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Welcome to Blue Class.

Hello and welcome to our Blue Class page.

We hope you have fun finding out more about our class.

Our Teacher is Mrs Baird and our Teaching Assistant is Ms Clark

 

                                                

We are a very happy class who believe we can do anything if we try. 

Our Motto is: 

'If we believe we can achieve'

Here is our class banner.

This is our Mascot

'Patch'

Let's Celebrate!

Well done ... will you be a star next week?

Come and visit again soon!

This term we are getting to know ourselves and our surroundings more.

We started the term looking closely at our faces and the our facial features. We painted our skin and hair and used mirrors to look closer at our features and added them using felt pens.

Can you remember all the features we added?

This week we have been naming and labelling parts of the body.

Click below to see some of the body parts we have learned

What other parts of the body can you name?

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In English this week we have been sharing the story of 'Elmer'. We have really enjoyed retelling the story using the story map below.

Can you retell it remembering the actions we used to help us?

We have shared what we liked about this story. Children liked it when Elmer rolled in the berries, when he looked like a rainbow and when he shouted 'BOO!'

We also used the a paint programme on the Ipads to create our own patchwork Elmer. 

What a fantastic job!

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In Maths we have been working with the numbers 0 to 10. We have been counting forwards and backwards in steps of 1 and sequencing numbers into the correct order. We have been trying really hard to form the digits correctly when writing them. We have also been trying to identify missing numbers within a sequence.

! remember

when we count forwards  --->  the number gets bigger

when we count backwards <--- the number gets smaller

Reminders for next week

• Please could you ensure PE kits are in school - Blue Class PE days are Tuesday and Friday - children should have long hair tied back on these days and earrings removed or tape provided to cover them
• Please ensure your child/children bring their book bag / reading book / diary into school every day

Thank you for your support in ensuring a smooth start to our new school year

Thank you for taking the time to share in our learning journey ... check back next week to see where it takes us next.

This week we have been learning about our 5 senses. We have been learning which part of the body is associated with each sense. 

We have learned that our: 

• eyes help us to see
• nose helps us to smell
• ears help us to listen
• mouths help us to taste
• hands help us to feel and touch

We tested our sense of hearing listening to lots of different sounds and trying to guess what they were ... Blue Class were very good at this 

We used our sense of touch putting our hands into a feely bag and feeling lots of different textures we thought of adjectives to describe what we could feel.

We used all of our senses when we explored how to make POPCORN! 

We could see it was orange before cooking but white after cooking!

We could hear it POP in the microwave as it cooked 

We could feel it was hard before cooking yet soft after cooking

We could smell the popcorn as it was cooking

We could taste the sugar on the yummy popcorn

We explored the sense of taste by trying different foods that were bitter, sour, sweet and salty. We looked closely at our taste buds and their position on the tongue. We learned that different parts of our tongue give different tastes.

Which of these tastes would you give to each of these foods? 

We are very proud of Blue Class because everyone tasted all of the foods 

It was very hard to tell the difference between bitter and sour!

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This week In English we have been using actions and character voices to act out the story of Elmer. Children had lots of fun rolling in the berries and shouting 'BOO!'

We have been learning all about adjectives. We have learned that an adjective describes something. We thought of lots of adjectives to describe Elmer throughout the story.

Look at all the adjectives Libby, Oliver and Skye thought of !

Well done 

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This week we have been finding 1 more and 1 less than a given number between 1 - 10.

We have learned that:

• 1 more is the number that comes after  
• when finding 1 more we move forward to a bigger number
• 1 less is the number that comes before
• when finding 1 less we move backward to a smaller number

We have tried to use the language: greater than (more than), less than, equal to, when comparing 2 groups of objects.

Can you answer these questions?

• Square A has more balloons? true or false

Complete the sentence using 1 of these words: more,  less 

• Square B has ________ balloons than square A    

Thank you for sharing in our learning journey 

This week in topic we have been thinking about how we change as we grow. We looked at each growth stage carefully and talked about what we can do or not do at each stage. We shared baby pictures and talked about what we could do now as a child. It was interesting to see how much we had changed from when we were a baby!

Here Jaxon has sequenced the human timeline from a baby to an elderly person 

We also talked about the teenager stage ... Where do you think this stage would go in our timeline? 

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In English this week we are trying to find out if Elmer is an African elephant or an Asian elephant using non-fiction text. We looked carefully at the ears, lumps on the head, back and skin. 

Can you remember the 4 features the African elephant  has?

Do you think Elmer is an African elephant or an Asian elephant?

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In Maths this week we are beginning to answer addition questions.

Here Aeron has split his 'whole' number into the 2 parts using the part-whole model and  Alfie has used red and yellow counters to write the number calculation using the + and = symbols 0 red counters + 3 yellow counters = 3 counters altogether

These methods help us to understand the 3 parts to a number calculation.

Notes for Next Week

Next week we are thinking about what type of house we live in. Please could you talk to your children about where they live and their address. Have a look at the front of your house:

• What colour are your windows and door?
• How many windows do you have?
• What number is on your door?
• Are there any other features on the front of your house?

Welcome back we hope you had a lovely half term break and are ready and refreshed for our new term. This term we are asking 

How Do I Play With It?

We launched our Topic with our day trip to Sudbury Hall Museum of childhood. 

Here we got to look at and play with different types of toys from over the years. We looked at the materials they were made from and thought about how we played with them. We sorted the toys using the words push, pull or push and pull thinking how do we play it?

We were able to bring our favourite teddies into school for the day and write a sentence about them.

Thank you Charlie for sharing with us who your teddy is and what you do with him 

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In English this week we have been sharing the story of The Elves and the Shoemaker. We really enjoyed retelling the story using our story map and doing the actions we use to help us remember important words.

We wrote a sentence about what we liked about the story.

Well done Faith, what a super sentence writing lots of sounds you could hear 

We discussed how the Shoemaker and his wife were feeling at the beginning of the story and how and why this had changed at the end of the story. We drew a picture to show this.

Here Jessica has drawn the shoemaker and his wife at the beginning of the story feeling sad because they had no money and then she drew them happy at the end because they had lots of money as they had learned how to make beautiful shoes thanks to the elves. 

What a lovely drawing Jessica 

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In Maths we have been adding 2 numbers together using the part whole model. We have practised putting the part in our head and counted on to the whole number. We used cubes to find the missing number in the model and jumped on a number line counting the jumps we made.

Reminders for next week

On Monday 12th of November we are wearing odd socks to school as part of our anti-bullying week

Over the last few weeks we have been:

Learning about the history of the Teddy Bear

We shared the story of Theodore Roosevelt an American President who went out hunting one day and refused to shoot a bear. A shopkeeper saw a cartoon drawing of this and decided to make some bears. He asked Theodore, otherwise known as 'Teddy' if he could use the name Teddy to name them Teddy bears.  

We looked at how the Teddy bear has changed over the years

Oliver used this information to sort various pictures of bears

Can you see how the bears are different?

We have also looked at the materials toys are made from.  

What do you notice about the materials used for older toys and materials used for newer toys?

Here are some old toys.

What materials are they made from? 

Can you explain why they are made form a particular material? 

We have also looked at some old toys and thought about how we would play with them. We used the words Push ... Pull ... or Push and Pull to explain this.

Well done Aaliyah you have done some detailed drawings and can say how you would make these toys move 

This week we have started to think about our toy sack design. 

Look at Skye, Libby and Maddison's beautiful designs 

We look forward to seeing the finished Toy Sacks 

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In English we have been learning about instructions. 

We talked about why we need instructions and what happens if instructions are not clear. This week we have written our own instructions for 'How to Make a Split Pin Elf.

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In Maths we have been looking at the numbers 11 -20. We have practised writing them and making them using equipment. 

Thank you for taking the time to see what we have been learning about 

Notes to Parents

Please provide earring tape for your child's ears if they wear earrings to school or remove them on PE days Tuesdays and Fridays as agreed in the earring disclaimer

Thank you 

Children have been very busy developing their art skills to make their toy sacks.

LOOK at our fabulous finished toys sacks.

Blue Class had a special visitor today ...

All of Blue Class would like to wish you ...

Thank you for your continued support this term ... we look forward to seeing you all in 

2019 

This term we are trying to answer the question:

What makes the United Kingdom Great ?

We have identified the United Kingdom on the World Map. We zoomed in and were able to see the 4 countries that make up the United Kingdom and the oceans that surround it.

We looked at the physical features of the United Kingdom such as the land sea and coast.

Here James has identified the features by colouring the land green, the sea blue and the coast yellow. We then labelled each country and ocean completing our map of the United Kingdom. 

Check back next week to see where our learning journey takes us next 

This week we have flown around England and visited London on an open top bus. 

On our journeys we looked at and named various famous landmarks. 

Can you name any of these landmarks or remember any facts about them?

Which was your favourite landmark and why?

Can you think of any other landmarks we saw on our journey?

We also discussed the physical and human features we could see . Physical features are natural features and physical features are man made.

Can you say which of these features are physical and which ones are human?

We have also learned about Saint George who is the Patron Saint of England. We watched the story of how he defeated the dragon! We have also been sharing this story in English. 

Can you retell it using the story map?

We have filled in a passport with information we learned about England.

Well done Seth ... beautiful work 

Thank you for taking the time to share in our learning journey ... check back next week to see where we travel to next.

Archive 2017-18

We hope you have had a lovely holiday and are refreshed and ready for the New School Year.

Welcome to Blue Class 2017 - 2018

Look how incredibly smart and grown up we look !

What a fabulous, fun, first week Blue Class have had !

We have spent our first few days getting to know each other more and learning to work together as a class and as a year group.

Here we were set a challenge to pass a hoop around the circle without letting go of hands. First we tried it in small groups, then in a bigger group, as a whole class and finally as a whole year group!

We wriggled and jiggled and squirmed our way through the hoop helping each other where we could until it travelled all the way around the circle.

We have had a busy, fun packed few days ... we have:

• learned where our things are in our class and around school and where and how to organise our belongings
• shared what we have been doing or places we have been over the holidays
• reminded ourselves of the School's Golden Rules / Class Rules and pledged to do our very best to stay on the sunshine
• practised forming our numerals upto 10 correctly, counted upto 28 in ones AND we even counted upto 100 in 10's using a 100 square !!! 
• written a simple sentence saying who we are and what we like.

AND most importantly we have made our teachers incredibly proud of our hard work, super effort and sensible behaviour for our first week back. We have earned lots of marbles 

Thank you for your support in ensuring a smooth start to a New School Year 

Check back next week to see where our learning journey begins as this term we are trying to answer the question:

Who Do You Think You Are?

Reminders

Blue Class P.E days are alternating each week this year they are:

• week 1 - Tuesday and Friday
• week 2 - Thursday and Friday

Please ensure:

• you provide micropore tape or plasters to cover earrings or remove on the day as agreed on the disclaimer
• long hair is tied back for health and safety
• try to dress them in something they find easy to change 

This term we are trying to answer the question:

Who Do You Think You Are?

We have been learning about what a portrait is.

We have used brushes and pens to create our own self portrait. We used brushes to paint our skin tone and hair colour and felt pens to draw on our facial features thinking carefully about using the correct colour for our eyes, eyebrows, nose, lips and any other features we have such as freckles or glasses.

Photo's to follow

Can you guess who we are?

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In English this week we have been sharing the story 'Funnybones'

We have:

• retold the story orally and through role play
• sequenced the main events of the story
• identified capital letters, finger spaces and fullstops in the text
• created our own 'Funnybones' character using artstraws, scissors and glue
• drawn 'Funnybones' using chalk

Well Done these are very detailed and carefully drawn 

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In Maths this week we have been learning to count, read and write numbers upto 10

We have: 

• continued to try to write numerals upto 10 forming them correctly
• counted objects upto 10 making sure we have counted carefully
• looked at numbers as words and tried to match them to an amount

Reminders for next week

• Please can you ensure that your child's reading book and diary are in their bookbag everyday as they could read any day between Monday and Thursday.
• Reading Incentive Cards will be stamped each Monday - a maximum of 7 stamps can be earned each week / 1 per day for reading their school reading book OR completing an episode on reading eggs. Each entry in the diary MUST be dated and signed 

Check back next week to see where our learning journey takes us !

Previously in Topic we have been learning about the features of our face. This week we have been learning to name other parts of the body.

Here children have labelled Ashton. 

Can you guess what labels they have thought of?

Look at all the labels Noah thought of !

We have also looked at the different stages of the Human Timeline and how we change through each stage. We talked about the things we could and couldn't do in each stage and how our body changes.

Well done Georgie you have shown you understand how we grow and change 

We will be looking more at how we have changed from a baby next week.

Please remember to send in a named baby photograph of your child for Monday which we will photocopy for their books and then return to you.

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In English this week we have reviewed the story of Funnybones joining in with familiar phrases. We have looked at each character carefully and have written simple sentences trying to include an adjective to describe the characters.

Look at some of the adjectives we have used !

Can you think of any other adjectives to describe these characters ?

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In Maths this week we have been finding 1 more or 1 less than a number. To support our learning we used a numberline to jump forwards to find 1 more and backwards to find 1 less. We looked at how when we jump forward the number gets bigger and when we jump backwards the number gets smaller. 

We started to look how 1 more is the same as +1 and how 1 less is the same as -1

We also tried to solve problems such as:

What comes next?

3 + 1 = 4

4 + 1 = 5

5 + 1 = 6

Well Jack Hopper you looked at each calculation and spotted how the first number was 1 more than the previous calculation and used this to say what comes next 

Can you say what comes next ?

Thank you for taking the time to see what we have been learning about this week check back next week to see where our learning journey takes us next !

This week in Topic we have been thinking about how we have changed from a baby to how we are now. We compared what we looked like as a baby, what we could and couldn't do and what we had for food and drink to what we do and have now.

Look at how Ashton and Oliver think they have changed from a baby to now.

What other things do you think they can do now that they couldn't as a baby?

We have also started to think about our Five Senses and how we can use them to find things around our environment.

We went on a Scavenger Hunt around school ... look what we found !

What senses have we used to find things that are rough, round, smooth and yellow,

We will be finding out more about our senses next week.

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In English this week we have watched Funnybones 'The Pet Shop' and 'Skeleton Crew' 

We have:

• written captions to match pictures from the film
• written a speech bubble to say what we thought the charcters might see, hear or smell 

Well Done Georgie and Noah you have written some super captions remembering to include capital letters, finger spaces and a full stop. You also used your phonic knowledge well in your writing 

Well Done Stefan and Lacey E you were able to write what the characters might say about something they could see 

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This week in Maths we have been learning to count in steps of 2 up to 20.

We have used a 100 square or numberline to support our learning.

Look at the 100 square ... What do you notice ?

How far can you count in 2's?

Can you continue the sequence from any number?

We are also trying to answer questions such as:

I am gong to count on in 2's from 3. Will I say an even number?

Can you prove it and how?

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Reminders for next week

Tuesday 3rd October - Childrens Photgraphs

Thursday 5th October - Names of houses have been chosen and children will find out which house they are in. 

Thank you for taking the time to share in our learning journey 

This week in Topic we have been learning about the features of a village. We looked at a typical village and discussed what features it had such as a local shop, a school, a pub and a Doctor's surgery. We then discussed if there were any similarities we could notice between these pictures and the village of Woodville, our surrounding area. Children noticed that Woodville has a Tesco, a Chip Shop, Pizza Shop and a Post Office which the other village did not have.

We have looked at a map of the route we will be walking around Woodville next week and identified some of the features we might see.

What features do you think we might see if we walk down the path to High Street, turning left and walking towards the Tollgate roundabout. Then turning left again onto Moira Road walking along heading to New Road and back through the park to school?

Check back next week to see what we did see along the way 

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In Maths this week we are beginning to use the operation 'add +' using 2 single digit numbers. We have been using the Part Whole model to help find pairs of numbers that go together to make 5. The whole is the bigger number and the parts are the 2 parts we have split or partitioned the whole number into

Here we have split the five into 2 parts. How many other ways could you split 5?

We then looked at how we can use this putting groups of objects together and beginning to record it as an addition calculation. 

Here we have used the numbers in the Part whole model to form calculations. We have learned that

3 + 2 = 5 AND 2 + 3 = 5

So ... Can you solve this problem?

 5 =  ? +  ?

Is there only 1 answer?

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In English this week we have been learning about the features of Non - Fiction texts.

Children have been looking at Non Fiction books this week and trying to identify some of the key features. We looked at the differences between Fiction and Non-Fiction texts.

Fiction books are made up stories with a plot, characters and events. They need to be read from the beginning to the end for the story to make sense.

Non-Fiction books are books that contain facts and information about the Book title. These books can be read in ANY order using the contents page to choose a chapter. We should learn something from the book that we didn't know before.

We have been learning that Non Fiction might have :

• A Contents page - This can be found at the beginning of a book and shows us which page number each Chapter begins on (remember once you have read a chapter go back to the contents page to choose another chapter)
• Headings - Can be found at the top of a new Chapter page and tells us what the chapter will be about
• Labels - Are words labelling a picture, photo or diagram
• Captions - Are a short sentence explaining what a picture is about
• Photos - Are real pictures showing what something looks like
• Diagrams and charts - These give more information 
• Glossary - this can be found near the back of the book and contains new or difficult words that need a brief explanation, these words are usually in bold print in the book so they stand out
• Index - this can be found at the back of the book

Encourage your child to find these features within a Non Fiction book, can they tell you a fact that they can remember from the book? 

Reminders for next week:

Monday - Flu immunisations 

Tuesday -Our walk around Woodville please ensure your child comes to school in a waterproof coat

Parents Evening letters will be coming home soon, please ensure you complete and return them asap so that we can arrange your childs appointments

Thank you for taking the time to share in our learning journey 

In Topic this week we have been looking at what we can see in and around Woodville. As we walked along we looked at the different buildings and compared their features and decided if they were old or new buildings.

We look at the different shops and businesses that Woodville has such as Tesco, the Post office, various food shops, takeaways and pubs, the Nursery, Hairdressers, Petrol Station and Wards recycling. Children also knew that the chemist has now moved further away from school. We talked about Woodville also having a Library and Doctors  and Dentist Surgery they were just not on our route. We also walked past the St Stephens Church and the Pre-school many children once attended. 

When walking along Moira Road we looked at all the different houses and tried to name them, we saw a very long row of 11 terraced houses, some semi-detached and only one very large detached house. We noticed that most of the shops and businesses were along High street but there were no shops at all along Moira Road.

Can you name these different types of homes?

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In Maths this week we have been using a Bar Model to write addition calculations

We learned some steps to success they are:

• count along the model to find the Whole number
• count how many are in the 2 parts ... this gives us 2 numbers
• use these three numbers to write four calculations.

We needed to remember that each calculation will have the same three numbers and symbols but they will change position in some calculations

Here Georgie and Stefan have followed the steps taught carefully to write all four calculations.

Can you see how each calculation has changed?

This is the Homework for this week. Follow the steps carefully and you will be successful Good Luck 

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In English this week we have been writing captions. A caption is a short sentence that matches a picture. We needed to remember to be successful in our writing by including Capital Letters ... finger spaces and fullstops and to form our letters correctly.

Have  Jessica and Jack been succesful?

Well Done both of you 

Reminders for next week

Tuesday 17th and Thursday 19th - Parents Evenings

Wednesday 18th October - Harvest Festival 2pm - St Stephens Church

Friday 20th October - End of Term 

Monday 30th October - Inset Day 

What a very busy week we have had !

We hope you enjoyed the Harvest Festival Performance, thank you again for all your kind food donations 

Our first term in Blue Class is very nearly over and we have now answered the Topic question: Who do you think you are?

We have reflected over all we have learned and used that to be able to talk about ourselves saying our name, our age and then describe ourselves and our features. We could say where we live and describe the type of home we live whether it is a terraced, semi-detached, detached, flat or bungalow etc. We could talk about our journey to School and say what features we could see along the way. 

We are now looking forward to our next Topic as we will be trying to answer the question:

How Do I Play With This?

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In English this week we have written our very special piece of independent writing based on the Funnybones Stories which we have really enjoyed sharing this term. We have shown how we can write labels and successful sentences trying to remember to include Capital letters, finger spaces and full stops. We have even used adjectives to describe someone or something from the story and conjunctions like: and, so and because extended our sentences.

Well Done Blue Class we are very impressed with your writing 

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In Maths this week we have shown how much we have remembered from this term by completing a short assessment of all we have learned so far. We were able to:

• Find missing numbers in number sequences 
• Say what a number was 1 more or 1 Less than
• Continue number sequences in steps of 2
• Write all the addition calculations from a Part Whole model or Bar model
• Write numerals to match number words

Well Done Blue Class we are really pleased with how much you have remembered 

Over the Holidays you can ...

• Continue to practise your spellings
• Continue to read - try reading different types of media: comics, leaflets, magazines, recipes etc
• Practise counting on and back to 100 using your 100 square ... can you count beyond  100 ?

AND last of all have lots of fun and some rest ready for the new term 

Thank you for all your support this term 

Remember children return to school on Tuesday 31st October Monday is an Inset Day 

Please send your child with their PE Kits on this first Tuesday back as we will have PE Tuesday morning

*Tape or plasters for earrings please

The children in year 1 have had a great morning with Tom the Toy Man. He showed us new and old toys which the children also enjoyed playing with.

This week children have been learning about the History of the Teddy Bear. We found out that it was named after Theodore Roosevelt who  was the President of the United States many years ago. While out hunting one day he came upon an injured bear and refused to shoot it. A cartoon was drawn showing the scene and as a result the owner of a toy shop in New York decided to make a stuffed bear. 

We have looked closely at how Teddy bears have changed over the years and sorted pictures into old and new. Well done Millie 

Can you remember what the Teddy Bears eyes were made of?

Would you like to cuddle a Teddy Bear from many many years ago? If not why not?

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In English this week we have been learning about Poetry. We have recited the poem 'Teddy Bear Teddy Bear ... remembering to keep the rhythm throughout the verse. We also looked at what parts of the verse rhymed and even thought of our own final line

Read how Jake and Layla ended their poem.

Can you think of another ending for the poem?

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In Maths this week we have been beginning to look at the operation of Subtraction. We have used counters to physically take away an amount and have begun to work out and record the calculation to match.

Check back next week to see where our learning journey takes us next.

We would like to say a huge thank you for your support your generous donations for such a worthy cause 

What a 'spotacular' day we have had today !

In Topic this week we have been looking at and exploring old toys. We had an opportunity to experiment with some of the old toys and then discuss how we thought they might have been played with many many years ago. We also looked at the various materials that these toys were made from and thought.

What would happen if the toy was made from another material?

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In English this week we have been sharing the story of the Elves and the Shoemaker. We learned how to retell the story using a story map and actions to help. We have been able to sequence pictures from the story putting them into the correct order and then write simple sentences to match some of the pictures remembering to include capital letters, finger spaces and full stops.

Can you retell the story remembering to say what happened next?

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In Maths this week we have been subtracting and finding the difference between 2 numbers using a number line. For subtraction we started at the biggest number and jumped back along the number line to the other number in the calculation. The number we landed on was the answer.

For example 10 - 6 = 

We start at the 10 and jump back 6 jumps landing on the number 4

so 10 - 6 = 4

When finding the difference between 2 numbers we started on the biggest number and jumped back to the other number. We counted how many jumps we made between the 2 numbers

For example finding the difference between 9 and 5

We start at 9 and jump back to the number 5 counting 4 jumps.

so the difference between 9 and 5 is 4

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Look how festive we look in our jolly christmas jumpers all ready for our Christmas Lunch.

Christmas dinner was lovely and we got to pull our crackers 

Thank you for your continued support in school events.

HO HO HO !

How excited the children were in Blue Class to meet Santa and his reindeer today check out our Santa Selfies below! 

Welcome back, we hope you all had a lovely Christmas and New Year. 

We are now back ready to start our new Topic, we are trying to answer the question:

We launched our topic by looking through some of the homework and sharing what you and your family think makes Britain great. We created a mind map of some of your ideas.

Could you add anything else to the mind map?

We then had our own Bake Off. First we designed our cupcakes, next we mixed the ingrediants together to make the cakes. Finally we decorated them using a great british theme. We then shared our cakes with our grown ups with a nice cup of tea. 

Well Done Layla our Star Baker for Blue Class 

Check out our Tea and Cake afternoon what do you think of our cake designs, can you see 'Big Ben' or an 'English Breakfast' ?

Well Done to All these children for 100% attendance for last term 

Let's keep going! 

This week In Topic we have been finding out about the four countries that make up Great Britain: England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales. We have also looked at how Great Britain is an Island because it is surrounded by the North Sea, the Irish Sea and the English  Channel.

Here Layla has coloured the land green, the coast, which is where the land meets the sea, yellow and the sea blue. She has labelled her map with the seas that surround Great Britain and the four countries that make up Great Britain.

Well done Layla super neat work 

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In English this week we have been sharing the story: 

We made predictions ahead of reading about what we thought might happen in this story.

Look carefully ... What do you think might happen and why ?

We have used this story to help us to think about using the 'ed' suffix. We use the 'ed' suffix when writing in the past tense. We add it to a 'root' word to change its meaning from present to past tense

Well done Blue Class you found 10 words with the 'ed' suffix in the text 

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In Maths we have been using deines to represent 2 digit numbers up to 20.

Well Done Gracie, Jessica and Stefan you were able to make a number upto 20 using ten sticks and ones cubes 

Thank you for taking the time to see what we have been learning this week 

This week in Topic we have been learning all about Scotland and some of it's landmarks.  We found out that Edinburgh is the capital city of Scotland and that Edinburgh Castle is built on a 700 million year old extinct volcano called Castle Rock !

We also found out about the legend of the Loch Ness monster. What do you think about the legend ... Is Nessie real?

We have also been finding out about Steven Brown who is a famous Scottish artist. He likes to paint things that are related to Scotland using bright colours.

We looked at 4 pieces of his work 

Children decided which one they would like to create in their own style. They sketched out an outline and then chose which media they would like to use to add the bright colours. We could use paint, pastels or wax crayons. Children have tried really hard to develop their skills and techniques to complete this work.

Look below at Amelia, Jessica, Georgie and Layla's Artwork ... can you tell which of Steven Brown's work they have created in their own style?

Well done all of you these are fantastic 

Reminders

• Please remember to bring reading books, diaries, book worm cards, spelling books sunshine cards and homework books in book bags everyday
• Please try to read at home to earn your book worm stamps
• Please try to practise your spellings to help support your writing

Next week we will be learning all about Northern Ireland ...come back and visit to see what we have been learning 

This week in Topic we have been learning all about Northern Ireland which is one of the four countries that make up Great Britain.

We have been learning about some of the features of Northern Ireland such as the capital city Belfast and some of the well known landmarks. 

Have a look at the pictures below ... can you name any of these features of Northern Ireland?

Which famous ship was built in Belfast Docks?

Which flag does the flag of Northern Ireland appear in?

How was the Giant's causeway formed?

What is the other name for the Shamrock?

We finished off our week on Northern Ireland by sharing the Legend of Finn MaCool. This is a story about the legendary giant who built the Giant's Causeway. It has been told for generations.

Can you retell the story using the story map below?

Thank you for taking the time to see what we have been learning in Blue Class this week 

Where do you think we will travel to next week ?

Over the last 2 weeks we have been learning about Wales and England. 

We are now able to name the capital cities of these countries and talk about some of their  well known landmarks and features. Can you recall any of these?

Did you know that there are more sheep in Wales than people !

We have taken a whistle stop tour of London with William Whiskerson. He showed us some of the sights we might see if we were to visit London.

Click on the link below to see where we went.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MuDAUa0XSHI&safe=true

Which was your favourite and why?

Read below about some of the well known features and landmarks in London ...

Well Done Layla, Jack and Millie for super writing 

In English we have been sharing the story of The Queens Knickers. We have written sentences to describe some of the Queen's Knickers and answered questions about events in the story trying to remember to use the 'ed' suffix in our answers.

In Maths we have been using ten frames and number lines to count back for subtraction. Can you count back from 20 - 0 ?  if so try from 50 or even 100!

Reminders for next week

Wednesday 14th February 2:45 pm - Year 1 British Showcase

Welcome back we hope you had a lovely Half Term and are refreshed and ready for the new term. 

Blue Class had a huge shock when they came back on Monday. They were shocked to discover something had been in school and into some of the classrooms!

There was straw and sawdust, bits of potato, carrot and banana scattered all over the corridor and classroom floors! There were some footprints on tables and along the corridors. Tables and chairs were tipped up and equipment strewn over the floor. We didn't know what it might have been or if it was still somewhere in school! We looked for clues that might help us to find out what had been in to school and recorded our findings.

LOOK carefully at the photos below 

What a Mess!

What do you think came into our school ?

This week in Blue Class we have been learning about mammals, reptiles and insects. We have been looking closely at what features these animals have to help us decide which animal category they belong to.

We looked at a variety of animals and used our knowledge to decide whether it was a mammal or not.

How can you tell if an animal is a mammal?

Here Stefan and Maisie have sorted mammals and not mammals. Can you name any of these ?

Reptiles

We also have looked at features of a variety of reptiles and how they differ from mammals for example mammals are warm blooded but reptiles are cold blooded. 

We have also looked at insects and their classification features. 

How many legs does an insect have?

Is a spider and insect?

Are insects warm or cold blooded?

How many insects can you name?

Thank you for taking the time to share our learning journey with us.

Next week we will be learning more about the classification features of birds and amphibians

Science and Engineering Week.

On Monday we took part in a whole Federation Science event. We were paired with Class 6 and then put into teams of 4 or 5. We were told that we had been stranded on a desert island and we needed to try and survive until help came to find us. 

What would be the first things you would need to do in order to survive?

The first thing we decided was to look for water and we came across a lagoon however it was full of rocks, sand, mud and salt so we knew it would not be safe to drink. 

 We were challenged to try and make the water safe to drink using only an empty cup, filter paper, blue roll and a plastic bag.

Look at the pictures below to see how we got on

Here we are using a filter paper to sift out the dirty water, rocks and sand.

Here are we pouring the water through the filter paper.

We discovered that if we poured the water too quickly it ripped the filter paper.

We managed to make the water clear but not completely clean.

We thoroughly enjoyed working with our junior partners and look forward to doing it again soon !

Year 1 had a very special visit this week from Olly who brought with him some very unusual creatures. We were able to have a much closer look at these creatures and if we were feeling really brave we could stroke them and even hold them!

Olly explained that these creatures were very friendly and could not hurt us.

Here Jake is holding 'Gary the Giant Snail' Olly is holding Sheldon a baby giant snail. He told us that they could both live for up to 10 years!

What was Gary and Sheldon's favourite food?

Here Millie and Stefan are holding 'Max the millipede' who is 2 years old. We learned that his skeleton is on the outside of his body and when he gets scared he curls up into a ball to protect himself.

Can you remember how many legs Max has?

This is Tallulah the Tarantula. She can be very scared of people so she stayed in her box. Olly told us that in the wild when they get really scared Tarantulas can flick hairs off their bodies to warn off predators. These can really sting if they stick in you!

Can you remember how many eyes Tallulah has?

Here Layla, Ashton and Ava are holding Giant hissing Coakroaches which are both called Samantha. We learned that they have very sticky feet, SO sticky that they can hang upside down and that they will eay ANYTHING!

We also met Orin the corn snake who is 6 years old. Orin has no ears and smells with her tongue. Olly told us she finds it easier to move across rough surfaces than smooth ones.

Well Done Blue Class for being very gentle when stroking the creatures and very brave for holding them 

Thank you for taking the time to share in our learning journey. We are now coming to the end of our term. We will be carrying on for another 2 weeks with our current topic 'Rumble in the Jungle'

• Your child wil be bringing home their PE kit so that it can be washed over the holidays, please check to see if there is anything missing and ensure you return it ready for the first week back with plasters or tape for earrings if needed.

We hope you have a lovely Easter break and look forward to seeing you on Monday the 9th April 

Please remember that Tuesday 10th April is our Year 1 school trip to Twycross Zoo. Children should come in school uniform as usual but MUST wear sensible footwear, bring a waterproof coat and a packed lunch. No Fizzy drinks or sweets as normal and they will not need a water bottle for this day thank you 

Blue Class braved the rain and cold to see as many animals as we could at Twycross Zoo. We had a lovely time looking closely at the animals and watching them in their environments.  Being up so close to these animals meant that we could see the hair on the elephants back, the beautiful colours of the butterflies and Lorikeets and the strong tail of the Kangaroo as it balanced itself. We could also see that the stripes of a Zebra are not black like we think they are, they are actually more brown!

Why does a Zebra have stripes?

We were amazed at just how tall a Giraffe really is, we would only come upto its knees!

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Why is the Giraffes's food hung up high in the ceiling ?

We giggled at the cheeky Chimp who chased up and down the window trying to make us jump and at the penguin who thought Millie's coat was a BIG fish!

Why does a penguin have webbed feet?

We would like to thank ALL of Blue Class for making us so proud with their sensible behaviour all day 

We would also like to thank you for your continued support which allowed us to make the day a great success 

Have a look below at some of the other animals we saw at the Zoo.

This week we have introduced our new topic

Ready

Steady

Grow

We will be finding out about plants and trees which grow in the United Kingdom and what they need to grow healthily. 

We came into the classroom and discovered a letter, an envelope full of different seeds and a scarecrow!

The scarecrow had dropped the packets of seeds and they were now all mixed up. Scarecrow asked for our help to try to sort them out. Once we had sorted them each group chose a set of seeds to plant. We were really impressed with how the children knew how to plant a seed and what it needed to grow well. We are looking forward to seeing how the seeds change and what they will grow into because the scarecrow had lost the packets.

We went for a walk around the school grounds to see what different plants and trees were growing. 

Can you remember the names of any of plants that we saw?

Can you explain why some trees are called evergreen ?

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Next week we will be finding out ... 

Do plants need air water and sunlight to grow?

Well it's the end of another busy term !

When we come back it will soon be time for the Phonics Screening Test.

Please remember to practise your Phonics over the holidays, we have sent a pack of words home again for you. 

Look across each word ... What can you spot?

Is it a real or nonsense word ?

Is there a blend ... how many letters in the blend ?

Can you spot any digraphs or trigraphs ?

Is there a magic 'e' ?

If it didn't sound right can a sounds be said in a different way ?

Remember to sound each word out carefully even if you think you know it as some words look similar e.g from / form 

We will see you all on Tuesday 5th June with PE Kits please as Year 1 have PE the first Tuesday back

Thank you for your conuinued support over this term ... have a lovely holiday 

Welcome back we hope you have had a lovely Easter break and are refreshed ready to try to answer our new topic question:

Can I Have Green Fingers?

In this topic we will be learning about how plants and trees grow and change.

To launch our topic we went on a walk around the school grounds to see what plants and trees we could find.

Look at all the things we found!

Can you name some of the plants and trees we found?

We then looked at the different parts of a plant and learned about how each part helps the plant to grow. 

We learned that :

• the roots hold the plant in place and suck up water to help the plant grow
• the stem supports the flower
• the leaves take in sunlight and turn it into food and energy to help the plant grow
• the flower petals attract insects to help a plant reproduce

Well done Ethan and Elsie you remembered lots of facts about a plant.

As part of our topic we are going to carry out an investigation to find out the best conditions for growing  plants.

We used what we already know about what plants need to grow to decide where cress might grow best. We knew that they need sunlight, water and air so we sprinkled cress seeds over soil in 3 different pots and placed each pot into a place where it will get the conditions needed for our investigation. 

• Pot 1 in the window where it will have sunlight but no water
• Pot 2 in the cupboard where it will have water but no light
• Pot 3 in the window where it will have sunlight and water

First we filled the pots with soil ...

Next we watered the soil in pot 2 and pot 3 ...

Then we sprinkled on the cress seeds ...

Finally we placed the pots into a suitable place where they would get the right conditions needed for the investigation. We placed Pot 1 and pot 3 in the window and pot 2 into a box where it would be dark.

Check back next week to see our results so far.

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In English this week we have been sharing the story of The Enormous Turnip. We have had lots of fun retelling the story using actions and role play. We will be using this to support our writing over the next week.

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In Maths this week we have been:

• counting up to and beyond a 100 starting from any number.

Please practise this at home. How far can you count beyond 100?

• reading and writing numbers from 1 - 100 in numerals and in words

Can you read these number words?

Remember to use your phonics to help you!

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Reminders for next week

Monday is Bank Holiday - School is closed

Wednesday - Aces Day

This week in Topic we have been learning about a famous artist William Morris. We learned that he lived and worked during Victorian times and was inspired by the natural world. He used natural objects like stones, feathers, flowers and leaves to create his designs which were used to design wallpaper and fabrics for furniture covers.

If you look closely at his designs you can see how they repeat or reflect.

We have been developing our art skills further using paint to print designs using fruit, vegetables and leaves 

Here Elsie has printed using half a pear and a piece of celery to create her design and Jake printed his design using half a potato and apple.

What do you notice about their designs?

We worked in pairs to create a printing tile of a flower using pva glue and string.

First we drew our flower shape onto some cardboard. Here James and Enya are tracing over the pencil line with the glue. 

Here we are cutting lengths of string and laying them to create our flower outline starting with the centre of the flower and then creating the petal shapes.

This was very tricky and very sticky!

Next week we will be using these to recreate a piece of art work by another famous artist. Check back next week to see if you can guess who it is. 

We concluded our investigation from last week looking back at the 3 pots of cress seeds we planted under different conditions. Here are our findings

Pot 1 - light but no water. 

The cress seeds had not grown.

Pot 2 - water but no light

The cress seeds had grown in the dark BUT they were not green healthy plants.

Pot 3 - water and light

The cress seeds had grown a little bit, we could just see a green leaf poking out of the soil

What does this tell you about what a plant needs?

Can you explain what has happened?

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In English this week we have been re-writing a traditional tale with a twist. After sharing the story of The Enormous Turnip last week we decided this week to write our own versions by changing part or parts of the story. Children suggested they could change the turnip to another fruit or vegetable and the characters to  someone of their own choice. 

Read Alex, Enya and Kayla's fabulous versions of The Enormous ...

Well done all of you !

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In Maths this week we have been thinking about ordering numbers from the smallest to the largest up to 100. This is our homework this week, remember to look at the 10's digit first to see which number has the least amount of 10's.

Can you say how you know which number goes where?

Thank you for taking the time to see what we have been doing in Blue Class this week.

This week in topic we have explored the work of a well known artist Vincent Van Gogh. We have looked at his painting of the Sunflowers and have developed our art skills further to create our own sunflowers. 

Here Kayla and Jake are carefully drawing and cutting out the petals for their sunflowers.

Here Gracie Jo, Poppy and Tia are sticking seeds to create the centre of the sunflower.

Check back next week to see how we put all of our sunflowers together.

We have also mixed paint to create different shades of orange. 

Here McKenzie and Lily are carefully painting the centre of their flower. Levi started off with yellow and each time he added a small amount of red to create a slightly darker shade of orange for his petals.

Can you see how each petal gets darker

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In English this week have been learning about instruction writing. We started off by thinking about what instructions are and what we use them for. We also looked at the features of instruction writing and carried out activities to show we can follow them.

Here Ethan followed instructions to make a hole in the soil for the seed and Kacey Mae followed instructions to plant her seed ensuring that it was the right way up.

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In Maths this week we have been reviewing finding 1 more or 1 less than a number upto 100.

Previously we learned how to find 1 more and 1 less by saying

e.g. 1 more than 18 is … or 1 less than 20 is …

This week it was a little harder as we had to find the number that a given number was 1 more or 1 less than

for example: 45 is 1 less than …

We had to understand which direction to move on a numberline or hundred square to find the correct number.

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Please remember to send your child with a bottle of water especially while the sun is shining.

Reminder for next week:

Monday 15th May - Parents Open Afternoon 2pm - 3pm

Please only 1 adult per child as we are very short on space and seats and we want you to enjoy your time in school.

Parents Open Afternoon

How lovely it was to see grown ups come and enjoy spending time with their children this afternoon. We had lots of fun working with a partner giving and following instructions to create two identical flowers in a vase.

Look at our fantastic flowers below!

We hope you all had a lovely time and look forward to seeing you again soon 

This week in Topic we have been preparing, making and eating delicious fruit kebabs!

 We have had a chance to chop up some different fruits. We found that some of the fruits were really easily to cut like the banana and strawberry but some were a little harder like the apple and the plum.

We tasted a piece of each fruit to help us decide what fruits we wanted to make our kebab. Most children liked the strawberry, apple, plum, grapes and banana but some did not like the orange and pineapple.

Once we had decided what fruits we wanted we selected them and put them on a cocktail stick to make our kebab

Look at our delicious kebabs below !

Which kebab would you like to eat ?

In Maths we are beginning to learn about Multiplication. In Year 1 we focus on Multiplication using 2's 5's and 10's

First we looked at doubling. This is where we add a number to itself

For example: double 2 is the same as 2 + 2 or 2 x 2

Then we looked at repeated addition. This is where we add the same number again and again in order to find the answer to a multiplication problem.

Here Kayla has counted how many flowers are in each column and she has written the repeated addition underneath. She then counted in 2 to find her answer. She also showed this as a Multiplication calculation.

Well done Kayla 

We also have been learning how to use an array to answer Multiplication questions.  

Children have learned that there are 'Steps to Success' for using an array in Multiplication these are:

• How many rows?
• How many in each row?
• Write the multiplication calculation
• Count up in 2's 5's or 10's to find the answer

* Photos of children's work to follow

Thank you for taking the time to share our working week in school 

Sunflowers

Blue Class would like to share with you their version of Vincent Van Gogh's Sunflowers from our previous art lession. 

This week we are closing our Topic for this term.

We have looked at how our sunflowers have grown and changed since we planted the seeds. Most of them have grown a stem and either 2 or 4 leaves. We have measured how much our plants have grown and recorded this information into our 'Sunflower Diaries'. We have brought these home along with our plants to record the next two entries in our neatest handwriting (tall letters tall and small letters small)  as part of our homework. We will need to return just the completed diaries after the holidays to share what has happened to our sunflower plants.

We wonder whose plant will have grown the most!

Remember to put your plant in a sensible place so that it will continue to grow well and water it a little every day if needed.

We have also been learning about the difference between Evergreen and Deciduous trees. We now know that Evergreen trees have their leaves all year round yet Deciduous trees shed their leaves each Autumn. 

Here Lily and Isla have found 2 trees around our school. 

Which tree is a Evergreen tree?

We closed our Topic by holding a quiz about everything we have learned in this Topic. We had 7 teams and they had to answer questions about things they had learned this term.

How well will you do ?

What 3 things do plants need to grow healthily?

What happens to deciduous trees in Autumn?

Name 3 fruits and 3 vegetables

Bonus point - Is a tomato a fruit or a vegetable?

What about a cucumber ?

What flower did Van Gogh use in his famous painting?

Wht are the petals on a flower bright and colourful?

and finally ...

Can you have Green Fingers ?

The winning Team was the Red Rubies - Jack Kayla Enya and Levi

A BIG  thumbs up for remembering so much of what you have learned .

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In English this week we have been learning about contractions.  A contraction is where two wards have been shortened or 'contracted' and written as one word. A letter or letters are removed and replaced with an apostrophe.The letters removed are usually vowels though consonants can also be removed for example: I will  -->  I'll  

Can you match the words to their matching contraction?

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In Maths this week we have been learning how to divide using sharing and grouping.

Here Kayla and Ethan have solved a division calculation by sharing objects between a given number of groups

Here Rhys and Levi have solved a division calculation by putting 9 cubes into groups of 3 to work out how many groups they would make.

We hope you have enjoyed following us on our learning journey through this Topic and are looking forward to a lovely break.

Please remember to practise your reading at home remembering to notice and read blends, digraphs, trigraphs, magic e's  and alternative pronunciations of sounds you already know ready for your Year 1 Phonic Screening.

Please check your child's book bag for any letters thank you ​​​​​​​

Welcome back

We hope you had a lovely break and are refreshed and ready to start the final term of this academic year.

This term we are trying to answer the question:

Do I Need My Wellies?

Well we actually did need our wellies on Tuesday as we braved the rain in our summer clothes with our buckets and spades !

Children were very excited to discover that there was a beach in Blue Class.

We paddled in the sea and jumped the waves …

we played with the beach ball on the sand …

we sunbathed in the beautiful sunshine …

 we made sandcastles …

and we went rock pooling.

Can you name any of the sea creatures in the rock pool?

Children thought about things they would take to the beach and explained why.

Look what Ethan and Lilly S would take to the beach and why. 

We also made a list of all the sea creatures we could see in the rock pool.

Well done Jessica, Levi and Kacey Mae super phonics used in your spellings of these words. 

We could see a starfish in the rock pool and looked closely at the pattern on its body.

We used cotton buds and paint to create our own pattern on our starfish.

Look at Blake, Lilly S and Owen's beautiful patterned starfish.

Well we hope you have enjoyed finding out what we have been doing during our first week back.

Check back next week to see where our learning journey takes us next week.

Remember next week it will the Year 1 Phonic Screening Test. Please encourage your child to spot blends (br fl str nd sk), digraphs (sounds with 2 letters), trigraphs (sounds with 3 letters ear, air) split digraphs (magic 'e') and to remember if a digraph can be pronounced in 2 ways to sound talk with each sound and decide which word sounds right (oo, ea). There are some links to websites for you to practise on the Tear 1 home page. 

Blue Class have now all completed their Phonic Screening Test and we are all incredibly proud of their hard work and effort. Also we would like to take this opportunity to thank you for your support at home. 

In Topic we have been learning about where hot and cold areas of the world are and why. We learned about the Equator which is an imaginary line around the middle of the Earth at an equal distance from the North Pole and the South Pole.Places that are close to the equator are hotter. This is because the sun directly shines on this part of the Earth

Here Levi has shown that he knows where hot and cold places are on the Earth.

Click on Levi's work to learn more about this.

Well done Levi for remembering a fact about the North Pole 

We have also learned about people who live in hot and cold climates. We learned about  the Inuits and the Maasai tribe and how they manage to survive the climate they live in. 

Can you remember where the Maasai people live?

What do the Inuits and Maasai need to survive such hot and cold climates?

What facts can you remember about the Inuits and the Maasai tribe?

Read what Elsie remembered about the Inuits and how they live.

We also learned about the types of animals that live in these climates too. 

Look at the animals above ... Can you say if they live in a hot or cold climate?

We hope you enjoyed learning all about hot and cold climates. Check back next week to see where our learning journey takes us next!

Dinner with Dad

What a lovely time we had spending quality time with Dads and Grandads. We enjoyed sharing stories together, we built using Lego and constructed using Zoobs, we completed jigsaws and were very creative with art materials making hats, micro-people and even crazy caterpillars!

We would like to wish you a 'Happy Fathers Day' on Sunday and hope you enjoy your day.

Take a look at the ALL the fun we had below! 

BLUE CLASS UPDATE

What a busy few weeks we have had. We have completed the Phonics Screening test ... we have had our Centenary Celebration Afternoon ... AND we have been to meet our new Teachers in Year 2.

We are very proud of everyone with the Phonics Screening Test, there were some very tricky words but everyone tried there very best and Mrs Baird was impressed. Your child's results will be in their School Report which will be given out next week. 

We would like to thank you for support at home 

The Centenary Celebration afternoon was a huge success and everyone enjoyed the picnic with their grown ups and the delicious food from the Gurkha Express. There were lots fun activities around school and the wonderful showcase of work that children put together. We are incredibly grateful for all your support and for the amazing amount of money raised to help build the school in Nepal.

Everyone had a good time in their new classes. They met their teacher and Teaching Assistant and made lots of new friends in their new class. They were introduced to their class mascot and were kept busy with lots of fun activities. Though we are glad that Blue Class children had a lovely time in their new classes we are very happy to have them back for the last few weeks before we have to say our good byes ! 

And so another year has come and gone and with great sadness it is now time to say goodbye. If we had a choice we would keep them for another year but to allow them to grow and learn we have to send them on their way. We would like to take this opportunity to share how fantastic all your children have been, it's been an absolute pleasure to have been part of their learning journey. We would also like to thank you all for your kind words and continued support throughout the year without this they may not have made the steps they have.

The class of 2016 -2017

We would both like to thank you very much for your generosity and have been overwhelmed by the lovely gifts received 

Each year we are asked to choose just one child who has been our Star of the Year. Every year it gets so hard to just pick 1 child as they are all stars in our eyes. This year we picked a young lady who has come so far since September. She wasn't sure about Year 1 when she joined us but eventually realised that we were there to help her succeed in everything she wanted to achieve and since tries so hard in everything she does.

Our Star of the Year is ...

Kayla

Well Done Kayla 

We would also like to say a HUGE well done to these 12 children who have followed our School Rules and stayed on the sunshine ALL year. 

Well Done all of you 

They wear their medals with pride.

Please have a lovely holiday and we hope to still see you around school in September.