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Scratch Jnr.

Scratch Jnr.

Today in computing we looked to see if we could programme our Sprite to travel. Our challenge was to see if we could make it travel at different speeds.

Thorp Sports Festival

Thorp Sports Festival

Year 1 had a fabulous afternoon at Thorp for the sports festival. We were all super excited to go on a coach, despite it being a short journey we still had time for a game of eye spy! When we arrived at Thorp we took part in a range sporting activities lead by Thorps...

ICT

ICT

This week we started our new topic, programming using Scratch Jnr. We had a great time exploring the software and making our Sprite move. We are excited for next lesson when we will see if we can make our Sprite grow and shrink!

Mission 1 – Commando Joes

Mission 1 – Commando Joes

Today we took part in the first lesson of our new Commando Joes unit. Our mission today was to work as a team to build a steam train, linking to our travel and transport topic. We got straight to work sharing the equipment and successfully completed the mission by...

Plants – Science

Plants – Science

Today we started our new topic Plants. Today we looked at different types of wild plants and what makes plants ’wild’. We had the opportunity to go on a wild plant hunt around the school grounds. The most common type of wild flower we found was a Dandelion. We...

KS1 Multi-Sport Festival

KS1 Multi-Sport Festival

Ten of our year 1 children attended the KS1 Into The Jungle Multi-Sport Festival at Gateshead Leisure Centre. We hd an excellent afternoon packed full with different jungle themed activities which put our running, jumping, throwing, catching, ability, balance and...

World Book Day

World Book Day

We have had a busy day celebrating all things reading! We all came to school dressed up as our favourite book character, designed bookmarks and coloured in pictures from story books. Throughout the day we had the opportunity to listen to lot’s of different stories...

Safer Internet Day

Safer Internet Day

Today was Safer Internet Day 2022. We looked at how we can stay safe when using technology, in particular when using the internet or playing games. Our key messages were ’ask an adult for help’, ’don’t just click’ and ’don’t trust everyone you meet online’. We then...

Chinese New Year

Chinese New Year

Year 1 have had fun learning about Chinese New Year. We shared the Chinese Zodiac story, made lanterns to represent the year of the tiger and we finished the day off tasting some prawn crackers.