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6 April 2021

Design Technology Project Rainsticks

Linked to our topic based on the story of Lila and the Secret of Rain we decided to take on the challenge of making our own rainsticks. So many of the skills we have learnt this term helped us.  We used our sense of hearing to decide which filling would sound most like rain. We needed our…

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6 April 2021

Easter Measuring

Our measurement work has moved on to comparing mass and weight.  We have done lots of great learning comparing using our hands and bucket balance scales.  We have also been measuring mass using cubes and other non standard measures.  Easter was a great opportunity to use a digital scale to measure…

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6 April 2021

Rainbow Making

2020 and 2021 have been a year full of rainbows.  The national day of reflection gave us a great chance to practise our measurement skills and make our own paper rainbow.  The strips of paper all had to be different lengths and we all helped each other with this tricky new skill.  It was hard work…

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6 April 2021

Marvellous Measurement

The Year One children have been working hard in Maths learning all about measurement. They are experts at comparing length and height and enjoyed learning how to measure length using different non-standard measures.  We thought about what the problems with a non standard measurement were and spent…

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6 April 2021

Scientific Senses.

As part our Science work we have been exploring using our senses.  It was great to focus on just one sense at a time and a good chance to practise setting up and recording the results of simple tests.  We learnt which part of the body is important for each sense and have had lots of fun too. Super…

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6 April 2021

Exploring Watercolour Paints

We have been exploring the different effects you can create using water colour paints.  We tried mixing different shades of blue for our patterned raindrops.  The children were keen to try the other colours so Mrs Bartlett brought in beautiful coloured tulips to inspire our paintings.  The…

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6 April 2021

African Drumming

We have all really enjoyed learning a bit more about rhythm and practising our drumming.  It has been great to learn a bit more about the African djembe drum and explore the sounds of other instruments too.  We have been exploring the different sounds that could go well with our story and creating…

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6 March 2021

Spring is here

The children have been working hard getting their garden ready for spring.  We hope soon to be planting flowers and vegetables, we made a great start by planting 2 apple trees, we hope that maybe next year we will have blossom on the tree to let us know it is spring. 

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6 March 2021

Football Mad

The year 1 children enjoyed taking part in the Hambleton Football challenge, children at home and in school practised their skills and had lots of fun developing their football skills. Mr Lofthouse would be very proud of us! 

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10 January 2021

Home Learning Resources W/C 29/3/21

 

All children are returning to school on Monday 8th of March.  Virtual day to day learning has ended however I will leave this page ready incase of any unforeseen closure of our year 1 bubble. Also the resources here will continue to support you to extend and progress your child’s learning at…

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6 December 2020

Supporting our community

The children made some beautiful Christmas cards for our local church.  We have been learning about religious symbols and thought about how candle is a symbol of advent, the time when Christmas are looking forward to the birth of Jesus.

 

The church have kindly donated the materials for us…

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6 December 2020

Marvellous moon buggies

We have decide to help Bob the man on the moon get all his jobs done by designing him a moon buggy.  We have learnt lots about wheels and axels and making sure our moon buggy can move.  We thought carefully about the shape, size and materials that we used.  We had to learn about how to use tools…

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