Blog Author: R Heath

Class 1s Odd Socks Day!

We have all worn our odd socks today for Anti-bullying week to celebrate how unique we all are.

In preparation for our Remembrance service on Monday, Class 1 have been creating poppies to take to church and also working together to create two poppy wreaths to go on our school display. 
 

We found out a little bit of information about poppies and how red poppies are worn to remember the…

Today in maths, we have been practising using our positional language to describe where things are. We talked about how we had to use special words to describe where something was and where the bear was hiding.

We then went outside in small groups to play hide and seek in our outdoor area. All…

We have been learning all about Diwali this week.

We watched a video of a family preparing and celebrating Diwali and watched the story of Rama and Sita. We made our own Festival of Light lanterns and explored textures creating some Rangoli patterns. The children enjoyed building temples and…

Before we started our maths learning this afternoon, Class 1 enjoyed a short musical mindfulness session to calm our minds and bodies after our lunch break and to make sure everyone was ready to learn.

Today our musical mindfulness was under the sea themed and everyone enjoyed seeing which sea…

This week in maths, we have still been exploring numbers to 3 and today we were thinking about 1 less and what 1 less than means.
 

We went outside in the glorious sunshine and found lots of cones with different numbers on. Mrs Philp asked the children to travel to a cone to show 1 less than…

Today Class 1 learnt all about Ora Hygiene and Gpgoing to the dentist.

We also carried out an experiment using 3 apples which we observed over 3 days to see what happens to an apple (tooth) if we don’t look after it. We made observations of what it would look like inside a tooth if we weren’t…

Today Class 1 took home their All About Me boxes that they brought with them on their first day of school.

Everyone has had such a gorgeous time sharing pictures of their special people, their favourite items and their favourite things they like to do outside of school.

The children have all…

This week in our maths sessions we are exploring numbers 1 to 3 and have been practising our subitising skills and recognising each number in different representations.  All the children have been fantastic and have shown and developed super subitising skills to 3.

This afternoon we went…

In our topic lessons this week we have been scientists. 
We found out about look after our teeth and what Dentists do. We explored food and drink that are good or bad for our teeth, how to burns our teeth in the correct way, how many milk teeth and adult teeth we have and much more.

We set up…