Year 1
Mrs Lewis and Mrs DochertyWelcome to Year 1
Gateshead FC visit
We have been lucky enough to welcome Tony, Paul and Ken from Gateshead FC who brought the FA trophy in to show the children in school. They shared their story of winning the trophy following extra time and penalties within the game on 11th May 2024. The children asked...
Grace Darling and the RNLI
Year One had a special visitor today - Martin, a volunteer from the Royal National Lifeboat Institution. He talked about the people who help us to stay safe in the water and what to do if we see someone in trouble. We also learned all about Grace Darling to find out...
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 on the beach making sand art then we explored what it was like to be a lighthouse keeper and his assistant 125 years ago and then...
Take One Picture 2024
Whole School Art Day In conjunction with The National Gallery in London, on Friday, Barley Mow Primary School pupils once again took part in the annual Take One Picture art project. This involves studying an art work from the gallery's collection alongside other...
Olympic 2024 Celebrations
To celebrate this year’s Olympics in Paris, the whole school took part in a range of activities. The children were able to create their own torches at home and there were some fantastic entries. The winner from each class was awarded their very own medal. During the...
Phonics Club
Today was the last session of our phonics club. Over the last 5 weeks we have enjoyed playing ‘Race for it!’ and ‘Find it!’ as well as phonics bingo and ‘Dragon’s Den’ (Phonics Play program). We have had lots of fun while practicing our phonics skills too!
Making moving pictures!
During this half term in D&T Year 1 have been learning how different types of mechanisms are made and how they work such as sliding, lever and pivots and wheels. They then designed and made their own moving minibeast pictures using their chosen mechanism. What a...
Building 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...
Making Arrays
Year 1 have learned that a rectangular array is a group of objects that are arranged in equal rows and columns. Our first activity was to spot all the rectangular arrays, then we had to make our own arrays before finally completing a worksheet about arrays. It’s been...
Appropriate Contact
Year 1 have been talking about physical contact in our PSHE lesson this week. We learned that physical contact is when one person touches another. We thought about the physical contact we like from our family or friends (e.g. hugging, holding hands, stroking hair) and...
Musical Superheroes!
In Music this term we will be creating our own piece of superhero music by identifying different dynamics, tempo and pitch. The last few weeks we have listened to different superhero theme tunes and today we created a short sequence of high and low notes to represent...
Our Local Area
In Geography, Year 1 have been learning about physical and human features. Yesterday we enjoyed a walk around our school spotting some human and physical features in our local area. We looked at features near our school and some features that could be seen in the...