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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…

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…

Today we planted out our seeds/seedlings into compost. Some of the seeds have germinated beautifully whilst others have hardly changed at all.  It’s been a great visual example for the children to see that even given all the right conditions, not all seeds will continue the life cycle. 

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We have had a lovely first day in York. 

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!

In Science, we have been learning about insulators and conductors. We investigated materials in a circuit, such as wood, copper, foil and glass. We then created our own switches using materials we knew were conductors. We were really pleased when the bulb lit up. 

Last week we learnt about the Anglo Saxon boat that was discovered at Sutton Hoo in 1939. We read lots of information about it and discussed how it may have got there and how the condition of the soil preserved it so well, making it one of the most exciting hoards ever found. This afternoon we…

We’ve had a wonderfully expressive afternoon creating self portraits in the style of Picasso. The children focused on mark making, composition and colour. They created some fabulous work!

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…

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…

We all managed to produce something in knitting today. The children all tried really hard and have learnt a new skill. I know some of them are keen to continue at home and I would love to see anything they go on to create.

We’ve been busy in Computing today learning all about ‘commands’. The children had a great time programming their robots with their chosen commands and then watching them go!