science week where we have conducted different scientific investigations each day.

We learnt all about the scientific method of asking a big question, creating a hypothesis, testing our hypothesis and drawing conclusions based on our results. To help us understand this process we watched Ada Twist the scientist each day.

Some of the investigations we completed were watching how fruit decayed over time. We wondered if we put milk on top of the fruit it would slow down the process of decay.

We also wondered what would happen if we put Gummy Bears in different solutions. We put them in a salt water solution, a sugar/water solution, in white vinegar and water and watched the changes each day.

We put an egg in orange squash, coca cola, water, white vinegar, sugar/water and salt/water to see what effect the liquids would have on the shell. We were very surprised to see that the shell of the egg in vinegar had completely disappeared and it now resembled a bouncy ball!

Finally we made sure we had dirty hands and touched some bread all over. Then we cleaned our hands and touched a different slice of bread to see what the effect of washing our hands has on the development of mould and bad bacteria.

We finished off our science week by taking part in a whole school science investigation. We listened to the story of the Gingerbread Man and tested biscuits to see which biscuit would have made the best Gingerbread Man by dunking biscuits in warm water.

We are already looking forward to our next Science week.

Miss Ferguson and Miss Meekin

8th March 2024

Year 1 enjoyed a lovely forest school session this week where we made bird feeders to support our science unit on animals including humans. We discussed the different birds we may find in our school grounds and decided that the best way to encourage them to visit would be to provide some seeds and nuts in the wildlife area. Within this session we also loved helping Mrs Thompson make stewed rhubarb and strawberries with granola, Greek yoghurt and honey. It was enjoyed by all with most requesting seconds.

In English we started to work on a non-chronological report on wild animals and enjoyed using the Chromebooks to research our animal. 

In RE we are learning all about the Easter story and this week we sequenced the main parts of the story.

1st March 2024

Another busy week for year 1. Our science sessions this half term are focused on animals, including humans. We have been learning how to classify animals into different groups, so far we have looked at grouping by what animals eat and using herbivores, carnivores and omnivores to describe these groups. We have also looked at the 6 main animal groups - birds, fish, insects, mammals, amphibians and reptiles and looked at which animals belong to each group.

We have further explored sculpture in art by looking at how we can fold paper to create 3D sculptures. The children had lots of great ideas and were able to show their creativity with these.

We ended the week with our music session and the children enjoyed playing the glockenspiels to 'Sing me a song' and were all very proud of the results and specifically asked if I could record them playing which we all watched back on the large screen afterwards.

23rd February 2024

We have really enjoyed our new book 'The Bog Baby' this week. We went on a hunt around the wildlife area to see if we could find any evidence that the Bog Baby had visited our school. We were really excited to find him floating on a leaf in a bog! We then used watercolours to paint pictures of the Bog Baby.

We are starting to make sculptures in our art lessons so we began by making some clay sculptures of animals in our Forest School session. We then made some 3D paper sculptures in art.

9th February 2024

In Jigsaw this week we have been talking about how we can stretch ourselves to complete goals which aren't easy to complete rather than giving up too quickly. To remind us to do this we made some stretchy flowers using handprints as flowers and pipe cleaners as stretchy stalks.

We have also completed our hand puppets which we have spent the last few weeks making. We began by joining materials together by pinning, glueing and stapling. We then created our templates and used these to cut out our puppet shape, joined these together then used buttons, wool and googly eyes to embellish them.

As part of our current science unit on changing seasons we looked at weather patterns and the work of a meteorologist. As a result of this we created our own windsocks to help us measure wind speed and direction.

26th January 2024

Over the last couple of weeks we have been finding out what life was like when our grandparents were the same age as us. We thought that they wouldn’t have many toys and the ones that were available would only be made of wood. It was lovely to see some toys that Rosie’s grandparents sent in that they used to play with when they were little. We found out that Snakes and Ladders and hopscotch were popular toys in the 1960’s and 1970’s and have been playing these in our history lessons too.

We have now started making our own toy puppets in our DT lessons, so far we have been busy practicing how we can join the fabric by stapling, gluing and pinning.

17th November 2023

Year 1 has had a busy few weeks. On Friday we loved coming to school in our pyjamas and getting involved with lots of children in need activities including decorating spotty biscuits, drawing Pudsey bears and thinking of other ways we could fundraise to support Children in Need. 

Earlier in the week we enjoyed creating our own Space themed dance routines and using the globes to find the North and South Poles, the Equator and where we live.

The week before we had a full week themed to commemorate Poppy Day. We learnt all about why we commemorate Poppy Day, we made our own poppies and poppy wreath. We painted poppies and decorated biscuits to look like poppies. The week was rounded off with a walk to church with the foundation children to lay our poppy wreath inside the church, alongside the memorial to those who fought in World War 1 and 2 from the village of Preston.

Wednesday of this week saw the launch of our Preston 70 books and the children were very excited to receive the first of their 10 year 1 books to read. It was lovely to see so many of our parents in school to read with the children too.



12th September 2023

The children have all settled well into their new classroom and are enjoying getting to grips with the new routines and challenges of year 1. They have enjoyed exploring their new outside area and spending more time with some of the older children too. This week we have done lots of activities around their summer holidays and they have helped us create some super displays for the classroom. The children are adapting well to the mix of formal teaching and continuous provision and with the help of our visual timetable most of them know what they have to do and when. From next week the children will begin accessing the full year 1 curriculum. Well done Year 1, Miss Meekin and I are looking forward to the year ahead. Keep up the good work!

Miss Ferguson