This half term, our topic is “Hooray, Let’s Go On Holiday!” To excite the children about their learning, we start each new topic with an entry point – a fun and exciting activity which brings the learning to life. Today, the children opened up their own travel agents and practised role playing the roles of …
This week, Year 1 have been practising how to count objects from a larger group. We used counting cubes and sentence stems to show our understanding. Once we were confident counting objects, we progressed to representing numbers up to 10 in different ways (written form, numeral form, counting cubes and a pictorial representation.) Take a …
In today’s lesson, Year 2 learnt to represent numbers to 100 using tens and ones. They used a variety of equipment and pictorial representations to build the numbers, allowing them to visualise the number of tens and ones. Take a look at our learning below!
This week, Year 1 are learning how to sort objects in different ways based on their characteristics. Today, we enjoyed sorting objects by their size, colour and type. We learnt that you can sort the same set of objects in different ways. At the end of the lesson, we challenged ourselves by sorting every object …
This half term we have been learning about the history of our local area – Guiseley. Jacob from Codswallop came in to teach the children about a famous local figure – Abraham Moon. Abraham Moon founded Moon’s Mills which is now known internationally for the quality fabric it produces. We started off the session by …
Yesterday, we started our new English topic, The Day the Crayons Quit. The children listened to the story, which was very amusing! They then worked in pairs to retell and act out the pink crayon’s letter. They developed their oracy skills by using expression to exaggerate parts of the story. Take a look at some …
In science, KS1 have been learning about living things and their habitats. Today, we made the most of the sunshine and spent time outside closely observing animals and plants, including woodlice, daisies and buttercups. In pairs, we sketched our observations, labelled its features and discussed where the living thing was found and why and how …
This week, Year 2 have been learning how to measure length and height in centimetres. They have completed a range of activities requiring them to use a ruler correctly. Take a look at some of our learning below!
Within their addition and subtraction to 20 unit, Year 1 have been practising number bonds to 10 and 20. Today, they practised adding ones using number bonds. They had to select a bond card to 10 and calculate the answer. They then used this bond to find related bond facts within 20. Take a look …
In maths, Year 2 have been learning to recognise a half, a quarter and a third. We took our learning outside to practise finding equivalent fractions and finding fractions of amounts. We had great fun!