Welcome to Year 1 at Camelford Primary
Visit from the air ambulance
Design Technology
Fruit tasting. Designing and then making our fruit kebabs. Finally, we evaluated them.
Today we walked to the park
Today we walked to the park. We took photographs as we went. Now we are back at school we are going to write a recount of our visit to the park.
Science - Do all trees shed their leaves?
Do all trees shed their leaves?
During the lesson we learnt about the difference between deciduous and evergreen trees.
The children went on a leaf hunt around the school grounds and in our woods. At each tree we tried to match the leaves to the leaf ID sheet.
Design Technology
Last week we were given the task to make a mechanism that would move a spider up and down. This week we had to think about:
Science
Today we answered the lesson question: Are all leaves the same?
In order to answer the question, we had to go outside and explore our environment. We had to learn to look closely and compare leaves.
What we learnt to do:
ZooLab Visit
Maths
Fractions
Recognise a half of an object or a shape
Find a half of a quantity
Science
Working Scientifically
What do plants need to thrive and be healthy?
What happens if plants don’t get the things they need?
Art and Design
Observational drawings of natural objects.
Science
Setting up a science investigation.
What do seeds need to germinate?
Spring 2 - working wall for History and Design Technology
Design Technology
Exploring and learning in our school woods
Design Technology
Science week
Paper Towers - Which can hold the most amount of books?
We folded paper into tubes shaped like cuboids, cylinders and pyramids and taped them together.
We wanted to know which of the different 3D shapes would be strongest.
Harlyn guessed that the tightly wrapped ones would hold the most books, but we were all very surprised by exactly how many.
Maths - Comparing lengths and heights
Which is longer? Which is shorter?
Can you find another object that is longer or shorter than both?
World Book Day
Design Technology
Exploring mechanisms. Making a moving picture with a lever!
Spring 1 - working wall for Science, Geography and Art and Design
Art and Design - Colour mixing green
IALT experiment with paint mixing to make a range of secondary colours.
How could you make the green lighter? (Add more yellow paint.)
How could you make the green darker? (Add more blue paint.)
The children were given time to experiment with mixing yellow and blue. They experimented with varying the shade (or hue) of green they made, using different quantities of blue and yellow paint each time.
Maths - Spring 1
Art and Design
IALT apply my painting skills when working in the style of an artist.
Calrice Cliff - an artist that used primary and secondary colours to create bright circular patterns on ceramics.
Science - What is waterproofing?
We carried out a fair test to see which material would be the most waterproof.
We covered three of the umbrellas with a layer of (vegetable) oil, pva glue and wax crayon. The last umbrella was left with nothing. We then predicted what would happen. After that, we added a few drops of water onto each umbrella before testing and discussing the results. Which umbrella was most waterproof?
English - The Three Little Pigs
Over the last few weeks we have been reading and learning the story of The Three Little Pigs.
We used a story map and talk for writing to practice retelling the story everyday. We especially enjoyed putting actions to the story.
We used the story to write our own stories based on The Three Little Pigs.
Science
What happens when we squash, bend, twist or stretch a material?
Art and Design
Learning to apply knowledge of colour mixing when painting.
We looked at the work of Jasper Johns. We liked his painting - Numbers in Colour 1958-59. We used this painting as inspiration and created some painting of our own in Jasper Johns style.
Geography
How does the daily weather change?
Forecasting the weather - today we have watched the weather forecast for the South West. We then looked on the BBC weather page and looked at the weather forecast for Camelford. On the forecast for Camelford we noticed they had used symbols to tell us what the weather would be like for the rest of the week. We then had to learn what all these symbols meant.
The children then used the symbols and a map of the UK to present their own weather forecasts.
Art and Design
Learning to recognise, name and mix primary colours.
Primary colours are the basic colours in the colour wheel. They cannot be made by mixing other colours together.
When mixed together, they can make any different colour. These are called secondary colours.
Computing
Learning to use a digital devise to take photographs.
When is it OK to take someone’s photo?
- Taking photos can be lots of fun, but not everyone wants to be in them.
- Before taking anyone’s photo, you should ask them if it’s OK. If they say that it is OK, you can take it.
- If they say they don’t want to, find someone else to take a photo of!
How do you take a good photograph?
1.Hold the device firmly with both hands.
2.Point the camera lens at the subject.
3.Look into the viewing window or screen.
4.Move the device until you see everything clearly.
5.Press the capture button.
Autumn 2 - working wall for RE, DT, Computing and History
Christmas Cards
Christmas Nativity Play
English
We studied the book Weather by Steffi-Cavell-Clarke. The children learnt how to write short information text about winter.
Sewing
Maths
2d shape work - recognising and naming shapes. Sorting shapes.
Design Technology
Practising and applying threading and sewing skills with hessian and wool.
Computing
Programming animations using ScratchJr.
Learning to choose a command for a given purpose.
Autumn 1 - working wall for art, science and geography
Autumn 1 - our learning
Art and Design
Rolling paper to create tubes. We then used these tubes to make a spider.
Physical Education
Practicing our partner skills.
Learning to balance in different ways.
Drawing sketch maps of Camelford.
Geography
Maths
Learning our bonds.
Systematic number bonds within 10.
Using resources to support our learning.
Art and Design
Drawing different kinds of spiders.
Key enquiry question - What features can I identify on the map?
Geography
Looking at the map of Camelford – What can you see? Can you identify the symbols on the map?
Matching symbols to pictures.
Music
This half term we have been learning Hey You! - a Hip Hop song for children.
Learning to use the glockenspiel.
During the unit we learnt about how pulse, rhythm and pitch work together.
Playing whilst others are singing.
Science
Where do plants and animals live?
Learning about habitats and where creatures live.
We looked in our bug hotel and found lots of creatures living in it.
Art and Design
Learning to apply paper-shaping skills to make an imaginative sculpture.
Making their own tree of life sculpture using all the paper folding skills they have learnt over the last three weeks.
English
Sentence science.
Using what we have learnt and writing independent sentences.
Learning about what a sentence needs. Lots of verbal work on creating sentences.
Geography
Key enquiry question - Where am I now?
Adding labels to an aerial photograph to identify features.
What can you see?
Art and Design
Learning to roll paper to make 3D structures.
The children explored rolling paper tubes to make a sculpture.
Things we had to think about during the lesson. Can you make your paper look like a sculpture? How will you shape it? How will you make it keep its shape?
Computing
What does this button do?
Learning all about commands.
I can run a command on a device.
Using the forwards, backwards and go button to make the Bee Bot move.
Maths
Learning how to sort objects. The dinosaurs were ssorted by colour.
They were sorted by mixing two colours together. The pom poms were also sorted by size.
The dinosaurs were sorted by type.
The teddies were sorted by colour and then by size.
A big welcome
Welcome to a new school year. We have had a busy day in Harlyn today, we have been establishing lots of new routines and getting to know our new classroom.
We read the story ‘The Colour Monster goes to School’ and used the story to discuss our feelings and that if we have a worry there are safe adults in the class we can talk to. In the afternoon we had some time to explore the classroom and spend time playing with our friends.
