Zimbabwe and International Week!

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Class 1 have had a great week learning all about Zimbabwe! We have listened to some Zimbabwean music, explored the main attractions of the country, spoken some of the language and found out some interesting facts! It has been great to see children so excited to learn about another culture. We have had a busy week fitting Zimbabwe into our learning in numeracy, literacy, geography and art! Take a look at some of our pictures. Enjoy!

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In maths, we practiced our measuring skills by drawing the Zimbabwean flag at different sizes. We made sure we kept our rulers nice and still and measured our flags accurately. The Zimbabwean flag has a lot of stripes so it was a good thing we had rulers to help us draw our lines!

 

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In literacy, we explored Zimbabwe with our comprehension skills. We carefully read a piece of text all about Zimbabwe and then had to answer questions on the text. We found out some interesting information:

Did you know there are up to 16 different languages spoken in Zimbabwe? 

Did you know that Robert Mugabe has been the president of Zimbabwe since 1987?!

The capital of Zimbabwe is a city called Harare.

In literacy we also made some holiday brochures, writing about all the exciting things to see and do in Zimbabwe!

We have been busy in art making our own Zimbabwe flag. Take a look at some of our pictures below along with our pictures from International Day where class 1 dressed up in some lovely outfits!

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Class 1’s trip to Surrey Docks Farm

Class 1 had a fantastic trip to Surrey Docks Farm on Friday. We were able to stroke and feed many animals including ducks, goats, rabbits, lambs and chickens! We were given careful instructions about how to feed the goats, we had to hold our hands out flat with food in it for the goats to eat. They jumped up quickly and gobbled it up! It was great that children were so confident when feeding the animals and it was lovely that class 1 were able to find out so many different and interesting facts!

Did you know a female chicken is called a hen?

Did you know that a baby goat is called a kid?

Did you know that ferrets have very sharp teeth like fangs!?

Take a look at some pictures from our trip to the farm below, enjoy!

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Phonics Screening Check information

Dear class 1 parents/carers    phonics

Your child will be taking the phonics screening check during the week beginning 13th June 2016. The test is taken one at a time, lasting no longer than 5-6 minutes. Each child will be taken into a separate room to complete the test, where they will have to decode real and fake words from a booklet. The phonics screening check is designed to confirm whether pupils have learnt phonic decoding to an appropriate standard. It will identify pupils who need extra support to improve their decoding skills.

Every child in class 1 has made brilliant progress with their phonics so far this year. This has been reflected in their reading and writing. Please do continue to practice phonics at home with your child, particularly if your child takes home a phonics reading book.

More information about the phonics screening check, with practice test materials, can be found here

 

Our CLC visit!

Despite the rain, class 1 had a brilliant trip to London’s Connected Learning Centre (CLC) on Friday. Our session was all about exploring games and how they are designed. The children discussed their favourite games to play on ipads and game consoles then had to explore which aspects of the game they enjoyed and why. Class 1 were then lucky enough to design their own game on an individual apple mac which consisted of thinking of a name for their game,designing goodies and baddies and solving any problems that could arise if someone was to play their game. It was great to see children developing their creative thinking and computer skills! We had a great day, take a look at some of our pictures.

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