Class 1

Class 1 have stepped straight back into our new topic of Oceans after half term, with this week focusing on the much loved story The Snail and the Whale. The children have enjoyed learning all about oceans and have been exploring globes, naming oceans, identifying our island surrounded by oceans…

This week in our phonics sessions, we have been focusing on our tricky words and high frequency words to help us remember them. We have sung songs, played games and today played our favourite game, hide and seek with some of our words.

All the children thoroughly enjoyed finding but also hiding…

What a treat we all enjoyed this morning in the sunshine from Mrs Chell! Mrs Chell is sadly leaving Anson today and as a little gift kindly bought everyone an ice cream or ice lolly. 
 

We all had such a lovely time eating our ice creams and lollies in our outdoor area and managed not to get…

This morning we released our butterflies in the sunshine and said as so lovely to see our butterflies up close and some of us were lucky enough to hold our butterflies. 
 

We allowed the butterflies to warm up in the sunshine then we had the opportunity to try and hold our butterflies…

What a fantastic time Class 1 have had finding out about and celebrating VE Day today. 

Class 1 have been busy making flags by collaging with strips of paper, using loose parts or our pegs and peg boards and designing their own medals and deciding what quality they would present their medal…

After a new batch of baby caterpillars just before Easter when the children returned the caterpillars had all made cocoons and over the last 2 days the children have been able to watch in awe as the butterflies began to emerge. One butterfly began to come out early in the pot so we were able to…

Class 1 went on a barefoot walk through the pages of the story We're Going on a Bear Hunt. 

We have been reading and acting out the story this week and we took our story outside, took our shoes and socks off and felt the different textures underneath our toes - long wavy grass, deep cold river,…

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…

Today to finish our current RE unit finding out about Easter, Class 1 we’re thinking about Easter Sunday and why it is so important to Christians. We found out about how Christians celebrate Easter Sunday in church and at home and we shared what we do with our families at Easter.

Class 1 then…

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…

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…

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…