Year 1 - Blast Off!

Hello everyone,

Today we began our new topic for this half term: SPACE! We began our astronaut training this morning by filling in our applications and seeing if we were strong and flexible enough with some space yoga in the hall! Through the next 6 weeks we will be covering a wide variety of topics within our topic of space. Some brilliant questions and 'I wonder...' comments from children today; here are a few.

What makes the sun hot?

Do planets float in the sky?

Where does the sun go at night?

I wonder if there are real aliens?!

Coming home this week will be our new knowledge organiser for this topic. On it will be all the things that we will be learning about, so if you did want to do some exploration at home and carry on that curiosity and intrigue you are more than welcome to! there will be a home learning project in the next couple of weeks for you to get stuck in to as well.

A few notices... we have the year 1 trip to the Book Bus this Wednesday from 10-10.30am and all parents are very welcome to attend with their children. 

Next Friday is the year 1 Spring term assembly from 9.20am so please come along and see what we're up to with that too.

Welcome back everyone! 

Year 1 team

Year 1 - Science Week So Far In Pictures...

Hello everyone,

We've had a great couple of days so far, getting stuck in to this years Science Week! Some pictures of what year 1 have been up to...

On Monday we started by learning about Taxonomy with Mr. Stentiford! Some very inquisitive children with some great questions!

Then on Monday afternoon we had another input from the Dorset Waste Partnership! You may recognise the face...

Then, to end the day on Monday, we used the houses that we had made for our topic and made our own mini version of London. Then we started our own Great Fire! A video is available on the school Facebook page!

Today was the day we went on a local area litter pick! We went across the road to the park and up the path by the side of the school and it was surprising how much rubbish we found lying around!

Who knows what the rest of the week will bring! A final reminder that we will be opening our doors from 3pm tomorrow to welcome you all in to our bakery!

Year 1 team

Year 1 - Bakery Next Week!!

Hello everyone,

A slight mistake was made in last week's blog about our bakery afternoon in year 1... It said it was on Thursday when it should have said Wednesday! Thursday next week is our POW science fair and we do not want to clash with that! 

So, on Wednesday please feel free to come in to school from 3pm to celebrate our topic of The Great Fire of London through a pop-up bakery! The children have really jumped in during this topic and have been incredibly inquisitive.

Next week we will be creating, making and baking in preparation as well as getting fully stuck in to our themed science week! 

Finally, thank you all for bringing in the cereal boxes and milk bottles... These have all been used now and hopefully you will see how! 

Year 1 team