Blog Author: R Heath

Class 1 explored minibeast habitats in Science today and why minibeasts like small, sheltered places. We went outside to collect natural materials, sticks, leaves, pine cones and bark to create a bug hotel out of a tyre.

Today in maths Class 1 have been number explorers and finding out about odd and even numbers. We talked about what makes a number odd and what makes a number even and then we went outside on a numicon hunt. Mrs Elwell is very good at hiding numicon - some were very tricky to find!
 

Once the…

In maths today, Class 1 have been exploring how to double numbers and using our fabulous numicon to help us. 
 

The children used the numicon pieces to create their own butterflies and then recorded each double as a number sentence. All the children remembered that to show a double you get an…

Class 1 were very kindly invited down to take a look at GHU5’s Living Eggs Chicks. We popped down on Tuesday to see the eggs in the incubator and were so fascinated by them! On Wednesday we went back down to see that 5 of the chicks had hatched and were warming up and drying out in their incubator…

In science and topic lessons Class 1 have been learning all about minibeasts.

Today we had a Big Word Alert in our science lesson where we learnt what the words Invertebrate and Anthropoid mean. We explored what makes up an insect and what the minibeasts needs to have to be classed as an…

Caterpillar update week 2!

Class 1 have hhad such fun observing our caterpillars. They are growing so fast and the children have noticed the caterpillar making webs, shedding little parts of their skin and have see lots of tiny poo!

The children all carefully observed their caterpillar pots…

As part of British Science Week and linked to our topic Minibeasts Class 1 made a Wormery. This week Class 1 have been listening to the book 'Yucky Worms' and have found out so many facts about worms. We have been exploring all things worms and decided to create and observe real worms ourselves by…

What a brilliant collection of World Book Day outfits we have today in Class 1! We have lovely seeing all the children’s costumes and hearing about their favourite books. It was so hard to chose our winner as everyone had made such an effort.

We started the day with a whole school World Book…

Class 1 have received their very own caterpillars this week. They arrived in a special box sent by some very important scientists, they have asked us to look after them and observe them as they grow. We have been asked to keep a Caterpillar diary to keep track of the changes that happen. Today we…

Class 1 have found out all about life cycles this week and have watched some fascinating videos showing the life cycle of a caterpillar. We watched a time lapse of a caterpillar making a cocoon and then the children made their own life cycles.

Class 1 have read the story The Very Hungry Caterpillar this week. We have completed lots of caterpillar related activities and have acted out the story on our puppet theatre. We have really enjoyed this story and are looking forward to the arrival of our very own caterpillars.

What a fantastic time Class 1 have had this afternoon at our PTFA disco!

The children have enjoyed the fab stalls and getting treats from the tuck shop. The pizza and hot dogs have helped keep the energy levels up and kept the children’s feet dancing!

Thank you to our fabulous PTFA for…