Christmas in 1A
What a fantastic final week we’ve had in 1A! We really enjoyed standing on the stage and performing Mary’s Knitting for all of our adults.
On Thursday we saw some fantastic inflatables that Mrs Pennock brought in for us! Our Christmas dinner was delicious too!
Thank you so much for all of the lovely Christmas cards and gifts. I hope you all have a wonderful Christmas break.
Merry Christmas, Miss Young. 🙂
Christmas dinner day and inflatables!
We had an amazing day today. Mrs Pennock brought her HUGE collection of Christmas inflatables for the whole school to enjoy. We loved seeing them all. Then, we had out Christmas dinner – it was yummy. Thank you to Mrs Pennock and all the kitchen staff who made it a special day.
Maths: Making shapes
This week we have been learning about shapes in Year 1. We have been learning all about patterns and what they are and even had a go at making our own.
We also made some 3D shapes using 4 or 5 cubes. You can make lots of shapes by changing their position!
Help at home by using this shape website at home and making your own patterns!
Science – being chemists
This half term, we’ve been chemists. We’ve been learning about materials, their properties and which material is used for what and why.
This week we tested the absorbency of different materials.
We learnt that,
Absorb means when a liquid is taken in my a material.
We predicted, then tested, the absorbency of a tissue, kitchen roll, paper and a plastic bag. Some materials absorbed quicker than others but the plastic didn’t absorb the water at all.
Help at home by finding absorbent material in your home.
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!