Blog Author: R Heath

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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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Class 1 have kick started the term learning all about Space! Their knowledge has been amazing to hear and their excitement and enthusiasm has been wonderful!

We have delved into lots of non-fiction texts about Space and we now know all 8 planets and a little bit about each one of them. We…

Class 1 had such a fun time this afternoon tackling a Christmas themed obstacle course and worked brilliantly in their house teams across the different obstacles to collect presents for Santa.

Thank you Mrs Castell for setting up such a brilliant obstacle course! We all loved it!

Today in our maths activity, Class 1 were exploring the concept of 1 less than. We used some snowmen stick puppets and a fantastic song to help us work out 1 less than a given number. The children loved being either a snowman or a sun and making one snowman melt away at a time. They were all…

Wow, how incredibly lucky not only Class 1, but the whole school has been this term with all the fantastic gifts that have kindly been bought from our school Wish List.

Thank you so much for your generosity and helping provide such amazing resources for our class and school. The children in…

A fun day making our Christmas cards for our loved ones.

Class 1 have enjoyed lots of Christmas continuous provision activities this week and have really enjoyed completing their Christmas challenges.