Year 1

Year One are proudly showing off their latest mixed media pictures. They can now identify and mix palettes of warm and cool colours. Warm colours are made mostly of reds, oranges and yellows. This family of colours is called warm because they remind you of warm things...

When they are made by Year One of course! To introduce our new role play area - The Pudding Lane Bakery, we tried our hands at baking real loaves of bread and churning butter to spread upon slices. The Great Fire of London, it was believed, started in the long gone,...

Year One have been busy creating moving pictures in their Design Technology classes this term. After designing their pictures to meet a set of criteria which included adding one or more moving mechanism; drawing a subject that would appeal to younger children and...

Here are a sample of the model lighthouses made on our recent visit to Souter Lighthouse. The children created a switch which completes an electrical circuit and lights up the bulb so they can switch the light on and off. They decorated their model lighthouses to...

Year One went on a tree hunt around the our wonderful school grounds and using the leaves alone they were able to identify a great number of common British trees growing there. In the Key Stage One playground there are many oak trees and a beautiful Hawthorne still in...

What fun we had visiting Souter Lighthouse! It was so interesting finding out what life was like when lighthouse keepers and their families lived on site and about how the lighthouse worked to warn ships that the dangerous North East coast was so near. We were invited...

Well what have Year One been up to in our science lessons lately? Well they have been looking at plant life and as part of this they have been growing broad beans in the classroom over a six week period. Keeping diaries of the growth of their plants from seed,...

Year One have been creating some rather colourful fish as part of their Art and Design lessons focusing specifically on 3D modelling. Using two litre plastic bottles (thanks you to parents and grandparents who collected them for us) the bodies were shaped and formed....