Year 1
Mrs Lewis and Mrs DochertyWelcome to Year 1
Sports Day 2025
A huge well done to the children in Year 1, 2 and 3 for participating in their Sports Day. The children worked so hard in all their races and showcased great enthusiasm and sportsmanship. Everyone had great fun and the winning house this year was Team Baltic! Thank...
Team Building
As part of our PE scheme, year 1 are taking part in a variety of team building games. We have had fun working with a partner, sitting back to back, then trying to stand up. We all found this very tricky until we learned to work together and communicate with each other...
Year 1’s moving story books
Throughout this term in DT we have been researching, designing and making our own moving story books to share with the younger children in the school. We chose the familiar story of Humpty Dumpty to work with. We created our front covers and then went on to make our...
World Music Week 2025
Last week we celebrated 'World Music Week' in school. Throughout the week each class took part in some musical activities including listening and learning about different music around the world, making our own musical instruments out of recycled materials, creating...
Grow Your Own Potatoes!
Year 1 have enjoyed taking part in the ’Grow your own potatoes’ project. First, we had to chit the seed potatoes which involved leaving them on a sunny windowsill for 2 weeks. Then, we planted them and left them to grow for 14 weeks. On Thursday, we finally harvested...
Caring for others
In our last PSHE lesson, Year 1 learned about what pets need in order to be happy and healthy. This afternoon, we discussed the things that children needed to be well looked after. Each group discussed the needs of a child of a different age (a newborn baby, an 8...
St Mary’s Lighthouse
What a fantastic day we have had! Today we visited St Mary’s Island as part of our English unit ‘The Lighthouse Keepers Lunch.’ We began the day rock pooling, we managed to catch some fish, edible crabs, shore crabs, hermit crabs and even a star fish that looked just...
Phonics Club
Year 1 and 2 children are enjoying phonics club after school on Thursdays to help prepare them for the phonics screening in June. Last week we loved playing phonics bingo and were experts at spotting the digraphs on our bingo boards.
Making a boat that can float
Year 1 have been exploring everyday materials in science. We have been looking at a range of materials and their properties. We found out about which materials floated and which materials sunk. We used this knowledge to build a boat that could float. We tested our...
Sound Patterns
This term Year 1 have been looking at different sound patterns in our music lessons. They can now recognise different sound patterns and know how to represent them using symbols. Next lesson we will be looking at how to play different sound patterns using the musical...
Bugs ‘n’ Stuff Workshop
We loved having Guy from Bugs n' Stuff come to visit us in school during our Science Week. Every class had the opportunity to look, touch and hold a wide variety of creatures - a giant millipede, cockroaches, a gecko and a python to name just a few! We saw how a...
Science Week – The Story of Earth Assembly
As part of our Science week activities, Reece from the Street Scientists team , who is a student at Newcastle University, came into school and shared an assembly with our children in Years 1 - 6 about the story of Earth. He showed the children, using ropes, the...