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17 March 2025

Minibeast hunt

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…

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10 March 2025

Wormery!

As part of British Science Week and linked to our topic Minibeasts Class 1 made a Wormery. This week Class 1 have been listening to the book 'Yucky Worms' and have found out so many facts about worms. We have been exploring all things worms and decided to create and observe real worms ourselves by…

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27 February 2025

Beanbag Challenge

Today in maths, Class 1 have been exploring time and finding out what they can achieve in different amounts of time. We started by seeing how many jumps we could do in 30 seconds and had to focus carefully on counting accurately. We then went outside into the sunshine and had to complete the…

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14 February 2025

Caring for the small creatures that share our world

Throughout this term our RE topic has been about Special Stories. We have found out that stories that are special for Christians are in the bible and help Christians know how to live and follow God. We have read different parables from the bible and thought about the lesson Jesus was teaching…

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6 February 2025

Doubling fun!

In maths today, Class 1 have continued to be number explorers and have been finding out all about doubling numbers up to a total of 8. We talked about how to double a number but getting an amount and then getting that same amount again.

Class 1 took their maths outside to practise their…

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5 February 2025

Mud kitchen bakery

Class 1 created a “Mint Bakery” in our mud kitchen today, we had rock cakes, mint tea, herb pancakes and much more. We even had a driver to help the bakers collect their supplies and then a scooter driver to deliver the orders to customers. Lots of watery, muddy fun and a few sets of wet socks!

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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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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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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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6 December 2024

Farm on Wheels Christmas Visit

What a fabulous time Class 1 had this morning at our Farm on Wheels visit with Sheila and her beautiful animals. 

All the children chose which nativity character they would like to be and then had such fun meeting, stroking and finding out about all the animals that live on Sheila’s…

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28 November 2024

Hunting for squares and rectangles

In our maths sessions this week, Class 1 have been exploring squares and rectangles and finding out about their distinct properties. 
 

Today, we took our learning outside and went on a shape hunt to spot squares and rectangles in our environment. All the children were fantastic shape spotters…

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