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17 June 2025

Rainbow fish outdoor art

Class 1 took their artistic skills outdoors this afternoon. We have been reading the story Rainbow fish in Literacy and decided to create large scale paint splat rainbow fish! After we had finished the colourful scales we added silver sparkly scales with just enough to share one for each of our…

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16 June 2025

Floating and sinking!

In our science lesson we listened to the story Fish. This story shows the impact rubbish makes in our oceans and how it affects our sea creatures. Our experiment was to test different items of rubbish we noticed in the story to see if they would float or sink. We recorded our findings and we…

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15 June 2025

Happy Fathers Day from Class 1

All the children in Class 1 would love to wish their Dads, Stepdads, Grandads, Uncles and other special male role models in our lives a truly happy, fun and relaxing Fathers Day!

We hope you all love your fantastic and creative cards and a truly special day with your…

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13 June 2025

Exploring addition and subtraction

In our maths sessions this week, Class 1 have been complete stars and started to explore addition and subtraction. We have spoken about the differences between addition and subtraction and all the children have worked brilliantly using their number knowledge and different resources to find the…

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11 June 2025

The Snail and the Whale

Class 1 have stepped straight back into our new topic of Oceans after half term, with this week focusing on the much loved story The Snail and the Whale. The children have enjoyed learning all about oceans and have been exploring globes, naming oceans, identifying our island surrounded by oceans…

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23 May 2025

Hide and Seek Fun in Class 1

This week in our phonics sessions, we have been focusing on our tricky words and high frequency words to help us remember them. We have sung songs, played games and today played our favourite game, hide and seek with some of our words.

All the children thoroughly enjoyed finding but also hiding…

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23 May 2025

What a treat from the lovely Mrs Chell!

What a treat we all enjoyed this morning in the sunshine from Mrs Chell! Mrs Chell is sadly leaving Anson today and as a little gift kindly bought everyone an ice cream or ice lolly. 
 

We all had such a lovely time eating our ice creams and lollies in our outdoor area and managed not to get…

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14 May 2025

Saying goodbye to our beautiful butterflies!

This morning we released our butterflies in the sunshine and said as so lovely to see our butterflies up close and some of us were lucky enough to hold our butterflies. 
 

We allowed the butterflies to warm up in the sunshine then we had the opportunity to try and hold our butterflies…

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8 May 2025

VE Day celebrations in Class 1

What a fantastic time Class 1 have had finding out about and celebrating VE Day today. 

Class 1 have been busy making flags by collaging with strips of paper, using loose parts or our pegs and peg boards and designing their own medals and deciding what quality they would present their medal…

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6 May 2025

We now have butterflies!

After a new batch of baby caterpillars just before Easter when the children returned the caterpillars had all made cocoons and over the last 2 days the children have been able to watch in awe as the butterflies began to emerge. One butterfly began to come out early in the pot so we were able to…

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6 May 2025

We're Going on a Bear Hunt!

Class 1 went on a barefoot walk through the pages of the story We're Going on a Bear Hunt. 

We have been reading and acting out the story this week and we took our story outside, took our shoes and socks off and felt the different textures underneath our toes - long wavy grass, deep cold river,…

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2 May 2025

St Stephen’s by Class 1

The question we are exploring this half term in our RE sessions is ‘What happens in a church?’
 

Today, we talked about how lucky we are to have our church, St Stephen’s so close to our school and to be part of the church community.  We talked about all the different celebrations we have…

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