In Year 1, you will find Miss Brown (class teacher) and Mrs Tighe (teaching assistant).
Take a look at our class news to see what we have been up to!
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Year 1 Autumn Term 2023 Information Booklet
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Year 1 Nativity
Crookhill were proud to present their first Nativity in 3 years to all of the parents. The children worked so incredibly hard to re-tell the Christmas story through their beautiful singing and acting skills. We are so proud of all the children and hope you enjoyed the…
Christmas Party
Christmas party afternoon! This afternoon we got changed into our party clothes ready to dance, play games and eat party food with our friends. We had a great time!
Art – Exploring Lines
This afternoon in Art year 1 have been exploring lines using the work of Bridget Riley as a stimulus. We looked at different types of lines including: vertical, horizontal, wavey, cross-hatched, diagonal and broken lines. We spent some time in the yard practicing…
Exploring Our Local Area
This afternoon as part of our Geography unit year 1 went out on a walk around the local area. We were so excited to head out! When out in our local area we saw different types of houses including some of our own, the war memorial, the local shop, Stargate Chippy,…
World Mental Health Day 2022
Today was World Mental Health Day and year 1 have been learning about the importance of looking after our mental health. We discussed different feelings and our actions as a result of these feelings. We then thought about all the people and things which make us feel…
Science – Investigation
Today in Science, we continued our plants topic where we planned our first investigation. Before we started we discussed what an investigation is and the steps we need to follow. As a class we discussed what we were going to investigate and developed our question:…
National Poetry Day 2022
Today is National Poetry Day and the theme for this year was the environment. We wrote an Autumn poem using our senses, before writing our poems we spent some time outside exploring our environment to help us get some ideas.
Geography – Compass
Today in Science we looked at the Compass, we discussed the purpose of a compass. We discussed the four simple compass directions North, East, South and West and labelled our own. We look forward to next lesson when we will use simple compass directions as we explore…
PE – Locomotion, Running
Today in PE we continued developing our running technique and looked at acceleration, deceleration and change of direction. We then applied our skills to a whole class game were we had to avoid the taggers by applying our change of direction and change of speed on a…
Music Workshop
Crookhill were in for a fabulous musical morning when Gateshead’s Music Worshop came to visit us. We helped the musicians as they told us a story all about climate change and helped us think about how we can look after our planet. We got the opportunity to play lots…