Author: kkeohane

Stars of the Week: Eleni and Joshua

The theme for last week’s DT week was moving animals and Class 1 made dinosaurs! First we designed our dinosaurs, thinking about what colour it would be and what materials we would need to make it. Next we painted them, cut them out and then stuck them together to make our moving dinosaurs! Finally, we reflected on our work, what went well and what we would change next time.
We hope you enjoyed looking at our dinosaurs, as well as all the other wonderful creations, at the DT exhibition for parents evening.

Stars of the Week: Rosa and Gabriel

Last week we were thinking about caring friendships in Year 1. We read the book Sharing a Shell and thought about the actions that show that we are caring friends. We used this idea to make a display board for our school hall with Year 2 and 3. Our job was to decorate bubbles and write words and phrases to describe caring friendships such as ‘team work’ and ‘share’.
Here’s a picture of our finished display work:

Stars of the Week: Cruz and Mia

This week we had our first school trip of the year to the Museum of Childhood to look at how toys have changed over time. Well done Class 1 for your excellent behaviour and enthusiasm to your learning throughout the day.

Stars of the Week: Aarav and Caitlin

This week in maths we have been ordering numbers and groups of objects. At our tables, we each rolled a dice then ordered the numbers we rolled from lowest to highest. We also found as many ways as we could to make 3 towers out of 10 cubes.

Class 1 children have now received their login details for Sum Dog, a a fantastic website (and APP) that uses motivating games to encourage children to practice their mental maths skills. Children have stuck their login details into their blue reading records.
Follow the link below for a parents guide to Sum Dog:

Sumdog: A guide for parents

Stars of the Week: Gabrielle and Sonny

This week, we have been exploring our class text The Velveteen Rabbit through drama. We looked at the part of the story where the Velveteen Rabbit sits in the cupboard with the other toys and chats to the Old Skin Horse about becoming real. We freeze framed different parts of the story, thinking about how we can show the character’s feelings.

Curriculum Evening presentation 2019-20

It was lovely to see lots of you at the curriculum evening. The link to the powerpoint is above and sound mats as requested below!

TOPIC NAVIGATOR – History Year 1 Toys from the past

Stars of the Week: Hudson and Marcia

This week we have been looking at our Class Charter which we wrote together. On the charter, we wrote our ideas for rules and good behaviours to make Class 1 a lovely place to be!
Here are some of our ideas:
– Always try your best
– Keep the classroom tidy
-Be kind to others

Stars of the Week: All of Class 1

A huge well done to all of Class 1! You have made a great start to the year with all your hard work this week to learn how to be superstar Year 1 pupils and create lovely pieces of work for our classroom display boards!

Keep a look out for photos of our lovely displays coming soon…