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Autumn

Today we went to Forest School to plant onions and garlics! We also enjoyed exploring the outdoors!

Year One have had an amazing day learning all about Spain. We have learned some Spanish greetings and numbers, tasted some Spanish food and made flags! 🇪🇸 💃

Learning to roll a ball accurately in PE ⚽️

Today in Geography we had a message from an alien called Zorg who wanted us to create a ‘messy map’ to help him find his way around the classroom. We enjoyed using different objects to map out our classroom! 👽 🗺️

Our theme for Pupil Prepared Prayer this week was based on remembrance 🙏🏻

We have been learning all about fact families in maths!

In RE today we explored the different places around school for prayer. We spoke about how we feel praying in these spaces. 🙏🏻

In science we brought in our own objects and sorted them into everyday materials!

Today we practised finding the missing part by subtracting!

In PE we practised bouncing and dribbling a ball! 🏀

In Geography today Year One were exploring our local area and labelled the features of Halesowen! 🗺️

Today in gymnastics we practised complex counter balances!

Today in maths we were exploring even and odd numbers. We then went on to finding the missing part in addition sentences.

This week in RE we have been focusing on our new CST theme of Stewardship of God’s Creation. We have thought about what we can learn from God’s creation and how we can make wise choices 🌍

Todays art we painted our final pieces in the style of Clarice Cliff. They all look beautiful! 🎨

Today in history we made a time capsule of our memories that we are going to open when we are in Y6! We then finished off our history topic with a visit to Halesowen Library to consolidate our knowledge of timelines and our own history!

Today in maths we were practising our addition skills!

Today we led the whole school in a beautiful Mass all about St Ignatius of Antioch. Your teachers are so proud of you Year One! 🙏🏻

Pupil Prepared Prayer learning about St Ignatius of Antioch 🙏🏻

In RE today we thought about the different things we can pray for!

Today in history we explored the similarities and differences of the past!

Using Part Whole Models!

Today we role played the Wedding at Cana. We explored what the celebration means and how Jesus felt performing his first miracle!

To celebrate World Space Week we had a space day in school today! We went in the space dome, looked at magic planets, made the planets with play dough and searched for some planets. We had so much fun 🪐

Cakes in Golden Time to celebrate our class saint feast day which is tomorrow! Happy feast day Saint Francis of Assisi 🙏🏻

Exploring printing with paint 🎨

Phonics activities!

We love using the rekenreks!

In PE we have been exploring running at different speeds and what happens to our bodies when we run faster! 🏃‍♂️

Today our Grandparents joined us to tell us all about childhood in the past as part of our history topic. We asked some brilliant questions and learned so much! Thank you so much to all of our grandparents that came in!

In gymnastics today we began to sequence some jumps and rolls!

Pupil Prepared Prayer based on the Holy Rosary 🩵

Today we celebrated our class saint feast day which is on the 4th October. We thought about the wonderful things St Francis of Assisi did and how we can follow in his footsteps 🌎

We practised logging on to the computers today! We discussed how important it is to keep your username and password private.

In RE we explored the story of ‘Jesus presented in the temple’. We thought carefully about how Simeon and Anna felt when they saw Jesus.

Today we used our knowledge of mixing primary colours to make secondary colours to paint in the style of Jasper Johns 🎨

Today in PE we applied our running skills to a game. We also started thinking about how we can attack and defend!

In history today we explored how we celebrate our birthdays. We created a human timeline of our birthdays, made birthday cards and role played what we might do on a birthday! 🎈

We have been learning the greater then, less than and equal to sign in Maths! We have also been exploring how 5 is in other numbers.

Pupil prepared prayer and RE. We were looking at signs and actions within the Mass!

We are really enjoying gymnastics in PE. Today we revisited one, two, three and four point balances and then went on to practice different jumps!

Today Father Stefan came into Year One to talk to us about the signs and symbols of the Mass. We even got to try the unblessed bread! Thank you Father Stefan for giving up your time! ⛪️

The children learned all about primary and secondary colours in art. We mixed primary colours, made block colour collages and did some object sorting 🎨

Today in History all of the children brought a special object or photograph for our memory box. We enjoyed talking about our special memories!

Phonics activities!

Active maths focussing on one more and one less! 🧮

Today in RE we explored our own celebrations we have experienced in Church!

Today in art we explored the work of Clarice Cliff plates. We focussed on the bold colours, repeating patterns and flowers she used. We had a go at making our own plates in different ways 🎨

We have enjoyed our maths activities in Maths this week! We have been learning to count objects and represent objects using tens frames!

Today in history we looked at our own timelines so far. We loved looking back at past photos and memories!

Today in Pupil Prepared Prayer we explored our CST question of ‘What can I do to help others feel like they belong?’ We then began our Families and Celebrations unit and explored times when we have celebrated with our families and in Church ⛪️