Blog Author: R Heath

Class 1 have been learning about the Easter story and Easter traditions this week. The children have written sentences to share their knowledge about traditions and have all created an Easter card with the cross symbol and have discussed what this symbolises to Christians.

Have a Happy Easter…

Today in our RE session, Class 1 continued to explore the Easter story and found out about what happened after Good Friday and how Christians celebrate Easter Saturday. We watched some short videos about the Easter story and how Easter is celebrated in church on Easter Saturday and Sunday. We then…

Class 1 have been incredibly busy exploring 3D shapes this week in their maths sessions.
 

They have made beautiful butterflies by printing with 3D shapes to see what 2d shapes are in different 3D shapes, listened to and joined in with some 3D shape songs and today, Class 1 were challenged to…

Class 1 are learning all about pond life this week, with a special focus on frogs!

We listened to the story The Perfect Ribbit, which beautifully explains the life cycle of a frog. The children drew their own life cycles, labelled and wrote sentences to describe the process. The children also…

Today some of our caterpillars have started to hang upside down in their J shapes, getting ready to make their cocoon. Some of our caterpillars have already made their cocoons over the weekend and we have filled in the next part to our caterpillar diary to record our observations.

Our caterpillars are growing! They have eaten lots of food, we have noticed their skin shed, webs and also lots of poo! We have been making observations and notes in our caterpillar diaries, carefully documenting this process.

Class 1 are really enjoying watching them grow!

Class 1 explored minibeast habitats in Science today and why minibeasts like small, sheltered places. We went outside to collect natural materials, sticks, leaves, pine cones and bark to create a bug hotel out of a tyre.

Today in maths Class 1 have been number explorers and finding out about odd and even numbers. We talked about what makes a number odd and what makes a number even and then we went outside on a numicon hunt. Mrs Elwell is very good at hiding numicon - some were very tricky to find!
 

Once the…

In maths today, Class 1 have been exploring how to double numbers and using our fabulous numicon to help us. 
 

The children used the numicon pieces to create their own butterflies and then recorded each double as a number sentence. All the children remembered that to show a double you get an…

Class 1 were very kindly invited down to take a look at GHU5’s Living Eggs Chicks. We popped down on Tuesday to see the eggs in the incubator and were so fascinated by them! On Wednesday we went back down to see that 5 of the chicks had hatched and were warming up and drying out in their incubator…

In science and topic lessons Class 1 have been learning all about minibeasts.

Today we had a Big Word Alert in our science lesson where we learnt what the words Invertebrate and Anthropoid mean. We explored what makes up an insect and what the minibeasts needs to have to be classed as an…

Caterpillar update week 2!

Class 1 have hhad such fun observing our caterpillars. They are growing so fast and the children have noticed the caterpillar making webs, shedding little parts of their skin and have see lots of tiny poo!

The children all carefully observed their caterpillar pots…