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11 November 2025

Being a Good Friend

During the afternoon, Class 1 discussed all the different ways they could spread kindness and be a good friend.

 

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10 November 2025

Class 1 Odd Socks

To mark Anti Bullying Week, class 1 have come into school wearing their colourful odd socks to show how we are all unique. We talked about how each of is unique and how we should be kind to all of our friends.

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7 November 2025

Creating poppies for our Remembrance Day service

Class 1 have been very busy creating our Class 1 wreaths and individual poppies ready for our Remembrance Service next week. 
 

The children worked together to create our beautiful wreaths using red and purple handprints and discovered that red poppies are for the soldiers who died in the wars…

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5 November 2025

Finding out about Diwali

To launch our Celebrations topic, this week Class 1 have been learning all about Diwali.

 

We have watched a video about a family preparing and celebrating Diwali and listened to the story of Rama and Sita. We have made our own Festival of Light lanterns and created and explored making…

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5 November 2025

Being Creative with Circles and Triangles

In our maths today, Class 1 have been exploring circles and triangles. We have talked about what makes a circle a circle and why a triangle is a triangle. We played a game where we had to listen to clues to determine what shape Mrs Philp was hiding in her bag and then we got creative.

We all…

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22 October 2025

Post Office

Class 1 have enjoyed the story The Jolly Postman this week and have learned all about the journey of a letter. We watched what happens to a letter as it travels through the sorting office and how it reaches its destination. 
We created our own post office in our classroom and have been enjoying…

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16 October 2025

Exploring numbers to 3

In maths this week, Class 1 have been exploring 1, 2 and 3 and using our mathematical skills and Ten Town to support our learning. We have meet King One, a Tommy Two and Thelma Three and played some brilliant number formation and subitising games to help us recognise these numbers. 
 

Outside…

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15 October 2025

Keeping our teeth healthy

Class 1 have been learning about Keeping our Teeth Healthy this week in our topic.

The children have completed an experiment using apples to see what happens if our enamel on our teeth is damaged - we are waiting to see the results tomorrow!

We have practised brushing teeth correctly,…

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15 October 2025

We brushed our teeth at school!

A fabulously fun filled afternoon brushing our teeth at school! What fun! Lots of giggles were had and lots of toothpaste covered faces were seen!

The children have embraced their learning of keeping our teeth healthy and we put everything we have learnt into practice and brushed our teeth at…

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10 October 2025

Musical mindfulness in Class 1!

Before we started our maths learning this afternoon, Class 1 enjoyed a short musical mindfulness session to calm our minds and bodies after our lunch break and to make sure everyone was ready to learn. We often enjoy a musical mindfulness session before starting our learning and sometime use…

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7 October 2025

Doctors and Ambulances


Class 1 have been learning about People Who Help Us in our topic and this afternoon we took a deeper look at Doctors and what they do. We shared our experiences of going doctors surgery or if we had been to hospital.

The children had a wonderful afternoon dressing up as doctors, nurses,…

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6 October 2025

All about me boxes

Today class 1 took their All about me boxes home that they created over the summer holidays ready for their first day in Reception at big school! We have thoroughly enjoyed sharing each of their boxes and learning lots about each of the children in our class. The children have loved looking at…

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