Welcome to Hazel 1!
2025 - 2026
Mrs Hodgetts/Miss Wise - Class Teachers
Mrs Whitlock, Mrs Winyard, Mrs K Spencer - Teaching Assistants
Spring 1
No Place Like Home
Today we made our chairs for baby bear as Goldilocks had broken his. We used the skills we have learned about strong and stable structures to make a chair that was exactly that - strong and stable.
Following on from our previous maths learning, we have been grouping items into tens and ones.
We have been learning different jumps in gymnastics as well as the log roll. Our log rolls were brilliant and we’ll be learning a new one each week!
Hazel class have been looking at addition calculations and working them out using the strategies we have been learning about in Year 1. We have tried to use the most efficient strategy such as counting on, near doubles, number facts and bonds, as well as making ten. Some of us even saw that adding with a tens number, we can add the ones first and then add the ten back on!
We have had a fun afternoon thinking about our chairs for baby bear. Following on from our structures work, we had a go at creating some joining techniques this afternoon to help us think about this when we plan our chair designs
As a class, we explored a range of existing chair designs. We discussed their stability and comfort in order to plan our own designs for preparation into our own chair designs.
The children have been really excited over the last couple of weeks with the growth of the bulbs we planted in autumn. They're really coming along!
In Maths today we used bead strings to make ten and beyond. The children were fantastic at using their number facts to tell if the answer would be less than ten, equal to ten or more than ten.
As Hazel 1 have been exploring and identifying structures in DT, we went on a walk around school to see what types of structures we could find!
Year 1 have started to learn about instruction writing. This week we have ordered instructions and then had a go at following them to make pirate hats.
Imagine our surprise when, after the Christmas holiday, we found out what had been happening in our classroom.
