​For todays Science lesson, Year 1 went on a school trip to the Soanes Centre in Mile End. The children learnt about the properties of materials, what objects are made of and how these materials can be used to create chemical reactions.

​For todays Science lesson, Year 1 went on a school trip to the Soanes Centre in Mile End. The children learnt about the properties of materials, what objects are made of and how these materials can be used to create chemical reactions.

​During world book week , Year 1 participated in an extra-curricular English workshop. They learned the importance of working in groups and creating a part of the story ‘Anansi’ with our bodies and our actions.

​Here are a few pictures from Year 1’s first trip. They looked at artifacts related space and even found the space suit Neil Armstrong wore in 1969.

​The children took turns to perform in a role play activity as Neil Armstrong. The class had to ask ‘Neil Armstrong’ questions related to his trip to the moon and to end the lesson, the class drew a picture of the Apollo 11 spaceship.

​We followed a set of instructions to recreate Van Gogh’s Starry Night using oil pastels. First, we drew around our hand to recreate the shape of a tree in the night. Then we looked closely at the painting and noticed that he had used lines to make his sky, wind and stars.
We then used lines to recreate our own version.
 
We looked again at the painting and discussed the houses. We talked about the shape and how big they were in comparison to the rest of the painting. Then the children learned the word ‘ vertical’ and drew green vertical lines to represent the grass and fields in Van Gogh’s picture.
 
In today’s lesson, to see that Van Gogh had no white spaces. We decided as a class that we could use water paint to cover those areas. We washed over our art work with coloured water paint.

​In our science lesson today, Year 1 were experimenting with absorbent and non-absorbent materials. The children had to submerge a material into the water and check if the material soaks up the water or it repels and slide of the material.

​In one of our geography lessons this week, the children went on a field walk around our school. We looked at our school’s local area and discussed the features we could see and hear around us.
The children had to answer the following questions and later draw a picture of what they saw.
Is our school’s local area very noisy?
Are there any fields near our school?
Are there lots of buildings near our school?
What are the roads like near our school?