Hazel & Holly – Year 1

World Book Day in Holly Class

What an array of different books, interesting characters and amazing costumes! It was great to hear about the children’s favourite books today and why they enjoyed reading them so much. We made a shortlist of authors and then all voted for our favourite – Roald Dahl came out top! Then we voted for our favourite … Read more

Getting creative in Holly class

We started this half term in D&T by making our stick puppets, following our designs and adapting them where necessary. Continuing on the puppet theme, in computing, we used Puppet Pals on the iPads to create stories by recording voices to go with different characters. In art, we are continuing our pattern and colour work … Read more

A busy week in Holly class

Here are just some of the exciting things we have been learning about in Holly class this week. We have been learning all about Christopher Columbus in History and this week we were looking at the food and the people he met when he landed in San Salvador. There was a selection of fruit for … Read more

New Year, New Topics!

Holly class have started the year with some exciting new topics. In Design and Technology, we are looking at puppets and moving parts. We started by looking at different kinds of puppets and then went on to make our own finger puppets. Everyone enjoyed putting characters to their puppets. Then we used our facts from … Read more

Marvellous Mill Green

Holly class went on a trip to Mill Green Museum to extend our learning about the Great Fire of London. Here are just a few ‘Big Writes’ recounting our day. Yesterday Holly class went to Mill Green Museum. It was cold. First I went to make bread. I liked making the bread because it was … Read more

Year 1 trip to Dear Zoo

All of Year 1 went on a trip to the theatre. Here are a couple of pupils’ recounts of our trip. Yesterday we went to the train station to catch the train to Letchworth. Then we walked to the beautiful gardens to have a picnic. I liked the biscuits because they were amazing. Then we … Read more

Building Tudor Houses

Everyone has settled well into Holly class and are getting used to the new routines and independence expected in Year 1. In our Design and Technology lessons, we are building Tudor houses as this links to our History topic of ‘The Great Fire of London’. We started by experimenting with different ways to join paper … Read more

Castle Assembly

Holly performed their class Assembly in front of the whole school. They remembered their lines perfectly and spoke loud enough for everyone to hear! They also showed off their completed 3D castles.