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The Hedgehogs |
Year1 |
The Squirrels
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Welcome to year one’s page
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To support our children’s transition to year 1 from reception, the first few weeks of the autumn term are structured in a similar way to the days in yr R. As the children become more confident we move to a more structured day. All children at Devonshire are encouraged to read regularly at home and they can change their reading books daily. Book boxes are out on the tables during ‘Good Morning’ time every Monday, Wednesday and Friday for children to choose a new book and share a book with a parent or friend. PE days for both Squirrels & Hedgehogs are Monday and Wednesdays. Their kit will be sent home half termly and always need to be returned to school on the first Monday after a holiday.
This really encourages the children to engage fully with their learning. Here you will find information about the topics we have covered over the year and the trips and events that we have undertaken. Take a look at what we have been learning about and enjoy viewing the photos of our trips and events. |
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Autumn Term 2024We have had a very exciting half term and learnt lots of new skills. |
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Drawing ClubIn English we have continued to enjoy Drawing Club as the children were so enthused by this approach to writing and drawing in Year R. We have been amazed by their progress and creative imaginations.
The children love receiving messages via the portal in every English lesson. Professor Klunk sends us skills to learn, which we then send back to him to help the Great Big Story Dream Machine to fill with magnificent writing. As you can imagine, the children are really motivated to draw and write every day.
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Science
Our first science topic was ‘Ourselves and other Animals’. We started by identifying parts of the human body.
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We had great fun experimenting with our senses to find out if we could identify smells and tastes using only one sense at a time.
We also looked at the similarities and differences between a wide range of animals and learnt about the characteristics of different groups.
We then used this knowledge to sort animals.
ZooLabWe were very excited when Zoo Lab visited bringing lots of animals for us to see. This included a frog, a snake and a giant hissing cockroach! |
Journey to the moonWe were all very excited to learn about the space explorer Neil Armstrong. We wrote questions for him and found out lots of information about his achievements. We then wrote questions to ask our wonderful ex-TA Mrs Burnett about her memories of the moon landing. In DT we found out about how to join materials in different ways. We then used these skills to make our own rockets |
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Toys and MaterialsWe linked this topic to the previous one, via the lovely picture book of Whatever Next by Jill Murphy. The children chose a toy to bring in from home, which featured in their own stories about zooming off to the moon.
Then we sorted materials according to different criteria. |
Making a waterproof coat
As part of our topic on materials we were given the challenge of making a coat to keep a teddy dry.
First we had to test different materials and then decide which would be best for the coat.
Then we worked together like the Together Twins and made, tested and evaluated the coat.
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Christmas
Christmas Technology
In December, we learned lots of strategies of making a mechanism that can move.
We then used our skills to make a range of Christmas-related pictures.
We were amazed of what we achieved!
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We had great fun at our Christmas Disco and party!
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And finally a big thank you to all the parents who came to Santa's workshops.
Have a great Christmas and a happy New Year!
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