Art – printing
We’ve used out printing skills that we learned on the Hepworth Gallery trip last week. There were some ‘ooohs’ and ‘ahhhs’ as children saw what pattern their tile made.
Mad about Maths
For the past few weeks, Year 1 have been learning how to compose numbers. Last week, we focussed on making 6 and 7. This week we are focussing on 8 and 9. We have been using Numicon, our fingers and rek n reks to compose our numbers.
Help at home by composing numbers using household objects. Oranges and apples work well!
Christmas Craft Club
We’ve had a wonderful time this evening for our final Craft Club of 2025. The children enjoyed making candy canes and Christmas trees using finger painting.
They also drew their very own Elf on the Shelf.
See you in 2026 Craft Clubbers!
2C at The Hepworth
What an incredible day! 2C were excellent ambassadors for our school. We had members of the public commenting on how superb their behaviour was. There were so many highlights, as already posted by KS1 classes, but we enjoyed the coach saying our school name as a start!
Learning about Barbara Hepworth and being surrounded by her mesmerising sculptures really did inspire us to be creative. We were sad to learn that Barbara actually died in her art studio owing to a fire. It felt like a privilege to stand next to the tools she used to create her sculptures.
Our sketches from the gallery walk were transferred into our print making workshop.
We have brought our prints home so we will explore turning them into our 2026 calendars-watch this space!
Of course, a trip wouldn’t be a trip without a lovingly thought through packed lunch. We were more than ready to eat!
We arrived under bright blue skies but sadly the rain poured in the afternoon so we didn’t get the chance to explore outside. Instead, we had some time in the gallery before returning to school for a run around our playground. 2C had the most enjoyable day.
A HUGE THANKYOU to our wonderful adult volunteers-you were A*
1,2B trip to the Hepworth Art Gallery
We had great school trip to the Hepworth Gallery in Wakefield.
We took part in a print-making workshop which included looking at some Barbara Hepworth sculptures and finding inspiration from their shapes. There were some great outcomes and the children enjoyed seeing all their masterpieces.
We also spent time looking around the garden, the different galleries and sketching some of the sculptures. There were a variety of pieces of art and sculptures to see with different textures, shapes and colours. We even got to see the brand new exhibition that opened last week.
Our trip to the Hepwortth, Wakefield
What a fantastic day we had yesterday on our school trip to the Hepworth Art Gallery in Wakefield. This was the first trip of the year for our Year One children. They behaved brilliantly and represented the school very well.
We had so much fun on the bus! We then took part in a workshop where we looked at lots of sculptures made by Barbara Hepworth.
We then had a go at making our own art and did some fantastic printmaking.
After that, we had lunch before looking around the art galleries and spotting lots of primary and secondary colours.
Thank you so much to our adult volunteers for coming on the trip yesterday. We had so much fun!
Y2 football
Well done to our fantastic Year 2 children for taking part in the tournament at Fives yesterday. It was very chilly but the team showed great enthusiasm and determination! Thank you to everybody that came to support the team and to FOSP for providing the kits.
- The next game will be Monday 9th February.
DT cooking
What a fantastic day we have had in 1A. The children have been making banana sandwiches as part of our DT Food. This is part of our curriculum and the children will be making two further recipes over the course of the year. We washed our hands and tied back our hair to make sure we were safe. After getting our ingredients together we used skills like cutting, slicing, spreading and sprinkling. Some of us loved the sandwiches, others weren’t keen. I am happy to say everybody had a taste! Well done for trying something new 1A!
Help at home by encouraging your child to join in with the preparation or cooking of food.
Design and Technology (Food) – 2C
We completed our DT Food learning for this term this week. This is part of our curriculum and the children will be making two further recipes over the course of the year. We made banana sandwiches using peeling, cutting, slicing, spreading and sprinkling skills.
Help at home by encouraging your child to join in with the preparation or cooking of food.
Marvellous Maths
This week our Year 1 children have been learning all about odd and even numbers.. They are incredibly secure at counting from 0-10 and fantastic at counting backwards.
We have been recognising the value of numicon and organising it into odd and even numbers.
‘Even numbers have a flat top’.
‘Odd numbers are made of pairs and one more’.
We did the same with numerals!
Help at home: by discussing numbers and how they reach their value. E.g. ‘4 is made of 2 pairs, 5 is made of 2 pairs and one more.’