Year 1
Mrs Armstrong assisted by Mrs NevinA HUGE welcome to the Year One Class Blog for the class of 2018-2019!
We are delighted you have joined us to find out about what we have been up to in our school learning environment and beyond.
Year One are a wonderful mix of characters and continue to enjoy their learning journey at Fellside.
Do add your comments to our entries as we would like to find out what you think about them.
Our Class Blog
Warm and Cool Colours
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 are bread and butter at their best?
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,...
Be the Teacher
Oh what fun we had in our classroom lately when Mrs Armstrong could put up her feet for a few minutes and allow some new teachers take over the Year One classroom! Over the course of four weeks, each pupil delivered a presentation on some aspect of sea life or indeed...
Moving Pictures
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...
Angel of the North’s 20th Birthday Textiles Challenge
Every year, Fellside hold a Design and Technology Challenge for children all across the school. This year's theme was the Angel of the North's 20th birthday, a very momentous occasion for a world-famous North East icon. The challenge was to create a 3D textile collage...
Lighthouses that light up
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’s Fish on Display
Our 3D fish have joined forces with some 2D ones to emblazon a wall and a window sill here at Fellside. Year One all stopped and spotted their fishy creations as they passed by the aquatic themed displays. It did cause a flurry of excitement and smiles all round! Our...
Terrific Trees
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...
Year One visit Souter Lighthouse
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...
Beanstalks -But not from magic beans!
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’s Fancy Fish
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....
COCO Fun Run
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