Class 1
What a brilliant half term!
admin on: Class 1
10th February 2023
What a fantastic half term we have had in class, on behalf of the whole Year 1 team, I would like to thank you all for your continued support that you have given the children. It has allowed them to progress and mature greatly!
This week has been children' mental health week. We have done lots of acivities to help children understand what is mental health and how can we help ourselves and others to have a positive mental health. The theme for this year was 'Let's connect' so we though about how we are similar and different to everyone but if we all connect together, we are help each other and support each other. We learnt how to be still by completing some mindful breathing to help us calm down and relax. We also took part in some mindful movements, trying to balance and focus. We discussed how we could uses these techniques at home to help our mind stay positive and healthy.
This week we found out a lot about prey and predators in the wild. We thought about ways that prey can protect themselves or hide from predators. In our story, Superworm, the hero luckily manages to escape from the sharp beak of its predator, the big black crow! We used spoons, trowels and spades to dig for worms and designed and created some very fancy houses for them!
Mrs P and the Year 1 Team xxx
Amazing animals!
admin on: Class 1
3rd February 2023
In English, we have been starting to look at the Night Zoo Keeper by Joshua Davidson. We have thought of out own aniamls that we could find in the night zoo and thought of the perfect setting for them. We have some very talented animals in our night zoo!
Our outdoor learning book this week was Jack Frost by Kazuno Kohara and it looked like he had been visiting our forest! We found some enormous blocks of ice and had great fun investigating them using all of our senses. We thought about the birds who struggle to find food in the cold weather and played a wiggly worm predator/prey game which helped us practise our knot tying skills and learn about camouflage as well!
Have a great weekend!
Mrs P and the Year One Team xxx
Games gallore!
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27th Janaury 2023
During our rugby session, we have been developing our passing skills, ensuring that we hold the rugby ball correcly and hold our hands up ready to catch the ball. We then started to develop our tackling skills by racing our partners to the try line and trying to get their tag from them!
We have been consolidating our knowledge of numbers up to 50 in maths. We working cooperatively with our friends to race to the finish line, identifying numbers one less than and one more that numbers within 50. The fun was out of this world!
A massive congruatulations to Aila, who has been voted as our class representative for the School Government! Again, we are incredibly proud of everyone who were brave and gave a speech to the whole class!
Have a lovely weekend, only 2 more weeks to go!
Mrs P and the Year One Team xxx
Kung Hei Fat Choi!
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20th January 2023
We had a lovely surprise on Monday, we went outside at playtime while it was snowing! We had lots of fun making patterns with our footprints and making snowpeople!
Today, we have been learning about the Chinese New year as celebrations start on Sunday. We listened to the story of the Chinese Zodiac and tried some Chinese food. We sampled prawn crackers, vegetable stir fry and vegetable spring rolls. We then voted democratically for which was our favourite. We found that prawn crackers were the favouirte of the class with spring rolls taking a close second.
This week, everyone who wanted to run to become the School Government representative for our class gave speeches this week. We then used a voting slip to choose who we thought would pass the thoughts of our class on well with the other members of the Government. We were incredibly proud of all who decided to prepare a speech and say it in front of the whole class. We will keep you posted who was successful ...
I hope it warms up so the ice starts to disappear!
Mrs P and the Year One Team xxx
What a colourful week we have had!
admin on: Class 1
13th January 2023
During maths this week, we have started to look at numbers all the way up to 50! We discussed how grouping them into tens helped us to count them quickly and effectivly. We used our knowledge of 10 frames to group the objects, allowing us to count how many tens there were, how many ones there were and how many there were all together.
In art, we have been looking at artwork by Jean Metzinger and comparing this to artists we looked at in Reception, Monet and Van Gogh. This week we had a go at creating a piece of artwork inspired by Metzinger, using colouring pencils to carefully colour in each square to create a landscape. We used some realistic colours and some none-realistic colours, just like Metzinger. How fabulous they are!
We have noticed that we have had some underground visitors to our school grounds recently; mole hills have appeared all over our school field! We read a lovely story called ‘Mole’s Sunrise’ which is about a mole with some very kind friends. Mole can’t see very well so they help him to use his other senses to understand the beauty of the sun rising. We thought about how our moles will be able to hear us playing on the field through sound and vibrations and used our senses to find each other without looking. It was a cold and rainy morning so we needed a hot chocolate to warm us up!
