Year 1 Iveson Blog

Some Key Stage One children have been continuing their Textiles skills in Sewing Club.  This week, the children completed a running stitch on the material binka.  The children showed great resilience and are becoming more confident every week. Some children created different patterns using different coloured thread.  Well done Sewing Club! 🧵🧵🧵

In PE this half term, Year One have been exploring different kinds of balances. Today, the children focused on m aintaining a balance on a line. One of our objectives was: I can walk forwards with fluidity and minimum wobble.

  Number Day is on its way!! Number day is taking place on the 3 rd  of February and we will be taking a new twist on number day this year. This year our number day will be linked to shape, space and measure. we will be participating in interactive maths activites all day, exploring everything linked to number and shape! Can you create your own number themed outfit? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1zi3ELqq3Q   Johnny Ball's Number Day maths challenge Thank you for taking part in the NSPCC's Number Day 2023! Get your maths mind ready with these challenges from Johnny Ball – can you work out the answers? Le... www.youtube.com

  In Science this half term the children have been learning about Everyday Materials.  Today the children had a STEM challenge, which was to build a strong bridge to ensure the bears wouldn't fall through. The children worked together in pairs and had some brilliant discussions. The children used appropriate vocabulary and tested different materials to see which material would be the strongest.  W.B "The plastic bridges are strong but the paper didn't work. It wasn't as strong." A.Z "I used lots of paper. It was thicker, so it was stronger."  

 In Art this half term the children are going to be learning all about Self Portraits.  The children looked at different famous self portraits from around the world and discussed what they could see.  The children the had time to sketch the portraits of our focus Artists in their sketch books. 

 In Geography this half term, Year One are going to be learning about the Polar regions. In today's Geography lesson the children explored images on the interactive whiteboard and discussed if they thought the images were in the Polar regions or not the Polar regions.  Then the children had the opportunity to sort these images within a group. E.M "That's Buckingham Palace in the snow but it's not in the Arctic." S.A "That's a iceberg, that's in a cold place."