Year 1 - Sparrow

Wow Starter- How to plant a bean.

This morning we heard the story of Jasper's Beanstalk. we then had the opportunity of planting our own beans following our new class instructions text map. We wonder whose beanstalk will grow the tallest?

 

 

 

Happy Easter Everyone

What a busy day we have had today. Off to church this morning for our Easter service and I must say the children sang beautifully. This afternoon we had our Easter bonnet parade and I must say the bonnets were truly magnificent and you could see the pride that the children had on their faces whilst wearing them.

 

A big thank you for your support with this. Happy Easter everyone.

Easter Church Visit : March 2024

This morning we went on a lovely visit to St Francis of Assisi Church to look for some symbols of Easter. It was a lovely spring morning and we enjoyed looking for signs of Spring on our way.  The weather was warm and the sky was blue. We saw buds on the trees and flowers were beginning to bloom. 

When we arrived we met a lovely lady named Joan. She told us a little bit  about the church and showed us some objects that were connected to Jesus. She showed us a chalice and bread plate and we learnt that the red wine that was served in the chalice represented Jesus's blood and the bread that would be served on the plate would represent Jesus's body. 

We saw many crosses around the church, these were symbols of how Jesus died on Good Friday and the sacrifice that he made for everyone. There were lots of candles that represented the light of Jesus, when he rose again on Easter Sunday. 

We sat in the pew's and Joan showed us an amazing patchwork quilt that she had made which represented many parts of Jesus's life. We also had the chance to see the font and learnt that this was a place where children and adults were christened. 

We enjoyed our walk back to school in the beautiful sunshine and continued to look for some signs of spring.

 

World Book Day.

Look at our amazing costumes that we wore to school today to celebrate World Book Day. We enjoyed sharing some of our stories with the rest of the class.

 

RockTopus

What an amazing time we had today working with RockTopus, a real life rock band. We created our very own rock song all about the ten times tables. Here are some pictures from our session and we can't wait to view our rock video once Andy and Tom publish it.

Somerset Rural Life Museum

Today we visited the Somerset Rural Life Museum in Glastonbury.

We took part in a workshop where we conducted a scientific investigation and made our own felt animal fridge magnets using sheep's wool. We also learnt about different materials and their properties. We then had a  look around the museum and searched for different materials that were an important part of domestic and farming life in Somerset.

We had a fantastic day!

 

Fencing with Jim

What a fab morning we have had this morning learning the skill of fencing. Did you know that you are only allowed to move forwards and backwards. Here are some photographs from this mornings coaching session.

Storyteller session with year 1.

Today in year 1 we were lucky to have a visit from Sharon Jacksties, a professional storyteller. It was very exciting, Sharon brought some musical instruments from all over the world which she used to help her tell us her story.

Her story was all about a quiet, shy, young boy called Davey who loved to sit in his boat on the River Parratt. One day he caught a massive, slimy, scaly fish, which sadly he had harmed with his fishing hook and  made the fish's mouth and cheek bleed. Suddenly he heard a small voice asking him to kiss his wound better. At first Davey wondered where the voice was coming from. He then realised it was the fish. He quickly kissed the fish and to his surprise the fish shred its slimy scales and turned into a beautiful young girl. Davey was not shy around the girl and had found himself a new friend. They spent lots of time together and fell in love. They later married and had children of their own. However, all of the children and grandchildren and great, great grandchildren that they had, all had the same scar on their cheeks just like the young girl had from the fishing hook. The children enjoyed their visit and I am sure will enjoy making up some of their own stories about Davey and the fish from The River Parratt.

Hedgehog Workshop

Year 1 were very lucky this afternoon as we had a visitor from the RSPCA. She taught us what RSPCA means and all about the very important work that they do.

We learnt about caring for all kinds of animals and particularly how to care for hedgehogs. We didn't know that they could get stuck in tin cans so it's important that we are careful with our recycling. We also learnt what to do if we think they are in trouble.

We finished the session by making our own hedgehogs out of clay. It was a great afternoon!

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Sparrow class uploading a picture for our ICT lesson.

Today Mrs Edwards showed us how to upload a photograph from the camera onto our class page, as part of our online safety lesson. Everyone in the picture has permission to be on our school website. We have spent some time looking at the different parts of our website. We can not wait to see our picture once it is uploaded.

Happy New Year! And Welcome back.

Wow! what a busy three days we have had in year 1 this week. 

In English we had our Wow starter- we came into school on Wednesday morning and it appeared that our classroom had been part of a crime scene investigation. Someone had broken into our classroom and not only left us with a trail of devastation but several clues for us to solve. A small child was apparently the prime suspect and had left a lock of long golden hair and a red ribbon as she fled the scene. Who could this person be? We are yet to find the suspect.

On Thursday we had our PE Festival which was truly amazing. We had the opportunity to participate in four different obstacle courses and competed against other groups in our class. 

Today we bought in some of our favourite toys that we enjoyed playing with at home. Our History topic is on toys and we will be looking at how toys have changed over the years.

That's without our other lessons that we have been working hard in. Here are some pictures from our busy week. 

Christmas week in Sparrow class

What a busy week we have had in year 1. We started the week with our Amazing KS1 Nativity performance. Since then we have made cards, calendars, met with Father Christmas, enjoyed our Christmas lunch, danced the evening away at our KS1 Christmas disco, had a lovely games afternoon, where we got to wear our Christmas jumpers and finished the week with a very relaxing movie afternoon. WOW! what a lot of exciting things we have done. Oh yes we also made our very own Christingles as part of our whole school festival of lights day. Here are some pictures from our busy week.

 

Merry Christmas to you all! Have a wonderful time spending time with your families.

Children in need

Thank you to everyone who has supported children in need today. Here are a few piccies of the children wearing their spotty accessories. 

Cad Character visit- History- First Flight.

This morning we had a visit from Don Thomas. He was a pilot who worked for the Air force and flew very fast planes. Don was also an astronaut and had also travelled in space rockets.  

Don told the children all about how the Montgolfier brothers invented the hot air balloon, and how they first sent up a duck, chicken and sheep to see how far it could fly.  

Don then taught us about how the glider was invented and how people tried to fly.  

We then learnt all about Orville and Wilbur Wright and how as children they loved to read and fix things and how from a very young age, they had dreamt of flying. Wilbur and Orville were the sons of Susan and Milton. When they were young adults, they worked in a bicycle shop, where they fixed and made bicycles. 

 

Wilbur flew their first aeroplane on 14th December 1903. The flight lasted for 3 seconds. Orville attempted his first solo flight which lasted for 12 seconds. On the 17th of December 1903 the Wright flight, as it was named lasted for 37 minutes. The Wright brothers had invented and flown the very first aeroplane. 

 

The children were able to get into character and help Don retell the life story of The Wright Brothers and to learn about first flight. 

 

 

 

WOW Starter- Where the Wild Things Are.

Today we began our new English unit around the story of Where the Wild Things Are. The children listened to the story and thought about what their wild thing might look like. The children then created their very own junk model WILD THING!! Here are some pictures of us creating our own wild things.

 

International language day- Italy

As part of international language day year 1 looked at what life is like in Italy. We came to school wearing red, white and green as these are the colours of the Italian flag. We looked at some famous landmarks, places we might like to visit and some of the traditional tasty dishes that are eaten in Italy. In Sparrow class we agreed that pizza was among our favourites. Mrs Edwards brought us in some pizza's to sample. They really were yummy. We then designed our own pictures adding our favourite toppings. One pizza even had marmalade on it as the little boy thought he might like to share it with Paddington Bear. Here are some pictures from our lovely afternoon.

 

Geography local area walk.

Yesterday year 1 enjoyed a walk around our local area. The sun was shining for us which was lovely. We went in search looking for some shops, a post box, the church, a green space and the salvation Army as part of our Geography fieldwork unit. Next week we will be creating our own pictorial maps and will be wring a recount of our walk using time connectives.

 

Welcome to year 1.

The children have all settled well into year 1. We have been extremely busy over the past two weeks and thought it would be nice to share some pictures with you. Please have a little look with your children and they can tell you all about the exciting things that they have been learning about.

 

Joint PE session with Year 6

Today we joined Blackbird class for a PE activity session. The year 6 children and Miss Bryant had created some activities for the year 1 children. Everyone got to have a go at all the activities. Year 6 were very impressed at the way we joined in and listened to their instructions.

 

African Dance : June 2023

On Tuesday we had a visit from Ellie, a professional dancer. She led us in an African themed dance workshop where we learnt a routine to the song 'Waka Waka' by Shakira. We even knew some of the words! Some of our parents and carers came to watch us perform our dance at the end of the day. We were very proud of ourselves, learning a whole dance in just one hour!

Sports day

Year 1 had a fantastic time on sports day. We began the afternoon with a round robin of activities, including hockey, basketball and parachute games. We had a short break then ended the day with house races.

Sports and Health week

We have had a lovely week completing activities for Sports and Health week. They particularly enjoyed our circus skills session. And we still have African dance to look forward to next week!

Our trip to Carymoor

Today we travelled to Carymoor. When we arrived we met Beth and Nat who talked to us about mini beasts. We played a fun game where we had to guess the creature Beth was describing. We used clues to help us work it out. Next we went to our first activity which was pond dipping. We walked through the woods to find a shady place where the water creatures were. On the way we spotted a grass snake! He was very still for a long time and let us watch him then he slithered away into the grass. We found lots of water creatures, we even found a baby newt called an eft. After that we tried on some glasses which helped us understand how a dragonfly sees, they have lots of lenses in their eyes and it was very strange!

After lunch we went to the meadow to find the mini beasts which live there. Beth told us all about them and how to use a sweep net. We were excited to find grasshoppers, ladybirds and a beautiful moth.

We enjoyed making some of the creatures we had found using clay and natural materials. Finally we had a quick look inside the roundhouse before we got on the coach. Some swallows had built their nest there, they came all the way from South Africa!

We had a super day, have a look at the photos.

 

Giant objects!

Thank you to the children (and parents!) who have worked so hard to create giant objects at home. We loved sharing them in the class. The children clearly had fun making them. Thank you.

 

English wow!

We had lots of fun planting beans today as the start of our new English unit. We Read Jasper's Beanstalk by Mick Inkpen and Nick Butterworth. We followed instructions to plant our bean and soon we will be writing our own instructions. We can't wait to see how our beans grow. We will be watering them every day!

Sparrow History Wow!

Today Sparrow class had a visit from Sharon from the museum to introduce our next History unit Nurturing Nurses, all about Florence Nightingale and Mary Seacole. We talked about the conditions of the hospitals they worked in and the improvements that the nurses made. 

 

Sparrow Maths Day Activity

Today everyone took part in World maths day! Sparrow got to go outside and complete different challenges using their 'treasures' from the Playpod. The children worked in groups and were encouraged to talk to each other and share their ideas. They made shapes, sorted the materials into shortest to longest, created an obstacle course and played instruments. The children had lots of fun while learning outside.

 

 

 

English WOW activity: March 2023

Today we thought about journeys and talked about where we would like to go on an adventure. We wondered what it would be like to explore space, so we went to the hall and enjoyed ‘Preparing for Launch’. We put on our space suits and built a rocket in teams. Then we blasted off and travelled through space! We finished by looking at the earth and moon from our control centre.

Journey through space. 1: Preparing for launch - BBC Teach

English WOW - travelling to space

 

Year 1 Museum Trip : February 2023