Year 1

HIGHLIGHTS

Year 1

To boldly go! The transition from Reception to Year 1 is like Neil Armstrong’s giant leap for mankind; it is huge! Up for a challenge from the start, the children didn’t just boldly go, they went with compassion, confidence, courage, creativity and curiosity into the unknown world of Year 1 and what a year it has been!

We have visited the science department to make ice cream and made an edible spinal column using sweets. We learned about the digestive system and made the large intestines using tights, biscuits, orange juice and water to investigate how poo is made! The squeals and groans when the ‘poo’ came out were hilarious! We have been engineers, designing bridges and toys, writers and authors creating our own fruit-inspired poems and space-inspired stories, and mathematicians solving problems and creating maths board games. The Lent term saw school begin to get back to normal. Performing our class assembly about World Book Day to an actual real audience was magical. Getting back out into the real world and being able to go on trips again was the highlight of the year. We ended our IPC topic ‘Buildings’ with a trip to Tower Bridge and in the Trinity term, we visited the Royal Observatory. The return of the Festival and the sound of glorious cheering from the crowd of proud parents at Sports Day have been the perfect end to a busy year, but it is not just the big things that have made this year so special. We have really enjoyed the simple pleasures of being at school including grooving and moving in Morning Fitness, lunch time play on the beautiful field, exploring in the Woodland Classroom and spending time with our friends. Year 1 really is fun!

Ms C Isaac