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14 November 2025

What fun we have had with Pudsey today in Class 1!

What a brilliant time Class 1 have had today for Children in Need. We have found out about Pudsey and why we are helping to raise money for Children in Need.

 

The children have helped Pudsey find his missing spots from his bandana and write his list of things needed for school using their…

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11 November 2025

Being a Good Friend

During the afternoon, Class 1 discussed all the different ways they could spread kindness and be a good friend.

 

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10 November 2025

Class 1 Odd Socks

To mark Anti Bullying Week, class 1 have come into school wearing their colourful odd socks to show how we are all unique. We talked about how each of is unique and how we should be kind to all of our friends.

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7 November 2025

Where are Class 1 hiding?

Today in maths, Class 1 have been practising using our positional language to describe where things are. We talked about how we need to use special words to describe where something was and where we could see the bear hiding. 
 

After practising, we then went outside in our small groups to…

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7 November 2025

Creating poppies for our Remembrance Day service

Class 1 have been very busy creating our Class 1 wreaths and individual poppies ready for our Remembrance Service next week. 
 

The children worked together to create our beautiful wreaths using red and purple handprints and discovered that red poppies are for the soldiers who died in the wars…

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5 November 2025

Finding out about Diwali

To launch our Celebrations topic, this week Class 1 have been learning all about Diwali.

 

We have watched a video about a family preparing and celebrating Diwali and listened to the story of Rama and Sita. We have made our own Festival of Light lanterns and created and explored making…

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5 November 2025

Being Creative with Circles and Triangles

In our maths today, Class 1 have been exploring circles and triangles. We have talked about what makes a circle a circle and why a triangle is a triangle. We played a game where we had to listen to clues to determine what shape Mrs Philp was hiding in her bag and then we got creative.

We all…

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22 October 2025

Post Office

Class 1 have enjoyed the story The Jolly Postman this week and have learned all about the journey of a letter. We watched what happens to a letter as it travels through the sorting office and how it reaches its destination. 
We created our own post office in our classroom and have been enjoying…

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16 October 2025

Exploring numbers to 3

In maths this week, Class 1 have been exploring 1, 2 and 3 and using our mathematical skills and Ten Town to support our learning. We have meet King One, a Tommy Two and Thelma Three and played some brilliant number formation and subitising games to help us recognise these numbers. 
 

Outside…

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15 October 2025

Keeping our teeth healthy

Class 1 have been learning about Keeping our Teeth Healthy this week in our topic.

The children have completed an experiment using apples to see what happens if our enamel on our teeth is damaged - we are waiting to see the results tomorrow!

We have practised brushing teeth correctly,…

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15 October 2025

We brushed our teeth at school!

A fabulously fun filled afternoon brushing our teeth at school! What fun! Lots of giggles were had and lots of toothpaste covered faces were seen!

The children have embraced their learning of keeping our teeth healthy and we put everything we have learnt into practice and brushed our teeth at…

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14 October 2025

Autumn walk

Class 1 went on an autumn walk around the school grounds to tick off the first signs of autumn. The children spotted orange, brown and red leaves, mushrooms, berries, sweet chestnuts and lots of leaves on the ground.

We will revisit our autumn walk next term where we will compare the photos we…

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