Our learning in term 5

The Orcas continue to impress the year 1 team in term 5. We wrote our own instructions to grow a sunflower inspired by reading 'the tiny seed'. In addition to this, we explored how we can group plants into different groups, looking at the school grounds and our local area to support our science learning.

In religious education, we spent time exploring what followed Good Friday for Jesus and his Disciples. We engaged in Godly play to consider how the Disciples responded to Jesus appearing in the upper room. 

In our maths learning, we explored counting in 2's, 5's and 10's, expanding our reasoning skills as we answered questions. Following this, we looked at how a whole can be split into 2 halves or 4 quarters, and how to share objects equally into quarters.

Our key topic question in history was "How did Mary Seacole and Florence Nightingale change our hospitals?". We explored this across the term by interpreting sources of hospitals from the past and present, which we then were able to explore through play, acting as Florence Nightingale and Mary Seacole to consider their impact on hospitals today.

Later in the term, we wrote some absolutely fantastic alphabet poems in our English learning, inspired by Michael Rosen's alphabet poem. Children were careful to consider objects that link to every letter of the alphabet.