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Year 1 News

Here you will find all the latest news about our learning in Year 1.

March 2023

  • How can you make ice melt quickly?

    Published 17/03/23

    This week we have learning how to create drawings using Google Docs.  We learnt how to create different types of lines, changes the colours and insert shapes. In Science we have been investigating how make ice melt quickly to rescue toys which had been frozen inside. In PSHE, we learnt the different parts of the body and what their uses are and in History we researched how castles have changed over time.

    In Maths, we have been learning to subtract by finding the difference and have learnt how to find related facts.  We have been very impressed in English where the children wrote excellent character descriptions of a prince and wrote exclamation sentences.  

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  • What did the first castles look like?

    Published 03/03/23

    This week in English we have been retelling the story of 'The Deep Dark Woods'.  The children wrote some great stories and used adjectives to add detail to their writing.  In Maths, we have been subtracting using numbers and counting back to help us.

    In Science the children enjoyed investigating which materials would be best for fixing a torn umbrella and in Art they shaped paper to make a 3D drawing.  In History, we learnt about what the first motte and bailey castles were like and the children worked hard to create replicas of them.  In RE we learnt about how the Jewish festival of Sukkot is celebrated.  

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March 2023