Curriculum Impact Tag: KS1

In drawing club today ,our year 1’s used mirrors to study their faces and created their very own self portraits!

Today in Forest School, after school club we made our own paint using mud!  We dug for mud, mixed with water and painted pictures. We also hunted for bugs, we are starting to be able to name some bugs now. The rain came but we still had fun!

Today we have practised continuous line drawings of shells! We found it quite tricky to keep the pencil on the paper and not take it off until the drawing is complete. However we were determined to create some beautiful art! Look what we have done.

Year 2’s first session, we explored our out door area hunting for leaves, twigs, birds, rocks, flowers and bugs! We had great fun!

In maths we used the base ten to help us flexibly partition numbers to 100. We created two groups and wrote the number sentences. This helped us see that numbers can be made up in different ways.

In computing today we used the I pads to help us search safely online. We used purple mash to search different topics and apply filters. 

Today we have been investigating the artist Molly Haslund, we created our amazing works of art in her style using chalks and black sugar paper. Molly Haslunds art often contain spirals and circles, we started by using a white chalk to make a snail trail on our paper then we filled the spiral in…

Today we’ve had our first gymnastics lesson. We learnt all different gymnastic shapes including the pike, squat and dish. We had great fun practising our new skills!

Take a look at a completed pom pom ! One of our determined students finished her's at home! How amazing!

 In funky fingers club we had a go at making Pom poms. What will yours be? A monster? A spider? An octopus? …

Waterside was lucky enough to welcome a very special visitor today for a special assembly all about Eid. The pupils were very respectful and learnt lots of interesting facts.

Funky fingers were set the challenge of building a house, using Lego today. They created some amazing houses, this one includes a bedroom, kitchen, bathroom and living room. They talked beautifully about their designs to each other. Well done everyone!