Year 1 have been measuring using informal units of measurement. They then used centimetres and metres to measure items in the classroom.
Category: Year 1 Blog
This year’s British Science Week at EGPS was a resounding success, centred around the theme ‘Change and Adapt’. Our students engaged in a myriad of live lessons, scientific investigations, and activities designed to explore these important concepts. In Year 1, children participated in a live lesson focused on farming, followed by an exploration of the school grounds, assessing how hedgerows
Children placed numbers on a number line to 50. They had to estimate where they thought the number would go. We talked about one more and one less than a given number and counted up and down the number line.
We enjoyed designing and making our own London taxis. The children learnt about axels and how to fit them to the ‘chassis’ of their vehicles. They then tested their taxis; making sure that their wheels were secured properly.
We had lots of fun on World Book Day. We dressed up and enjoyed showing each other our different costumes. We had fun being authors too and wrote our very own stories. We also had a special assembly with early years and year 2. On Friday year 4 came over and shared their stories they had wrote with us. We
At EGPS, we like to encourage the children to be as active as possible. On Friday, we took part in an FA run event ‘The Biggest Ever Girls Football Session.’ Girls from year one to year six enjoyed an hour of football on the field. We would like to say a big thank you to our past pupil, Lexie, who
The children in year one and year four have been working very hard on writing their own stories based on the books we read for World Book Day. Year four read Tuesday by David Weisner whilst year one read I don’t like books. Never ever. The end. by Emma Perry. We got together to share our stories with one another.
In year 1 we have been focusing our learning on verbs. This week we learnt about some irregular verb including ‘to have’ and ‘to sing’. We then learnt about regular verbs and how adding ‘ed’ turns the verb into the past tense. We played lots of games too!
We have been doing lots of practical maths in year 1. We have spent time putting missing numbers on a numberline, ordering numbers, doubling numbers and adding 10 more. We have found out that if we know our number bonds to 10 then this helps us know our number bonds to 20.