When Year 1 had a visit from Santa!

The children enjoyed getting a special visit from Santa today and playing fun, festive games!

        Beegu

This half term we have been looking at the text Beegu written by Alexis Deacon. We have been exploring writing lots of different types of texts such as character descriptions, persuasive letters and ended with producing a Non-Chronological report. They did a great job sharing their work with the class and were really proud of what they achieved!

Science 

This term in Science, we have been learning all about our five senses — taste, hearing, touch, smell, and sight. We took part in lots of fun experiments to test our senses and to discover how much we rely on them in our everyday lives. A class favourite was definitely the tasting experiment! We tried sweet, sour, salty, and bitter foods — and to everyone’s surprise, the class loved the taste of bitter dark chocolate the most!

Through our investigations, we learned how each of our senses helps us to explore and understand the world around us.

Design and Technology 

In Design and Technology this half term we set out to develop over very own moving mechanisms. As part of this project, we were able to create our own sliders and levers. In order to complete this task, the children had to begin to draw on their own experience to help generate ideas and research conducted on criteria. Begin to understand the development of existing products: What they are for, how they work, materials used. Start to suggest ideas and explain what they are going to do and understand how to identify a target group for what they intend to design and make based on a design criteria.