September: Year 1 Have Blasted Off into the New School Year! 🚀

What an amazing start to the year it’s been for Year 1! From day one, the children dived head first into exploring their brand-new surroundings — from a whole new playground to exciting areas within the classroom just waiting to be discovered.

They’ve quickly settled into their new routines and have already shown what an incredible group they are. We kicked things off with the heartwarming book ‘Our School is a Family’, which inspired a range of creative and meaningful activities. The children made their very own colour-themed bracelets, with each colour symbolising a special quality that makes our class family unique.

As if that wasn’t enough, imaginations ran wild as the children designed and built their dream homes using junk modelling — every creation more imaginative than the last! We also took time to explore our emotions, using art to express how different feelings look and feel to us.

In maths, the children have been keen to show off their number knowledge in creative ways, especially when they got to draw straight onto the tables! From looking at ten frames , to sorting objects in different ways, they explored all sorts of fun ways to represent numbers to ten.

In our english lessons, we began the year by looking at the difference between lowercase and upper case letters.  We practiced these on our special writing pads and in sand and glitter to develop our formation of them.

In science, we have been investigating whether pine cones can predict the weather - results to follow! 

It’s been a fun and creative start to Year 1 — and this is just the beginning! 🌟