It has been a busy first week back in Year 1. The children are loving our new topic all about the Great Fire of London. It has been great to see how enthusiastic the children are about their learning around this. This week we have started learning ‘London’s Burning’ as part of our music topic this half term. We have spent this week discussing pitch, with some children even starting to learn the round. We can’t wait to do some more work on this next week. Here is a video of our progress on the song so far!

In science, the children went on a walk around the school ground with Mrs Whitaker to look for signs of spring. They saw lots of different plants which commonly grow during spring including daffodils. The children then practiced painting daffodils based on what they had seen.

This afternoon the children made scones. We discussed how the Great Fire of London had started in the bakery on Pudding Lane and we imagined what it would have been like to work in a bakery. The children have loved pretending to work in a bakery in the home corner so they were really excited for this activity! The children each had a different job such as mixing and kneading the dough and putting the scones in the oven. We then tasted them before we went home!