Today the children were working on coding in the ICT suite. The children are working their way through a series of lessons that develop their skills and knowledge about coding. Today the children learnt about moving the mouse and how to click and drag. Some children were programming a code to make the icon move to a destination.
Every week the children in Year One participate in a well-being session and this week the children were thinking about the qualities of their friends. Each child in the class picked out a lolly-stick with a name on and then went away and thought about this friend. The children then wrote a short message to… Continue Reading
Year One have been investigating adding two one digit numbers together by making 10. The children all used ten frames and counters to investigate each calculation. First they made both numbers on the ten frame with counters, then they moved counters to fill up the first ten frame and then counted the counters from 10… Continue Reading
The children have been working on adding by counting on. Today the children used the bar model whilst solving calculations. As the children completed each calculation they told their learning partner a math number story that included the key words first, then and now. The stories were very entertaining and were as varied as including… Continue Reading
Year One have started learning about coding following the computer program Code.org. Today the children learnt about how to use the mouse and how to complete the actions of click and drag. They completed lots of challenges that became increasing harder. The children all had a great time and worked independently and it was great… Continue Reading
Year One had a fabulous afternoon at their party. They all thoroughly enjoyed dancing together and playing party games. The highlight was pass-the-parcel. The children then tucked into their party food whilst singing along to Christmas songs. A fun-filled afternoon! Continue Reading
Year One had a wonderful time when they went to the Tyne Theatre to see the pantomime, ‘Aladdin’. They joined in with the singing, dancing and actions. A super time was had by all! Continue Reading
Year One had great fun today sharing Christmas songs. Every class in the school had learnt and practiced a song that they shared in a whole school sing-a-long. Year One learnt, ‘Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer’. Continue Reading
This week, Year One have been learning about instruction writing. The children all made jam sandwiches and took notes about what they did step-by-step. The children then reviewed their notes and compiled clear, precise numbered instructions on ‘How to make a jam sandwich’. The children learnt about the importance of using imperative ‘bossy’ verbs to… Continue Reading
This week the children have been learning about the composition of the numbers 11-20. They investigated what it means to be a ‘teen’ number and found lots of ways to represent these numbers – such as numicon, bead string and ten frames. Continue Reading
