Blog Category: Ash Class Reception Y1

The pupils in Ash Class have been learning about materials, they have been using different junk materials to create a boat in groups. Which boat will absorb water? Which boat will float?

This week we have focused on being Kind and anti-bullying week. On Monday we dressed up in our own bright clothes to promote kindness. On Tuesday we had an anti-bullying workshop where we learnt how to be kind and help someone who may be being bullied. We discussed what bullying means and how we…

Ash Class have been on a rock hunt and have been discussing the basic properties of rocks. We discussed which rocks were heavier/lighter than and also which rocks were rough and which were smooth. 

We have been learning about different materials in Science, we have been sorting glass, metal, plastic and wood! 

We have been sequencing the story of 'We're going on a bear hunt', we then went on a bear hunt and found a bear in the forest!

We went outside and looked at our local area. We then watched a drone travel above London and compared London to our local area. Year 1 drew what they could see from Preesall hill, it was very different to London!

We enjoy working as a team to make fantastic creations in the areas of provision! We used the vocabulary we had learnt during our Castle theme in the Spring term.

We took a trip to our school nature area where we have a pond. We used nets to catch some tadpoles and looked closely at them before creating a life cycle of a frog in the classroom. 

We enjoy dough disco! This helps us to develop fine motor control and improves our writing.

We went on a hunt around the school grounds looking for signs of Spring. We worked in small groups and used an Ipad to take photographs of what we found. We saw beautiful daffodils on our school field. 

Willow weaving to make a fence.

Lots of different materials in the forest to make repeating patterns.