Year 1 Ruby Class

Mrs Morrow	Mrs Reed	Mrs Sherwood	Miss Austen
Class Teacher	Class Teacher	Teaching Assistant	Teaching Assistant (PM)
(Maternity Leave Cover)	(Maternity Leave)

Autumn Term One

Ruby Class have had an amazing first half term in Year One!

In Science we have been focusing on The Human Body and have been investigating the different senses. Trying different activities with and without a blindfold helped us to understand the importance of sight. We discovered that it is very difficult to throw bean bags into a hoop if you can’t see it and we then considered everyday activities which rely upon sight. While investigating hearing, we went on a sound walk around the school and thought about the range of sounds that we hear and whether they are loud or quiet. We noticed that we have different perceptions of loud and quiet, when evaluating our results! We have also focused on taste and were fascinated to discover that are different areas of tastebuds in the mouth, which help us to experience different tastes. We then tried a range of foods and the lemon and dark chocolate, in particular, created a variety of responses!

In DT we have designed and created our own pencil pots, aiming them at a Year One market. The children had some wonderfully creative and diverse ideas for their pot designs. They used their acquired knowledge of the concepts ‘stable’ and ‘not stable’ to ensure that their pencil pots could remain upright, even when full of pencils, by making the base wide and heavy. We then evaluated our designs to decide if we could learn by our experiences.

The children also loved taking part in BET Futures Week. Our challenge was to design and market a new cake for Mr Kipling. This resulted in some very original ideas, including a ‘Yum Mum Cake’ for Mother’s Day, and ‘Scary Bat cake’  and a ‘ Scary Pumpkin cake’ for Halloween, a ‘Love to Everyone cake’ for wedding guests and a ‘Jingle Cake’ for Christmas. It was fantastic to see the co-operation and collaboration skills the children demonstrated during the week.

In our writing we have retold two of our favourite known traditional tales, Goldilocks and the Three Bears and The Three Little Pigs. The children then chose to make changes to the story of The Three Little Pigs, with some very entertaining alternatives such as the Big Bad Dinosaur, The Big Bad Lion and houses of cookies and sweets. We are now focusing on poetry and have been exploring rhythm and rhyme, creating our own poems based on rhyme and repetition. The children were particularly captivated by the poem “Eating in the Bath” from our focus text “Midnight Feasts” and have suggested a range of foods that they would enjoy eating in the bath, describing them with amazing adjectives!

The children have achieved a huge amount during Autumn 1 and should be extremely proud of themselves. Well done, Ruby Class!

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