Year 1 Art: Can I find shapes and lines?
Today, Year 1 had to try to find shapes and lines in their faces. They each had a picture of their face and had to trace over it as best as they could. This was a challenge for some as they had to make sure the paper didn’t move. After, they pulled the tracing paper off, they could spot the shapes in their faces. We noticed eyes are circles and ovals and our smile is like a semi-circle. However, most of our facial shapes are organic shapes, meaning they do not have a regular pattern to them, which is what makes us look unique. When we do our self-portraits in a few weeks, we need to include organic shapes to make the art more realistic.
Year 1&2- Lunchtime Games Club
Another week, another fun-filled Games Club! Children from Years 1 and 2 enjoyed getting stuck into a variety of games. There was plenty of friendly competition, laughter and lots of fun along the way.
Year 1 PE: Gymnastics
Year 1 had an amazing PE session this morning. We had lots of apparatus out to help us to practise our skills. The children had to practise frog jumps and bunny hops along a bench, caterpillar crawling around cones, practising bear crawl and crab crawl and a new roll called ‘Rock and Roll’. Their favourite station was climbing up high and jumping off onto a mat in a star position. It was great to see the children being brave to jump off from a high platform.
Year 1 Creative Area: Animal Prints
Year 1 have loved practising drawing different animal prints this week in the Creative Area. This links to our Science topic about animal groups and our Art unit looking at different line types.
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Rev Ben’s Worship - Moses & the Burning Bush
On Thursday, Rev Ben led a worship all about following instructions. The children thoroughly enjoyed an active game of Captain’s Orders to begin with. They then listened to the story of Moses and the Burning Bush. Rev Ben posed questions about why Moses was afraid to follow God’s instructions at first and how people show trust in God.
Year 1 Geography: Searching for clues about seasons
In Geography, we searched for clues to decide what season we are in. We looked for information about the colours of leaves, the weather and the plants. We were able to find some red and orange leaves, leaves on the ground and we had some windy and rainy weather which helped us to decide that we were in Autumn.
Year 1&2 Lunchtime Games Club
Another great lunchtime games club. Some of us had a huge stroke of luck this week whilst others were a bit unlucky but we all had lots of fun all the same! We played ‘Pizza, Pizza’ again as it was a favourite last week and lots of us also played ‘Don’t Wake Mr McGregor,’ ‘Shopping List’ and ‘Dinosaur Number Eggs’. We hope to introduce a couple of new games again next week. Well done everyone!
Friday Celebration Worship
This morning, we started our celebration worship by reflecting on a fantastic week in school. It is great to see that our whole school are settling into their new classes and continuing to work hard to earn dojo points for achieving great things and showing a huge amount of respect. This week has also seen us launching our lunchtime and after school clubs. It’s been brilliant to see our children enjoying and making the most of these extra-curricular opportunities. There may still be a few places on a number of our clubs. Please see Arbor. We then presented our Barney’s Brilliant Beacons. A huge well done to Noah, Elsie, Elara, Noah, Hendrix and Luna in Reception and KS1 and Teddy, Alice, Renee, Harry, Lana, Alfie, Layla and Charlie in KS2. Well done to these amazing children for working extremely hard across the curriculum and for their exemplary behaviour. We ended our worship with a reminder from Mrs Ham about MacMillan Coffee Morning next Friday. We would really appreciate any donations of cake to help us to raise funds for an amazing charity. We also had a sing along to ‘Shine.’ We thank our St Barnabas families who could attend celebration worship this morning and extend a thank you to all of our other families who continue to support us in many ways. We wish you all a fantastic weekend.
Year 1: English
Year 1 have been trying really hard with writing their sentence snakes. This is a grammar focus lesson. Today we focused on adding -s or -each to words to make them plural. They have to count and organise the words in my sentence. Then they practise their own sentence orally before going away to write it. They have been trying really hard to also remember capital letters, finger spaces and full stops.
Year 1 RE: Where Does Our Food Come From?
In RE, we had 6 mystery foods. The foods were banana, chocolate, mango chutney, pineapple, rice and dates. The children had to taste test each food. Then, they listened to three clues to decide where the food had come from and put the food on the map.They were very shocked to find that none of these foods originate in the UK and have to travel for us to eat them. We made sure we thanked God for the food that we had and for allowing us to try food from other countries.
Open Days for our September 2027 intake
💙Is your child starting Reception this September? 💙 We warmly welcome parents, carers, and children to come and see our school in action. This is a wonderful opportunity to meet our school family and enjoy a guided tour with our Headteacher, Mrs Ham. 📅 Open Day Dates & Times: Tuesday 22nd September: 9.00 - 10.30am Wednesday 7th October: 2.00 - 3.30pm Thursday 15th October: 2.00 - 3.30pm Monday 9th November: 9.00 - 10.30am Thursday 19th November: 9.00 - 10.30am Friday 27th November: 2.00 - 3.30pm 📝 How to Book Your Tour: To secure your place on one of our open days, please complete our booking form: 👉 https://forms.gle/DxqPdvyXDx1Xmd918 To get a feel for our school and what we can offer your child, please see our news page on our website: https://stbarnabasdarwen.co.uk/news and our photo galleries: https://stbarnabasdarwen.co.uk/photo-gallery-category/our-gallery Please also keep your eye on our website for the dates of our stay and play sessions that will soon be coming up for our current Reception parents and carers and pre-school children, parents and carers. We look forward to meeting you and your child! 💙😀
Year 1 Geography: Differences Between Seasons
In today’s Geography lesson, we started by singing our months of the year song. Then we looked at different pictures of the seasons and matched them correctly to their name. We then compared summer and winter. The children shared that summer is hot and bright, whilst winter is cold, dark and snowy. Then we compared autumn and spring. The children spotted that autumn has red, brown and yellow leaves that fall on the ground whilst spring is full of flowers and it rains often. Independently, the children drew a picture of each season which had to include a seasonal tree, weather and outfit.
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