Class 1
Wheely good week!
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25th November 2022
During DT this week, we have been continuing with our moving picture project, building on our knowledge of pivots and levers last week and moving onto pivots and wheels. We created a person who showed different emotions on their face by moving a wheel attached using a pivot.
During PE, we used our knowledge of pivots to help us start to learn some basic skills of netball. We learnt how we can move when we don't have the ball and we can only pivot on one foot when we have got hold of the ball. We then moved on to dribble the ball around a course.
In English, we have begun to use a new book as the focus for our english lessons, The Deep Dark Wood by Algy Craig Hall and Ali Pye. We predicted what we thought might happen in the book based on the front cover and then described the setting of the book. How spooky it all was!
Hope everyone manages to get some rest and starts to feel better for next week!
Mrs P and the Year One Team xxx
What a busy week!
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18th November 2022
What a busy week we have had! It has been Road Safety Week, Anti-bullying Week and Children in Need on top of all of the normal school learning!
In maths, we started looking at 2D shapes and their properties. Today, we went on a 2D shape hunt around the school grounds spotting the shapes, naming them and recalling their properties. We found that shapes are everywhere ...
During our forest session this week, we have been looking at lots of witchy books in the forest this week and have made pumpkin potions and spooky spells! We worked with our friends and used our fine motor skills to make broomsticks and wands.
Today we celebrated Children in Need along with the rest of the school! We managed to raise a massive £223.36, so thank you all for your kind and generous contributions!
Hopefully we will have some better weather next week!
Mrs P and the Year 1 Team xxx
Remembrance Day
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11th November 2022
Today, the whole school came together and stood in the playground, in their classes, to take part in the 2 minutes silence. During this time, we remembered all of the people and animals who we have lost and those who are still helping to keep us safe. We are incredibly proud of how all of the children conducted themselves.
On a wild and windy morning this week we read Room on the Broom by Julia Donaldson. The witch and her friends were flying through a windy Autumn day as well! We collected twigs, leaves, acorns and sticks from the woods to make our own big potion then practised out knot tying skills when we made broomsticks and wands. When it started to rain, some of the group found very clever ways to collect the rain water that was running down our outdoor shelter and then mixed it into their pumpkin potions. We also enjoyed reading some other witchy books while we had our milk and snack in the woods.
We started our design and technology topic this week. We are going to be creating a Christmas card using a mechanism of our choosing. Over the next few weeks we are going to be exploring different sliders and levers. This week, we discovered how to make a slider and after we made our beautiful pictures, we told stories using them!
Have a lovely weekend!
Fantastic first week back!
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4th November 2022
Today, we used our brilliant observation skills to draw a self-portrait of ourselves. These are for an exciting surprise you will find out about later! Everyone had improved on the self-protraits we drew of ourselves last half term and the details all the children picked up on were incredible!
Well done for the first week back!
Mrs P and the Year One Team xxx
First half term complete!
admin on: Class 1
21st October 2022
We have made it!
I would just like to take this time to thank everyone for all their hard work this first half term in Year 1! We really do appreciate the work that everyone is doing at home and it is starting to reflect in the work in school. We are super proud of how all of the children have settled in and adapted to life in Year 1!
A massive thank you to everyone who donated to our harvest food bank appeal. We were overwhelmed with all of the donations. We learnt all about where the food is going and how it will help our community. Also, we have been learning 2 harvest songs, during singing assembly, which we sung together, as a school, and we all sounded amazing!
We have had a busy last week but ended it with something incredibly special!
Today, we have met our Year 4 buddies for the first time!
We have such a wonderful afternoon with them where we did lots of different Halloween crafts. We painted our hands and printed them to make spiders, cut bananas and oranges to make pumpkins and ghosts, made pumpkins, used PurpleMash and make halloween puppets!
We would just like to thank Mrs Matthews, Miss Hewitt and all of Year 4 who were all so kind and caring. We are looking forward to doing lots of other activities with our buddies throughout the year!
Again, thank you for all of your hard work and support during this first half term in Year 1!
Have a lovely rest and we will see you all after a week off where we will hopefully see some lovely weather!
Mrs Parker, Mrs McLoughlin and Mrs Robertson
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