Class 1

What a brilliant first week Class 1 have had with our special visitor, Pig the Pug!

The children have been fantastic and showing Pig the Pug how to share and work together, as well as designing him some fantastic homes and snazzy collars.

Class 1 were also sad to hear how he had hurt himself…

In RE this term, we are thinking about what makes every person special, unique and important. 
 

Today we listened to the parable of The Lost Sheep and spoke about how everyone is important to God. We spoke about what makes us all unique and how being different from our friends or others does…

This morning before our surprise visitors, Class 1 enjoyed a lovely mindfulness session using a musical tracing map and our beautiful scarves. The children enjoyed using their scarves to follow and trace the pattern made by the different sea creatures. This mindful sessions really help the…

This morning, Class 1 have had some surprise visitors. Mrs Gethin, Ralph and some children from St Mary’s came to see us and shared an exciting project that is happening across our seven schools.
 

Using the story, Pig the Pug, each school has been asked to complete a variety of activities and…

Class 1 today have finished finding out about why churches are so important to Christians. Everyone has remembered what makes churches so special and also the important features of churches. 
 

The children then worked together in small groups to create their own churches using some of our…

Class 1 have been very excited to see their caterpillars develop into cocoons. First of all the caterpillars climbed to the top of the cup and hung in a J shape.  Then they shed their  exoskeleton for the final time before they became cocoons. It took about 2 days for the cocoons to harden up. We…

In RE this week, we continued to explore churches. We looked at lots of different churches around the world and saw how they can vary in size and design. We spoke about how important churches are to Christians and discussed what different types of celebrations we have been to in church. 
 

We…

This afternoon, Class 1 had such a lovely visit to St Stephen’s. Father Neale kindly showed us all the different features of a church and showed us what happens at the altar and font during some services. We also got to sit in the pews where our grown ups normally sit. 
 

Father Neale also…

Class 1 were learning all about lifestyle cycles today in our Science lesson.  The children then made  their own lifecycle of a caterpillar. We are all very excited to watch our class caterpillars go through their life-cycle. The children made predictions of what would happen next.

The question we are exploring this half term in our RE sessions is ‘What happens in a church?’
 

Today, we talked about how lucky we are to have our church, St Stephen’s so close to our school and to be part of the church community.  We talked about all the different celebrations we have…

Class 1 have received their very own caterpillars this week. They arrived in a special box sent by some important scientists, they have asked us to look after them and observe them as they grow. We have been asked to keep a Caterpillar diary to keep track of the changes that happen. Today we each…

This week to finish our RE topic finding out why Christians put a cross in an Easter garden, we have heard the story of the Easter weekend and found out why Easter Sunday is such an exciting time for Christians. 
 

We then worked together to create our own flower cross before going to perform…