by KPM-Web | Dec 21, 2023 | Year 1 Amber, Year 1 Marmalade
Year One have been busy designing Christmas Jumpers for the mouse in The Gruffalo’s Child to keep them warm during the cold and frosty Winter. We thought about what kind of Christmassy things we would like to teach the mouse about before drawing our design. It...
by KPM-Web | Dec 7, 2023 | Year 1 Amber, Year 1 Marmalade
This afternoon, Year One have been busy developing our Art skills of paper folding and sculpturing but creating Winter Trees. We used folding and curling techniques to create interesting shapes for the barren winter branches. Some of us even used closed scissors to...
by KPM-Web | Dec 6, 2023 | Year 1 Amber, Year 1 Marmalade
Carrying on from our Geography Field Trip, we have been looking at different kinds of maps and using Digimaps on IPads to help us explore our local area in more detail. Looking at aerial maps, or bird’s eye view maps, means we can show different features clearly...
by KPM-Web | Dec 1, 2023 | Year 1 Amber, Year 1 Marmalade
Today, a very excited Year One and their helpers wrapped up warmly and braved the morning frost to go on our Geography and Christmas Post trip. We walked with our partners and helpers to the Post Box by the Co-Op, making sure to look at our local environment along the...
by KPM-Web | Nov 30, 2023 | Year 1 Amber, Year 1 Marmalade
This Sunday marks the start of the Christian season of Advent which is a time of preparation for Christmas. Year One have learned about the tradition of the Advent Wreath which Churches use to mark the passing Sundays until Christmas Day when they celebrate the birth...
by KPM-Web | Nov 27, 2023 | Year 1 Amber, Year 1 Marmalade
Today we have been busy looking at using counters to help us begin to understand subtraction. We were developing our Maths vocabulary by using sentences like ‘First I have eight counters, then two were taken away. How many counters are left?’ We had to...