2 days ago
Posted on 07th Nov 2026 by Laura Bessant

Year 1 – Careers Week – Carousel of visitors

We were very lucky to spend the afternoon listening to visitors talking about 7 different job roles from firemen and midwives to RAF refueller pilots. Thank you for telling us about your jobs!

2 days ago
Posted on 07th Nov 2026 by Laura Bessant

Year 1 – Careers Week – Helicopter Visit

We were very excited when the helicopter from RAF Shawbury landed on the school field. We were then lucky enough to sit inside the helicopter and speak to the crew about the helicopter and their roles in the RAF.

6 days ago
Posted on 03rd Nov 2026 by Laura Bessant

Year 1 – Careers Week Role Play

This week we are thinking about jobs that we can do when we’re older. We thought of lots of different jobs and talked about why adults need a job. We then spent the afternoon trying lots of different jobs from delivery driver to dentist to palaeontologist!

3 weeks ago
Posted on 16th Oct 2026 by Laura Bessant

Year 1 Geography – Reading maps in forest school

As part of our work on our local area, we have learnt about the importance of maps. We have learnt that maps have symbols to give information and a key which tells the user what each symbol means.

1 month ago
Posted on 09th Oct 2026 by Laura Bessant

Year 1 – Learning about keys on a map

In our learning about our local area, Class 1 have been looking at maps and saw that maps often use colours rather than pictures of buildings and other features. We learnt that these colours are recorded in a key so that everybody could understand what it means. We then made a key for a map of the school.

1 month ago
Posted on 09th Oct 2026 by Laura Bessant

Year 1 – Making a chair for Baby Bear

Having designed a new chair for Baby Bear, we began to make the back and the seat of the chair. Next we will add the legs!

1 month ago
Posted on 09th Oct 2026 by Laura Bessant

Year 1 – Interviewing Goldilocks

Class 1 had a letter delivered addressed to ‘Inspector Big Boots’. When we opened the letter, we found that it was a letter from Goldilocks apologising for all the things that she had done wrong at the Three Bears’ house.

We pretended to be police officers and we wrote a list of questions that we would like to ask Goldilocks. We then interviewed Mrs Batkin (pretending to be Goldilocks!) before writing our own questions.

1 month ago
Posted on 04th Oct 2026 by Laura Bessant

Year 1 Maths – Systematically partitioning numbers

In Maths, Class 1 have been learning about parts and wholes. We investigated how many ways there are to make the numbers 1-5 and learnt how to systematically find all the possibilities.

1 month ago
Posted on 04th Oct 2026 by Laura Bessant

Year 1 Science – Naming materials

In Science, Class 1 have begun to learn about materials. Our first job was to learn the names of some materials and match them to some objects made with those materials.

1 month ago
Posted on 27th Sep 2026 by Emma Noden

Ball skills – dribbling

Until half term we are focusing on ball skills in our PE lessons. This week we learnt skills of dribbling and how to control the ball when we are doing this. We enjoyed a game of seals and penguins which helped us practise this skill at the end of the lesson!