Welcome to Class 1
Find out what we will be learning about this year by visiting the our curriculum section of our website.
In this section you will find details of our activities:
Meet class 1
Week commencing 15th July 2019
After our history topic about seasides and entertainment in the past, class 1 had a very enjoyable seaside day at school with Punch and Judy, a Paddling pool “sea”, sand, sunshine and best of all an Ice Cream café!
Week commencing 1st July 2019
This week, Class 1 have been learning about what people do when they’re at the seaside, with the focus being on Punch & Judy. Class 1 watched some Punch & Judy shows, before making their own puppet theatre, puppets and shows. Lots of fun has been had by the whole class.
Week commencing 17th June 2019
Children in Class 1 have recently been learning about Buddhism.
Week commencing 10th June 2019
Class 1 had a great time visiting the Wetlands Centre in Washington. They fed all kinds of ducks and geese, watched the otters having their dinner, found lots of different creatures in the pond and even learned why flamingos are pink!
Class 1 made Fathers’ Day cards.
Week commencing 13th May 2019
Class 1 have been making the most of the sunny weather this week. We’ve had lots of fun creating potions in the mud kitchen and Lance even built a robot!
Week commencing 29th April 2019
Class 1 have been busy growing this week. They’ve planted some cress seeds to grow hair for their very own plant pots and also a giant sun flower. They also carried out an experiment to find out which conditions cress seeds will grow the best in. Watch this space for the results!
Week commencing 18th March 2019
Class 1 have been exploring habitats in the school grounds. They found tadpoles in the school pond and even a little house for a hedgehog.
Week commencing 11th March 2019
Class 1 have been reading ‘The Rainbow Bird’ this week. We decided to make some rainbow biscuits and decorate them within icing and rainbow sprinkles.
Week commencing 25th February 2019
Class 1 printed pictures using bubble wrap in the style of Bradley Walsh who uses bubble wrap to create impressionist pictures.
Class 1 making the most of sunny February.
Some of our year 1 children enjoying the sun shine whilst doing some maths and measuring some objects outside.
Week commencing 11th February 2019
This week Class 1 have been learning about St. Valentine, so to celebrate Valentine’s Day they made and decorated some Valentines biscuits!
Week commencing 4th February 2019
Week commencing 25th January 2019
Class 1 have been learning about how materials change. They had great fun making chocolate cornflake cakes and watching the chocolate melt
Class 1 have been studying polar bears in Literacy. The year 2’s made a booklet on different facts about polar bears such as their habitat and diet.
Week commencing 14th January 2019
Class 1 had a great time at the Locomotion Museum in Shildon. They learned lots of interesting things, made their own train and even got to go inside of an old steam train and see how it was driven!
Following a trip to the Locomotion, Ewan drew this fabulous picture of a train.
Week commencing 07th January 2019
Next week class 1 will be visiting the Locomotion Museum. They have spent this week learning about trains. Here they are having fun at Hamsterley train station. Choo Choo!!
Week commencing 17th December 2018
Elfie the elf’s adventures this week
Week commencing 10th December 2018
Class 1 have been making some festive Christmas cards with milk bottle lids.
Here are some of the latest antics from class 1’s naughty elf!!
Elfie the elf getting into more trouble around the class room.
Week commencing 3rd December 2018
Year 1’s have been learning how to measure different objects around the classroom correctly!
Class 1 are enjoying working in Santa’s workshop and wrapping presents!
The school nurse came to visit class 1 to discuss hygiene and dental care.
Class 1 had a special visitor on Monday, Elfie the Elf has come to keep an eye on the children but he seems to be getting into trouble around the classroom! Let us see how much mischief he can cause before Christmas!
Miss Armstrong and Miss Wilson have made a very special advent calendar for Class 1. There may be a special treat behind each door.
Week commencing 26th November 2018
Class 1 enjoyed reading a variety of fairy tale stories before a trip to the pantomime to see Snow White at Durham Gala Theatre. It got all staff and children in the festive spirit!
Week commencing 19th November 2018
Class 1 have been learning about poems in Literacy this week. The class have learnt different poems and have performed them to each other using expression.
Class 1 have been learning about money in Maths this week. The children took a trip to the local Hamsterley shop to buy some food and to begin to recognize different coins.
Week commencing 5th November 2018
This week class 1 have been using our senses. We went outside to see what we could hear around us, what we felt and saw. We also talked about Remembrance Day and wrote poems about what Peace feels like, looks like, tastes like etc. Here are a few of our poems.
In Art n’Klart this week we have been making Happy Divali cards.
Class 1 celebrated Halloween in style!! We had a classroom of witches and wizards for the afternoon and had some spooky treats.
Week commencing 29th October 2018
This week class 1 have been painting Halloween pictures for the school disco. Can you see any ghosts or bats in our paintings? We made stencils and used our fingers to create a dotty picture in fluorescent colours with, of course, glitter for extra sparkle at night!
All of our five senses definitely got working when we created some very strange Halloween potions in science!
Week commencing 15th October 2018
The children in class 1 have recently been doing some role play acting out their favourite stories such as ‘The Little Red Hen’ and ‘Whatever Next?’.
Week commencing 29th October 2018
Class 1 have been investigating the stages of growth from an apple seed to an apple tree. We looked inside a ripe apple and found the pips. We took some out and planted them to see if they will grow. We learnt the stages of growth from pip to tree and wrote our own booklets to explain how apple trees grow.
We have also being learning about the Autumn weather. Today was quite windy so we listened to a story about a kite, made our own kites from a plastic bag and then went outside to fly them in the wind. They flew really well!
Week commencing 15th October 2018
This week we talked about all the different things that trees give us. We tried drawing pictures with charcoal. We soon learnt that it smudges very easily! We also tried to make our own paper by recycling old paper. We ripped up the paper into tiny pieces and made it into a soup. Today we have pressed it out onto a frame and left it to dry.
In Art and Klart we made rockets in preparation for Bonfire Night! After painting the tubes and cutting a nose cone and feet to support it, we had great fun decorating it with fluorescent paint and space stickers!
Week commencing 1st October 2018
After reading the story “Whatever Next” about a bear who makes a rocket out of a cardboard box, Lance and Iona gave it a go themselves. They did a great job choosing pieces of junk to make wings, a steering wheel and even fire. After they’d finished building their rocket they wrote the numbers on the wings to count down from 10 and even wrote “Blast Off!” at the end. Well done Lance and Iona!
Week commencing 17th September 2018
Some pupils brought in seeds and leaves they had found at the weekend on Autumn walks. Mrs Stephens also brought in lots of different types of seeds from an Autumn walk and we looked closely at them and sorted them into seeds that would stick to animals fur (and us!) , seeds that could be carried by the wind and seeds that could be eaten by animals (not us!)
Class 1 Archived Activities
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