Image of The Jolly Postman
21 October 2026

The Jolly Postman

This week in Class 1 our Literacy focus was the stroy The Jolly Postman. This led us to explore a new occupation of Postal Workers. After exploring our new text in Literacy, we learnt all about the journey of a letter in our Topic lesson. We saw what happens to a letter after it is posted in a…

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16 October 2026

We are all precious!

In our RE session this week, Class 1 found out that for Christian’s, God is a VIP and that we have to use his name with care and respect. We also talked about how precious not only God is, but also how previous we all are and that we need to take special care of each other as God cares for us…

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15 October 2026

How amazing are our PE skills using our equipment!

Class 1 have been working so hard in their PE sessions and have impressed Mrs Castell that this week, the children worked on using their jumping and balance skills on a challenging obstacle course using different pieces of equipment. 

What a fun and energetic PE lesson - well done Class 1!


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13 October 2026

People Who Help Us

Class 1 have enjoyed learning about different occupations in our topic People Who Help Us. This week this included Police officers and Fire fighters. We focused on the story Burglar Bill and had lots of fun when our class bear Marshmellow the dragon was stolen just like Burglar Bill in the story.…

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5 October 2026

Healthy and happy teeth!

This week as part of our People who Help Us topic, we are thinking about Dentists and keeping our teeth healthy.

 

We have had a lot of fun today painting teeth with toothbrushes, flossing dirty teeth at our funky fingers table, making toothbrushes for our Monster Phonics teddies and…

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1 October 2026

Creation

In our RE topic this term, we are thinking about the question, Why is God so important to Christians. Today we discovered that to Christians, God is a VIP! We talked about what it means to be a VIP and shared who are our VIPs.

 

We then found out about how God created our world and all that…

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22 September 2026

Our fantastic families!

This afternoon in our topic session we have been thinking about families and spoke about how families come in all different shapes and sizes, which is what makes our own families so special!

We looked at pictures of different families and talked about our own families and who lives with us in…

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21 September 2026

Mindful music and sticks!

Class 1 have been continuing to enjoy their mindful moments to help prepare themselves for learning activities after enjoying our continuous provision activities or break times.

Today the children carefully traced the musical lines using our special class sticks. They were all so careful to…

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18 September 2026

Let’s go to the Dough Disco

To build the strength in our hands and fingers to help so that we can become fantastic writers and create brilliant creations, Class 1 have started their dough disco sessions this week.

Today we had a calmer session to help us learn some of the key moves so that we can start to put the moves to…

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17 September 2026

Creating our prayer stones

Today, we shared our first RE session in class 1 and we focused on talking about why we share prayers in class throughout the day and how we pray. We spent some time looking at the different items on our prayer table and noticed that we had lots of stones on our prayer table. The children enjoyed…

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11 September 2026

What a brilliant time we had celebrating Roald Dahl Day

Class 1 have had such fun today celebrating Roald Dahl day and they all looked fantastic in their costumes!

The children thoroughly enjoyed the different Enormous Crocodile activities in Class and we had some fantastic crocodile traps made, both in our indoor and outdoor classroom. Fantastic…

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10 September 2026

Ready for Roald Dahl day in Class 1

Class 1 is all set up ready tomorrow to celebrate Roald Dahl day and we can’t wait to see the children in their fantastic costumes!

Hopefully everyone will have a fantastic time exploring the activities in class, which have been inspired by one of Roald Dahl’s fantastic stories. Can you guess…

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