Year 1 at Cannock Chase Toy Museum

On Tuesday 29th January, Year 1 went on a fantastic trip to Cannock Chase Toy Museum. We had a fantastic day and learnt lots about Victorian toys to help us with our topic.

You can find out all about what we got up to from our super recounts below:

On Tuesday we went to the toilet and got our yellow jackets on and went to the coach.
When we got there we did some morning activities. We had some time to play.
Before lunch we had a Punch and Judy show to see.
At lunch time we had a yummy lunch to eat. For pudding it was chocolate egg dessert.
Next we went to a craft workshop. We got to dance. It was so much fun.
Finally it was home time. We had a good time and went home.
I liked the trip.
By Mohsin


We went to the museum and played with lots of toys.
Next we watched the Punch and Judy show. It was silly and Punch banged his head on the wall.
We had lunch and then we put our lunch boxes in the trolley.
We made some peg dolls that we had to design.
By Nayan

On Tuesday we went to a trip. When we arrived there were old toys and we played with those toys.
After that we watched a Punch and Judy show and it was fun and made us laugh.
I was so hungry that I had my lunch and it was fun eating lunch and it was yummy.
In the afternoon we played with some more old and new toys.
By Batool

On Tuesday we went to school early because we were going on a trip.
We got to play with toys that children would have played with in the past. It was a lot of fun.
Next we saw a Punch and Judy show. It was really funny and it was fun.
At lunchtime we loved the delicious food. It was so good.
In the afternoon we got to dance like toys that children would have in the past.
Finally we went back to school. We had lots of fun it was home time.
By Rhea

On Tuesday we were going on a trip to a museum. I had a long time to get there because there was traffic!
When we got there we could play with beautiful toys from the past. The spinning top is my favourite.
The Punch and Judy show was extremely funny.
At lunch it was really good and yummy. I love lunch.
In the afternoon we could make peg dolls.
When we got to school we were going home. We told our mom and dad about it.
By Mikael

Well done for a super day Year 1!

Year 1's Trip to Brueton Park

On Wednesday Year 1 had an amazing day in Brueton Park, Solihull.   We spent the day exploring the Nature Centre, looking for insects, pond dipping, finding out what it might be like to be a squirrel, doing a maths lesson using sticks and leaves and most exciting of all rescuing froglets from the path near the pond and putting them in a safer place.

We all worked really hard and were very hungry when it was lunch time.

We pretended that we were squirrels and hid an acorn ready for winter.

We found out what it might be like to be a squirrel or a bird looking up at the trees.
Our friends had to guide us to keep us safe.

A froglet

Wild Maths.
We collected leaves and sorted them to find out which colour was most common. 

We were VERY hungry!

Bug hunting. Look what I found!

We went pond dipping and found...

... a newt.

We had a great day and were all really tired when we got back to school.

Year 1 Multi Skills

Year 1 had a fantastic trip to Billesley Tennis Centre to take part in a Multi Skills competition.

When we arrived, we got into groups of 10. Everyone took part in 10 different activities including a basketball relay, bean bag throwing and football shooting. 

We all had a go at each activity and tried to score as many points as we could for our team.

Well done Year 1!

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.