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1 Dec
Junior School - Y6 Runways End Residential trip
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3 Dec
Year R (September 2026) Open Session (5:00-6:00 pm)
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10 Dec
Junior School - Nasal Flu Immunisations
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10 Dec
Christmas Craft and Songs (Polar Bear YR Class) 1:30 - 3:00pm
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11 Dec
Christmas Craft and Songs (Penguin YR Class) 1:30 - 3:00pm
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12 Dec
PTA Elfridges Christmas Shop (Child only event in school time)
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Year 1
Welcome to our Year 1 page! We hope you enjoy looking at our fantastic learning journeys this year.
Autumn 1 - Lost at Sea
In our first topic, we learnt all about the ocean! We did some amazing writing and created some guess who games for our friends. We also spent time bug hunting for our longitudinal study. The children loved hunting for bugs and we have some very enthusiastic spider catchers!
Autumn 1 - Where are we?
After our amazing first topic, we have moved on to thinking about where we are in our local area. We have spent time studying human and physical geographical features and went out for a walk to see what we could find. We have continued to learn about the seasons and have been observing the changes happening to the trees in our year 1 area. We have also produced some lovely descriptive writing using 'I' as a personal pronoun.
Thank you so much to all the grown ups that made our 'Autumn Dress up Day' so amazing. The children looked fantastic and we really appreciate all of your donations. Here are a few of Year 1's brilliant costumes!
Autumn 2 - Do dinosaurs eat burgers or chips?
The children had a fantastic time learning all about dinosaurs.
We started the unit by children coming into school to find a mysterious egg and a very messy classroom! We discovered that dinosaurs had taken over and had a party in our classrooms. Since then, we have become historians and have been looking a clues to uncover our new learning.
We have also become scientists and learnt all about animals and their diets. We have spent time learning about herbivores, carnivores and omnivores and even made pizzas!
We have had some fantastic writing throughout this unit with some children creating their own dinosaurs to write about. It is safe to say that Y1 are dinosaur experts now!
Autumn 2 - Journey's End
December is here... and so are the elfs! The children have been very excited this week as we have been sent on a journey to find our elves! They left us a very interesting note...
We are making elf diaries each week to document all of their cheekiness whilst practising our capital letters for days of the week! We are also using our senses to write some sentences. We have tried hard to make sure we include our capital letters, full stops and finger spaces.
Spring 1 - How can we make Goldilocks' pillow just right?
To start the new year, we went on a journey! Our hall transformed into a plane and we spent the day flying around the UK. We visited England and ate tea and biscuits, we visited Wales and learnt how to speak the language, we visited Northern Ireland and ate soda bread and finally we visited Scotland and ate shortbread whilst learning about the Loch Ness Monster! We made our own passports to document our journey.
We then decided to make gingerbread men but Miss Frankland's and Miss Scott-Conaty's ran away! They ran all over the UK sending us postcards from the different countries.
We have spent time reading and learning the story of Goldilocks and the Three Bears. We have re-written the story, telling it in our own words and we did amazingly! We also heard that Goldilocks was having a problem. Her pillows at home were just not right! We learnt all about pillows and how to make them to fix her problem. We each made a pillow and tried really hard to create a running stitch.
Spring 2 - Who was the first to zoom to the Moon?
We started the topic by having a 'friendly alien day' and all coming to school dressed up! This was so much fun. Supposedly, a UFO had crashed somewhere on our school site and it was our mission to find clues. We spent all morning searching before designing our own planets. We then wrote postcards to our alien friends from our pretend planets. We worked hard to include lots of description in our writing.
We then spent time making our own Moons! We looked at the texture of the Moon's surface and did our best to try to recreate this using papier mâché. We spent time painting and decorating the Moons after this and they looked amazing!
After that, we spent time learning about timelines and the history around the Moon landing. We then re-wrote the Moon landing story and had a go at publishing these with pens! Our worked looked fantastic and our adults were so proud!
In this last week of term, we had a challenge. Sheila from 'The First Hippo on the Moon' was too big for a human Moon buggy, so, we learnt all about wheels and axels before creating her a brand-new buggy especially for hippos! We worked so hard in teams to create some fantastic moving buggies!
Summer 1 - Is Marwell Home?
Our next topic is learning all about animals and their habitats! We have started the topic with a problem... Mr Mann thinks the foxes that live on site are too pesky and should be put in a zoo. We have spent time creating fact files to teach Mr Mann all about foxes and why they don't belong in a zoo!
We were then lucky enough to visit Marwell Zoo! We had a fantastic day learning about lots of different animals. When we came back, they asked us to help rewrite some of their information books. We chose to write about penguins, giraffes, meerkats or tigers and created wonderful writing!
As well as this, we have been learning all about habitats and where animals should live. We have spent time creating habitats and studying them across the school grounds. We even created fantastic pieces of art containing different animals in different habitats.
After that, we read the story 'The Ugly 5' and learnt about some ugly animals that could join them! We worked so hard on our writing applying the -er and -est suffixes.
We have also loved science week and have had a great week of different experiments. We have been helping Dr Wolf myth bust facts from well-known fairytales. We decided that Hansel and Gretel's house should not be made from gingerbread as that was the worst biscuit when you add rain! Can you guess what the best biscuit was?
Summer 2 - What happened on Pudding Lane?
This half term we are learning all about The Great Fire of London! We started the half term with a fire alarm so we decided to create instructions for EYFS to make sure they knew what they were doing. We also heard that Thomas Farriner burnt his bread for the King! We decided we could do better than this and baked our own bread rolls.
