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22 July 2021

Perfect Pizza

We have had a busy week making pizza, we have completed all kinds of challenges including improving our skills using the track pad dragging and dropping to make digital pizza.  The real thing was much tastier, we all improved our skills using food preparation tools, we chopped, grated, mixed,…

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21 July 2021

Sporty Fun

We had a lot of fun today finishing off our sports day challenges .As Sports Day could not go ahead as planned this year. Instead, we held fun house team competitions in our classes across the Summer Term. The points have been gathered from across KS1 and KS2 and now it's time to reveal the…

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19 July 2021

Tasty treats from our garden

This week we were able to see the fruits of our labours, we harvested strawberries and broad beans from our garden.  Our wildflower meadow is looking beautiful and it looks like our sunflowers are going to be very tall by September.

What a green fingered Year One class you are.

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15 July 2021

Perfect Puppets

The children have really worked hard producing their puppets, it has taken time to sew them together and the children have finally got to the bit they were really looking forward to, creating their characters.  Working with textiles is tricky but everyone was very persistent and the children did a…

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6 July 2021

Toys through time

The children have enjoyed finding output about toys  and how they have changed over time. Today we explored some Victorian replica toys, it was great to see that we still found them lots of fun.

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25 June 2021

Story telling puppets

our art this half term is making puppets. We have been working hard with our sewing but you will have to wait a bit longer to see the finished results. Our card stick puppets were much easier to make. We are going to use them to help us retell our class story.  

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25 June 2021

Reason to write...

Our new topic ‘Old Favourites’ has got off to a great start with some really beautiful writing from Year 1.  They were so enthusiastic to share information about their favourite stories and toys that it has given them a real purpose for their writing and has really motivated them to produce…

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25 June 2021

Special Books

As part of our RE topic we have been learning about the special or sacred texts or different faiths.  Last week we learnt lots about the Bible and listened to some of the stories from the Bible.  This week we looked closely at the Torah, we were interested in the Hebrew letters and enjoyed trying…

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18 June 2021

Developing our computing skills

Year 1 have made a great start developing their computing skills. They have been learning how to log on to the school laptops and have been developing their keyboard and mouse skills.  Even the easy level of the touch typing game was tricky but everyone tried their best, we are getting better at…

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7 June 2021

Fabulous Topic work

I thought you might like to see the display of the children’s super work from our plants topic. There was so much beautiful work that I had to make little boxes so everyone could see all of their great work. The children should feel really proud when they see their work in the hall.

Here is a…

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29 May 2021

Home Learning ides for our next topic

As a result of the COVID disruptions this year I have had a good look at our curriculum coverage and have made some changes to the summer topic from what is listed on the long term plan.  This will just ensure that we have given the children experience of all aspects of the year 1…

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29 May 2021

Jack and the beanstalk...the musical!

The children have really loved learning all of the songs that tell the story of Jack and the beanstalk. If you would like to hear a short video of our very enthusiastic singing log into class dojo, listening to their enthusiasm always makes me smile, hopefully you will too. 

Lots of the…

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