First Aid Training

Knowing what to do when an accident happens is really important. We recently had a visit from Sandra Scott from St John's Ambulance about just that. She talked to us about what to do if someone was hurt. We learned which telephone numbers to use and what to say. We also learned about some of the things we might find in a first aid kit, and how to use them. Sandra left us with a fantastic big book full of funny stories, some puppets, pretend mobile phones (which we LOVED!) and, best of all, some really good advice about what to do if one of our friends or family members ever got into an accident and needed our help.

Thanks for visiting us, Sandra - we hope you can come back and work with us again sometime!

We've Been Writing Reports

We really enjoyed interviewing one another to write reports. We had to find out lots of information about one of our friends. We used pretend microphones and listened carefully to our partners. Then we copied parts of a book called Children Just Like Me. We made sure that the pages in our books had titles, subheadings, captions, and lots of facts. 

Come and read our books and tell us what you think of our writing!

Which material is the best at soaking up liquid?

Last week we did some Science work to help Discovery Dog. He needed to find a good material to mop up a mess that Naughty Nora had made on the kitchen floor.

First of all we made guesses about which materials might be the best. Then we tested our ideas to see whether our guesses were right.

We put some blue food colouring in the water so it would be easier to see. We poured it into a tray and used each of the materials to try and soak it up.

Which one do you think worked the best?

Making Jam Sandwiches

We're learning how to write clear instructions in our English lessons at the moment. Today we made some jam sandwiches, thinking carefully about how we would tell someone else how to do it.

While we made our sandwiches we had to tell a partner what we were doing. We thought especially carefully about time connectives (then, next, etc) and bossy verbs. We are going to use these words to help us write down our instructions tomorrow.

When we had finished saying our instructions and making our sandwiches we enjoyed eating them. They were delicious!

Why not leave us a comment or question to ask us which bossy verbs we used, or which connectives we used to put our ideas in order?

We're Going on a Verb Hunt...

Today in our English lesson we learned about verbs. We watched some instructions on our whiteboard and listened hard to pick out all the 'bossy doing words'. These were the verbs!

Then, some of us looked at written instructions to find all the hidden verbs with highlighter pens. Another group went on a verb hunt. They had to try and find all the verb cards hidden around the school. When they found them they had to try and act them out (to prove they were really verbs!), bring them back to class, and use them in a sentence. 

Can you think of a sentence using each of the verbs we found?

We can follow instructions

This morning we started learning about instructions in our English lesson. Over the next couple of weeks we are going to be learning how to write clear instructions that are easy to follow.

We began today by working on an activity where we had to either give or follow some instructions to make something from Lego or Duplo, or follow a pattern using beads or threading. It was tricky unless you listened really carefully.

Look at how well these children followed their partner's instructions - we must have some fantastic listeners in Year One!

We went to Staircase House museum

Yesterday we went to Staircase House museum. We learned what Stockport was like a long time ago. We found out that Stockport used to have a big castle but it's not there any more. We also played with some old toys, telephones, mobile phones, computers, typewriters, record players and other machines we might use around our houses. We thought about how technology has changed and made lots of jobs easier.

Thank you to the fantastic teachers from Staircase House and all the adults who came with us on our trip. We had a great day!