Year 1 | Birkwood Primary School

Instructions

Oct 16, 2026 | English, Year 1

This week we carved a pumpkin and created some instructions together. We then wrote our own instructions later in the week.

Team building: Completing challenges in teams

Oct 15, 2026 | PE and Sport, Year 1

Year 1 Curie have been continuing to communicate, encourage and create and apply strategies in teams to compete challenges and solve problems effectively.

Team Building (session 5)

Oct 12, 2026 | PE and Sport, Year 1

Year 1 Anning worked in teams to complete challenges, applying their developing abilities to communicate and support each other.

Gymnastics (session 5)

Oct 12, 2026 | PE and Sport, Year 1

Year 1 Anning explore combining wide, narrow and curled movements together.

Senses investigation

Oct 12, 2026 | Science, Year 1

We had to work out was in front of us... the tricky part was, we couldn't use our sense of sight! We had to use our other senses to find out the answers.

Missing numbers to 20

Oct 12, 2026 | Maths, Year 1

We can order numbers to 20 and identify missing numbers within 20

Q1 Hinduism

Oct 12, 2026 | RE, Year 1

We know that the special book for Hindus is The Veda. We know that Rama and Sita is a significant story within The Veda so, we learned the story and acted it out.

1 less to 20

Oct 12, 2026 | Maths, Year 1

We can find one less than any number between 10 - 20..

Signs of Autumn

Oct 12, 2026 | English, Science, Year 1

After collecting signs of Autumn on our Autumn walk, we were able to label them correctly with our groups.

1 more to 20

Oct 12, 2026 | Maths, Year 1

We know what one more is to any given number from 10 - 20.

Gymnastics – wide, narrow and curled

Oct 11, 2026 | PE and Sport, Year 1

Year 1 MC have explored different ways of transitioning between each shape using apparatus.

Final pieces

Oct 8, 2026 | Art & Design, Year 1

Our final pieces inspired by James Rizzi are well underway.

Autumn

Oct 8, 2026 | English, Science, Year 1

This week we went on a walk to spot signs of Autumn. This helped us with our writing.

Book review D

Oct 8, 2026 | English, Year 1

We orally reviewed our class text - Funny Bones. We could tell each other what the story is about, who our favourite character is and what our best part is.