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31 January 2025

The Parable of the Wise and Foolish Builders

In our RE session today, we discussed the Parables we have learnt about so far and talked about why Parables are so special to Christians. 
 

We then listened to the Parable of the Wise and Foolish Builders and talked about the lessons we could learn from the story.

 

Following the…

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30 January 2025

Exploring 1 more and 1 less.

In our maths session today, we have been exploring 1 more and 1 less using our outdoor resources.

Mrs Philp called out and showed a number and challenged the children to show 1 more than that number. All the children could accurately identify the number that was 1 more and had such fun finding…

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29 January 2025

Forest school Chinese New Year

Forest school morning celebrating Chinese New Year.

Class 1 enjoyed creating natural dragon and lion masks, cooking up a storm in the Chinese mud kitchen, making new year fans, Chinese symbol mud writing and exploring our outside area.

We got very muddy and had lots and lots of fun!

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27 January 2025

Chinese New Year

Class 1 are exploring all things Chinese New Year this week. So far we have listened to the language and we have learned how to say "Hello I am___" in Mandarin.

We have all tried to use Chinese symbols to write our name, it was very tricky and the symbols were much more complex than our…

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27 January 2025

The Year of the Snake!

Class 1 have listened to the story of the Zodiac and have acted out the story using animal masks. We remembered parts in the story and that the rat and the cat had a lift across from the Ox, but the rat was not kind and pushed the cat off! We had such fun reenacting the story and learning about…

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22 January 2025

Find Your Happy!

Class 1 have been discovering different emotions and how to manage those feelings.

We listened the beautiful story Find Your Happy and listened to how the character finds his happy after experiencing emotions of feeling sad, shy, angry, worried. One of the things the character does is think of…

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22 January 2025

Class 1s Big Garden Bird Watch

After learning all about birds and how to identify them Class 1 headed out to complete our big garden bird watch. We put on our rain suits so that we could lay down to camouflage ourselves and to not scare the birds away We tried our best to be quiet and headed out to the different areas of our…

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22 January 2025

All about birds!

In preparation for our Big Garden Big Watch Class 1 have been learning all about birds, watched a video on how to encourage birds into our gardens and how to identify each bird. We looked at the markings on the different birds and listened to their bird songs. Class 1 enjoyed sharing what birds…

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16 January 2025

Exploring 1 less than with snowballs!

In maths today Class 1 were exploring the concept of one less than. The children had great fun using snowballs to help them find one less than a given number.

In this activity, the children used their subitising and number recognition skills and practised their number formation on our fantastic…

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13 January 2025

Aliens Love Underpants!

Today our classroom was covered in pants!

We read the story Aliens Love Underpants and had a day full of alien fun! We listened to the aliens voices on our talking tins and wrote down their names in Literacy. We then found a letter from the aliens asking for our help to find magnetic items so…

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10 January 2025

Respresenting numbers to 5 with body actions

In maths today, Class 1 have been thinking about representing numbers to 5 in different ways. We put on our coats and found a safe place on our outside area to enjoy our maths activity.

Everyone took it in turns to roll a dice, identify the number rolled by subitising the dots on the dice and…

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9 January 2025

Vivaldi’s Winter Mindfulness

In our music mindfulness session after lunch today, Class 1 used scarves to perform a lovely movement activity to Vivaldi’s winter piece from his Four Seasons suite. All the children really enjoyed using the scarves and following the actions with both their bodies and and their scarves. 
 

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