News from Class 1
The children thoroughly enjoyed their trip down to The Parade to compare how the area has changed in the past 50 years. The children used their incredible detective skills and a picture of The Parade from the 1970s to identify which parts were the same and what had changed. I was really impressed by [...]
This week, Willow Brook is hard at work thinking about Black History Month. In our assembly this morning we read a great little book called Mixed by Arree Chung. It opened up all sorts of thinking and conversations... from Freya in Year 6 who saw that the message echoed the book - 'Return to [...]
The children in Year 1 had a lot of fun in STEM using their sense of touch to try and identify the secret objects contained in the mystery box. I was very impressed by their skills of deduction - they recognised all the objects in the box. I did also sense a Generation Game [...]
This week in Year 1 The children spent some time practising their art skills with paint. We looked at 3 different brush strokes and talked about the effects and texture they gave on the page. [...]
To mark Windrush day, the children in Year 1 created beautiful paintings depicting the original journey of the HMT Empire Windrush from the Caribbean to England. On board, more than a 1000 Caribbean people coming to England to help rebuild after the war. [...]
This week in our assembly time the children are learning what it means to be a refugee. At least 82.4 million people around the world have been forced to flee their homes. Among them are nearly 26.4 million refugees, around half of whom are children. The terms “refugee”, “asylum-seeker” and “migrant” are used to describe people who [...]
This week, the children enjoying going out onto the school grounds to look for wild plants. They used their brilliant investigative brains to find dandelions, nettles, daisies and other common wild plants.
Our whole-school topic this half term is all about Journeys. In history, each year group is going back in time to walk in the shoes of some well-known travellers... From the Ancient Egyptians making their final trip to the afterlife to those who stepped aboad the Titanic and the Mayflower, we will be using [...]
Last half term, Year 1 created a spectacular coral reef made from pasta. The children built and decorated all the coral themselves - they should be very proud of the rather effective reef they have created. [...]
