Year 1`s trip to Cannock Chase Toy museum

On Thursday 30th January, Year 1 travelled up to Cannock Chase to visit the fantastic Toy museum.
We had a great day, learning about toys from the past, exploring how to play with a variety of old wooden toys and we also learned to play Hopscotch and use the diabolo too.
In the museum itself, we looked at lots of old toys and played with a a variety of old and new toys, including riding a lovely old rocking horse and dressing up.
We thoroughly enjoyed Clive`s Punch and Judy show and learned about glove puppets and string puppets (marionettes).
After lunch, we all made a peg doll toy to bring home.

Thank you so much to all of our fantastic helpers who joined in very enthusiastically and supported us during the day. We really appreciated your help.

KS1 Easter Bonnet Parade

On Wednesday 28th April, Years 1 and 2 brought in some fabulous Easter bonnets that they had worked hard on making at home. Thank you very much to everyone who helped the children make their wonderful hats!

Everyone enjoyed wearing their hats and showing them off on the catwalk. Well done to all the children! Mrs Thomas lead the children singing chick chick chicken and I like the flowers before the winners were announced.

Happy Easter everyone!

Year 1's Time Machines

As an introduction to our new topic, Time Travellers, we have had a very busy and creative afternoon making our very own classroom Time Machines.    A lot of thought and imagination was used to make our wonderful creations.  Teamwork was a key part of the afternoon as we thought about how we wanted the machines to look.   Some of us worked on the main body of the vehicles, others designed and decorated the driving seat, wings, engine compartment and other essentials for our forth coming journeys into the past.  

We even have a special section for magic stars to power our machine and a very stylish hat for the pilot to wear.

Here are the finished results!

1 Elm worked hard on making a boot, seat with seat belt and control panels for their time machine.

We are looking forward to exploring time with the finished result!

Autumn Term in Year 1

Year 1 have had a brilliant Autumn Term. For the first half term we transitioned between Reception and Year 1 with choosing activities as well as our focused work. In Autumn 2 we have been working very hard doing our work and our lessons as a whole class.

Our topic for Autumn 1 was 'Our World'. We enjoyed a trip around our local area and learnt all about trees and birds we might find in 'Our World'.

We painted trees, made clay birds and at home we created our very own bird projects which were fabulous!

Making our clay birds.


Here are some of our bird projects:

 

 Year 1 learnt about Dementia UK when we raised money for them by wearing blue. Mrs Butler came to talk to us about the charity and who they help.

 As part of learning about 'Our World' we learnt about our rights and we took part in UNICEF's World's Largest Lesson, finding out about where our food comes from.

We also painted some self-portraits in the style of Chuck Close.

In Autumn 2, our topic was 'Toys'. We have enjoyed finding out about toys from the past, especially when we went on our trip to Cannock Chase Toy Museum.

Here is some of our writing about our trip to the toy museum:

Aishah's recount

Autumn's recount

We asked our families about the toys they liked to play with and to end our topic we designed and made our own puppets.

Well done for all your hard work this term Year 1! Have a super holiday.