Year One

St. Aidan’s Fun Run

St. Aidan’s Fun Run

Year 1 and 2 really enjoyed taking part in the St Aidan’s Fun Run last week. They all eagerly ran five laps of the school field, showing fantastic enthusiasm, determination and teamwork throughout the event. The children were excited to raise as much money as possible...

Art – Toil Today, Dream Tonight

Art – Toil Today, Dream Tonight

In their Art lesson today, Year 1 focused on the painting; ‘Toil Today, Dream Tonight’ by Filipino artist; Paul Hilario. First, the children looked at the painting, pointing out key features such as; the sun, stars and fields. We then spoke about the choice of colours...

RE – Clay Creations

RE – Clay Creations

This afternoon in RE, following on from the question they are answering this half term; ‘Who do Christian’s believe made the world?’, Year 1 looked back at The Creation Story, in order for them to complete a task of creating their own clay model of one of God’s...

Geography – Houses

Geography – Houses

In their Geography lesson this week, Year 1 continued with their topic ‘Our Local Area’ by learning all about houses, in particular, houses in our community. The children walked down to the school field, each holding a clip board with a tally chart of ‘different types...

Science – The 5 Senses

Science – The 5 Senses

In their Science lesson today, Year 1 focused on ‘The 5 Senses’. We started the lesson off by going through each sense, learning their meaning and how we use each sense every day. The 5 senses are; taste, touch, hearing, sight and smell. For each sense, we completed...