Cellos

Welcome to our class of 30 wonderful Year 1 Superstars! We are all happy learners who always try our best. We know it is OK to make mistakes, as this helps us to learn.

Our teacher is Mrs Marshall and we are lucky to be supported at various times throughout the week by Mrs Ashton, Mrs Bridge and Mrs Brown.

We are all looking forward to a fun and successful year. We are especially excited to go swimming and participate at Forest School this year. 

We will have 5 theme blocks each year with lots of exciting curriculum learning in each block. 

Block 5 - Home Sweet Home

Block 4 - Innovators

The inflatable challenge!

Aeroplanes

As part of our Innovators theme, we have enjoyed learning about the Wright brothers and Amelia Earhart. We had a fun afternoon making our own paper aeroplanes and flying them outside!

PE

We enjoyed a cross curricular PE session, where we used our bodies to make bridges. We made bridge shapes individually, in pairs and in small groups. We put our bridges to the test by pretending to be trains travelling under or through the bridges. We made some very creative bridges!

Design Technology

In Design Technology we designed, made and evaluated our own bridges. Our design brief was to make a bridge that was strong enough for the 3 Billy Goats Gruff and also quiet enough not to wake the troll. We worked in groups and all made fantastic bridges. Mr. Forder, an engineer visited us and told us all about his job. He tested all our bridges and chose the best bridges for design and strength. 

The Coronation of King Charles III

Year 1 loved learning all about King Charles and what a Coronation ceremony entails. They wrote all about King Charles and his Coronation along with what makes the Coronation special to them. We made bunting to decorate our classroom. All children completed a portrait of King Charles on a canvas. We enjoyed learning a special song for the King. In class we acted out our very own Coronations, including taking the oath, being anointed with the Holy oil, receiving the Orb and Sceptre and being officially crowned. Watch the adorable videos! All the children were looking forward to watching the Coronation on TV and spotting all the things we have been learning about including St Edward's crown and the 700 year old Coronation chair. 

Bridges

We have learned all about what a Beam bridge is and a Suspension bridge. We had fun making a human Suspension bridge and a model version. We were learning how bridges are so strong and discovered it was because of the use of triangles. We enjoyed making triangle structures with sweets!

To begin our 'Innovators' theme, the children were given a scenario that a teddy had been lost on the other side of the river. How can we rescue it? In groups they had to work out how... by building a bridge. They used lots of resources in our outdoor area to build a bridge to rescue the teddy. It was lots of fun and a great way to start our new theme! 

The children were set a challenge to try and make a bridge just out of an A4 piece of paper and no other equipment. Their bridge needed to be strong enough to hold 8 multilink cubes. I was very impressed with their engineering skills. We quickly realised the more folds and the tighter the folds the stronger the paper bridge was. We progressed to try and 'corrugate' the paper to make it even stronger. 

Science - All about Materials

In our Science work this theme, we are learning all about Materials.   We have enjoyed a treasure hunt outside looking for hidden objects. Once they were all found, the children had to identify what their object was made from. We grouped the objects by their material.  We had fun on a photo material hunt around school in small groups. We have moved onto focusing on what the object and materials feel like and describing their properties.  We look forward to the rest of our Science work.

Noun Town

In English we were learning all about nouns. To help us understand better we made a fantastic display and labelled all the nouns in the town!

Easter Peg Hunting

Thank you to the Friends of TCP for organising an exciting Easter egg hunt for us all. We decorated a peg, it was hidden by Friends of TCP,  then we had to find our peg. Once we found it we were kindly given an Easter egg. It was eggcellent!

No Outsiders

For our No Outsiders, we have enjoyed reading, discussing and role playing the story ‘That’s not how you do it’ by Ariane Hofmann-Maniyar. The important message we took from this story is that it is OK to be different. In the story they make a night sky full of stars. We made our own and all our stars were different, which we all agreed was a good thing!

Yoga Festival

We enjoyed our session within the Yoga festival which was run by Katie from South Ribble. 

RE - Judaism

The children have been learning about the Jewish festival ‘Sukkot’. A key part of this festival is the ‘Sukkah’, a temporary structure which is built to spend the duration of the festival in. We enjoyed making our own small world version. 

Block 3 - London's Burning!

Science Week

Year 1 have enjoyed their Science week. It was interesting learning all about the Scientist John Dunlop. We carried out an experiment to find which balls bounced the furthest, the result being the football because it was filled with the most air. It bounced back 163cm. We also explored sound and hearing, and the importance of handwashing as germs spread quickly. We spread glitter germs! One of the highlights was our visit from Scientist Steve who made ice cream using liquid nitrogen. It was yummy! We enjoyed our Zoom meetings with a Year 1 class in Bromley who were also learning about John Dunlop.

All about me! -  Poems

In English we have been writing sentences and list poems all about ourselves. We used the sentence starters 'I like, I love, I am, My' for example. We also wrote similes to describe ourselves. We recorded our favourite line from our poems for you to watch. 

Music - Hey You!

Watch our performance of Hey you! We have been playing the Glockenspiels and singing in 2 parts. We especially loved to rap!

RE and PSHE day

We all enjoyed our first RE and PSHE day, meeting lots of interesting people from different faiths and backgrounds. We enjoyed meeting Alex from Hesketh Bank Christian Centre, Salim, an acrobat from Kenya and a Muslim from a Mosque in Preston. We also benefitted from lots of mindfulness activities such as Go Noodle, colouring and Yoga. We all made ourselves a worry peg doll to take home too.

World Book Day 2023!

Year 1 had a great time for Book day. After reading 'The Word Collector' we began collecting our own words. We now have words everywhere even on our windows! The children enjoyed sharing their favourite bedtime story with their friends and collecting interesting words. We painted a collection of kind, positive and friendly words which you can see brightening up the fence outside our classroom. Thank you to all the parents and grandparents who came to read with us and share a hot chocolate.

Art & Design Technology

We have been busy creating fantastic Fire of London themed moving pictures in our Design Technology lesson, learning to use slider and lever mechanisms. In Art we have been practicing colour mixing and created our wonderful Fire of London silhouettes. We have learnt lots of new skills!

Music

As part of our theme we have proudly written a class song, composing the percussion instruments to go with our song. We wrote the words together to the tune of 'Twinkle Twinkle Little Star'. Our song shows our superb knowledge of the Fire of London too! 

A fire engine visited us today!

We were very lucky this morning when John and his crew visited us with the fire engine! We loved wearing the helmet, walking through the fire engine and watching Fireman Aaron squirt the water. New recruit Mrs Marshall tried the fire hose and pretended to squirt all the children! The children learnt lots of important information about if they needed to call 999, they need to know their house number and name of their road. They now know they must shout 'FIRE' and not help if they see a fire or smoke at home. They also were told all about 'Stop, drop and roll'. We made a thank you card to send to the fire station. We are going to write all about our special visit this week. 

Pancake flipping

Thank you to Friends of TCP for organising the exciting sponsored pancake flip! Once again Mrs M could not resist joining in the fun!  See some of our action shots...

The Great Fire of London

We are enjoying learning all about the Great Fire of London. We loved acting it out! Enjoy our video!

Our Tudor Houses

OAA - Outdoor Adventurous Activity

We participated in a fantastic morning of OAA with Mr Taylor from WLSP. We played lots of team games and completed problem solving games and tasks. We learnt the compass directions, how to orienteer by using a map and even had time for a scavenger hunt!

We made rainbows individually and collaboratively.  As rainbows cheer you up and make you feel happy and think of happy thoughts and happy memories. 

No Outsiders

For our No Outsiders work this term, we read the story 'Ten Little Pirates'. We were learning that boys and girls can play together. We realised that there are not games just for girls or boys. Everyone in our class and our school can play any game they wish and with whoever they want! Boys and girls can play together and play the same things if they want to. 

We enjoyed acting out the story of Ten Little Pirates. We drew pictures of our favourite games to play with our friends. 

PE - Dance

We are loving our Circus themed dance this half term. We have learnt lots of different aspects from the Circus through different dance movements and travels. We have been the big top tent, the ringmaster, super careful tightrope walkers and cheeky clowns. When we were clowns they tried to juggle, ride a unicycle and throw pies! We have danced in pairs trying to mirror each other too. We have learnt to dance in unison so far in a line formation. We are enjoying dancing to 'This is me' from The Greatest Showman. 

Our dance has developed and turned all the children into the World's Strongest Children! We loved flexing our muscles and lifting weights. Again we danced in unison but we also added a section where we were in 2 groups and competed with each to see who was the strongest. The children performed it with great facial expressions!

Yoga

We have been lucky enough this half term to enjoy some Yoga with Elly. The children have loved their relaxing yoga sessions. What flexible children we have!

2D and 3D shapes

In our Maths we have had fun learning to recognise and name 2D and 3D shapes. We enjoyed shape hunting, making shapes, sorting shapes and making pictures.

Self - Portraits

We have been learning to draw portraits and self-portraits. Here is our art gallery of our wonderful art work!

Happy New Year!

We all wrote our New Year wishes for 2023. This year I would like to get better at...

Block 2 - Family Tree

KS1 Christmas Party

Key Stage 1 had lots of fun at their Christmas Party. There was lots of dancing, singing, laughing and playing games. The children all enjoyed a very special visit from Father Christmas. They enjoyed their yummy party food treats and played more games such as pass the parcel and Musical Statues. 

Dance Festival

Cellos had a fantastic time learning a short dance and performing it. This was part of our Dance Festival led by Katie from South Ribble. It was energetic and fun and we all tried our best with the choreography in a short amount of time! We were very proud of ourselves. 

ENTERPRISE WEEK

At our Christmas Fair, 'Twiggy trees' sold out of their twiggy Christmas tree decorations and twiggy reindeers. Some of the children helped on the stall to encourage people to buy our products. We were very proud of our company and products. Ava named our company and Elodie proudly designed our logo.

We successfully pitched to Mr Upton and enjoyed a visit from Dr Brooks giving advice on business and making profits. The children went to all the classes for market research to help us decide upon our pricing. We also enjoyed our business meetings. We hope to have made lots of profit!

For Enterprise this year, Cellos class have become the 'Twiggy trees' company inspired by nature. We have worked very hard on our advert to promote our company and products. Watch our cute advert...

Design Technology - making fruit salads

As part of our theme, for our Design and Technology work, we designed, made, ate and evaluated our own fruit salads. They were yummy! We even managed to chop or peel most of the fruits ourselves too. 

Anti-Bullying day

For anti-bullying day this year, the focus was Reach out. Our main focus in Year 1 was kindness. If we ensure we are kind to each other then we will all be happy, safe and friends. We made a kindness tree and wrote kindness letters to our friends. We discussed what bullying was and acted out scenarios for how we could reach out and help. We know who we can tell and talk to if we need to. We passed a compliment to the person sat next to us in our kindness circle. We also enjoyed playing games with our friends, concentrating on playing fairly, taking turns and sharing.

Little Red Riding Hood

In English with our clever writing, we are retelling the familiar story of Little Red Riding Hood. We have been orally retelling the story and sequencing the story using our small world tray and puppets. 

Maths

In Maths we are enjoying learning all about addition and subtraction. We understand part whole models. We can write an addition number sentence and know addition can be done in any order. We can write an addition fact family. We are learning our number bonds. We can write our number bonds in a systematic order. We are being really clever and using bar models to help us with our number bonds.

Gymnastics

In PE this half term we are enjoying Gymnastics. We are very good at travelling like giraffes, bears, frogs, crabs and bunny rabbits. Check out our moves!

Remembrance week

For Remembrance week, Year 1 were learning the importance of the poppy and why the poppy is a significant symbol. We learnt about the meanings of different coloured poppies too.  children enjoyed making poppies using a variety of methods, including mosaics, Lego, drawing and colouring, cutting & sticking and playdough. We made a handprint poppy wreath. The children wrote Poppy acrostic poems. We read the story 'Stubby' by Michael Foreman and wrote a retell of this story. 

Lost and Found

In English we enjoyed listening to the story 'Lost and Found' by Oliver Jeffers. We wrote our own retell of this story. In our small world tray, we had lots of fun retelling and re-enacting the story.

Block 1 - Born to be wild

Hello Yellow

We came to school dressed in yellow clothing to support Hello Yellow day, to promote awareness of children's mental wellbeing and to fundraise for Young Minds. Our focus was the story 'The Colour Monster'. We discussed different feelings and how colours can represent feelings. We enjoyed making our own playdough colour monster and also colouring one too. We wrote about what makes us feel happy. We also liked doing some yoga. 

Our animal sculptures

For our Design technology we designed, made and evaluated animal sculptures. In the process we made animal sculptures out of playdough, clay and finally using junk modelling. The children were very creative. A variety of animals were made from elephants, giraffes, butterflies to even a T-Rex!

Children in Need Ramble

We enjoyed our famous annual ramble to the woods to fundraise for Children in Need. Thank you to all the parents and grandparents who came and walked with us. 

A Gecko came to school!

Cellos class were very lucky this morning because a Gecko came to see us all. For those who were brave enough we were able to hold her. We have been learning all about animals, so were pleased to learn more facts about Geckos. She even listened to some of us read!

We enjoyed a great day at Blackpool Zoo seeing all the different animals we have been learning about. The children all impressed Mrs M in the workshop when they were able to answer lots of questions about animals and animal groups. We saw lots of our favourite animals and even had some time to play on the play area. Lunchtime was like feeding time at the zoo! 

We made thank you cards for the parent helpers who came on our trip and also one to send to Blackpool Zoo.

As part of our theme we are learning about animals and their features in our Science work, hot and cold places in Geography and Sculpture in Art and Design.

Our legend for this block is Chris Packham. We have started to learn about Chris Packham, and used binoculars (and a telescope) just like he does!

Our Continents song

We enjoyed learning the Continents by singing this brilliant song with some fun actions.

Break the rules day

No Outsiders

For our No Outsiders work this term, we listened to the story 'Room on the broom' by Julia Donaldson. We discussed how the cat and the witch were very kind because they let all the other animals onto their broomstick. Even though the animals were all different, they were all welcome on the broomstick. We like how TCP makes everyone feel welcome too. 

Black History Day

In Year 1 we were learning all about Nelson Mandela. The children enjoyed writing interesting facts they had learnt about his life and why he is so important in history. We created art work to represent South Africa as the Rainbow Nation.

Animal handprints

We enjoyed turning our handprint into our favourite animals. We think they look very impressive! 

Dear Zoo

In English we have been retelling the story Dear Zoo. We are going to write a retell of this story too. Here are videos of us performing the story. 

An Ecologist came to visit us

As we have been learning all about animals, Mrs Marshall invited an Ecologist to visit our class. We enjoyed learning what an Ecologist does and learnt lots of fascinating facts about sand lizards. We even have a few Ecologists of the future in our class! Thank you Mrs Rhodes. 

Our super sentences all about Sand Lizards...

Forest School

Year 1 are the lucky class who get to be the first class to benefit from our new Forest School site. We are loving being part of the 'Adventure Crew @ TCP'. We are enjoying exploring. We especially like the mud kitchen and the tunnel. We have listened well to the Forest School rules and been on a hazard hunt, so we know how to keep safe. Did you know we have bears at our Forest School? We found lots when we went bear hunting! We are looking forward to lots more forest fun. Here are lots of photos of us!

The Gruffalo came to Forest School. The children loved making Gruffalo crumble in the mud kitchen. Fantastic natural collages were made along with clay faces on the trees of their favourite Gruffalo characters. Along with lots more fun! (Especially with muddy hands!)

A tale of two weather this week at Forest School. Wednesday's group enjoyed a Scavenger hunt and making bird feeders in the sunshine. Friday's group got very wet and muddy! One child saying ' This is the perfect weather for Forest School. I love mud!' They enjoyed a natural mud kitchen and jumping in muddy puddles. 

We incorporated our Art work on Sculptures into our Forest School sessions this week. The children all made wonderful clay hedgehogs. They enjoyed scavenging for their own natural materials for making prickles, eyes and noses. All the hedgehogs are individual and have made a happy home at forest School. 

More Forest School fun... Scavenger hunts, mud and dinosaurs!

More Forest School fun ...

Toasting marshmallows @ Forest School

All the class enjoyed toasting marshmallows over the fire pit for their final session of Forest School. Yummy!

Pond dipping @ Forest School

Our class loved being the first class to experience pond dipping in our new pond. We found lots of water boatmen and a few pond snails. On Wednesday it was quite slippy so Mrs M held onto us tightly. On Friday Mrs M became a little braver!

Queen Elizabeth 

In memory to Queen Elizabeth we made some special collaborative art and have shared it in our Creative area. 

We wrote letters to our new King, we wanted to tell him we were sorry but also wish him luck in his new role.

English

In English we have enjoyed listening to the story 'What the ladybird heard' by Julia Donaldson. This story forms part of our story shelves. We all acted the story out using masks and each made our own ladybird. 

Outdoor learning

We like to take our learning outdoors as much as possible. This is what we have been up to in our first week in Year 1. So far we have done lots of outdoor Maths with natural objects where we were sorting and counting them. We also practiced our letter formation outside using chalks. 

Having some fun outdoors...

Our Year 1 classroom

Have a quick peep inside our Year 1 classroom and see what Continuous Provision areas we have to enjoy.

Here are a few photos from our first week in Year 1... lots of fun doing independent tasks and playing in our new classroom.