Marvellous Materials in KS1

Marvellous Materials in KS1

In science this term we are learning about everyday materials and their properties. This week, we have been learning to identify the difference between an object and the material it is made from. We have been exploring different materials and discussing their...
La Tamborrada – Festival of Drums

La Tamborrada – Festival of Drums

In the 1800s, the city of San Sebastían (in Northern Spain) was under the occupation of ever-changing foreign armies. The people lacked freedom and, annoyed at the soldiers who marched with their drums every day outside the city walls, decided to fight back. To mock...
Owls and Robins Partition

Owls and Robins Partition

Owls and Robins have been exploring the numbers 11- 19 this week. We have been partitioning numbers into tens and ones practically, pictorially and using pure number. We have used base 10 and counters to make each number as well as rehearsing our number sentences...
KS1 Get Creative!

KS1 Get Creative!

As part of our topic ‘Let’s Get Creative’ we have been designing and making Christmas stockings. The children started by researching different types of stockings and making some decisions about the stockings they liked best and why. Next the children designed the...