Welcome to Year 1

Sports Day!

We had a great time at Sports Day today.

I am so proud of the children for their positive attitude and resilience today.

We enjoyed penalty shoot-outs, relay races, javelin throwing,

tug of war, hurdling, sack racing and a running race.

Thank you to all those who joined us and especially to those brave

enough to join in the parent's races-

you did yourselves and your children proud!

Well done to Red Team for winning overall.

Milestones Museum Trip

We went back in time today at the Milestones Museum.

We got to play some Victorian games and learnt lots about old toys.

We saw what life was like in Victorian England and in the 1940s.

The children were amazing and did Ash Grange proud.

We went on a mission to find Dogger today.

We used the missing posters around the school to follow the clues.

We had to look high and low to find them. Finally, we found him playing in Fun Zone!

This week we will be writing our own missing posters for a lost toy.

Summer 1- Playtime

Welcome back! I hope you all enjoyed a relaxing Easter break.

We have started our new project today learning about lots of toys from the past.

We thought about what toys are made from and how they might have changed.

Science Experiment

We have been learning all about different types of materials. We wanted to see which material would have been the best to keep Samuel Pepys' cheese dry!

We wrapped cheese in 5 different materials: foil, fabric, paper, card and plastic.

We made sure that the cheese and materials were all the

same size to keep it a fair test.

Then we made a prediction about which material we thought

would keep the cheese driest.

Next, we measured out and poured water over the cheese.

After a while, we unwrapped the cheese to check which was the driest.

We placed them onto paper towels to check.

We found out that the cheese wrapped in foil was the driest.

World Book Day

We have had a great day today sharing our

costumes and our favourite books.

We have read and shared lots of stories and created our own books marks to use in our reading books at home.

Spring 2 - Bright Lights, Big City

We have had a great start to our topic. 

We learnt all about The Great Fire of London.

See if your child can tell you when it started and what happened.

We were bakers like Thomas Farriner on Pudding Lane.

Smoothie Making

This afternoon we made our own smoothies.

We chopped the fruit and used a blender which was very noisy!

Some of our creations were not so tasty, whilst others were yummy!

We all had fun making them and learning about healthy ingredients.

Spring 1 2025

Happy New Year.

We have had a great day at

Superhero Training Academy today!

Take a look at our Superheroes in action.

Merry Christmas!

Year 1, Reception and Year 2 led us all in a wonderful Nativity performance.

I was so proud of all of the children.

Wishing you all a very Merry Christmas

and I look forward to seeing you in the New Year.

DT- 3d Dinosaurs

We used junk modelling to create our own ROARsome dinosaurs!

Natural History Museum Trip

We had a fantastic time at the museum.

We saw the fossils that Mary Anning found and a HUGE blue whale skeleton.

We saw Andy's clock (which didn't take us back in time!).

We got to be trainee palaeontologists and put together a stegosaurus skeleton.

We saw lots of dinosaurs fossils and a Christmassy T-Rex.

We got to see lots of birds and mammals too.

What a day!

Autumn 2 2024

Dinosaur Planet

We have been invaded by Dinosaurs! We have had a great time in our new topic learning lots about dinosaurs. We became paleontologists and went digging for fossils in the sand pit, we made dinosaur footprint patterns and made our own dinosaurs from blocks.

Autumn 1

Enchanted Woodland

Art Exhibition

We took part in the National Gallery's "Take One Picture" project and were inspired by Pieter de Hooch's painting The Courtyard of a House in Delft. 

We thought that the lady in the archway was daydreaming so we painted our daydreams using watercolours.

Art

We have been enjoying our art lessons. We have been using rubbing techniques with different textures.

Walk to the woods

We had a wonderful time on our walk around Ash village and into the woods today. We were noticing lots of features of Ash such as shops, parks and houses.

At the woods we did a scavenger hunt, used chalk and crayon to make rubbing patterns and collected things ready to use for printing in our art lessons.

We used these back at school to make our own trees.

Science Day 2025

Today we enjoyed Science Day. We got to complete 4 different experiments.

We make a ball float (using a hairdryer!), we put a pin in a balloon (and it didn't pop!), we made a rainbow from skittles and finally made colours travel.

We have learnt so much about predicting and measuring and we have been inspired by science!

We have really enjoyed our first day in Year 1.

As well as seeing our friends again here are some of the things we enjoyed:

finding fairies in our school meadow,

making Gruffalo crumble,

adding the Gruffalo's purple prickles in maths

using playdough to make the snake and the fox

and even making some beautiful leaf rubbing pictures in art!

We are reading The Gruffalo in English and today we made our own Gruffalo crumble!

We added: a poisonous wart, orange eyes, purple prickles, knobbly knees and of course some crumble topping!