Our focus this half term is Geography and we are learning about physical and human features. 

First we looked at photos in our talk partners and decided if we could see human features (These are things made by people) or physical features (These are things that are natural)

On Thursday afternoon we went for a walk into Scotland woods, looking for human and physical features. We had looked at the online OS map in class so knew exactly the route!

We saw many human features at the beginning of the walk, such as the pavement, litter bins, lamp posts. But we also enjoyed seeing the green hedges and stood under a tree full of pink blossom.

Just before we entered the woods we looked at the Monkey puzzle tree in a garden!

As soon as we entered the woods we listened carefully to the birds singing in the trees. The trees were tall and we started to notice woodland plants, especially bluebells. 

As we walked down the path, we noticed some human features and then saw the Seven Arches Aqueduct! It was an amazing human feature to stand under and hear about how it was used to carry water to Leeds. 

We listened carefully to the water flowing in the stream and then walked up the hill to find the Buckstone rock, which is an amazing physical feature!

After a long walk we arrived back into the classroom ready for milk, snack and hometime.

What a celebration! Thank you to all of the grown ups for coming to the Arts Celebration today. It was such a wonderful event and the children have worked so hard over the last two weeks to create something so wonderful. There’s been so incredible collaborations happening in the art studio and I’m so proud of how hard each and every one of them has worked. I hope you had just as much fun watching their dance as I did!

in PSHE this half term we’re looking at how to stay safe while we do fun things. This week, we’ve been learning about the importance of rules while playing games outside, and we’ve made posters about how to stay safe in the sun. We’ve got some great ideas and we clearly know how to make sure we are safe.
when we were playing games outside it was great to see us playing safely and listening to different rules so that we could play safely.

We’ve had a super busy week this week! This week we’ve started learning all about the Great Fire of London. Today’s history lesson focused on the timeline of events including when it started, where it was and how long the fire went on for. We had lots of knowledge about this already, we were very impressive.

We’ve also started learning how to use a BeeBot. This little bee gives us the chance to practice creating a sequence of movements for the bee to make. The first lesson has just been a chance to figure out the different things the BeeBot can do, next week our challenges will be to move them around different objects. Wish us luck!

we’ve had such a great day at the museum today. It was lovely seeing how engaged everyone was and it was such a great experience for everyone there. We got to see so many interesting things, from the Ancient Egyptians to how music in Leeds has changed over the last 50 years. We solved puzzles, drew pictures and had a great day learning lots of new things!

In maths, we’ve been practicing out numbers to 20. We’ve become super at counting forwards and backwards, but we decided to challenge ourselves but playing a missing number game. We worked in teams to take turns in hiding a number (or two!) from our number line, before our team mates had to guess which number we’d hidden. It was great fun and everyone got so involved!

This week we got to go into the computer room to explore how to log in to the computers, open up Paint and experiment with the different tools we could use! Our challenge was to try and create a self portrait and the children all had a really good go. It was great fun exploring the tools we needed and it was a great opportunity to work on our Team Ant skills when we needed help and a friend was there to give us some.

We’ve had a great first week back in 1D! It’s been very busy but we’ve done an amazing job at collaborating and working as a team to get the jobs done. We’ve started learning our new writing text this week, based on The King’s Hat. We designed our own hats that are fit for a king. There was some amazing colours and designs!

The last couple of weeks have been busy, busy, busy in 1D! We’ve had lots of Christmassy fun, Nativity rehearsals, and the real performances! The children worked so hard and I’m so proud of the effort that they all put in, and the teamwork that was shown through their collaboration.

In RE lessons we’ve also been learning about the birth of Jesus, creating our own stables using our collage skills. We could tell each other the different visitors that Mary and Joseph had, the gifts they were given, and the order that the story happened in. We were sp impressed!
With the start of advent we’ve really enjoyed having a few different things around school to celebrate. You might have been lucky enough to have already seen the one we’ve been doing in class. We’ve been coming up with a list of all the amazing things that someone does to make them a great part of the team that is 1D. It’s so lovely hearing all the positive things we have to say about each other, sharing why we are thankful for that person.

This week we have been looking at how to make soup! For our Hot Write next week, we will be writing a set of instructions on how to make a vegetable soup. We all had a go at part of the instructions, and we will be writing our own next week. We even got to try our soup, lots of us really liked it!