Today we had a visit from some musicians to do a Titanic music workshop with us. It was great to hear some of the music that would have been played in the different classes on the ship. We even got to try playing some instruments ourselves and danced to the music!

In Art this half term Year 1 are creating pictures inspired by the sea. In History we learnt about Grace Darling and the people she saved from the boat crash. The children used paintings that different artists had created of the sea to help them with their pictures. We talked about the different green and blue colours we could see. Last week the children created a background with paint. They then went in again this week and created a collage over the top to add different textures. We can’t wait to see the finished pictures!

In computing this half term we are learning how to write digitally. We practised logging on and then wrote our names. We learnt the enter key, space bar key and backwards key.

This week at ACE it is Mental Health Week. We did an emoji with the emotions from our emotions register. We then used these emotions to talk about different scenarios and imagined how these would make us feel and how we would resolve them.

This half term in our writing lessons we have been reading The Disgusting Sandwich. Before we planned our Hot Write we went outside and took a sandwich around the school to see if anything disgusting would happen to it. The children then used this setting as an option to innovate their story map. Well done 1C your stories were fantastic!

In Science this week we were learning about wild plants. We then went on a wild plant hunt and learnt about how to use a tally chart.

On Friday 1C celebrated the work that they had done throughout their Arts Fortnight. Thank you to all the grown ups that came- it was a fantastic afternoon!

This week in 1C we started our Arts Fortnight. On Tuesday we went on a local walk to the park. This half term we are learning about human and physical features in Geography and so this was the focus of our walk. We also looked at the park as a setting, as in the Disgusting Sandwich and the different wild flowers we could see around the park like daisy’s and dandelions!

This afternoon Year 1 celebrated the end of our Great Fire of London topic by setting our Tudor houses on fire! The children also loved singing London’s Burning to their grown ups and also enjoyed showing them some Art and Writing work. Thank you to all the grown ups that came along- the children absolutely loved it!

This week we have been finalising our Tudor houses before our very own Great Fire of London next Tuesday. The children have been very careful to follow their designs to make them look realistic!