Year 1 Pirate Day

Date: 14th Jul 2023 @ 4:44pm

What a fun filled day we have had!

We have had a class full of captains and shipmates from across the seven seas rather than Year One children... Throughout the day we completed a range of art and geography activities. You can see pictures of the fun we had below.

In Art we started by looking at the work of Chris Gryder, in particular the tiles he creates. We looked at the patterns and textures, the colours, and the nature that he takes his inspiration from. We were able to discuss the parts of his work that we like and why we like them.   You can look at his work by following this link: https://www.chrisgryder.com/ Following on from this we worked on our sketching skills, producing four different sketches of shells. The first was an observational drawing, for the second sketch we could not take our pencils off the paper and created line drawings, the third involved using only patterns and mark making rather than lines and finally we created a sketch from memory with our eyes closed! Next, we had to think about the patterns and textures he creates with lines and marks and tried our ideas out making four designs on paper. We then created our Chris Gryder inspired salt dough tiles. We can’t wait for you to see them.

During the morning we were also sent on a secret pirate mission we looked at positional language and how to direct someone around a grid using the following language: forwards, backwards, left turn and right turn. We went on a hunt for treasure! We were given a map with a set of instructions, we had to follow the instructions to find the second map, then the third and fourth. Finally, the fourth map led us to the treasure for us to enjoy.

We have also created our own treasure maps thinking carefully about where we might bury our own treasure to keep it safe.

Thank you for making this day such a special one for all the children, their costumes looked fantastic.

Just a  little reminder that Monday is Sports Morning, lets hope the rain clears up by then.

Mrs Knott, Mrs Pulle and the Year One Team.