Year 1

What a great day we had at the Wisbech Reads Literacy Festival on Tuesday!

We started off the at the Library, learning about all it has to offer and hearing about the Summer Reading Challenge. We will hear more about this in a special assembly in school in a few weeks time. Please also see the…

It was lovely to see Year One children happily returning to school this week. We can't quite believe that this is the final half term of Year One! What a busy, brilliant year it has been so far. Lots of learning and lots of fun along the way!

This week the children were very excited to plant a…

What a brilliant time Year one children had on the Water Run on Thursday!

They smiled and laughed throughout as they ran alongside their friends through the dry part of the course on the field, and then the wet part of the course on the playground. The children were guided and encouraged around…

This week the children continued to read on in their exciting class reader 'The Jungle Book' and they started to write sentences about the characters. In addition to ensuring that their sentences contained a subject (the 'who') and a predicate (the 'what') the children are now beginning to learn…

In English this week the children have enjoyed reading our new class novel 'The Jungle Book' by Rudyard Kipling. They have been learning to add adjectives to nouns to give the reader more detail in their writing. The children continue to practise their handwriting daily, printing their letters…

Year One's new Science learning is 'Plants' this half-term. Please take a look at the Knowledge Organiser above to find out more about the key knowledge and skills that your child will be developing in the coming weeks.

The children were excited to plant seeds and seedlings, some inside and…

On Friday the children in Year One were very excited to have their PSHE lesson on the 'Life Education' bus that visited our school this week. The children were actively engaged in fun activities and discussion to extend their learning about how to take care of themselves. This included the…

Welcome back to the Summer Term in Year One!

It was lovely to greet Year One children and welcome them back to school on Monday. There were lots of smiles all around!

This term the children will be continuing with an indoor PE session on Thursday and an outdoor PE session on Friday. Forest…

It was so lovely to see many of our parents at our school's Easter Coffee Morning this week. Thank you for all the time and effort put in at home to help the children create some amazing Easter bonnets. The children absolutely loved parading these for all our visitors and singing our Year One…

On Friday this week the day that Year One children had been eagerly waiting for had finally arrived. It was our visit to Banham Zoo!

Linked to their learning in Science, the children experienced a day full of excitement and amazement at the wonder of the animal kingdom. Our class were able to…

In our daily Maths lessons Year One children have been exploring length and height. They have learned how to measure with finger steps and cubes, and moved on to the standard units of centimetres. The children have developed their mathematical vocabulary using words such as 'longer', 'shorter',…

What an extra exciting week of fun learning we had in Year One this week!

On Tuesday we welcomed the Science Dome into school, with a focus on retrieving our knowledge and skills based on our seasons and weather unit last term. The children were so excited to go inside the dome and they were…