Art Day with Artist - Anne Blankson-Hemans

On Friday 15th November, the Year 1 children enjoyed a full day of Art with Anne Blankson-Hemans. The children worked with different mediums such as charcoal, pencils, felt tips, chalks and oil pastels to see what different effects they could make when drawing lines, circles and spirals. It was a wonderful day and the children were all really inspired by Anne and all produced some fantastic art work. 

Local walk 

17th October 2024

Today we went for a walk around our local area - Kells. We spotted lots of different places on our walk including the pharmacy, our church, the local shop, the playpark, the local fish and chip shop and we even saw Haig Pit. The children had a great time looking for features of our local area and we also looked for signs of Autumn too. We saw lots of trees with orange and brown leaves on them. The walk has really helped to consolidate the children's knowledge of our Geography topic 'What is it like here?', as we've spent lots of time looking at Google Earth and at aerial maps of our local area, so it was very useful for the children to explore the area more closely. 

Literacy - Autumn 2024

This term in Literacy, our focus texts have included the fictional story ‘The Tiger who came to Tea’, the non-fictional book ‘Tigers in danger’ and a poem called ‘Tea with Aunty Mabel’. The children have completed lots of wonderful tasks in connection with these texts; including letters, invitations, instructions, a fact file and a poetry performance. The children were also lucky enough to have their very own tiger tea party, which included following their own written instructions to make sandwiches and then they enjoyed eating their finished products with a cup of juice and a cake, just like in the story! 

Geography - Autumn 2024

This term our topic is called ‘What is it like here?’ The children have been learning all about our country, the United Kingdom and the four countries within it. They have learned more about our local town Whitehaven and they have learned about aerial photographs and have also and made their own ‘messy maps’. More recently, the children have looked at our own playground map and the key on it, which shows us what all the features are and where they are located. 

Science - Autumn 2024

This term our topic is called ‘Animals including humans’. The children have taken part in lots of interesting activities to help them with their knowledge of the human body and our senses and also about different types of animals and the categories that they belong in and what their diets are.