Year 1 Newsletter

 Wonderful Year One!

The children in Year 1 have continued to astound us with the outstanding standard of home learning that we have received over the past couple of weeks.  Though they have not always found it easy, they have been resilient and persevered and we could not be prouder of them.  A huge thank you again to the parents for your support and feedback that has enabled us to adjust and improve our remote teaching.  Here is some of the incredible work that our extra special children have done. 

Over a week, the children wrote their own version of the traditional African story 'How Tortoise got his shell'.  They made a few changes to the original which showed their wonderful imaginations!

Here are Archie's, Theo A and Miri's stories. 

 

Archie

Theo A

Miri

After our story writing, we moved onto information writing all about African elephants.  The children were asked to watch some videos and be elephant detectives, looking and listening out for what elephants use their ears, tusks and trunks for.  Then they had to label a picture and many children also wrote explanations too!  At the end of the week, the children had a go at answering questions in an African Elephant quiz and used their research to write their own quiz questions for us to answer!!  

We have LOVED answering their questions, though not always getting them right! 

Well done Year 1!  Your quizzes were fabulous and great fun to try to answer! 

Ariana made notes on the uses of the ears, trunk and tusks.

   

Darcy and Milla wrote excellent explanations!

Here are some of the brilliant African Elephant quiz questions written by Year 1.  We learnt a bit about different types of questions beforehand such as multiple choice and true or false. 

How many can you answer?

Where do elephants live?  England, Africa or Antarctica?

How many hours do elephants eat for?  14, 18 or 16

What do elephants use their tails for?

How big is an elephant brain?  3kg or over 5kg

Elephants use toothpaste. True or false?

Elephants use mud as sunscreen.  True or false?

What do elephants eat?  leaves, meat or cornflakes?

When can a baby elephant walk?  After 1,000, 000 days, after 1-2 hours or when they are 12?

Continuing with our fabulous Africa topic, the children have been learning about paper collage and using different tearing and cutting techniques.  Here are some of their beautiful African animal art work. 

 

Sebastian O's Lion                                          Frankie's Lion

Eva's Zebra

 

   Rylee's Giraffe

Ricardo's Tortoise

Theo G's Cheetah

Learning about the senses has been the name of the game in our science home learning and the children have undertaken taste tests this week!

Layla all prepared and ready to go!

      

I wonder what Louie was trying?              Roya was not keen on the lemon!

 

Brilliant recording from Finley and Ariana!

They have also been busy with different balancing and jumps in PE, responding to African music and learning about pulse in music, thinking about belonging in RE as well as doing some extra learning of their own too!

You are awesome Year 1!  

 

Different types of jumping by Eddie and Luke!

  

Logan, Poppy-Rose and Frank clapping to the pulse of Hot Cross Buns!