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St Matthew's Year 1 Class
2021-2022 - St Matthew's Year 1 Class is taught by Miss Lewis. The teaching assistants supporting this class are Mrs L Wilson and Mrs Cork.
Welcoming Presentation 2021-2022
Term 6
Term 6 Week 6
Inflatable Day
What a fabulous fun filled day we had today! The inflatables were fantastic and we enjoyed the variety of obstacles including a giant slide, ball pit and a disco. The photos below show us having an amazing time.
Morrison's sunflowers
Out of the 28 sunflower seeds we planted, 16 sprouted so we planted them in our outside area. We have looked after them and have two sunflower plants left which are growing well. We measured them and the tallest is 29 cm so far. Hopefully we will see them flower when we return in September.
Term 6 Week 5
Friday
We finished the week by dressing up in rainbow colours to celebrate the NHS and to say thank you for all the NHS does for us. Then in the afternoon we showed our support for the England football team by making flags and enjoying some ball related sports.
Ice Cream Treat
As a reward for all our hard work this year, we were treated with a visit from an ice cream van. We enjoyed delicious ice creams and lollies on the field in the afternoon.
Sports Day - Tuesday 6th July 2021
This year saw our first ever sports day and the weather did not put us off! We enjoyed some really fun sports such as an egg and spoon race, long jump and we even had the opportunity to throw javelins before the rain came down. Thank you to all the grown ups who were able to make it. Take a look below at some of our future Olympians.
Term 6 Week 4
We were very lucky this week to watch a performance of Treasure Island performed by a travelling theatre.
For our last Art lesson, we created sculptures of bodies and body parts inspired by the work of Rodin.
We took part in a very successful assembly showing off our STEM skills and testing our cars.
Term 6 Week 3
STEM Engineering Project
The day finally came for testing our cars - we were very excited and had some fantastic results.
Watch the video and look at the photos below below to find out what happened.
Makayla and John's car being tested
Week 3 saw the completion of our cars ready for testing in the hall next week, we were very excited!
In History, we have been learning about the differences between life like in the past (then) and what life is like today (now).
RE got us thinking about how we can help others in our daily lives. We though about different situations and what we could do to help, after all God teaches us to love ourselves and love others.
Term 6 Week 2
This week we learned about God's power in the miracle of the storm at sea. We pretended to be disciples on a boat in a fierce storm - it was scary and wet!
Week 2 of our engineering programme saw us decorating the bodies of our cars and creating axles thinking about speed and direction so our cars will travel fast and in a straight line.
'We're going on a beast hunt, we're going to catch a mini one. What a beautiful day, we're not scared!' Check out the minibeasts we found below.
Term 6 Week 1
We have lots to look forward to in our last term of Year 1.
We started the term by taking part in the Primary Engineering Project – to design and test a car. We began by measuring and painting shoe boxes for the main body of our cars.
In Science we are learning about minibeasts so we went outside and acted like minibeasts – zooming like flies and fluttering like butterflies!
We also entered the KCSP Writing and Art competitions, painting lockdown pictures and writing lockdown haikus. The slideshow below highlights some of our fantastic learning in week 1.
Term 5
Term 5 RE Focal Area
Term 5 Week 6
We made it to the end of term! This term ended with us celebrating all we had learned. Inspired by the Mutitjulu art project in Australia, we painted a mural telling the story of Sheerness. We merged our last Art and Science lesson of the term together to create an observational drawing of plants that attract wildlife and made sure we used the sketching skills we had learned this term. In RE we learned about The Ascension and made Ascension cups to demonstrate the Bible story. On Friday we planted our sunflowers plants that were donated from Morrisons as seeds in our Year 1 planting area. If we look after them they will grow into giant sunflowers.
Pentecost 2021
This week we celebrated Pentecost. It was lovely to be able to sit in the hall and listen to an assembly about Pentecost by Mrs King. We had a party on the field to celebrate Pentecost - the Church's birthday and Kerry our cook made us a special birthday cake to enjoy. At home time we were given some popcorn to take home as a reminder of this special celebration..
Term 5 Week 5
When we came to school on Monday this week, we were amazed by how quickly our cress had grown! We got to take it home to eat.
We took part in role play, acting out parts of the story of The Smartest Giant in Town and then ended the week with an extra PE lesson! The PE lesson was so much fun playing pirates - Aye aye Captain!
Term 5 Week 4
This week we have spent lots of time looking after our school grounds by painting new nature signs as well as growing food by planting cress and sunflower seeds. A big thankyou to Morrisons for donating the sunflower seeds.
There are lots of photos of us in action below.
NSPCC Number Day - Friday 7th May 2021
We had so much fun celebrating today, our learning was filled with numbers all day. Take a look through our photos below to show how we marked the occassion.
We started off our number filled day by coming to school dressed in numbers.
Our morning included making towers of different numbers, finding and making numbers in nature and enjoying a number hunt on the field where we collected and grouped 2s, 5s and 10s numbers.
After morning break, we had to help the NSPCC mascot Buddy escape from somewhere in the school by answering number related questions and piece together a key puzzle. He was trapped in our ICT suite!
Then we found numbers in our reading!
The afternoon of Number Day saw us learn how to shade in Art where we counted how many shades we made then we went back outside for Dice Frenzy. We rolled the dice and completed an exercise for each number. 3 hops were quite easy but 5 press ups were tricky!
Term 5 Week 3
As May is the month of Our Lady Mary, we made flowers to decorate our statue in the hall and our Mary altar in class.
We dissected flowers in Science to learn about parts of plants, weeded our planting area and achieved 200 readers so we earned our long awaited award of playdough! Now we arw working on achieving 300 readers!
Term 5 Week 2
This week our exciting learning included meeting Odd Todd and Even Steven in Maths to help recognise odd and even numbers, we painted Resurrection pictures in RE, went on a plant hunt around the school grounds in Science and explored line on Purple Mash in Art.
Term 5 Week 1
In our first week back to school after Easter, we have been enjoying making bead strings in Maths, learning about the Olympics for our wonderful display, learning more about The Resurrection, where we gave some old sweet wrappers new life and have learned about bird's eye views in Geography. We made maps of Sheerness and a region in Australasia.
Term 4
Term 4 RE Focal Area
Term 4 Week 6 Home Learning
Log on to Seesaw to find out which Home Learning is yours to complete.
Week 6
This week we enjoyed Easter festivities. We took part in an Easter egg hunt on the school field and cat-walked our way across the playground in an Easter bonnet parade with Reception and Year 2. Well done to Agota and Zeus - our class winners. Their Easter bonnets were fabulous! We also filled the class marble jar and earned a teddy bears' picnic complete with snacks, music and dancing.
Easter Egg Hunt
Easter Bonnet Parade
Teddy Bears' Picnic
Term 4 Week 5 Home Learning
Week 5
In History this term we have been learning about the famous female scientists Hedy Lamarr and Mary Sherman Morgan. Did you know that Mary Sherman Morgan was an inventor who helped launch rockets into space! To celebrate this, we made our own rockets and launched them too. In English we practised using our rules for sentence writing and in Art we made delicious Easter nest cakes.
Tuesday 23rd March 2021 - National Day of Reflection
On the anniversary of the first national lockdown, we join the nation and paused for a minute's silence to reflect on the past year remembering the lives that have been lost. We made daffodils to mark the day as a symbol of reflection and unity.
Term 4 Week 4 Home Learning
Week 4
Year 1 have had another fabulous week of learning, taking part in a wealth of fun activities to excite us. In English we have made potions which we saw erupt and overflow. In RE we learned about the Bible story 'Jesus Enters Jerusalem' - The first Palm Sunday. We role played the story lining the street for Jesus and waving palms. We cooked our own healthy pizzas and took them home to enjoy and also made some beautiful Easter cards this week. Please browse the photos below to see what we have enjoyed this week.
English - Potion making
Jesus Enters Jerusalem
Easter cards
Healthy pizzas
Term 4 Week 3 Home Learning
Below is an example of this week's home learning. Home learning is now set on Seesaw so it should be completed and uploaded on Seesaw from now on.
Mother's Day 2021 - Sunday 14th March
Happy Mother's Day!
Year 1 made some beautiful Mother's Day cards in school using hand and finger prints.
British Science Week T4 W3 (8th - 12th March) Back in school!
What a way to come back to school! We had so much fun taking part in British Science Week where we learned how to design, make and advertise our very own food product - a delicious, healthy yoghurt.
We used STEMterprise and learned all about the process in different lessons throughout the week. Take a look at some examples of the fabulous Science work we have done across our lessons.
We were also blown away by some amazing Science experiments in Guided Reading.
English
This week in English, we designed a logo and name for our cafe, made and tasted the yoghurts then on Friday we filmed ourselves acting in adverts to persuade people to come to our cafe.
Friday - Adverts
Maths
British Science Week in Maths involved investigating 2d shapes for our cafe logo, measuring and comparing seeds, practising counting to help count our ingredients and exploring 3d shape for our product's packaging.
Guided Reading
To help celebrate British Science Week, we carried out experiments every day in our Guided Reading sessions. We read the materials list, read and followed instructions to perform some amazing experiments. We made cola erupt with mints, tasted some fizzing oranges, created a storm in a glass and made a rainbow appear in a glass too!
Cola and mint experiment
Fizzing oranges experiment
Storm in a Glass
To help us learn about how rain comes from clouds, we created a storm in a glass using water, shaving foam and blue food dye. You can see the experiment conducted by scientist joe here: Storm in a Glass - Science Fun
Rainbow in a Glass
Using skittles and water we created a rainbow in a glass. Click here to see how it was done: Rainbow in a Glass - Science Fun
Book Week - T4 W2 (1st - 5th March) Remote Learning
Our last week of remote learning was spent celebrating Book Week. We heard the story 'The Selfish Crocodile' and used the book to help us with our learning in lots of different subjects.
We had fun reading in lots of different places and re-created the front cover of some of our favourite books.
Reading challenges
We had lots of book fun by making a book tower, creating a book campsite, re-creating front covers of our favourite books and building our own reading dens.
English
We read the Selfish Crocodile and found out that the crocodile did not know how to look after his teeth. We wrote lists with information about how to look after our teeth as well as writing a letter to the selfish crocodile to tell him why we must look after our teeth.
Maths
The Selfish Crocodile, also known as Charlie Chomper helped us with our maths this week by finding more and less. Charlie Chomp like to eat the bigger numbers!
Science
We taught the selfish crocodile how to brush his teeth correctly by filming ourselves brushing our teeth. We took photos of our super shiny and clean teeth.
Art
We made a healthy banana smoothie which is good for your teeth. We hope the selfish crocodile likes it as much as we did!
Term 4 Week 1
In the first week of term 4 we made story maps and wrote the story of The Three Billy Goats Gruff. We learned lots about fractions in Maths and in our RE lessons we learned about HInduism. Take a look at some of this week's wonderful learning in the slide show below.
Term 3 - Learning remotely
Week 6
This week we have had very snowy weather so have used the snow in our learning activities. Take a look at the photos below to see how much fun we have had.
Safer Internet Day 2021 - Tuesday 9th February
We celebrated Safer Internet Day today by learning lots about staying safe online. We enjoyed an assembly where we met Digiduck who taught us how to stay safe, in Guided Reading we heard the story of Smartie the penguin and recited a staying safe song.
In Maths we built 3D shape SID models and in English we listed information that is safe to share online and information that is not good to share online.
Week 5
We have had fun learning about doubling and halving in Maths this week. In RE we have discussed our church family and we have drawn pictures of our local church.
Dot paintings have been created in Art inspired by some Aboriginal art work we have explored this term.
Week 4
This week we took part in the RSPB Big Garden Birdwatch. We went outside to observe birds in our outside areas tallying the amount of each type of bird we saw.
In Geography we wrote Australasian animal fact files including some of the unusual animals that live on the continent.
In English we started learning the story Monkeys and Hats and created story maps to retell the story.
The slideshow below shows some of our wonderful work.
Week 3
Take a look at our tremendous time work in Maths this week.
We have also found out about what makes an animal a mammal in Science.
Week 2
This week in RE we have learned about families and what they mean to us.
We have become poets in English and have written poems in different styles.
Week 1
During our first week of remote learning this year, we have learned about verbs in English, number bonds in Maths, have been introduced to Australasia in Geography, animals in Science and have listened to different genres of music in Art to create patterns. Some photos of our learning are in the slide show below.
Term 2
Term 2 RE Focal Area
Week 7 - Christmas
Year 1 Nativity Performance
Our Christmas celebrations looked a little different this year and Year 1 performed their own version of The Nativity. We hope you enjoyed watching the performance and below are some photos we took on the day.
Christmas Dinner and Christmas Jumper Day
On Tuesday 15th December, we celebrated this special time of year by wearing Christmas jumpers to school, making our own Christmas hats which we wore when we ate our Christmas dinners. It was delicious!
We also made Christmas decorations to take home and we made Mr Garton a thank you card for donating crackers to our school which made our Christmas dinner even more special.
Remote Learning Week 2 - Week 6
We made a display at school to celebrate all the amazing learning we have done during our time at home.
We have worked hard at home completing English, Maths, RE, Science, History and some beautiful William Morris artwork too. We even completed some using Purple Mash.
Take a look at our display below.
Term 2 Week 2
Children in Need 2020
Having our class bubble shut did not stop us from taking part in Children in Need. We stayed in our pyjamas all day or wore our own clothes at home to recognise the day.
Term 2 Week 1 Home Learning
Term 1
Displays
We have been busy making displays for our corridors and hall. Outside our classroom we have made a reading display on the book 'The Day the Crayons Quit.'
We have painted portraits for our 'Year 1 Bubble' display by the hall and we learned about St Matthew and drew pictures of him for our class display in the hall.
Term 1 Week 8 Homework
Geography - The World and Continents
This term Year 1 have enjoyed learning about the world. We have learned that the world has 7 continents and 5 oceans. You have probably heard your child sing the continents song! To end the term, we painted our own globes.
Term 1 Week 7 Homework
Art - Painting skills
This term we have been learning about the landscape artist Turner. Take a look through our gallery to see what the Year 1 artists have painted.
English
This week we have been learning to write in clear sentences. We planted some bulbs in our outside area and wrote about the experience.
ICT
We have been busy on Purple Mash this term learning to log in and create our avatars. This week we learnt how to open a programme and save our work.
Term 1 Week 6 Homework
Science
This week we have been learning about the rain. We observed the rain outside and we are going to be measuring the rainfall over the 4 seasons using a rain gauge.
Handwriting
We have been practising our handwriting by making patterns on the playground and on big paper.
Term 1 Week 5 Homework
Please find below this week's homework.
Phonics
This week some of us enjoyed building cvc words using our phoneme frames. It helped us to blend the words to read them.
Outdoor Learning Week: Monday 21st - Friday 25th September
This week Year 1 had lots of fun taking their learning outside and making the most of our outdoor learning areas. We did some practical maths partitioning using hoops and bean bags, took our English and Phonics lessons outside on the playground and in Science we observed seasonal change on the field learning about the signs of Autumn. On Friday we acted out The Creation Story in our outside area and searched for outdoor materials to paint with in Art on Friday afternoon. Please browse through the photos below to see how much fun we had learning!
Term 1 Week 4 Homework
Please see below for this week's homework including spellings.
Harvest Festival 2020
Year 1's donation for the Harvest Festival.
Term 1 Week 3 - Homework
Please find below this week's homework and a covering letter.
This week in Maths we have been ordering numbers and counting out amounts.
Term 1 Week 2
In RE this week we learned about Sikhism and what happens at the Gurdwara. Some of us dressed as if we were visiting a gurdwara.
2019-2020 - St Matthew's Year 1 Class is taught by Mrs Riordan and Mrs Blake. The teaching assistant supporting this class is Mrs L Wilson.
Term 6 - Home Learning
Term 6 Week 6
Year 1 have had a fabulous week this week learning lots about subtraction, story writing and Jesus' miracles. Below are some examples of the children's learning at home and at school.
Term 6 Week 5
Look below and you will see of the lovely learning that Year 1 have completed in school and at home this week. We have continued competing for our virtual sports day, we have enjoyed subtraction in Maths and we have learnt all about Jesus' first miracle when He turned water into wine John 2:1-11.
Term 6 Week 4
Look at all the lovely things Year 1 have been doing at home this week ...
Term 6 Week 3
Take a look below at some of the wonderful learning Year 1 have enjoyed this week at home and at school including the St Edward's Virtual Sports Day 2020.
Term 6: week 2
Another great week of home learning, well done to everyone working hard at home. We have loved seeing photos of all your hard work...
English: Elves and the shoe maker
Just look at the other amazing things Year 1 have been up to...
Term 6 Week 1
Year 1 have worked hard at home to complete their home learning this week.
English - Alternative or spelling and red word practice
Maths - Counting in 2s, 5s and 10s.
Science - labelling and dissecting a plant
What else have Year 1 been up to at home this week? Take a look below to find out.
Term 5 - Home Learning
Take a look at some of the home learning Year 1 have completed while they have been away from school.
Term 5 Week 5
Aliens love underpants
Addition and subtraction word problems
Look at the extra work Year 1 have been doing at home. Its so lovely to see how much fun your also having with your family ...
Term 5 Week 4
RE - Jesus appears to the Disciples - surprise cards
The Tiny Seed by Eric Carle - Story maps
Maths - Investigating length and height
Take a look at the slideshow below to see some of the exciting extra work that has been completed this week. The children look like they have had lots of fun!
Term 5 Week 3
Perfect portraits - Year 1 were asked to create a portrait of a member of staff by using any medium they wished. Browse through our gallery of the art work they produced.
Dinosaurs in the Supermarket - posters
Year 1 have been working really hard at home on their own home learning too.
Term 4 RE focal area
Term 4 Science
This term we were learning about our body in Science.
We learnt about the functions of some body parts, what a balanced diet is and why it is important. We had lots of fun learning about the benefits of exercise too.
Year 1 enjoying taking part in some exercise.
Easter Bonnet
Unfortunately our Easter bonnet parade had to be cancelled but this did not put Billy off. He made an Easter bonnet at home all by himself and brought it to school to show his friends - well done Billy.
Term 4 DT
This term we have been learning about food in DT. We were taught the importance of washing our hands and used paint to show how germs can travel. We also made some fruit kebabs which were delicious!
St Edward's Science Fair
Thursday 19th March 2020
Today St Edward's held their Science Fair with some of our class taking part. We were able to view the variety of super science experiments that pupils across the school had carried out at home. Well done to everyone that took part.
Year 1's experiments below:
British Science Week 2020
Monday 9th March - Friday 13th March
Thursday - Sun art
Today we learned about the sun - did you know that the sun is a star? It has sun spots and solar flares.
Wednesday afternoon - Making craters
On Wednesday we were lucky enough to have some of the children's grown ups join us in the afternoon for some fun science. We found out about craters and how they are made. We experimented to see who could make the biggest crater using flour and marbles. Year 1 found out that the bigger the marble, the bigger the crater will be and the further the crater falls, the bigger the crater will be. Thank you grown ups for joining us; we hope you had as much fun as we did.
Wednesday morning - Visitor
We were lucky enough to have a visitor who taught us all about 'Our Diverse Planet.' We went on a journey around the world exploring the seven continents and learning about the different animals that live there.
Tuesday - Straw rockets
On Tuesday this week, we found out about how rockets are launched into space. We learned about forces and how the reaction force thrust pushes rockets into space. We made straw rockets and using our breath as thrust, we launched our own rockets in the Year 1 classroom.
Monday - Balloon experiment
On Monday we learned what a scientist is and what jobs they might do. We then experimented with baking soda and white vinegar to create a chemical reaction that blew up a balloon.
Book Week
2nd - 6th March 2020
There were some exciting things happening across the school this week. Year 1 took part in dressing up and the sponsored read.
Reconciliation service
We chose a stone to decorate and spent time with thinking about how to make good choices. We then put them in a bowl ready for Father Frank to cleanse during the service.
English
In English, we 'talked' the story of Goldilocks and the Three Bears and created a class story map.
Ash Wednesday
Wednesday 26th February
The whole school visited our church for the Ash Wednesday service. Year 1 enjoyed staying behind after Mass to explore the church a little more.
Term 4 Week 1
Shrove Tuesday
Tuesday 25th February
Today we learned about Shrove Tuesday and why people make pancakes on this day. In DT, we got to decorate our own pancakes after finding out how to make them.
Term 3 RE focal area
Baptism
Friday 14th February
This week in RE we have been learning about Baptism. We found out about the signs and symbols associated with Baptism and role played a baptism.
Year 1 Science display
We worked really hard to produce science display in the corridor for everyone to enjoy.
Year 1 miracle display- The Calming of the Storm
Science - body parts
This week in Science we labelled body parts and identified where they go on a body map.
The Dogs Trust visit
In week 3, The Dogs Trust visited St Edwards. We were taught how to be dog smart and safe around dogs.
we learnt the 5 happy dog rules.
Science - Term 3 Week 2
An alien crash landed trying to find out about animals on Earth. We found a device with a recording of Slimko the alien on. He asked us to help him with his mission to find out about animals including aliens. Of course, Year 1 agreed to help!
Geography
This term we have been learning about the continent Australasia. In pairs we painted some beautiful scenes from the continent.
Term 3 Science - Animals including humans
Something very peculiar happened in our outside area!
Term 2 RE focal area
Tuesday 17th December
Today we enjoyed a visit from Father Christmas.
Mary Our Mother
In term 2 we have been learning about Mary our Mother. At the end of this term we painted portraits of Mary wearing blue.
Key Stage 1 Nativity Performance
Friday 13th December
Reception, Year 1 and Year 2 did a wonderful job of telling the Nativity story through their Christmas performance. Take a look at some photographs of Year 1 in costume. We think you'll agree that they look fabulous.
Year 1 Christmas Display - The Nativity story map
Thursday 12th December
Year 1 held their own election. We learned about 4 parties and their manifestos. We chose one main point from each and discussed as a class.
We chose children to represent each party then had a secret ballot.
The results of Year 1's election were:
Red party - 10
Yellow party - 4
Blue party - 2
Green party - 5
Take a look at the slideshow of photos from our election.
Christmas Fair/ Enterprise Day
Term 2 week 6
Term 2 Week 4
Friendship Week - we took part in lots of activities that promoted team skills and good communication. We learned lots of new things about one another.
We had great fun in science, investigating which type of paper can absorb the most water.
Term 2 Week 3
Aylesford Priory Retreat
Science - properties of everyday materials
Using our knowledge of materials, we found materials with certain properties such as hard, soft and transparent. We grouped materials according to their properties.
Our Lady of Mount Carmel Display
Children in Need
15th November
The children had lots of fun raising money for Children in Need.
Potion making
Term 2 Week 2
In English we have been making potions and using adjectives to describe them.
We had to use our science skills to classify everyday materials.
Science - Everyday materials
Something has happened to our classroom!
Term 1 RE focal area
Our Lady of all nations
Term 1 Week 6
Two nuns from Our Lady of All Nations in Amsterdam visited the school. They spent time with us in Year 1 so we could ask questions about what their life is like.
God's Great Plan
In RE during term 1, our topic was God's Great Plan. We read stories from the Bible about Creation and Adam and Eve. we thought about how we can take care of the wonderful world God has given us.
Term 1
Science - The seasons
This term we have been learning about the seasons and weather associated with each season. Take a look at some of the fun activities we have taken part in including naming the months and seasons, measuring wind direction and strength as well as making a rain gauge and recording temperature.
Term 1 Geography - World and Continents
We have been learning about the wonderful world, the land and sea and continents. In week 2 we even made our own worlds!
Year 1 found St. Edward just outside their classroom!
Year 1 found lots of ladybirds on the plants growing in their flower beds!
St. Matthew's Hall Display 2019
Look below at all the amazing achievements last year's St Matthew's Class did....
Enterprise Day
Each class were given £20 and need to make as much money as they can by making and selling something.
We have been working hard to make scented playdough and popcorn to sell at the summer fare.
Capacity
This week we have been learning all about capacity and have had great fun exploring different size containers in the water.
Year 1 Mass
We were lucky enough to be invited to a mass at Ss Henry and Elizabeth Catholic Church. We enjoyed having time to look around the church and admire all the beautiful religious artefacts.
Science - minibeasts
To start off our minibeast topic we went out to explore the garden and used magnifying glasses to spot as many minibeasts as we could.
Trees
To finish off our topic on plants we looked closely at the different trees on our school field. We recorded there name, height, age, colour and collected some leaves from the trees. We had great fun doing tree rubbings and creating posters to show all of our findings. What do you think of our posters....
Measuring
This week we have been learning all about measuring and comparing lengths.
Science - Parts of a plant
Today we explored the garden, we carefully dug up plants to look at the roots. The plants were brought back to class and put in pots of water, we observed the roots closely and drew them.
Making bead strings
We made our own bead strings to help us with our addition and subtraction.
Term 5 Science - Plants
To start our topic, we had a visit from some botanists.
We have been learning about plants, dissecting flowers and have grown our own bean plants.
Whole school trip to Wildwood
We had such an amazing time spotting animals form the United Kingdom and other parts of the world. It helped us with our animal themed writing.
Easter Bonnet Parade
Year 1's winners this year.
Family Trust
The Family Trust visited and performed The Passion using puppets.
Owl Babies
We built nests using materials that we found on the field.
World Book Day 2019
DT Week
We showed off our cooking skills and spent the week learning about food and nutrition. Year 1 have some keen chefs among them.
Our own Uluru
We built our own version of the sacred Australasian landmark Uluru.
We journeyed across Australasia, learning about Australasian animals, weather and countries. Take a look at all the learning we did.
KRAG visitor
Year 1 were very lucky to have a scientist visit us from KRAG - Kent reptile and amphibian group. She told us lots of information about native reptiles and amphibians in our area.
Alien crash landing!
Something very unusual appeared in our outside area. Have aliens visited Year 1?
Mrs Riordan was very brave and investigated the crash site.
Snow and Ice Day Wednesday 9th January
We enjoyed a day of snow and ice, painting polar bear pictures and experimenting with ice in Science. We made rainbow ice and chocolate ice cream. Bryn enjoyed the ice cream!
At the end of term, we had a surprise visit from Father Christmas.
EYFS and KS1 Nativity performance 2018-19
This year's Nativity performance, 'A King is Born' was a huge success. Take a look at the photos below.
We worked hard to make snow globes for our part of the Nativity story displays.
Retreat: 28th November 2018, focusing on LOVE
We honoured Remembrance Day with class activities, making Lego models of poppies, designing peace gardens and painting poppies for a whole school memorial.
We had an amazing week designing and making potions. Look at our faces!
29th October
This week we have been learning about Hinduism and light. We took part in some Bollywood dancing and made moving 'light' pictures.
Harvest week
Year 1 have worked hard to create a Harvest display to show everyone how thankful we are.
We peeled, chopped and mixed harvest produce to make vegetable soup. Mrs Wakefield could smell it cooking from her office so she joined us for a taste and said it was delicious!
We used real life fruit and vegetables to add and subtract in our Maths lessons.
Upnor Castle: 25th September, CASTLE Theme Week
