In PSHE we have been learning about living in the wider world. Today we explored climate change and what we can do to help keep our planet cool 🌍🌳♻️🍃🌞⛅️🌈🌧️
Year 1 Brunswick Park Primary School
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Year 1 Classes at Brunswick Park Primary School, Southwark. Learning for living through respect, support and challenge Our link tree: https://linktr.ee/brunswickparkps?utm_source=linktree_admin_share
The year 1’s had a fantastic time at Brockwell Park Community Greenhouses yesterday. We learned all about fruits and vegetables, and observed how they grow. We got to smell lots of herbs and tasted pepper, green beans and rhubarb. We even planted our own bean seeds! 🧑🌾👩🌾🪴🥬🍅🥦🥕🍎🍌🥑🍒
We had a lovely time at Brunswick Park playground today as part of our DT topic. We will be creating our own 3D sculptures of a playground this term 🛝
Year 1 are busy getting ready for our Fruit Punch Fundraising Sale today. We are raising money for Save The Children. Tropical Fruit Punch on the way!! 🍓🍋🍍🧃🌞😎⛱️
The year 1’s had a great day walking along the River Thames today. We spotted lots of iconic London landmarks 🇬🇧 Now to finish our London landmark sculptures in Art!
We have been learning about position and direction in maths in year 1. When learning about ordinal numbers, we did running races to identify who came 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th 🏃🏃♀️🥇🥈🥉
The year 1’s really enjoyed adding the modroc to their 3D art sculptures of the Shard, Tower Bridge and Buckingham Palace. Next step… painting! 🎨🖌️
In Computing we are learning how to make pictograms on Purple Mash. Today we made a class pictogram about 1A’s favourite fruits. Strawberries were the clear favourite 🍓❤️
In RE today we learned about how Hindus believe actions (karma) affect what happens to us. For the challenge, some pupils identified their own example of good karma.
For World Autism Awareness Month, 1A has decorated a quilt piece with all the things that are special to them. They have also written how they show kindness 💙
Today we started our new history topic learning about photographs from the past. We explored lots of different cameras today and discussed what historians use photographs for 📸🎥🤳🎞️
Today we sorted plants into wildflowers and garden flowers as part of our science topic this term 🌻🌹🌺🪻🌼
In science we have been learning about plants. We have explored the different parts of plants and sorted them based on similarities and differences 🌱🪴🌼
In maths yesterday, we did some consolidation work on counting by 2’s, 5’s and 10’s. We used our show it, draw it, explain it and prove it mats to help us practice skip counting.
In PSCHE we are learning about good hygiene. Today we identified some problems and how we could fix them so we are clean and healthy 😃🫧🧼🧴
In maths today we measured capacity by counting how many cubes we could fit in different sized containers!
We loved listening to different adult’s favourite poems today for World Book Day. This one was our favourite in 1A, ‘Chocolate Cake,’ by Michael Rosen 🍫🎂
We have made a lucky dip for all our favourite books at home! We can’t wait to give it a go tonight 📚✨💞
We made a word cloud about our favourite books. We said how they make us feel and used adjectives to describe them ❤️📚
Some of the year 1 children recited the poem, ‘My Hat!’ By Tony Mitton. We made our own hats with our favourite books on it ❤️🎩📚 Part 1
Today we wrote questions we want to ask the man from the story, ‘Dinosaurs and All That Rubbish.’ He created factories and destroyed the world, so he could build a rocket ship and get to the star 🚀⭐️🏭🌏
What an amazing Maker Mat creation!!! A dinosaur sock puppet connecting to our English story, ‘Dinosaurs and All That Rubbish.’ 🦖🦕🗑️🌳🌱🌎💚💧🐟
We have been learning about Mass and Volume in year 1 maths. We used a balance scale and cubes to measure different objects we found in the classroom.
1A loved drawing their animal characters for their e-book on Purple Mash today. It was our first lesson in creating our own animated story online.
The year 1’s had a great time during our Artist in Residence session at the end of last term. We used boxes and elastic bands to create our very own instruments. We then made a recording of our music as a class!
This term we have been exploring colour in year 1, using paint. We have been learning about warm and cool colours. Yesterday we started to paint our sunset landscapes, inspired by Georgia O’Keeffe.
In year 1, we are currently doing our consolidation lessons in maths. This means we are revisiting previous lessons and completing new activities with different resources to further strengthen our understanding.
The year 1’s had a very special visitor this afternoon during our party. 1A got a marble run and 1B got play dough from Santa. We were very excited to tell Santa what we would like for Christmas 🎄🎅
