Year 1

Launch day- 30.10.23

Year 1’s new topic is Our Remarkable School, where is it and what is it like? During launch day, the children presented their homework projects based on maps and models of places they live, have visited or created from their imaginations. We then learned about some basic map and compass skills while studying a map of our local area and Wood Green. This let us use a map to explore Wood Green and find buildings and roads we had been looking at. We were amazing and didn’t get lost.

Finally we learned a little about The United Kingdom and made a much larger map which we labelled with some pictures of our favourite landmarks in England, Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales.

Launch day- 9.06.23

Year 1 will be studying the history of toys and how and why these have changed so much over time. As part of our topic launch, we shared our homework projects with the rest of our class before making a display of them. Some of us also shared interviews we conducted with our grandparents and parents discussing the toys that they used. We were able to handle some old toys and start to work out how to play with them. Next we started to make riddles about the toys so the rest of the class could guess which one we were thinking about. Finally we coloured pictures and completed cutting and sticking toy posters.

Launch day- 20.02.23

Children watched a video all about the wind, discussing all the things that the wind blew. We thought about the windiest season and how windy it was today. After watching a weather forecast, we went outside to make observations about the wind and clouds. We also talked about how to measure wind direction and spead more accurately and even got to use a compass. We then made our own wind streamers!