This week in Year 1 has been an exciting one! We were very pleased to welcome lots of grandparents to school to support our learning in our topic 'What was life like when grandparents were children?' The children were very keen to ask questions and explore some of the memorabilia that people had brought in. We talked a lot about changes in toys, photographs and life in general.
In Maths, the children moved onto learning about addition and subtraction and explored parts and wholes. We introduced them to the part-whole model and the concept that 2 (or more) parts make the whole.
The children had fun creating their own wacky animals in their science challenge - practising and solidifying their knowledge of animal body parts. We will learn more about animals in autumn 2 and how we can cateogorise them based on their specific body parts e.g. birds all have feathers, wings and a beak.
In PSHE, we learned about what the police do, what they wear and how they keep us safe as part of our PolEd lessons. The children impressed us with how much they already knew.