English
December 2025
This week in Year 1, the children had great fun making their own fruit salads as part of our English work on instruction writing. They practised using imperative (bossy) verbs such as cut, slice, mix and add to give clear, step-by-step instructions . Everyone worked carefully and confidently, creating delicious fruit salads while showing a fantastic understanding of how to use bossy verbs in real-life tasks!
October 2025
In English, Year 1 children enjoyed exploring adjectives through a cross-curricular approach, linking their learning with Science. Using their five senses, they investigated everyday objects and used descriptive language to explore how they looked, felt, smelled and tasted. When describing ‘Weetabix’, the children used adjectives such as ‘rough’, ‘crumbly’ ‘nutty’ and ‘brown’, showing a growing confidence in using adjectives to describe nouns and enriching their vocabulary through sensory experiences
