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30 January 2026

Our mustard trees!

In our RE session we continued to find out about why some stories are so special. We talked about the bible and how Jesus was a great story teller and used his stories to share special messages with his followers. 
 

We shared the parable of the Mustard Seed and talked about it’s important…

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29 January 2026

Caring for our teeth!

Class 1 today had some special visitors who came to talk to us about how to care for our teeth.
 

The school nurses bought their friend Charlie and his giant tooth brush and toothpaste and the children helped him to brush his teeth. Everyone worked together to sort different food and drinks…

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29 January 2026

What a fantastic and fun PE lesson we had this week in Class 1!

What fun Class 1 had this week in our PE lesson! Mrs Castell was so impressed with the children’s balance and agility skills and their listening. All the children enjoyed using the benches and equipment and playing the games together at the end. 

I wonder what skills the children will work on…

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26 January 2026

Feeding the birds

This afternoon we went outside to hang our bird feeders we had made in topic last week. We could hear all of the birds chirping. Class 1 really hope they enjoy the feeders!

 

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23 January 2026

Alien Phonics

Class 1 have had such fun this morning practising their phonics. We have been incredibly busy learning new sounds and this morning while in the provision, the children enjoyed playing a game which help to reinforce their phoneme grapheme correspondence.

They had to listen carefully to the sound…

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22 January 2026

Exploring mass in Class 1!

Our maths focus this week in Class 1 is mass and capacity. Yesterday, we explored mass and used our bodies as a balance scale to work compare the mass of two objects and decide which is the heaviest and which is the lightest. All the children knew if the object was heaviest, the hand holding that…

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16 January 2026

What makes Jesus so special?

Our new RE topic for this term is Why are some stories so special?

We have made a brilliant start to this topic by looking at the Bible and talking about how incredibly important it is to Christians. We then thought about Jesus and how he was not only a great storyteller and teacher, but also…

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15 January 2026

Exploring 1 more and 1 less in Class 1

In maths this week, Class 1 have been exploring 1 more and 1 less than numbers up to 5 and enjoyed practising their skills by collecting planets and throwing snowballs!

On Wednesday, we had fun finding one more than the number rolled with our large dice. The children practised their subitising…

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8 January 2026

Winter Music Movement Break

Today after lunch in our mindfulness session, Class 1 used scarves to perform some lovely and fun movements to a Winter themed piece of music. It was more lively than other pieces of music we do scarf movement too and all the children really enjoyed using the scarves and following the actions with…

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6 January 2026

Fun in the snow

We had so much fun playing in the snow today. It was a bit chilly but super exciting having the opportunity to build snowmen with our prayer partners. Class 1 were happy to come back inside to warm up with our toast snack. We will have to see if our snowmen are still there in the…

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19 December 2025

Christmas fun in Class 1!

What a fabulous last week of term we have had in Class 1!

As well as being absolute superstars in our Nativity performances and church service this week, the children have enjoyed lots of different Christmas themed activities in our provision. The children have had fun creating and decorating…

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17 December 2025

What an amazing nativity performance!

We are all so incredibly proud of all the children in Class 1 for their brilliant performances in our class nativity - well done Class 1! 
 

All the children have worked so hard at learning their individual lines and the words and actions to all of our songs. Their singing has been amazing…

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