The Hedgehogs

Year

1

The Squirrels

Spring 2022

Fairy Tales

We learnt the stories of the The Gingerbread Man and Jack and the Beanstalk.

We read them together using expression for the different characters.

We acted out the stories and had the opportunity to discuss and what we thought of the different characters.

We then created our own fairy tale character and land and wrote descriptive sentences using year 1 writing skills.

Circus Week

Circus week was great fun! We learnt how to spin a plate, juggle scarves, and walk on stilts.

We wrote a daily diary and some instructions for anyone new visiting our school who wanted to learn one of the skills.

History

In history we learnt all about the space explorer Neil Armstrong.

We thought of questions we would like to find the answers to and used different methods to research these.

We also compared Neil Armstrong to the other explorer we have studied ‘Ernest Shackleton’ and added them to our timeline.

Science

We had a very exciting time learning all about plants in Science.

We planted beans and cress and investigated the best conditions for them to grow.

Art

We used collage in art to create 4 different trees.

We looked carefully at the shape and colour of the leaves and the trunks.

Finally, in art we studied the artist Lowry.

We found out all about his work and the reasons behind his work.

We looked at techniques that he had used to create his work and experimented with different medium to create pictures in a similar style.