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
Category: Year 1 Blog
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.
We have been counting up and down a numberline to 20 this week. We hid numbers for our partner to work out with their ‘x-ray eyes’. We also went outside and placed numbers on a blank numberline by using our reasoning skills.
We have been learning about the verb ‘to be’ this week. We played games inside and outside and wrote some of our own sentences using the correct form of the verb ‘to be’.
8 children of our KS1 children were able to take part in an annual science workshop run by the science coordinators from across 4 of our partnership schools. Each school ran a small science workshop to teach children about different areas of science. There were rocket mice, bubble art, thaumatropes and static electricity sessions. The science ambassadors from year 6
The children in year 1 worked together to sort raw materials to items that are made from them. They learnt lots about different everyday materials.
We had fun in forest school making dens. We worked together as a team and added leaves and sticks to make them even better!