1C Investigates: THE GREAT FIRE OF LONDON.

10th September 2025Abigale Crawford

Yesterday, our playground turned into a giant investigation zone! The children searched high and low to find jigsaw pieces, each one revealing a different possible cause of the Great Fire of London.

Once we pieced the clues together, we had some brilliant discussions – was the fire started on purpose, or was it just an unfortunate accident? After hearing all the evidence, our class held a jury vote…

 Verdict is in: 1C officially believes the Great Fire of London was an accident!

The children were so engaged and thoughtful – we were so impressed by how they worked together like real historians to reach a conclusion.

1C’s Character Traits

4th September 2025Abigale Crawford

As well as Integrity last week, we also spent days looking at Respect, Courage and Compassion.

Respect: We talked about class rules and we devised a set that we all thought would help our classroom run harmoniously. We sorted some statements into “Resepectful Behaviour” or “Not Respectful Behaviour”.

Compassion: We created a “Compassion Bingo” card filled with what we thought were the most important acts of kindness. We also looked at the art work of Keith Haring and created some inspired pieces.

Courage: Finally, Mrs. Southgate unleashed our inner cowgirls/cowboys and taught us some line dancing. It was a new skill for all of us but we had so much fun. We were courageous when we performed it to all of the classes in KS1 out on the playground. Yeehaw!

Integrity Story Trail

27th August 2025Abigale Crawford

On our very first day of Year 1, we have been learning all about Integrity (one of our new character traits). We started by going on a Story Trail. We followed clues to take us to find the story. We read aloud tales like “The Boy who Cried Wolf”, “Jack and The Beanstalk”, “Goldilocks” and “Pinocchio”. We talked about whether the characters were honest and what happened if they told the truth.

Yorkshire Air Museum

3rd July 2025Abigale Crawford

Today we visited the Yorkshire Air Museum in Elvington! We had learned a lot about the early advances of flight and we impressed our guides with our previous knowledge! We learned about some local Yorkshire heroes in the aviation industry such as Amy Johnson (our very own Amelia Earhart) and Sir George Cayley. We have seen and sat on some very cool planes.

Viking Longship Sculpture Work

12th June 2025Kathleen Cunningham

In Year 1 this week, as part of our case study of The Vikings, we learnt that a sculpture is a 3D piece of artwork, that could be made of anything! We took this knowledge and had a go at making our own Viking longships… out of pasta and marshmallows! As tempting as it was to eat the yummy marshmallows, we resisted and used them as glue for our spaghetti structures. Once we figured out the shape, we had the difficult challenge of working out how to make them 3D. We were resilient and used our problem solving skills to recognise that more spaghetti in one place made it stronger, and we got very creative with our dragon heads for the front of the ships!

1CU are Viking Warriors!

12th June 2025Kathleen Cunningham

During our English Hook lesson this week, Year 1 got to experience what it would be like to be a viking warrior. In our writing, we are exploring a character description of a young Viking boy named Erik, who dreams of one day being a Viking explorer and warrior.

To get into Erik’s shoes, we had a go at archery to see how the fierce Vikings fought! We had the best time and all really tried hard, even when we found it tricky. We can’t wait to have another go!

Volcano experiment

10th June 2025Laura Brown

In 3B, we have been learning all about the parts of a volcano and how they have been formed. The class were very excited to have a go at creating their own mini volcanoes using sourdough to erupt. We then used dyed sourdough to place over the erupted “lava” replicate the building of layers of solidified lava (igneous rock) over time after each eruption.

Miss Brown

#LovePlover

Who, what, where, when, how – WE CAN WRITE QUESTIONS NOW!

6th May 2025Kathleen Cunningham

We took our learning outside last week and embarked on a question word hunt. The children worked in teams to see how many question words they could find in our playground. We enjoyed being out in the sun and working collaboratively with our friends.

We then came into the classroom to turn our words into sentences (and not forgetting a question mark either!) We then all wrote a question sentence based on something we had seen in our book.

Mrs. Crawford

Go Bananas!

6th January 2025Abigale Crawford

As an introduction to our new Expedition, we became YouTuber’s and made our own dance video. Our topic is Ready, Steady, Grow and we are going to be learning all about how to live a healthy lifestyle. We created a video to teach you some dance moves so you can dance along at home too. GO BANANAS!