Author: htotman

Stars of the Week: Evelyn and Betty

This half term in DT Class 1 have been learning how to weave. They began by practising weaving paper and card using the over, under technique and then moved on to using wool and string to make a loom fish. The children found it quite tricky at times but persevered and enjoyed using their new skills. Have a look at the progress they have made, the children had to work slowly and carefully and found it satisfying when they got the hang of it!

In Maths this week Class 1 has been working on partitioning numbers to 100. They are getting very confident with saying how many tens and how many ones a two digit number has, as well as comparing numbers using the greater than, less than and equal to symbols.

In English we have been learning the tale of Anansi and the Moss Covered Rock. The children found the story very entertaining and enjoyed hearing about the ways Anansi tricked other animals. Class 1 are looking forward to coming up with their own ideas of what tricks Anansi could play next!

Stars of the Week: Malique and Kayden

The highlight of the week in Class 1 was our wonderful sports day on Wednesday. The children impressed everyone with their amazing athletic skills. It was fantastic to see so many parents cheering Class 1 on too. Check back soon for photos of Class 1 competing in all the different events!

Stars of the Week: Samuel and Lola

Class 1 enjoyed their trip to Tower Bridge this week. They demonstrated excellent behaviour and enthusiasm and everyone thoroughly enjoyed themselves. The children carefully tallied up the number of different types of vehicles they could see from the glass floor, and enjoyed learning about the steam powered engines in the engine rooms. We were even lucky enough to find out it was Tower Bridge’s 127th birthday the day we visited! Thank you to our lovely trip helpers Debbie, Porsha, Emily, Ella and Marta. What a brilliant day.

Next week we are looking forward to sports day where we can showcase all the training we have done in PE this half term!

Stars of the Week- all of Class 1!

Well done to all of Class 1 who have done some fantastic work in their Maths, Reading and Phonics assessments this week. You should all be proud of yourselves!

Stars of the Week: Jacob A and Ava

Class 1 have worked hard this week and have enjoyed making clay tiles inspired by the artist Monet. We shaped our tiles and used leaves and flowers to imprint on the wet clay. We are looking forward to painting them this afternoon. Check back next week for our finished art work!

Stars of the Week: Betty and Samuel

Class 1 have enjoyed the first lesson of our new Geography unit where we are focusing on mapping skills. The class identified and labelled some aerial photographs of the local area such as London Bridge Station, Tower Bridge and some local parks and playgrounds. We learned that the word aerial means from above. We then constructed a small town and imagined what a bird would see if they flew over our towns. Have a look at our interesting constructions!

Next week the class are looking forward to practising more skills in PE for Sports Day. We enjoyed learning how to throw a javelin this week as well as showing off our speedy sprinting in our relay races!

Stars of the Week: Arabella and Zein

We have had a wonderful week in Class 1 learning lots of new poems and writing our own. We have learnt about rhyming, acrostic and shape poems. Have a look at some of these great examples from Ava, Albert and Malique.

Class 1 are excited to perform a poem this afternoon to a special visitor.

Well done for all your hard work this half term, Class 1!

The spellings for this week are:

1. air
2. fair
3. pair
4. hair
5. chair
6. bare
7. dare
8. care
9. share
10.scared

The test will be on Friday 28th May

Stars of the Week- Ezra and Evelyn

Well done on another week of hard work, Class 1. This week Class 1 have been practising counting in 2s, 5s and 10s during our multiplication and division maths unit. We have also been working on showing equal groups. We know that for a group to be equal, it must have the same amount in each group.

Class 1 had an exciting afternoon on Wednesday when some experts visited us to do some computing programming using Scratch Junior. All the children participated enthusiastically and worked on creating characters as well as programming their characters to speak and move in different ways. We all learned a lot and thoroughly enjoyed the experience.