The Grove Primary School

Year One have had a wonderfully busy time learning about Who’s Who this term.

We started our topic by finding out ‘Who’s Who’ at The Grove. We invited lots of different people who work in our school into our classrooms to ask them questions in order to find out more about them and their jobs. We then wrote up fact files about them.

We then moved on to find out more about ‘Who’s Who’ in the United Kingdom. We learnt lots of facts about King Charles and the royal family and we were able to use Zoom to speak to someone who knows the king to find out more about him. We also really enjoyed writing our own stories about the King’s missing pants!

Finally, we have learnt Who’s Who around the world. We read about Dwayne Johnson, Lionel Messi and Taylor Swift and then wrote letters to them to tell them what we admired most about them.

Year One are developing into very confident mathematicians and we have really enjoyed developing our early multiplication and division skills by grouping and sharing numbers.

In PSHE, we have been learning about healthy eating, the importance of regular hygiene routines and understanding how germs can spread and how we prevent the spread of germs.

We worked really hard in our Walk Safe workshop and we understand how to keep ourselves safe when crossing roads. We thought it was brilliant to be able to practise with real traffic lights!

In History, we have been busy researching facts about our House Captains to be able to answer our enquiry question: Why are our House Captains significant individuals? We worked in our Houses to research interesting facts about our House Captain and we presented our research by making a giant poster. Not only did we develop our research skills but we also learned a lot about working as part of a group.

In Art and DT, we have been drawing portraits of King Charles III. We learnt about the artist, Yayoi Kusama. Then we measured frames using rulers and card, and framed our portraits of the King. In the polka dot style of Yayoi Kusama, we decorated the frames using felt pens, tissue paper, felt and crepe paper.

We hope you all have a lovely half-term holiday and we can’t believe we will be returning for our final term in Year One!