Class 1

The whole school came together to prepare our Christingles ready for our service in church.

Children were able to explain the meaning behind each part and helped each other. 

Our Christmas Post Office role play area is now open! The children have loved exploring the resources and using their imaginations! There are lots of opportunities for writing too! 

As part of our topic about festivals of light, we have been exploring the meaning and symbolism of Advent. We worked together to create our own Advent wreath and Year 2 wrote some fantastic Advent prayers. 

Reception have been working hard in their daily phonics sessions. They are beginning to segment words into sounds and have a go at spelling without any help! 

Reception have been looking at 2d shapes and identifying circles and triangles. They used fantastic language to describe them such as “triangles have corners” and “circles are round.” We had a go at printing some circle collages to help with our descriptions. 

In Geography we have been identifying features on maps. We looked at how to use an atlas to help us find information. We looked at maps of the United Kingdom and worked out if statements were true or false. Great teamwork! 

Our art topic this half term is called Map it Out. Class 1 have been working hard with Mrs Wardale. Reception created their own 3d map as a group. Year 2 made their own piece of felt and used part of their map in their designs. A fantastic afternoon of fun and learning! 

We have been finding out all about how Diwali is celebrated, and why light is important. We created our own diva lamps to guide Rama and Sita home! 

We all came to school wearing odd socks to raise awareness of Anti-bullying week. 
we loved dancing to Andy and the Odd Socks song about choosing respect! 

We had an afternoon inspired by everything Autumn! We listened to the Leaf Man story and created our own characters. We painted Autumn trees and made leaf rubbings. Reception used conkers to count and match numbers. Year 2 wrote some amazing descriptions of seasonal changes.

We have been creating descriptions of toys from the past. We wrote labels for each toy so visitors to our toy museum can find out about how children played with toys beyond our living memory. 

Our new English text is an information book. We have been learning about features including contents, index and glossary. We are going to write descriptions of old toys for our Toy Museum in the classroom. Everyone had lots of fun playing with the toys!