Year 1
Mrs Lewis and Mrs DochertyWelcome to Year 1
Online Safety Session
This morning, we offered parents and carers a face-to-face online safety information session. We discussed the results of a recent KS2 internet use survey and how to keep our children as safe as possible when online.We directed parents and carers to our 'Digital...
We Are Botanists! 🌹🌸🪷
This week as part of our STEM week, Year 1 and 2 became botanists with Mel from NUSTEM. Botanists study plants and their environments. They study how plants live and grow. We investigated a plant called a Venus flytrap. It was fascinating learning facts about this...
Thank you Morrisons!
We had a wonderful surprise this week from our local supermarket Morrison in Birtley. To help us celebrate World Book Day, they kindly donated some amazing stories for our school which we will share amongst classes. Thank you to Morrisons for supporting our community...
Visit to Angel of the North and Newcastle Keep
Year 1 enjoyed a fantastic day out as part of our geography work on local landmarks and our history work on castles. We loved visiting the Angel of the North which is celebrating its 25th birthday and also spotting local North East landmarks such as the Tyne bridge,...
Safer Internet Day!
Safer Internet Day is celebrated globally in February each year to promote the safe and positive use of digital technology for children and young people.This year, Safer Internet Day celebrated with the theme ‘Want to Talk About it?’ to encourage and inspire national...
Special books
This week, as part of our RE work, the children in Year 1 each brought in a book that is special to them and shared their books with the class. We talked and wrote about why our book is special and then drew a picture of the cover. We then found out about special...
Gymnastics
Year 1 have been learning to work safely and develop technique in the barrel, straight and forward rolls in gymnastics. We made our rolls harder by placing a beanbag between our knees or hands and trying to hold it there as we rolled. We placed a beanbag on our back,...
The Big Bad Wolf 🐺
As part of our English unit ‘Traditional Tales’ we have been reading the story ‘The Three Little Pigs.’ This morning the big bad wolf paid us a visit and made a very big mess of our classroom! The children took part in some oral retelling and ordering the story today...
Julia Donaldson
This week we are learning all about the Author and Poet ‘Julia Donaldson.’ Today we have been researching her work and choosing our favourite rhyming book. We then used her website to research key facts and learnt some makaton for the Gruffalo song!
Fun with Shapes
Year 1 have been learning to recognise and name 2D and 3D shapes and have been finding out about their properties. We have had fun spotting shapes around the classroom, building with shapes, making patterns with shapes, guessing shapes in a feely bag, making shape...
Year 1 & 2’s Christmas Party
The key stage one children have had a fun filled afternoon at their Christmas party. They enjoyed impressing us with their dance moves, playing corners, musical bumps and musical statues, pass the parcel and heads & tails. This was then followed by a yummy party...
Let’s build a city!
As part of our geography unit about our local area, year 1 have been thinking about the towns and cities near us. Many of us have visited Newcastle, Sunderland or Durham. We talked about some of the human and physical features that we would expect to find in a city....