Year 1: Goldsworthy Class
Andy Goldsworthy, OBE is a British sculptor, photographer and environmentalist producing site-specific sculpture and land art situated in natural and urban settings. He lives and works in Scotland.
In Year 1 children develop their writing skills, have guided reading and phonics lessons daily as well as consolidating and progressing their learning in maths through number, shape, data handling and problem solving. They enjoy a broad curriculum with plenty of opportunity for hands on exploration and learning through play, especially in the first term.
Reading books go home every afternoon and are brought to school every morning. We encourage the children to read every night and practice their weekly sight words. To support maths you could help your child count to 20, 50 and 100 forwards and backwards.
Reminders:
- P.E. lessons are on Mondays. Please ensure your child wears trainers on a Monday.
- Please return books every morning in book bags.
Recent news
Year One had a ‘right royal’ time at the Platinum Jubilee Fete
We are so lucky, not only were we celebrating the Queen's Jubilee, we also got to have our Summer Fete. The children had so much fun in the sun, playing on the bouncy castles, face painting, tattoos, bubbles, chalking, football, jenga and of course the whole KS2...
Mudchute Farm
Today Kapoor and Goldsworthy classes went to Mudchute Farm. We got the DLR from Langdon Park all the way to Mudchute and walked through the woods to the farm. It was a very long way - our longest school journey so far! After surviving the first rain shower and...
Moving Pictures
Year 1 have been learning about mechanisms in Design Technology this half term. They made moving farm pictures using either a slider or lever mechanism. Look at the brilliant finished results below:
Young Voices
Last night members of the choir performed to a packed audience of thousands at London's O2 arena as part of Young Voices. What a brilliant experience, from the initial rehearsals to the final performance which included professional singers, dancers and beatboxers....
Pop, Pop, Pop! What popcorn will taste the best?
We had so much fun in Year One today. In O'Keeffe Class we had a science experiment. We had to predict what popcorn would taste the best. We had some popcorn in water, some in oil and the rest had nothing added. The classes made their predictions: Our Predictions: To...
Magnetic Mazes
Today to celebrate STEAM day all of the children in year 1 were able to do 3 amazing activities. In Kapoor Class all of the children experimented with magnets and created amazing magnetic mazes for minibeasts. The children understood how magnets attract some metals...