Class 1
Performance Week!
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9th December 2022
What an amazing week we have had!
We performed in our Christmas production on Tuesday and what a spectacular job we did! We are all so proud of the children as they projected their voices, sang beautifully and the show went without a hitch!
Thank you all the grown ups that came to watch us perform, I hope you enjoyed it as much as we enjoyed performing it!
We finished our DT project this week, we made Christmas cards with moving mechanisms. We chose between the following mechanisms: sliders, levers and pivots, wheels and pivots. We decorated the front of our cards in a Christmas theme, thinking of what our recipient would like on the front of a card, before adding our mechanism. I think you will agree, that they look beautiful!
Also, we had a special treat yesterday as the Hey Diddles called in to give EYFS and KS1 a show! They were great fun and had all the kids and grown-ups joining in with loads of songs! Great fun all round!
Have a lovely weekend and only 5 days left of school until our Christmas holiday!
Stepping into winter
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2nd December 2022
In maths, we have been consolidating our 3D shapes knowledge by making them using marshmallows and cocktail sticks. We realised which 2D shapes are used to create 3D shapes. How much fun we had making these safely!
During English on a Wednesday, we have been larnnig about poetry, looking at the specific poem I Do Not Mind You, Winter Wind by Jack Prelutsky. We have been leanring to read this orally and even put some actions to it! The children were completely amazing, here is the copy of it. Why not ask the children to perform it at home at home for you with actions!
During on Key-stage assemly this week, we learnt all about St Andrew and why he is the patron saint of Scotland. We also discussed who the patron saints of England, Wales and Ireland were!
We are very excited for the winter fair tonight, we hope to see you all there!
Mrs P and the Year One Team xxx
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!