Year 1

Welcome to Year 1!

In the classroom you have: 

Teacher: Mrs Theobald

LSAs: Mrs McArthur

Miss Gilbert 

Green Fingers

We are learning all about plants this term in Science. We have grown, planted and are looking after a mini vegetable patch in Year 1. Our plants are doing really well! At the moment we have sunflowers, sweet peas, beans, beetroot, carrots, tomatoes, courgette, squash, cucumbers and mangetout growing! We have even eaten a few of our mangetout all ready! 

The Great British Picnic

As part of out Topic learning we had a Great British picnic! We all ate very traditional picnic food and had a brilliant afternoon. Unfortunately it was not dry enough to sit on the field for our picnic but I don'y think the children minded as it meant they were closer to the food! Thank you to everyone who donated some food, we had enough to feed the whole school! We have saved some of the food so we can have another little picnic as a treat towards the end of the year. Lucky us!

We are Artists!

After our printing workshop  Mrs Bryan (from the Happy Art Company) took all of our printed pieces home to collate into a collaborative canvas. Mrs Bryan recently finished it and returned it to school. It is incredible! Everything on the canvas is created by the children apart from the background painting. We are extremely proud and are going to hang it pride of place within the school!

Word Hunt!

Today in Literacy we went on a word hunt. We were looking through our Year 1 books and trying to find different nouns, adjectives and verbs. We did a really good job!

World Book Day 

We had a lovely day talking about all of our favourite books and looking at everyone's outfits!

We loved the snow days!!

Printing Workshop

We had an amazing day with Mrs Bryan from 'The Happy Art Company'. We experienced so many different ways of printing including - direct, mono, subtractive and collograph printing! We got super messy but we loved it! We cant wait to see what our canvas looks like when all our was it put together.

Reminder

On Monday the 5th of March we will be taking part in our printing workshop with the Happy Art Company. Please send your child to school in old clothing that you do not mind them getting messy in! Thank you.

Do you like our costumes?

We really enjoyed Christmas jumper day!

Freaky Friday

Our unit in science this term is 'Animals including Humans'. In this weeks lesson we learnt about different animal body parts. We described our favourite animals to each other, being specific about body parts. With then created our own new animals using various body parts. It had to have the normal features of an animal e.g 1 head, 1 body etc they just didn't need to match the rest of the body. We think they look very cool! What do you think?

Collage Fireworks

We talked all about bonfire night and different types of fireworks. We also watched some videos of big firework displays. We then made our own collage pictures of different fireworks. We are trying to develop our fine motor and cutting skills. Here are a few of them.

Autumn Leaves

Today in art we were experimenting with different medias. We each collected an Autumn leaf from the playground and had a look at all the different colours. We then used felt pen, wax crayons, oil pastels and colouring pencils to draw the leaves.

STOMP!!

Today we were really lucky and got to take part in a STOMP music workshop. The children had great fun making LOTS of noise! They especially enjoyed drumming on the bin!

more videos coming soon...

Year 1 are off to work!

As part of our new RE topic, 'Why should we look after our world?', we discussed how to keep our planet a nice place to live. The children said that we must keep it tidy and clean! So this afternoon we pretended that we were a clean up team here to tidy up our school environment. The children found lots of rubbish around our school and we have kept it to sort into recyclable and non recyclables next week. 

Here are some photos of us on our clean up mission!

Welcome to Year 1!

This is our class page on the website. We will update it with all the fun things we do! Keep your eyes peeled for what we get up to in our first few weeks....

Year 1's Non-Fiction Book

This week we were looking at the key features of a non-fiction book. As a class we made our own non-fiction book for Reception. It tells them everything they need to know about life in Year 1. The children wrote facts, added diagrams and photos and they created the layout. We think it's fantastic! Can you spot the key features inside our book?

YUM!

Today was a very exciting day! We picked our first cucumber from our Year 1 vegetable garden, cut it up and ate it! We all had a very small bit and Emilia said it was even better than a Sainsburys cucumber! 

We also picked some of our peas to take home and finally our tomatoes are turning red!

Sending letters to Mr Bloom!

Year 1 have been learning all about letters. We have written postcards, letters to each other, to Mrs Wilson, to the tooth fairy and now....Mr Bloom. We all walked to the postbox to deliver our letter. We have told him all about the growing we have been doing. Hopefully we will get a reply! Fingers crossed!!

Take One Picture

We have started our art week and are having an amazing time! We have started off by making frames and then having a mini photo booth with them! 

We also discussed how the painting is a 'fresco'. This is a painting that has been painted directly onto a wet plaster wall. Artists would have to plan their work ahead of time and work to a strict time limit as they could only paint when the plaster was wet. Unfortunately we didn't have any wet plaster around! So we had a go at painting standing up and we added a timer to pretend that we had to stop because the plaster was drying! 

The children worked so well together. They were really sensible and brilliant mini artists!

We also made our own 'modern frescos' by drawing on acetate sheets and projecting them over the walls in the hall.

As a class we talked about how Penelope and Odysseus, in the painting, had not seen each other in 10 years. We thought that maybe Odysseus tried to send Penelope a message but he didn't have a phone! So we thought maybe he sent her a message in a bottle. We each decorated a bottle and wrote a letter to our families and friends as if we had been away on a journey, just like Odysseus. 

Collage Pictures

In art we have started a new collage unit. For the past two weeks we have created a collage picture and then added photos. Have a look at our work...

Printing Workshop

We had an amazing day working with Mrs Bryan from 'The Happy Art Company'. We spent the whole day taking part in a printing workshop. We experimented with lots of different printing techniques e.g direct, lino, collagraph and mono-printing! Our work tied in with our topic on 'Houses and Homes'. We looked at works by the artist Hundertwasser and used some of his work as inspiration for our own printing and class canvas. 

Here are some photos from our brilliant day! BEST MONDAY EVER!

Mrs Bryan is assembling our class canvas, made with all of our art work, at home and will return it once finished. We will be hanging it pride of place inside school. Photos to come .....

And here it is!!!

Where Teachers Keep their Pets 

(read and performed by Year 1)

World Book Day!

We all dressed up as different characters. Can you guess who we are?

Junk Model Houses

Over half term the children made junk model houses for their homework. They are all different and brilliant!

The Spring Term So Far......

In numeracy we have been learning all about money!

In Topic we looked at they key features of a Tudor house and tried to recreate them using collage.

In art we have been exploring painting techniques using watercolours.

This term in PE we are having a go at gymnastics! It's really fun. We have been learning all about balances, rolls and working in teams to create routines.

In ICT we are learning about coding by giving the BeeBots instructions. Here are some videos of us using them.

We have been very busy!!

Festive Fun!

We are enjoying winding down before the Christmas break. Here are some of the fun things we have been doing -

We made cinnamon salt dough decorations for our trees! Unfortunately they are still drying so will be coming home in January ready to use for next Chrsitmas! 

Bonfire Night

As many of us had been to see some fireworks this weekend, we decided to make some firework collages! Take a look!

Remembrance Day 

As part of our PSHCE lesson this week we were thinking about Remembrance Day. We discussed why we all wear poppies in November and what it represents. We then made our poppies to add to the school wreath that YR5 and 6 will be taking to the British Legion this week. We also painted some in our books.

Wyke Travels the World 

Greece

Monday

Today we had a go at some traditional Greek dancing. We also designed our own ancient Greek pots, looking at the patterns and recreating them carefully.

Tuesday

Today we had a brilliant morning tasting traditional Greek food! Everyone joined in and tried lots. We found out we don't have many feta cheese lovers in Year 1 but the Greek yoghurt and honey was a winner!

Then in the afternoon we had lots of fun making our own vine headbands and building the Acropolis!

Bernard Cohen

We had a go at recreating his work with our own touches. What do you think?

Welcome to Year 1

The children have had a great first week! It was shock to the system after the long break but they have got stuck into Year 1 life. Over the course of the year we will update this page, with information and photos, to show you all what we have been doing, so keep an eye out!

A letter from The Queen!

When you were in Year 1 we wrote to the Queen to wish her a happy birthday, do you remember? Well, today something very special arrived in the post! A letter from one of her ladies in waiting. They apologised for the late arrival as the Queen had received many cards. She found all our questions very entertaining! 

Take One Picture

Information and photos to come..... (We don't want to spoil the surprise of our assembly!)

Happy Art Company Printing Workshop

We had an amazing day doing nothing but art! Yippee!

Mrs Bryan from the Happy Art Company came in to do a printing workshop with us this week. We had so much fun and spent all day learning new printing techniques, developing our skills and creating a group collaborative display. We had a go at direct, additive, subtractive, collograph and mono-printing. All our prints were themed around our science unit, plants. We printed fruit, vegetables, flowers and roots. We got super messy but it was ok as we wore our own clothes.

Have a look at some of our work!

Collage

In art this term we are exploring collage. This week we made multi collage pictures and added photos. We needed to decide what picture we wanted to create and how we could incorporate our photo into this. We put a lot of time and effort into these and they have turned out really well!!