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!

On Tuesday 1C visited St John’s church to learn about baptism. Reverend Sharon showed us where the font was in the church. She also showed us where the bible is kept and where the lectern is. Reverend Sharon then acted out a baptism with the children. Some children enjoyed pretending to be the Mum and Dad and the Godparents for the baptism.

Last week Year 1 had the opportunity to attend a dance workshop. The children loved learning new dance moves!

On Thursday some of 1C took part in the colour run to celebrate the festival of Holi. They had a fantastic time!

This week the children celebrated Shrove Tuesday by doing pancake races! The children raced against each other in their houses and were very supportive team members. Well done 1C!

In our ICT lessons this half term 1C have loved learning how to use the beebots. Last week we learnt what the different buttons do and how we could programme a bee bot to move where we wanted it to. We spoke about the word “algorithm” and what this means. The children then had a go at directing the beebots. Today, the children were working on trying to get the beebots around different obstacles.

This week 1C have been working really hard on their ICT skills by practising logging into a computer. This half term our ICT unit is Digital Art. The children were asked to draw a self portrait and then in the following lesson they created abstract art. We looked at the artist Piet Mondrian and discussed how he had used different coloured rectangles and squares. The children did a fantastic job at finding the correct shape to use and then filling it with their choice of colour.

In History this week 1C investigated the differences between household objects in the past and in the present. We talked about the material of the objects as well as the colour, shape and function. All of the children were very surprised how different a hot water bottle and a toilet looked! The children had to work with their group to compare the objects and write down their similarities and differences.