Academic Year 2026-2027

Science 

we have been learning the names of our body parts. We enjoyed placing the names in the correct places!

We also have been learning about senses. We smelled different scents and we predicted what they were. It was lots of fun and we guessed lemon and even vinegar!

Maths

we have been finding bonds of 10. Lots of us managed to find all eleven of them!This has helped us with part-whole models and knowing fact families.

    

Academic Year 2025-2026

Mountfitchet Castle

This half term, Year 1 have been learning about our topic ‘Knights and Castles’. We have enjoyed learning about different types of castles, who might live there and why castles were built the way they were. To finish our topic, we loved visiting Mountfitchet Castle and having the opportunity to walk around a recreation of a Motte and Bailey Castle. We enjoyed searching the castle grounds for the different features we had been learning about, such as drawbridges, moats and portcullises. 

    

    

  

Wombat goes walkabout

We are reading “Wombat goes walkabout”  by Michael Morpurgo in English this term. We began by learning the names of many Australian animals. We learned facts about Kangaroos, Wombats, Kookaburra’s and many more. Next, we explored the classroom finding the animals and checking them off our lists.