Year 1- Blwyddyn 1

Welcome to Year 1! Croeso i Flwyddyn 1!

Teacher/Athro: Mr Evans
Teaching Assistants: Mrs Pym, Miss Tirado-Muñoz, Mr Davies

• gathering blackberries and making blackberry pie

• digging up the potatoes we planted in the spring and making chips

• using a website to order bulbs, then planting them in our flower bed
• picking and sampling fruit from our orchard ?

• going on a minibeast hunt

• making wax crayon rubbings around the school grounds for others to identify

• making a traffic survey of car colours on Greenway Road and recording our findings in graphs and tables

• looking for signs that autumn is on its way
• learning about seed dispersal
• learning the proper names for adult and baby animals
• using our Chinese takeaway role play area
• and lots of other things! 

Autumn 2 2016

Our topic this half term is

All about me

We wil be...
 

• creating and using our role play opticians
• using descriptions of ourselves in our writing
• making graphs and surveys of our favourite things
• using zero and minus numbers in our work on temperature

• weighing ourselves in kg and measuring our height in cm
• using Purple Mash to draw ourselves, and printing the image
• learning to describe how we feel in Welsh
• learning and improving body positions in PE
• learning the names and functions of some of the main organs of the body

• learning what we need to do to keep fit, healthy and well

• getting ready for Christmas

• and lots of other things...!

Spring 1 2017

• making a car with moving parts

• creating a vehicle using the Purple Mash program

• investigating floating and sinking
• learning about gravity
• deciding which forms of transport are best for different journeys
• servicing Mr Evans's car

• finding out the names of the different parts of a car

• learning what makes a fair test when we test-run two cars
• making a marble run and timing the marbles
• making the longest car track we can

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• finding out about Dadaism and creating our own BONKERS pictures!

• learning to describe vehicles and their colours in Welsh
• writing lists, descriptions and sound words
• and LOTS of other things!

Spring 2

Our  topic  this  Half  Term  was

Now and then

we  were...

• learning about past, present and future
• learning how we change as we grow and develop
• matching things to the people who might use them
• looking at how homes have changed in the past one hundred years
• learning how people bathed, cooked food, kept warm, kept their food fresh - and even where they went to the toilet! - one hundred years ago
• putting people into age order

• looking at an artist from one hundred years ago - Claude Monet - and painting pictures like his

• thinking about what we would like to do in the future
• looking at space travel and what might happen in future time
• invented our own plasticene marble-run 'clocks'

• learnt how to tell the time at o'clock and half past, and quarter to and quarter past

• timed cars and marbles going down tracks we have made for them

• had a visit from Huw Clogs who showed us some very old Welsh musical instruments

• and lots and lots of other things!

Summer 1

Our topic this Half Term was...

Bell'Italia!

We were...

• learning about pizzas and making our own

• finding out about Leonardo da Cinci and the Mona Lisa

• building ancient Roman monuments

• learning about Mount Etna and other volcanoes

• creating pasta pictures

• making plasticene gondolas and other boats and trying to get them to float

• making our own Leaning Towers of Pisa
• enjoying book day by reading Michael Rosen's 'Chocolate Cake', making our own cakes and dressing up

• and lots of other things!

Summer 2

Our topic this Half Term was...

Under the sea

We were...

• making sea music with an Upbeat Music musician

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• making our own fish using lots of art and craft materials

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• enjoying our underwater grotto

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• studying octopus and fish, inside and out!

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• making sea pictures on the interactive white board

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• creating sand sculptures

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• grouping animals into sets - those that live in water and those with legs (or both - or neither!)
• making canals of water and working as a team to transport it along an aqueduct

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and lots of other things...!