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We have finished our portraits inspired by Mary Cassatt. We mixed colours to paint the background and the face and than used wax crayons, oil pastels and pencils to add detail. In the style of Mary Cassatt we used muted colours and included large bows and flowers.

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Year One completed the doughnut challenge. We had to eat a delicious doughnut without licking our lips. It got very messy but was very tasty!

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In Music we have performed our own musical chants about different sports. We chose instruments to accompany our lyrics and showed great teamwork both preparing and performing our pieces.

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We have started reading a new story called 'The Odd Egg' written by Emily Gravett. We immersed ourselves into the story and have written a diary entry from the perspective of Duck. Duck has found an unusual, speckled egg. How do you think Duck will feel when the egg finally hatches?

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Year 1 have taken part in a variety of Maths activities to celebrate NSPCC Number Day. We completed lots of number based challenges, managed to break the code to escape the classroom and made posters for the Maths competition.

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Thank you to all the adults that were able to come and join Year 1 for some Maths activities. We were able to practise counting to 20, doubling, sorting odd and even numbers, addition and subtraction.

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The Mindful Bees have given us a variety of activities to practise mindfulness. We have completed some of these fun and relaxing crafts including colouring and collaging butterflies.

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In History, we have been learning about St. Egwin who is an important local historical figure. We acted out his story including throwing the keys to his shackles into the River Avon and finding them again in a fish in Rome. What happened next that made St. Egwin so well known?

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A UFO has crash landed in our Year 1 area. We have explored the different clues and thought about where the bright yellow footprints have come from. What do you think has arrived at Swan Lane?

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Inspired by Mary Cassatt's use of soft colours and short strokes we created our own landscape artwork. We tried to include her techniques using different texture and muted tones.

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Year 1 have taken part in the RSPB Big School Bird Watch! We saw blackbirds, pigeons, sparrows, magpies and a little robin. What birds do you recognise?

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We have been adapting the story Lost and Found by Oliver Jeffers to include different animals who are lonely and lost. As inspiration we have been voting for, reading and recommending different books featuring animals. We especially enjoyed sharing the non- fiction book 'The sea below my toes' and stories about monkeys!

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In PSHE, we worked in teams to order instructions and make a jam sandwich. It was important to work together to follow the instructions and listen to each other.

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It was great to see so many adults join us this morning for our phonics workshop. The children read brilliantly applying their phonics knowledge and took part in a variety of activities practising phase 5 sounds. Thank you to everyone who was able to come into school.

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Continuing to look at the works of artist Mary Cassatt we have been mixing white with the three primary colours. She uses lots of pale and muted colours within her artwork and we tried to create our own soft colours by adding white. We also looked at the different brush strokes she uses and how it creates different textures.

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As our class text 'Lost and Found' is written by the author Oliver Jeffers we have been reading a variety of his other books. We have voted on which book we would like to read, shared the stories and recommended the books to people we think might enjoy them. Do you have a favourite book by Oliver Jeffers?

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In Music, Year 1 have been learning a piece called 'Football'. It is structured to be a chant and includes a lot of repeated rhythms. We have been playing our own ostinato using different percussion instruments. It was fun selecting which instruments would work well and performing in small groups to the rest of the class.

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We have been voting on and reading a variety of books about penguins. The fiction stories have made us laugh and the non - fiction books have taught us facts about different types of penguins and where they live. Who would you recommend the books to?

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In Year 1, we have been learning about penguins. Our class text is about a little penguin who is lonely. We have seen if we are taller than a Gentoo or Emperor penguin.

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We have been retelling the story 'Lost and Found' written by Oliver Jeffers. We have created a story map using key sentences and props to help us.

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Year 1 have been looking at religious artefacts. We have been learning about the Jewish Faith and exploring artefacts which might be important to them. The artefacts help show respect and a connection to God.

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Linked to our class text 'Lost and Found' by Oliver Jeffers we have been using adjectives to describe penguins. The penguin in the story is adorable, lonely and very cute.

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In Art, we have been learning about the painter and printmaker Mary Cassatt. We have created an artist page in our sketchbooks and have been exploring her artwork.

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Year 1 had a fantastic time dancing and playing games in the hall! We showed our best dance moves and had a super time together.

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We have been enjoying a variety of Christmas books throughout December! There are lots of funny festive characters and snowy scenes. We have been reading a chapter book called 'Santa & Son' that has really made us laugh!

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The elves have been causing mischief in Year 1! We have written some super sentences about all of their antics including making a glittery mess, growing flowers and bringing Christmas books. What do you think they will be up to tomorrow?

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We really enjoyed our Christmas lunch! It was fun pulling crackers, sharing jokes, wearing paper crowns and eating delicious food.

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A very special visitor came to share stories in our reading cabin! It was great to see him and hear festive stories.

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Our wonderful Christmas tree decorations will be available for you to buy, for only £1.00 each, at our enterprise. We hope to see lots of you there!

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We have been very busy making tree decorations ready to sell after school at enterprise on Thursday 18th December 🎅.

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Year 1 have made beautiful calendars ready for 2026! We had a lot of fun making them and hope you like the bright colours.

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We collected natural resources from woodland school to use in our artwork. We used sticks and leaves to print reindeer antlers adding a glittery nose for Rudolph.

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As part of Science, we went outside and observed the seasonal changes of the trees. We also read the book 'Hello Winter'. What happens to the trees in Winter?

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In Woodland School, we created our own characters inspired by Stick Man by Julia Donaldson. We also acted out scenes from the story.

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To help with our writing we have been acting as the characters from the story. We have been writing speech so stepped into the story to imagine what the characters would say to each other.

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In Woodland School we created numbers using natural resources.

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Throughout Maths Day, we have read a range of books including numbers. These books have helped us with our counting forwards and backwards. Which book was your favourite?

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We had a mission to find and match pairs of socks that were hidden around the classroom. Once we found them we used them to identify multiples of 2 and practised counting in 2s.

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In Year 1 we have been practising our two times tables and adding in 2s on Numbots and TTRockstars. It would be lovely to see people practise at home too.

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Continuing Maths Day activities we have been counting in 2s. We designed our own matching socks and used them to help count up in 2s.

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As part of Maths Day, Year 1 have been completing a variety of Maths actitives focusing on doubling.

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Year 1 have been exploring using instruments to create the sound of waves and what it would sound like under the water with scuttling crabs, swimming fish and huge whales. We also used fabric and movement to create the motion of rolling waves. 🌊

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We are enjoying reading a variety of pirate books. Some are fantastic fictional stories and others have been teaching us about real pirates from the past.

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In Maths, we have been using 3D shapes to create repeated patterns. The 3D shapes were used to print colourful 2D shapes which we were able to use to make bright patterns.

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We have designed and made our own pirate masks. They are a rough, tough crowd wanted for stealing shiny treasure and causing chaos across the seven seas.

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In Woodland School we had a great time creating our own faces using natural resources!

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Testing sliders. In DT we have been looking at and testing sliders in books with moving parts. We then tested different materials such as fabric, Lego, card and newspaper to see which worked the best for a slider.

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Continuing our work on 3D shapes we have been recognising and naming a variety of shapes including cylinders, cubes, prisms, cuboids and spheres.

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We have tested which materials will work well to make an umbrella. The materials needed to be waterproof and light. Which material do you think worked best?

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In Year 1, we have been exploring the properties of 3D shapes and have made our own using shape nets.

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We have started to explore 2D shapes in Maths. We have been discussing how many sides and vertices each shape has and sorting them into groups. How many sides does a triangle have?

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In DT, we were looking at different books and the mechanisms they have. The books had sliders, flaps and pop-ups. Which was your favourite book?

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In English, we dressed up and role played as the characters from 'The Night Pirates'. We had to use actions and talk like a pirate.

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Year 1 took part in the Activate with Joe Wicks and we felt very fit afterwards! Which was your favourite exercise?

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This afternoon, we drew a picture of Pudsey Bear and then used different media to decorate him, including paint, felt tips and colouring pencils.

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Continuing 'challenge yourself to 25 things', Year 1 danced for 25 minutes. It was a lot of fun and used lots of energy!

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Part of our Children in Need celebrations were a number of activities linked to this Year's theme 'Challenge 25'. With the help of the PLT team, we read for 25 minutes and we loved the new book 'Pudsey and the thread of hope'.

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In Computing we have been looking at algorithms. We followed a set of instructions to complete some digital artwork.

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Using what we had learnt about the braille alphabet we created a piece of artwork showing Louis Braille's name written using the dots from his alphabet. When they are dry we will be able to feel the risen dots for ourselves and see which letters we can remember.

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We learnt about Louis Braille's childhood and discussed the question 'What are the most important moments in Louis Braille's life?'. We then thought about what might have motivated him to create his own alphabet for people who are blind or have impaired vision.

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Continuing our exploration of braille we used the braille alphabet to spell words and had a turn at writing our own names.

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We began our History Day considering the question 'What makes braille so special?'. We explored using a braille board to see if we could identify any letters with our eyes closed.

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Thank you to everyone who came to school today wearing odd socks to help celebrate uniqueness. There were lots of bright colourful combinations!

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We created our own graphs in Computing. The graph shows which ice-cream flavour is our favourite. We inputted our data and made a bar chart.

What's your favourite flavour?

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In Science, Year 1 predicted which of the three little pigs used the best material to build their house. We discussed the properties of each material before making our own to test.

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In R.E. we have been looking at the parable of The Prodigal Son. We have discussed what parables are and how some Christians believe that Jesus used them to help teach people how to show values such as kindness, respect and forgiveness. We acted out the story and talked about how it focuses on forgiveness and love.

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Year 1 looked at Dutch architecture. We created our own pieces of artwork inspired by the tall narrow canal houses. We used oil pastels, pens and pencils to create vibrant pieces showing the houses stood next to a canal.

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During our Cultural Day celebrations we looked at lots of things that The Netherlands is famous for. This included windmills, bicycles, cheese, tulips, clogs and the royal family know as The Oranges. We then made our own crowns and windmills.

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The Netherlands is famous for growing fields of tulips. In Year 1, we created our own observational artwork of the beautiful flowers. We looked closely at the petals and sketched our tulips before using watercolour paints to add the colours we could see.

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As part of our Cultural Day celebrations we learnt a traditional dance from The Netherlands. It was a lot of fun and the music was great!

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For Cultural Day, Year 1 looked at The Netherlands. We took part in lots of activities linked to country and explored how the culture there is different from our own.

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In English, we have written our own retelling of 'Little Bear's Trousers' by Jane Hissey. To help us understand how the characters were feeling we have created our own wooden brick houses for Zebra, tested wooly hats on the animals for Camel and have explored how sticky and messy icing can be.

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Continuing our work with addition, we have been adding two groups of objects together and finding the total. We are still practising writing number sentences and using the correct symbols for addition + and equals =.

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The author of 'Old Bear' has written lots of books. In English, we have been looking at another one of her stories called 'Little Bear's trousers'. We have practised retelling the story and have immersed into the world of Little Bear and his friends.

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We have been looking at addition in Maths. We have been looking at different representations such as part-whole models, bar models and ten frames before practising writing the number sentences.

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In English, we designed a picnic for Old Bear and his friends. We labelled the different things we had set out and wrote a list of everything we would like at a picnic.

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We have been representing number bonds to ten in different ways.

How many ways can you make ten?

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In R.E. we have been reenacting the parable of The Lost Sheep. We discussed how this story links to kindness and how everyone is important.

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We have been learning about using part - whole models to help with number bonds up to ten. We used different resources to represent how two parts make a whole.

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In Science, we went outside to explore and observe the signs of Autumn. What had happened to the leaves? We then read 'Hello Autumn' written by Jo Lindley.

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Linking to our class text 'Old Bear', written by Jane Hissey, we have been on a mission to rescue a teddy on the shelf. There was great teamwork and super problem solving!

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We have been using number lines to identify 1 more and 1 less. Year 1 have been ordering numbers up to ten and representing the different amounts.

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In Computing, we have been moving objects. Our learning was linked to 'What the Ladybird heard' written by Julia Donaldson. We had to help the characters get to their homes.

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We have been enjoying lots of stories written by Julia Donaldson, the author of our class text 'The Gruffalo'.

Which Julia Donaldson book is your favourite?

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Year 1 have been taking inspiration from the Australian artist Samantha Stephenson. We have been looking at her 3D sculptures and the colours and shapes that she uses. In our sketch books we created an artist page using bright colours and images of her artwork.

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In Maths, we have been comparing amounts. We have been using the vocabulary 'greater than', 'less than' and 'equal to'. We have also been using the corresponding symbols ><=.

e.g. 9>4 Nine is greater than four.

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Which material is best? In our Science lessons we have continued to explore materials. We have made bunting using a range of different materials to see which will work the best. Have a look outside and Year 1 classrooms and see our colourful bunting.

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In Music, we have been learning and performing The Menu Song. The song is all about the days of the week and what is on the menu each day. We used British Sign Language to help us remember the lyrics.

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Year 1 have spent the day exploring toys throughout time. We listened to experts comparing old and new toys considering how toys in the past are different from our own.

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Walking around Hartlebury Museum we had the opportunity to see what life was like for people living many years ago.

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We had the opportunity to play with old wooden toys including yoyos, cup and ball, diablos and snipping tops. We talked about how they are different from the toys we play with today.

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In Year 1, we have had lots of fun exploring old toys. We heard about how toys were made in the past and how the mechanisms have changed throughout time.

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In Science, we have been exploring materials. We sorted the objects into the materials they were made from and discussed their properties using scientific vocabulary.

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What colour is this? Year 1 have been sorting objects by colour. We have also been counting the items to continue practicing counting to ten forwards and backwards.

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In Art, we have be exploring different ways to roll and cut paper. We have talked about the safe use of scissors and how to cut and snip to create decorative edges.