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Class 1

Who is special to us?

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29th September 2023

In our PSHE session this week, we started looking at our new topic, who is special to us. We thought about our families and discovered that this is just one of the groups that I belong to. We realised that we are part of groups outside of school, like swimming, gymnastics and rainbows, and we are part of groups in school, like our class, our friendship group and many more. We then drew what our families look like, what our class looks like and what other groups we belong to.

Linked with our English topic, The Tiger who came to tea, we watched the animated version to see how it was the same and how it was different to the original book. We then looked at facts all about tigers and wrote fact files about these beautiful creatures.

In computing, we thought about what technology is and how it can be useful to us both in school and outside of school. We then discovered which technologies could help us do jobs like cleaning the house and going to sleep.

Have a wonderful weekend!

Mrs Parker and the Year One Team xxx

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What will the weather be like next?

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22nd September 2023

This week in Science, we have made a rain gauge as we observe the weather. Every day we are now excitedly checking and measuring the amount of rain fall and the temperature, recording it on our class weather chart.

We didn’t let the rainy weather put us off our outdoor learning this week. We decided we would have a go at telling the story of the Three Little Pigs ourselves and, after we had collected some natural materials, we worked in teams to create some fantastic collages of the three different houses. We had our snack in the shelter in the woods and sang some rainy day songs. The rain water came in very handy for washing our hands!

During art, we learnt about hot and cold colours and how they can influence our feelings. We then learnt how to create a colourwash using the 'hot' colours red, yellow and orange. Next week we are going to do the same for cold colours!

I hope the weather dries up for the weekend!

Mrs Parker and the Year One Team xxx

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Tiger-tastic Week!

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15th September 2023

What a busy week we have had in Year 1!

We have started looking at The Tiger Who Came To Tea by Judith Kerr, which most of our literacy work is going to be based on for the next few weeks. We made ourselves familiar with the story by drawing and describing our favourite character and retelling the story through acting.

Well done to Snowdrop group for a fantastic first morning in our wild area. We enjoyed a beautiful sunny morning! We read The Three Little Pigs together and then collected and sorted natural materials to create collages of the little pigs’ houses. Some of us had a go at building shelters for the pigs and there was some fantastic role play retelling of the story.

During art, we learnt about how to sketch a drawing of an object. We carefully looked at a flower and then sketched this in our art books. We made sure we adding in detials that were on the stem, leaves and petals.We are going to be doing the same at the beginning of each art topic to see how far we have developed our artistic skills. Look how amazing we are already ...

We've also been looking at the school behaviour system this week and reminding the children why it's 'good to be green'.

Have a lovely weekend and hope you get lots of rest after our busy first full week of Year One!

Mrs P and the Year 1 Team xxx

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First Week Back!

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8th September 2023

Wow! I know I speak on behalf of the whole team in Year 1 when I say how incredibly proud we are of how well all the children have settled into the life of being a Year 1 child!

We have been doing lots of fun activities in maths, including groups objects within 10 in different ways.

In art, we learnt how to draw a self portrait using a mirror to look at our different features and compared these to our partners. We then walked around the room and admired the amazing work everyone had done!

We begun our phonic sessions and within these, we work together with a partner to read a book. Here we are looking through our speed sounds.

At the end of our PE session, we tested our new running track out by jogging, running or walking around! We know we are going to have lots of fun on this over the year!

After such a busy week, we hope you all have a good rest ready for our first full week in Year 1!

Mrs P and the Year 1 team xxx

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End of the year!

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21st July 2022

I can't believe it is the end of the year already! I would just like to thank both you and your children for an amazing year that we have had! It will be quite an emotional day for me tomorrow as having had them for two years, it has been a real pleasure to teach them and watch them blossom and turn into the amazing people they are now! Everyone has put so much hard work and effort into everything that we have thrown at you this year, we honestly couldn't be prouder of the children!
I am very much looking forward to watching the children grow and mature as they move through school!

We were chefs on Tuesday! In DT, we have been designing a healthy meal for the new restaurant, Mrs Parker's Happy Place! We had to make it look attractive, fun and appealing. We chose to make a fruit or vegetable salad, placing it on the plate in an inventive way! We used the bridge technique to cut fruit like mango, apple and grapes, vegetables like onions, pappers and cucumber, while peeling oranges and carrots as well. We tasted them and then evaluated our product for the restaurant. Don't they all look delicious, good enough to eat!