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9 April 2025

Butterfly net

Class 1 have transferred their cocoons to the butterfly net today. Unfortunately our caterpillars haven’t done as well this year but we have been sent some new baby caterpillars to hopefully continue our caterpillar journey next term. But for now we are hoping our few current cocoons that have…

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9 April 2025

Easter writing and cards!

Class 1 have been learning about the Easter story and Easter traditions this week. The children have written sentences to share their knowledge about traditions and have all created an Easter card with the cross symbol and have discussed what this symbolises to Christians.

Have a Happy Easter…

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31 March 2025

The Perfect Ribbit!

Class 1 are learning all about pond life this week, with a special focus on frogs!

We listened to the story The Perfect Ribbit, which beautifully explains the life cycle of a frog. The children drew their own life cycles, labelled and wrote sentences to describe the process. The children also…

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31 March 2025

Cocoons!


Today some of our caterpillars have started to hang upside down in their J shapes, getting ready to make their cocoon. Some of our caterpillars have already made their cocoons over the weekend and we have filled in the next part to our caterpillar diary to record our observations.

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26 March 2025

Caterpillars!

Our caterpillars are growing! They have eaten lots of food, we have noticed their skin shed, webs and also lots of poo! We have been making observations and notes in our caterpillar diaries, carefully documenting this process.

Class 1 are really enjoying watching them grow!

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26 March 2025

Minibeast Hotel

Class 1 explored minibeast habitats in Science today and why minibeasts like small, sheltered places. We went outside to collect natural materials, sticks, leaves, pine cones and bark to create a bug hotel out of a tyre.

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20 March 2025

Making butterflies!

In maths today, Class 1 have been exploring how to double numbers and using our fabulous numicon to help us. 
 

The children used the numicon pieces to create their own butterflies and then recorded each double as a number sentence. All the children remembered that to show a double you get an…

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19 March 2025

Chicks!

Class 1 were very kindly invited down to take a look at GHU5’s Living Eggs Chicks. We popped down on Tuesday to see the eggs in the incubator and were so fascinated by them! On Wednesday we went back down to see that 5 of the chicks had hatched and were warming up and drying out in their incubator…

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11 March 2025

Caterpillar diaries

Caterpillar update week 2!

Class 1 have hhad such fun observing our caterpillars. They are growing so fast and the children have noticed the caterpillar making webs, shedding little parts of their skin and have see lots of tiny poo!

The children all carefully observed their caterpillar pots…

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6 March 2025

How fab are our World Book Day Costumes!

What a brilliant collection of World Book Day outfits we have today in Class 1! We have lovely seeing all the children’s costumes and hearing about their favourite books. It was so hard to chose our winner as everyone had made such an effort.

We started the day with a whole school World Book…

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5 March 2025

We have caterpillars!

Class 1 have received their very own caterpillars this week. They arrived in a special box sent by some very 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…

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5 March 2025

Science - Caterpillar Life Cycles

Class 1 have found out all about life cycles this week and have watched some fascinating videos showing the life cycle of a caterpillar. We watched a time lapse of a caterpillar making a cocoon and then the children made their own life cycles.

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