Week 6 - 23rd May

A very exciting last week of our half term.  We've written our stories about Stanley's Stick.  We've looked at position words in our maths lessons and ...

WE WON THE BAKE OFF FOR THE JUBILEE CELEBRATIONS!!

What a great end to our week.  

Please remember to follow our Twitter pages

@WLA_y1 for lots of photos and information as it happens through the week.  Here are some of the photos from the amazing Class 1.

Have a lovely break and we will see you all after the holidays.

Week 5 - 16th May

This week, we have been thinking about making halves and quarters in our maths lessons.  We had to think of halves and quarters of shapes and then we had to look at numbers of objects.

This week in our English lessons, we have been writing our own beginning, middle and end for our Stanley's Stick story.  We had to think about the order of the story and use words in the past tense to re-tell the story.

For our Art this week, we have been thinking about the artist Georgia O'Keeffe.  We listened to the story about her life and then we looked at some of the paintings that she created.  We had to give our opinions to say what we thought about them.  

In our Science work through the year, we have been looking at the four Seasons and how the world around us changes through the year.  We went out to spot signs of Spring.

Week 4 - 9th May

This week, we have been thinking about sharing in equal groups in our maths lessons.

We worked in a team to share the cubes between the groups.

We went on to look at making halves of different shapes.

In our Art lessons this week we have been thinking about using pastel crayons to create a landscape.  We made some beautiful pictures using different techniques,

Week 3 - 3rd May 

Another busy week of learning again this week!

Star of the week this week went to Poppy A for her amazing sentences when we were describing a train journey to the seaside.

Star Reader this week went to Jacob for his fabulous work in phonics.

In Design and Technology this week, we have completed our D/T journey.  This means that we investigate and plan what we want to make, we make our product and then we evaluate what we have made.

We thought about the product we wanted to make - fragrant playdough.  We investigated the scents and the colours that we could use.  We made a plan to make our playdough.

We worked in groups to make our playdough with the different things we needed.  

After we had made our playdough we had to evaluate what we thought about it.  We had to think about whether there could have been anything else that we could have done better.

We all loved our playdough and enjoyed using it in the class room.  The smells were amazing!!

In maths this week, we have been thinking about an array.  We looked at different pictures showing an array in the environment.  We used the words 'rows' and 'columns' to help us with our array.

Week 2 - 25th April

Lots of things going on in Class 1 this week.  

Thank you to all of the families who are supporting the children with their reading at home.  We are now having a weekly 'Star Reader' who will be celebrated in our Friday whole school assemblies.  This could be for children who are always reading at home or for children who are now reading who hadn't done so before.  It could also be for children who are showing a great excitement and interest with their reading.

This week our Star Reader was Miles for reading six times for this last week.  Well done, Miles.

We also have our 'Star of the Week' presented in our Celebration assemblies.  This week's Star of the Week went to Emilia who thought really hard to write sentences that included an exclamation mark.  Well done to you too.

I wonder who will be the Star Reader and Star of the Week next week!

Our book for English this term is Stanley's Stick.  We have read some of the story and we wanted to go outside and collect our own sticks.  We went to the outdoor area and chose a very special stick for each of  us.  

We also went on  another walk around the outdoor area to have a look at different plants that we could see in our local area.  We had a good look for the different types of plants that we could see.

In Maths this week, we have been thinking about making equal groups.  We worked with a partner to put cubes into equal groups.

For our Computing work this week, we used the I-pads to take photos of the plants that are in our outdoor area.  We looked at how we could use the camera to zoom in to make the photo look clearer.

Next week ,we are going to be doing a set of lessons for our Design and Technology learning. I am very excited about this and I already know that the children will love the work we are doing.

Week 1 - 19th April

Welcome back to all of our children and their families.  It is great to see you back after the Easter break and it looks as though the children have brought the sun shine back with them.

We start our new project this week which is called 'The Fragrant Garden'.  We are going to answer the question:

'How does your garden grow?'

We started our new project with a walk around the school  field to see if we could identify the different plants around the school.  The children had great fun learning in the sunshine and used the I-pads to collect lots of pictures of the things that we found.

We also went back out doors for our Art lesson this week and we went on the look out for different types of leaves that we could use to do some printing with.

It was also great to get out side for our PE lessons in the sun this week.  We had to work in teams to complete lots of activities that would help our agililty.

Week 6 - 28th March

A busy week again this week.  We've been busy doing lots of writing for our 'The Storm Whale' text.  We had to  write the narrative of the story.

In RE this week, we have been thinking about the story of Easter.  We thought about the events that happened on Good Friday and Easter Sunday and we were able to  pot the events into the correct order.

We have said our 'Goodbyes' to Mrs Robertson this week, who has had an amazing time working with our fabulous children.  She will now go back to her previous school to finish her training year.  We have enjoyed working with her and all of the great things that she has done with the children.

A lovely start to our day on Friday as the children came to school in the snow.  Lots of excitement.  This excitement increased through the morning after the visit of the Easter Bunny and our amazing Easter bonnet parade.  An amazing THANK YOU to all of our families for their very creative bonnets.  It was very obvious to see that lots of work had been put in to these.  Thank you for this.

I also have a very clever Mum who enjoys keeping herself busy.  She has, yet again, created a super treat for all of the children.  From all of us at Woodlands, have a happy and safe holidays and we'll see you all again soon.

Week 5 - 21st March

This week, we have finished reading our Storm Whale story. We loved the end of the story where Noi and his Dad took the whale back to the water.  Noi was sad, but he was happy at the same time.

In our RE this week, we found out about Palm Sunday.  We made some of our own palm leaves and we pretended that we were greeting Jesus at the roadside.  We tried some Hot Cross Buns.  They were very sticky, but they were very nice.

In our maths this week, we have been thinking about the length and height of different objects.  We had to put some objects into order.

In Science, we have been looking at animals and the things that they eat.  We know about carnivores and herbivores.  We then looked at food chains and we thought about the different things that animals need to eat to survive. 

Week 4 - 14th March

This week, we have been doing a lot of work on our Design and Technology learning.  When we are doing Design and Technology, we have to make something for a purpose.

We have to:

plan

design 

make 

evaluate

We worked in groups to research our fish tanks.  We used a Google search engine and we looked at images to see what we would like to produce.

We came up with some great ideas.

We then used lots of different materials to create our own fish tank in a box.

We evaluated our finished box.  We thought about what we had done really well and what we would change if we made it again.

Week 3 - 7th March

In our History work this week, we have been thinking about changes over time.  We looked at lots of pictures of Cleethorpes and we worked with a friend to talk about what we could see.

We then looked at photos of Cleethorpes in the past.  We had to look to see if there were things the same and we had to look at how things had changed.

We have been thinking about length and height in our maths work this week.  We worked with a friend and we had to order the gingerbread men from shortest to tallest.  We used the vocabulary to describe what we were doing.

We used an atlas this week to find out about countries around the world.  We listened to a song about the continents and we know that there are seven continents.  We had to use the atlas to find the continents on the map of the world.

Week 2 - 28th February

Fabulous photos of our class dressed up for World Book Day. The children had some great costumes to go with their story books.  Little Red Riding Hood even brought each of us some lovely cakes.

Thank you again for your support with celebrating our World Book Day.

We had some fantastic story boxes and it was so difficult for the judges to choose a winner in each class.  Thank you again to our families for your amazing support with this.

Week 1 - 21st February

We've started our new project this week.  We're learning all about Beaches.  We've got a question that we need to find out the answer  to...

'Who likes to live beside the seaside?'

For our project launch, we had to make our own model beaches.  We had great fun using the different materials to create them.

We have been thinking about habitats in our Science lessons.  First of all, we looked at the different habitats that there might be.  We thought of lots of them.  We then went on to think about the animals that lived in the different habitats.

Week 6 - 7th February

We've come to the end of our 'Pirates' project this week. As a part of our Design and Technology, we have been thinking about designing a lighthouse.  We looked at different examples of lighthouses and we thought about what a lighthouse had to do.

We used lots of equipment in our Science lesson to create a circuit to light a bulb.  Mrs Mountain gave us the equipment and we talked about making a circuit and then we had to have a go in our groups to make the light bulb work.  We had amazing fun and we were very quick to work it out.

This week, we have also been thinking about Children's Mental Health Week.  We watched some clips about how we can keep physically and mentally healthy.  We then thought about the people around us who could help us if we were struggling with our mental health.   We made a beautiful bright yellow sunshine and we added the names of the people who could help us to the rays around the sun.  They made us feel really happy.

How amazing do we all look.

Week 5 - 31st January

This week, we have come to the end of our 'Pirates Next Door' story.  We have had great fun reading it, thinking about the characters, the setting and identifying the rhyming words in the story.  This week, we had to pretend to be the characters in the story and put actions to the events that happened.  We all tried to be different characters and repeat some of the words in the story.

We've also been thinking about how we can change materials by twisting, stretching, bending and squashing.  We had lots of different materials to investigate.  On Friday, we had to think about how we could use a sheet of tin foil and how we could change it to make a boat.

There was lots of chat going on to decide which would be the best shape to make that would hold the most cubes.  We also thought about how we could make it a fair test.

Week 4 - 17th January

We've had a bit of a change round in class this week due to Covid and the children are now sitting in rows at their tables.  As usual, they have been amazing and just adapted to the changes.  I am always SO proud of these children.

We have been doing some more reading of our English book this week - The Pirates Next Door.  The people in the street don't want the pirates living next door and we have been thinking about the characters in the story.  On Monday and Tuesday, we looked at the features of instructions and we had great fun making our own pirate boats out of apples and cheese.  They looked and tasted amazing.

Week 2 - 10th January

We've started out new English journey this week and our new book is called 'The Pirates Next Door'.  This week, we have been enjoying finding out about the characters that we have met so far in the story.

We've also started some new work with our shared reading.  This is something new that we are doing in school that helps the children with their comprehension skills.

We've read a short story about a girl called Lucy who couldn't go out to play because she has chicken pox.  We answered questions about the story.  Today, we sang a song that linked to the story.  It was about a bear with chicken pox.  We enjoyed the singing and putting actions to the song.

Week 1 - 5th January

Happy New Year to all our families and their children.  It is great to have the children back in school after the holidays and they have come back in with a super attitude towards their learning.  They were settled and ready to work straight away on Wednesday morning.  I am SO proud of them all.

This week we have been looking at a picture book study.  We've read the story of Into the Forest by Anthony Browne.  We've done lots of fun activities related to the whole of the story.

This week, we've finished reading our Rapunzel story.  It had a different ending to what we thought might happen and Rapunzel went to try and defeat all of the witches in the forest.  We've enjoyed the story and we can now fill in the words when Mrs Mountain misses one out.

Today, we cut out some role play masks and we acted out the story as Mrs Mountain read it.

This week, we have been thinking about how we can make things move.  We used the word 'mechanisms' and we looked at hoe wheels and see-saws were able to move.  We then had a go at making our own picture with moving parts.  We did some great cutting and we used a split pin to make the egg open and close.

We've also been thinking about shapes this week in our maths work.  We talked about 2D shapes -triangle, circle, square and rectangle and we had a go at sorting the shapes into groups. 

We then looked at 3D shapes.  We were able to eat a Malteser because we knew that it was a sphere and we ate a Squashie because we knew that it was a cuboid.

This afternoon, we used 2D and 3D shapes to make our own models and patterns.

This week has been Anti-Bullying week in school.  Mrs Pearson led an assembly on Monday when we thought about how we can make sure that there isn't any bullying happening in our school.

We have thought about giving our friends 'one kind word' through the week.

Today, we have been thinking about how we can use our helping hands to support our friends in school.  We wrote some names on the helping hand of those people who would help us in school.

The children all looked fabulous in their own clothes today, so thank you for your support with this.

Week 1 - 1st November

Hello to you all and a great big welcome back to all of the children and their families after the half term holiday.

We have now moved on to our new project for this half term.  We will be learning all about Castles and the question that we want to find out the answer to is......

Who's the King of the Castle?

We had our project launch on Monday morning and the children had a great time using the different construction materials to make their own castles, bridges or towers.  There was lots of great team work going as the children worked together to make their buildings.

Week 8 - 18th October

What a fabulous end to our week.  We have finished our Pumpkin Soup story and we made some animal masks to act out the story.  We had to be the different characters and listen to the story as Mrs Mountain read it out.

Today, we had our exhibition for the end of our project 'Messy Mixtures'.  We looked at some images of graffiti and we used chalks to make our own graffiti on the fence near the school field.  We hope you get the chance to have a look at it before it washes away.

Week 7 - 11th October 

I can't believe that the children have been in my class for such a short time, but it feels amazing how they have adapted to Year 1 and Class 1.  I am often telling them how very proud I am of them all and I hope you are enjoying receiving the special postcards through your doors.

We've finished our Pumpkin Soup story this week and the children have been working on sequencing the beginning, middle and end of the story.  We've got some pumpkin plants that we have grown as part of the story and they'll be coming home next week.  

For maths this week, we have started to think about number bonds.  We used the magnet boards and the counters to help us with making the addition families.  The children worked in groups to have a go at the addition families.

We've also looked at Aboriginal art this week and looked at how the people created their drawings by using dots.  We made our own pictures in the same style.

We were writing the letter 'f' in our RWI phonics lesson today.   It was a beautiful day so we decided to go outside and have a go at drawing them on the play ground.  It was great fun.

Week 6 - 4th October

Well...another very busy week where the children have been fabulous again.

Thank you for your support with reading at home.  This week, the class managed a full 100 reads which beat all of the other classes in KS 1.  We are so grateful for your help with this.

Handwriting

We are working hard with our handwriting with the children and supporting them to keep their letters on the lines and to keep them the same sizes.  They are now beginning to write their name using a pre-cursive script with kicks into the letters and flicks out of them.  They are trying really hard with this and lots of positive postcards were sent this week for children who have improved their letter formation.

In our history work for this week, we have been thinking about chocolate.  We looked at a cocoa bean and we looked at some ground up chocolate powder.  It smelt delicious.  We then listened to a story about a man called Cortes who brought the cocoa drink back from Mexico and how it was then made into chocolate.

In our English work this week, we have been reading more of the story 'Pumpkin Soup'.  Duck has run away because Cat and Squirrel wouldn't let him stir the soup.  Cat and Rabbit are worried about Duck and they want to go and find him.

Today, we have been looking at full stops in the story and we had to put our own full stops in the sentences.  We worked in groups to put the full stops in the right places.

In our Science work this afternoon, we were making observations.  We talked about what an observation is and what we needed to do.  We put some marbles in some paint and then we rolled them around a tray to see what would happen.  We thought of words to tell people about our observations.

Week 5 -27th September

What another fantastic couple of weeks.  The children are doing amazing with all of the things I am asking of them.  I am SO proud of them all.

For our English lessons this week, we have been  reading more of our Pumpkin Soup story.  The animals in the story had a fight and they couldn't share what jobs they needed to do in the story.  Duck ran away from his friends and they decided to go and look for him in the pumpkin patch.  We looked at a real pumpkin and we looked at the pumpkin plant leaves and flowers.  We used lots of words to describe each of the things.

 We have been learning about Picasso and we have looked at more of his work.  We made an art gallery in the class room and we had to choose the paintings that we liked and say why we liked them.  We used pastel crayons to re-create our own Picasso like paintings.  Have a look at what we did!

Week 3 - 13th September

Another full and busy week in school and yet again, the children have been amazing.

We've enjoyed doing some water colour paintings this week.  We found out about the life of Vincent Van Gogh and we looked at some of his paintings.  They were very dark to start with and people didn't like them.  He started to create brighter paintings and people liked these more.  We thought about whether we liked the 'Sunflowers' painting and we gave reason why we liked it or why we didn't like it.

We then tried to use the water colour paints to recreate Van Gogh's painting for ourselves.

In our English work this week, we tasted different soups and we thought about adjectives to describe the tastes.  We then followed a recipe and we made pumpkin soup for ourselves.  Lots of children liked it when they dipped their crusty bread into it.

In Maths this week, we have been thinking about counting to 10 and using different objects to represent numbers to 10.  We worked in groups with lots of different apparatus to help us with this.

Week 2 - 6th September

Wow!  Our first full week in school and again the children have been amazing.  They've settled really well and are adapting quickly to our new routines.  Thank you for your support with this.

We've had a busy week.  On Tuesday, we launched our new project 'Messy Mixtures' with our question 'How messy is too messy?'

Well.... we did get a little messy, but the children had great fun.  We had lots of different messy mixtures and the children were just encouraged to get their hands stuck in there.

We have been learning about the life of the artist Vincent Van Gogh.  We looked at some paintings that he created nearly 200 years ago.  We found out things about his life.

We have started to read our new story in our English lessons.  It is called Pumpkin Soup.  We painted pumpkins and we thought about adjectives to describe them.

Reading

Thank you for supporting your child with their reading this week.  Children need to be reading at least three times in a week.  Please chat to us if you need support with this.  Each signed and returned reading record will receive a counter to go in our prize jar.  At the end of the half term, the winning Key Stage 1 class will get to choose a whole class prize.  This is definitely worth lots of reads at home.   

Lots more exciting work to complete next week, so keep a look at on our pages to see what we've been up to.

Week 1 - 31st August

I am so excited to be working with my new class and the children have made a great start over the last couple of days.  They have settled into the class really well and are already showing me how they can learn the new Year 1 rules and routines.  

We have been working on getting to know each other over the last couple of days.  We thought about how we are all different but work together in the classroom.

Have a look at the different fish that we have created.

'We are all different, but in this class we all swim together'

Class 1 2021-2022

Welcome to our new class for our new school year. 

There will be lots of weekly information and photos of what the children have been doing for the week.  We have lots of activities planned through the year and lots of exciting work to get through. 

Please keep a look out on our class pages for work that the children have completed through the week.

Week 5 - 5th July

We've had such fun with our science week this week.  Thank you so much to all of the parents who supported at home with the entries for the competition.  Our part of the display in the hall looked absolutely amazing so thank you for your support.

Mrs Radi organised for a local company called Lab Rascals to come in and do some work with all of the children.  I hope they all told you what an exciting time it was, but here are a few photos anyway.

The children were so excited about what they saw happening.  It was great to see.

What a fabulous week we've had.

Week 3 - 21st June

This week we have been thinking about our feelings in our PSHE lessons.  We thought about lots of feelings words and we put actions to the words to help us understand what the words mean.

We worked fantastically in our groups to play a game about our feelings.  We had to roll the dice and land on a feelings word.  We had to tell the others in our group a time when we had experienced that feeling.  The children worked really well and had some great ideas.

We also managed to pick a beautiful day to create our own tree boggarts.  These are mischievous and magical creatures who are supposed to live in our woodland areas to help to protect them.

We looked at some pictures of tree boggarts and we then made our own using some clay and lots of natural materials.

Week 2 - 14th June

We started the week with beautiful sunshine and ended it with a wet miserable day!  Let's hope that looking at what the children have been doing this week will bring lots of sunshine to people's days.

Our project for this half term is allowing us to get out and about in our outdoor area, so thank goodness the weather was good to us on Monday.

We were learning all about maps and the different features that we would be able to find on a map.

We had to make a fairy garden in the out door area and then we had to create some maps to show our fairy village.

We had great fun collecting things for our fairy gardens.

We placed lots of features on our map when we came back to the classroom.  Some of the villages had rivers, volcanoes, mountains and little fairy settlements. 

Week 1 - 7th June

We've started our new project this week and what a really busy week it has been.

Our new project is called 'The Enchanted Woodland' and we made some fairy dream catchers.  They look so beautiful.  We had a wonderful and tasty picnic in our school woodland area to launch our project.

The weather was beautiful and we had a really fun time.  

As a part of our project, we had to look at evergreen and deciduous trees.  We went on a search of our woodland area to see if we could find evergreen and deciduous trees.

It was quite hard to spot as all of the trees were covered in beautiful green leaves!

We've had some visitors in our class room for the last few weeks.  They came as very tiny caterpillars.  They ate lots of food and grew very big and fat.  They turned into a chrysalis.  Mrs Mountain had them at her house over the holidays to keep an eye on them.  When we came into the class on Tuesday one of them had hatched.  By the next day, all five of the butterflies had hatched and were fluttering around the net.  We put some sugar water in with them and gave then pieces of cut up fruit.

Today, we had to let them go in their real environment.  We took them to our woodland area and opened the top of the net.  It took them a little while, but soon all of the butterflies were enjoying their new environment.  They didn't fly very far to start with because I think they were saying thank you to us all for looking after them.  We waved bye to them and wished them a happy life.

We've been thinking about the artist Andy Goldsworthy this week.  He uses natural materials to create his art work.  We looked at pictures of his art work and how he created them.  We then went to our woodland area to collect natural materials to make our own creations.

Week 6 - 24th May

What a way to end our project!

Loads of great and exciting things happening this week.

We've been thinking about eating a variety of different foods.  We looked at a food wheel to think about how we could make a healthy meal.  We worked in a group to sort the pictures.

We then had to choose which fruits we wanted to put on our fruit kebab.  We designed what we wanted our kebab to look like and taste like.  We used different fruits to make our kebab.

We then had to say whether we were pleased with our kebab when we tasted it and whether there would have been anything we could have done to make it better.

It was a great afternoon and we put some yummy combinations together.

This morning we had some very special visitors join us in school.  A company called 'ZooLab' brought some very special bugs into school for us to see and handle.

There was Freddie the Tree Frog, Tallulah the Tarantula, Millie the Millipede, Bungles the Gecko and Phoebe the Corn Snake.  The children were amazing and loved getting close up to the animals.

Here are lots of pictures.

What a great way to end our project.

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Hope you all have a wonderful half term and I hope the weather is pleasant for us all.

We will see you and all of the children back again after the holidays for our new project 'The Enchanted Woodland'.  Lots of exciting things to look forward to.

Week 5 - 17th May

Spellings

A great well done to children who are working really hard through the week to learn their spellings.  we are very proud of you.

Thank you to all of the adults for supporting your children with their weekly spellings.  We are getting some really good scores in our tests.

We've spent a lot of time in our Out door area again this week as we had a letter from Sally the Spider.  She told us that the workmen had broken their Bug Hotel and her friends and family had nowhere to live.  She asked the children if they could make a new Bug Hotel for them all.  The children thought that this was an amazing idea and rose to the challenge.

We then wrote a letter back to Sally Spider to tell her what we had done.  We are going to go back and have a look to see if any bugs have moved into their new Hotel.

Today, we have been thinking about where food comes from.  We tasted lots of different foods from all around the world....

Italian ham

Dutch cheese

Yorkshire crisps

Scottish carrots

Grapes from India

The children enjoyed trying the foods and we talked about whether they came out of the ground or whether they came from an animal.  We looked at a map of the UK to find the places and we looked at a map of the world.  We talked about how food is transported across the world and why it wasn't a good idea to transport food in a Lamborghini (the children realised that it needed to be something that could travel fast!!)

Next week is our last week of this project 'Wriggle and Crawl' and we are having an exciting visit next Friday to complete our project.  Look out for some pretty amazing photos next week.

Week 4 - 10th May

Lots of photos of things that the children have been doing for their learning this week.  Busy, busy, busy!!

On Tuesday, we went to the wildlife area and we were looking at microhabitats - these are the places where animals live.  The wildlife area is the habitat and looking under stones, bricks and logs would be a microhabitat.

It was very exciting and we found lots of bugs to have a look at.

We've read the story called 'What the ladybird heard' in our English lesson this week.  We were thinking about speech bubbles and what the characters might be saying.  We worked in groups to have a think about our speech bubbles.

In maths this week, we have been thinking about how we can make groups of ten to help us with our counting.

We worked with a partner to think of ways that we could solve the problem.

We've designed a den for the outside classroom and we had to think about the materials and equipment that we needed.  We had great fun working in our groups when we went outside to make our dens.

We played a game in our phonics lesson today.  We had to do a relay race and write down the special friends that we could remember.  We had to write the sound and pass the pen as quickly as we could.  Mrs Mountain added up the points to see who had won.

We've had a great week with lots of fun learning.

Week 3 - 4th May

Hope you all enjoyed the extra day at the beginning of the week. 

This week, in our PSHE lessons, we've been thinking about money.  We've thought about where people get their money from and this week, we've been thinking about things that we could save our money up for.  The children all had some great ideas.  (Toys, trips out, holidays, buying presents for their special people)

We thought about where we could keep our money that would keep it safe for us.  We talked about banks and how they can help us to save our money.  We thought about purses, piggy banks and giving our money to an adult to help to keep it safe.

We listened to some short stories about money and we thought about where the best place would be to keep it.  We had to hold up a little card to show what we thought.

Spellings are now coming home weekly and they will be tested on a Friday.  The words for this week are

catch

kitchen

hutch

ditch

match

fetch

notch

witch

patch

watch

Look at the spelling pattern of 'tch' and this will help you to remember your spelling words.

Please keep reading through the week and record on the books when your child has read to you.

Thank you for your support with this.

Week 2 -  26th April

PE Days

PE days have now been changed to Mondays and Wednesdays.  For Mondays PE, children are able to come to school in their PE kit.  They must have their PE kit in bags to change into after the lesson.   Children will need to have PE kits in their bags for Wednesday lessons and they will change in school for this lesson.  

Please make sure that all ear-rings are also removed too.

Thank you for your support with this.

We've been doing some art work this week and the children had to plan a design for their bug.  We looked closely at lots of bugs to identify their features and then we drew our plan.

We then had to make our lump of clay look like our planned bug.  We made sure that we added the right features to our bugs.

28Apr21

Beetle Bop!

The children in Miss French's English group listened to the rhyme, 'Beetle Bop'.  They found the rhythm and then chose 4 of their own beetles to include in their own version of the rhyme.

Week 1 - 19th April

A very warm welcome back to all  of our children and families.  It is great to see all of the children back after the Easter break.

We have tried really hard with our attendance this week and we were SO close to winning the prize for the school.  Attendance is something that is very important to us as a school as children can miss out on so many activities if they are not in school.

Thank you for supporting us with our attendance.  The children now know that they will receive a dojo for each day they are in school and they will receive a second dojo for being in school on time.  The dojo shop is looking amazing with all of the prizes ready to be won.

This week, we have started our new project.  It is called 'Wriggle and Crawl' and we are going to be completing a lot of work linked to mini beasts and their habitats.  Our book for English is a non-fiction book (an information book) called 'Bug  Hotel'.

We have lots of exciting things planned for this project and will be getting the children to explore the wildlife area as much as we can.

To launch our project, we went into the wildlife area to carry out a bug hunt.  We saw some mini beasts in their habitats and it was exciting looking for them. 

We watched the film 'It's a bug's life' for the rest of the afternoon and talked about the mini beasts in the film.

In our Maths lesson this week, we have been using some of our new equipment to work on our number bonds.  We worked in groups to find the two numbers to make the total and we recorded the calculation on our whiteboards.

We have looked at a poem in our guided reading work this week.  It was called 'The Mini beast Feast'.  We read through the poem and found some words that we didn't know.  We put some actions to the words to help us to understand them.  We had to read through the poem and answer questions about it.  We worked in groups to answer the questions about the poem.  We worked well in our groups to support each other with our reading.

We've learnt about the artist Henri Rousseau and how he taught himself how to draw and paint.  We looked at some picture of mini beasts and how we could draw them showing lots of detail.  We then went out to the wildlife area to have a hunt for bugs and use our drawing skills to sketch them.

Week 6 - 29th March

We've had a great morning today and we've been outside in our wildlife area to have our Easter egg hunt.  The eggs were hidden everywhere and we had to look high and low to find them.  We each found an egg.  What a great surprise!

We've listened to a great book called 'We're going on an Egg Hunt'.  It reminded us lots of the Bear Hunt story.

We've been thinking about the Easter story in our lessons this week and we tried some Hot Cross Buns.  We listened to the story about what happened to Jesus on the cross.  We used our water colour paints to make the sky and then we added a cross to the picture to remind us what happened.

In our maths group, we have been thinking about tens and ones in numbers up to 20.  We had some magic arrow cards to help us make the numbers and to help us find out the tens and the ones.  

We've got a new project starting after the holidays and the teachers are very excited about it.  We've also got a new book for our English journey and we're going to do some great work from it.

We hope you and your families have a great Easter break and we look forward to seeing the children on Tuesday 20th April to start our next set of exciting learning.

Take care,

Mrs Mountain

Week 5 - 22nd March

This week we have been doing some great art work.  We were really surprised when Mrs Mountain showed us what we were doing - it was like magic!

We had to make  patterns on white paper with some wax candles.  We couldn't see any of the marks that we were making - it was a BIG surprise!!

We wondered what Mrs Mountain was doing! 

Then we had to think about mixing some water colour paints and  Mrs Mountain showed us the magic part.

When we painted over the paper we could see all of our wax patterns.

Have a look at the great work that we produced.

We had great fun and we showed some great painting techniques.

For our computing work this week, we have been thinking about algorithms.  An algorithm is a set or rules or a process that we have to follow to get to the end product.

Mrs Mountain gave us some instructions and we had to draw what she said.  

She told us to....

draw a circle body

add two eyes

draw 4 legs

add wings

add a crown

All of our pictures looked different as we thought about the instructions in different ways.

How different do they look and how silly do they look!

Thursday 18Mar21

Jabuti - a dramatic performance

In Miss French's English group, we acted out the story of Jabuti.  Miss French photographed our 'freeze frames'.  Here is our performance.

Week 4 - 15th March

What another busy and  exciting week we've had again this week with so much happening and so much learning going on.

This week, we've design our own masks for our Brazil carnival parade.  We had to plan our design first and choose the things that we needed to make our mask.  Then we made our mask.  Have a look at some of the masks that we produced.

We then had to think about our finished mask and whether we had made a good job of it.  We had to think about what we might do differently next time to make our mask even better.

This week too, we've thought about 'freedom' and we listened to a story about the life of a girl many years ago who was a slave.  We thought about how important it is to be able to choose what we want to do and say.  We made some beautiful birds as a sign to remember freedom.

We watched a clip to investigate what it is like in the Amazon Rainforest.  We found out lots of facts about the weather, the plants and animals, waterfalls , the tribes who live there and how the Rainforest is in danger.

We wrote our facts on pieces of paper.

In our class maths work, we have been looking at measuring.  We found lots of things in the class room that we could measure with cubes but we realised that it wouldn't be a good idea to measure an elephant or a bus with cubes and we thought about the reasons why!! 

One of the children was a little worried that the elephant may eat the cubes!  I was more worried about being able to find an elephant to measure! 

We had great fun finding things in the class room to measure and counting the amount of cubes they measured.

Next week, we're finishing our Jabuti story and the teachers are already planning an amazing new book for the start after the holidays.  The children have loved the bright colours in the story and how the birds helped Jabuti to out his shell back together.

Reading

Thank you for supporting us with the children's reading at home and well done to those children who have read lots through the week.  Remember there is a dojo for each of your reads at home.  Let's keep going for next week too.

Week 3 - 8th March

What an absolutely amazing week it has been.  It has been SO great to see all of the children back in school again and we've spent a lot of time this week thinking about friendships and how we can make our school such a great place.  We have also talked a lot about how we are feeling and any worries that the children may have been having.

I am SO proud as to how the children have settled back into their daily activities and routines.

We've also had 100% attendance for the whole of the week too, so that is an amazing start back.

Reading

Reading books will normally go out on a Monday to be returned for the Friday of that week.  Please try to read with your children each day, even if you are only reading a couple of pages.  You could also spend some time talking about the words in the text, talking about the pictures and spotting words in the text.

Have a think about these questions...

Who are the characters in the story?

What is happening in the story?

What is the problem in the story?

How did they solve the problem in the story?

Try to ask some 'Why' questions and encourage the children to give their reasons for answers.

This week, we've been learning about animals and what they eat.  We used the word 'Carnivore, Herbivore and Omnivore' to put our animals into groups.  The children showed some great team work when they were working in their groups.

In our Maths this week, we have been thinking about tens and ones.  The children had great fun making different numbers with the tens sticks and the ones cubes.

The children have worked really hard with their Mother's Day surprises.  I hope the card and the beautiful bunch of daffodils brightens up your day.

Next week, Friday 19th, is Comic Relief Red Nose day.  Children may come in their own clothes for a small donation.

Week 7 - 14th December

Just to wish the children, yourselves and all of your families a wonderful and happy Christmas.   

Thank you for your amazing support over this term and we look forward to seeing you all again in the New Year for lots more exciting things happening.

Take care and keep safe,

Mrs Mountain and Mrs Ayre

Week 5 - 30th November

This week has seen the end of our Moon Zoom project.  We have worked hard through the weeks and it was great to have our history days on Tuesday and Wednesday to celebrate the work we have done.

On Tuesday, we thought about how we get day and night and we went out to see the position of the sun in the sky through the day.  We looked at the planets and we made our own planets.  We worked in groups to use the right colours for the planets and then we displayed them in the class room in the right order fomr the sun.

We all looked fabulous in our Space dress ups.

In the afternoon, we used crumpets for our printing and made it look like planets in space.  The holes in the crumpets looked like craters on the planets.

On Wednesday, we started our day by going into the hall and we created the next part of our dance.  We have been putting movements to music to explore a journey into space.

After break, we went out onto the field with a rocket ship.  We had to fill it with water, pump some air into it and then pull the string.  We were amazed at how far it flew up into the sky.  It was very exciting to watch.

We're not sure who was more excited, the children or the teachers!!!

It maybe wasn't the end of the week that we were all expecting, but I'm looking forward to seeing you all online on Monday at 9.15 and 12.45.  

Week 4 - 23rd November

What a way to end the week.  Mrs Green asked the children if they wanted to help decorate the Christmas tree.  The children couldn't believe how enormous the tree was and we managed to decorate the lower branches beautifully.

We'd just been looking at Advent and we'd worked together to make our own Advent wreaths.

We've looked at the work of Vincent Van Gogh this week and we used the colours and the techniques to recreate his painting 'Starry Night'.

We looked at aerial photos in our Geography lesson and we had to use the right vocabulary to describe the features.

We've finished the story 'The Way Back Home' this week and the boy and the alien helped each other to return home.  We then watched an animation of the book and we had to think about what was the same and what was different.  We had to work in groups to share what we thought.

Please remember that it is our History Exhibition days next week (Tuesday and Wednesday) and the children can dress up (sparkly clothes, stars, silver and grey colours, astronauts) with a moon theme on both the Tuesday and the Wednesday.  Through the days, we will be doing lots of activities related to our Moon Zoom project.  Keep a look out for the photos for next week.....

Week 3 - 16th November 

And another week flies by......

The children have done some great work again this week as we are working through our 'Moon Zoom' project and our 'Way Back Home' text.

Dojo Shop

Lots of children have visited the Dojo shop this week as they have earned their next rewards.  The children have been very proud of their prizes (wonderful rubbers, rulers and note pads) and are working  towards their next targets.  Please remember that they receive a Dojo for each time a read is recorded at home which really does help their points.  Thank you for all pf your support with this.

English Journey

This week, in our English, we helped the boy make an rocket to get him back from the moon.  We had to follow instructions to make our rocket and they looked great when they were finished.

For our project lessons this week, we've been finding out about Neil Armstrong and his journey to be the first man to step on the

moon.  We watched a clip as the astronauts blasted off into space and we saw as they took their first steps on the moon.  We pretended that we were Neil Armstrong and we were able to say his famous phrase.

'It's one small step for man, but one giant  leap for mankind'.

Ask the children to see if they can tell you about Neil Armstrong and his visit to the moon.

We also looked at computer programming this week and we learnt about an 'algorithm'.  We had to think about clear instructions.  Our first job was to give instructions to Mrs Mountain to put her coat on.  Freddie told Mrs Mountain to put the coat on her head which was a good instruction, but it didn't quite work out right... Mrs Mountain did put the coat on her head, but then she couldn't see anything.  We had to think really hard to make sure that the instructions were clear so Mrs Mountain could get it right.  This is what we used....

'Put your right arm in the right arm hole.'

'Put the other arm in'  (Mrs Mountain put her other arm in the same arm hole!! so we needed to make the instruction much clearer.) 

'Put the left arm in the other armhole'

'Zip it up from the bottom'

It was a really fun thing to do and we had lots of laughs. 

We were then able to use the Bee Bots and we could use the buttons to program them to get to a certain place.  It was great fun and we watched as other children had a go.

This week, we've been thinking about people who help to keep us safe.  We've thought about our Emergency Services and the jobs that they do to help to keep us safe.  This week, we thought about people in our community who help to keep us safe.  We thought about teachers, Doctors, nurses, school crossing patrol people and how they could help to keep us safe.  We had some jigsaws and we had to out them back together again, working in our groups.  We were really good at working together to put the pieces in place.

Week 2 - 9th November

We always seem to have weeks that fly by and we've had another busy week of exciting activities again.

We've been doing some of our project work this week and we've been investigating the different materials that we can find around our school.  

We then came back into the class room and we worked in groups to sort the different objects into the materials they were made from.  We always work really well in our groups and we all take part in the activity.

On a Tuesday we have our music lessons.  We have to do lots of good listening to clap a steady beat and we put actions to the words in the music.

We've read more of our 'The Way Back Home' book this week.  We pretended to be on the moon and we put out all of the lights in the classroom.  We used little torches on our fingers and we thought about the boy and the moon and how he would be feeling.  We wrote sentences about his feelings.  We were very excited, but the boy was a bit scared on the moon all on his own.

We read some more of the story and the boy meets an alien on the moon. We had to work in our groups again to think of ways to describe the alien.  He looks very unusual, but he looks very friendly.

It was our dress up day for Pudsey today and we did a Joe Wicks workout to show our support for Children in Need.  In the afternoon, we went for a walk in our outdoor area to check for signs of Autumn.

What a great way to end the week.

Week 1 -  2nd November

Hello to all of the children and their families and a big welcome back after the holidays.  It's great to have the children back at school and they have all settled back in again really well.

This week, we started a new project for the half term and we were very surprised to find that an alien space craft had landed in our class room and there were some unusual footprints dotted around the class rooms that led to the door into the atrium.  We had a great time wondering what and who might be visiting our school.

We have started our new text for our English journey too.  It is called 'The way back home' and is written by Oliver Jeffers.  We made some predictions about the story and what might happen through the book.  We looked at one of the characters of the book and we thought of words to describe him.  We're looking forward to finding out about what happens in the story.

We also looked at our story to identify the nouns (naming words) and the verbs(doing words) and we sorted the words into groups.

In our maths work this week, we have been concentrating on adding and knowing that addition calculations can be written either way round (Buy one, get one free!)

2+4=6   so

4+2=6

We've looked at some images of the Earth that have been taken from space and we've looked at what we can see on the images.  We could recognise where the beach was as well as fields and buildings and we used vocabulary to describe what we could see.

For our Science work this term, we are going to be investigating materials.  This week, we thought about the properties of materials and how we could describe them.

Is it hard?

Is it soft?

Is if flexible?

Is it rough?

We collected objects from around the room and we then had to use the science words to talk about them.

We were very creative in our PE lesson too this week and we had to use our imagination to believe that we were shooting into space.  We had to listen to the music and put movements to the music.  We made some great shapes.

We had a great time in our art lesson this week as we had to use different painting techniques to make our pictures  look as though they are shooting stars in space. Look at what we created.

We have also thought about Remembrance Day this week and all of the people that we need to remember for their bravery during all of the wars and fighting over the years.  We also thought about how animals could be used during wars too and their bravery in the fighting.  The blue poppies are to remember the brave animals.  We made some poppies to go on the windows, so have a look at them as you go past.  

The children are still working hard and are receiving lots of dojos and we had our first visits to the Dojo shop this week.  The children came back with some great prizes for their hard work.

Reading

Please remember that the children receive a Dojo for each of the reads that they do at home.  Thank you for your support with the home reading and please continue to mark down any reads that the children do at home.  These could also be books that they have at home that they have shared with you.

I wonder what our new alien friend will get up to this week.  I know that the children are very excited to find out what he (or she) have been up to over the weekend.

Week 7 19th October

This week has seen the end of our Memory Box project.  This afternoon we have created our memory box.  We've put lots of things inside it and  we've sealed it up to keep in a safe place until the children are in Year 6.  We will then be able to look back and have a think about our lives in the year 2020.

We put in pictures of our special objects that we talked about this week, we did a drawing of ourselves, we put in our baby photo frames that we had created and a photo of what we look like today.  What do you think we'll say when we open them up in the year 2025?

We've finished the end of our Grandad's Island story this week too and we had to retell the story in our English work.  We had to think about using special words to order our story.  We worked in groups to put the pictures in the right order and put the time words with each of the pictures.

We've had a great time looking through the Grandad's Island book and enjoying the story.

We're moving on to another great book after the holidays and the teachers are very excited about it.....

Watch this space!

We've also been doing lots of exciting things in our music lessons too with Miss Everett.  She's helping us to keep a steady rhythm when we're clapping and we've clapped out the syllables in our names.  There are lots of actions to go with our lessons.

The children have brought home some common exception words for over the holidays.  It would be great if they could have a go at reading them and learning them.  We call them red words in school and the children know that they are words that they have to glue in their heads as they can't be sounded out.  If your child can already read all of these words on sight, they could have a go at learning to spell the words and to put them into sentences.  If the children would like to bring in evidence of the sentences, I'm sure there will be some dojos coming their way.

Hope you, the children and your families have a lovely week at half term, keep safe and we will be so excited to see you all after the break to start our next project 'Moon Zoom'.

Week 6 - 12th October  

I know that I say this every week, but I can't believe that another week has flown by.  The children are working hard and we've had another fun week of learning.

Monday saw our Harvest Festival in school, although very different to how it is usually celebrated.  Mr Dickson started the day with a Harvest assembly and the children had a great afternoon exploring different produce and thinking about healthy eating.  They loved chopping up their vegetables to go in the soup and worked really hard together to get all of the ingredients sorted.  We hope they enjoyed the finished product and how tasty it was.

In Maths this week, we've started to look at number bonds and the children have been using the part/part whole model.  Ask them to see if they can show you what it is.

We had to think of different ways of putting the 5 cubes in the two dishes.  the children worked very hard with their partners.

We've also finished our 'Grandad's Island book and we pretended to be Syd and wrote a message to Grandad on the island.  We looked at Syd's boat journey home and it was very stormy on the sea.  We listened to some stormy music and we put some movements to the music.  The sea was very fast and wavy and we made these movements with our grey and black streamers.  

Next week, we'll be writing a recount to tell the Grandad's Island story and putting the events into order to retell the story.

Just wanted to say a very BIG thank you for your support with helping the children read at home.  Dojos have been awarded for each read that is recorded and we now have some children who  have gained their first dojo prize, with lots of children who are very close.  We went to have a quick look at the Dojo shop and the prizes that were available so the children know what they are working for.  There were lots of excited faces.  The dojos for this week, will be awarded when books are changed on Monday.

Next week is the final week for our 'Memory Box' project and we have lots of exciting things planned to go in our time capsule.  Look out for what we've been up to next week.

Week 5 - 5th October

What a great way to end of week with 'Mellow Yellow'.  It was great to see so many children dressed in yellow and it made our school look lovely and bright.  

Thank you so much for supporting the school with this.

We've been thinking about our families this week too.  We thought about our own families and then we thought about other families and whether they were the same or different.  We realised that it is OK for families to be different.  

We drew some pictures of imaginary families.  

For our Science work this week, we've been thinking about parts of the body.  We could label lots of parts of the body and we sang the song 'Head, shoulders, knees and toes'.  We pointed to the body parts when Mrs Mountain said them.

In our History work this week, we have been looking at how things have changed.  We looked at some things from the past and we thought about what those things would look like today.  We enjoyed looking at the objects and guessing what they were.  We then had to match the pictures from the past to the pictures of the present.

Please remember to keep reading with your child at home.  Dojos have been given out this week for each read the children had recorded at home.  Thank you for your support with this.    Dojos will be awarded again for each read through the week. 

The children are very excited as we have some in the class who have nearly reached 50 for their first Dojo prize.  Reading at home will really help to get those prizes!

Week 4 - 28th September

Where is all of the time going?  Another fantastic week has already come to an end and another week of great work from Class 1.

This week, we've been thinking about ordering numbers in our maths lessons.  We've been thinking about vocabulary to help us with the ordering of numbers.  We had to put some lollipops in order and we had to hide one of the numbers with our friend and they had to guess which number was missing.  There was some great ordering going on and the children worked well in their teams.

For our English work this week, we've been looking at more of the Grandad's Island story.  Syd and Grandad sailed the boat to the island, put down the anchor and went on shore.  we had to think of sentences to describe the island and the beautiful things on it.  Mrs Mountain tried to trick us, because she gave us some sentences that were poorly.  We had to work in our teams to make the sentences better.

Mrs Mountain said -

"Remember your full stop."

"Remember your capital letter."

"Remember your finger spaces"

We worked hard to make the sentences better again.

In our project work, we have been thinking about people who are special to us.  We thought about why they are special to us.  We drew pictures of them and wrote their names with the pictures.  Some children drew pictures of their pets, because they are special to us too.

In RE this week, we listened to the story of Noah's Ark.  We thought about the bad choices that people made and how this made God sad.  At the end of the story God sent a rainbow to show that he would keep his promise.  We made some beautiful rainbows to hang in our classroom that will help us to think about making good choices.  We're going to put them up near the window so you'll be able to see our colourful rainbows.

Reading at home

Thank you for your support with how we are working with our  home reading at the  moment.  Thank you to all of the adults who are supporting the children with this.  From this week, the children will now be awarded a Dojo for each read and I'm sure that they will work hard to get to their Dojo shop prizes.

Travel Tracker

Our school has joined the local scheme to encourage children to walk/cylce or scooter to school.  Children will be awarded a badge at the end of the month if they have walked, cycled or scootered (I'm sure I've just made this word up, but I like it!) enough times through the month.  Another great encouragement to get the children a little more active through the day.

'Mellow Yellow Day'

Please remember that children are able to come to school in something yellow on Friday 9th October.  What a bright sunny place our school is going to be.

Parent's Evening Telephone Calls

It was lovely to speak to so many parents the other day to have a chat about how the children have settled  into the new school year.  Apologies to those parents that I was unable to speak to, and I will speak to you at some other time through this next week.  

Week 3 -21st September

Oh my goodness.  I can't believe that we've enjoyed another week in school.  The time seems to be going so quickly.  

And what another busy and exciting week we've had.

I am so proud of all of the children and how they are dealing with all of the changes.  We are making sure that they have plenty of opportunities to move around and be active as we carry on with our learning.

English

We've read some more of our Grandad's Island story.  Syd and Grandad went through the secret door in the attic and found themselves on a boat.  We listened to some water music and we made some streamers to move around to the music and how it made us feel.

We thought about some of the new words that we have learnt from the text and put actions to the words.

We started our project  'Memory Box' this week as well.  We started by looking at our baby photos and describing what we looked like and the sort of things that we were able to do as a baby.  It was great to have a look at other children's photographs.

We started our music lesson this week with Miss Everatt who will come into school to teach us each week.  We played lots of fun games and clapped our hands and stamped our feet to the pulse of the music.  We then had to close our eyes and listen to a piece of music and think about how it made us feel.  

The children thought of some great words to describe the music.

This week we had our 'Languages day'.  Mr Dickson gave each of the classes a different country to learn about.  We looked at Italy and we learnt some words in Italian.

Grazie - Thank you

Si - Yes

Ciao - Hello

The best part of the afternoon was when we talked about the types of food Italy is famous for.  We designed our own pizza and then we were able to eat some pizza.

We celebrated the end of our week with MacMillan afternoon and we thought about helping others.  All of the children made a chocolate frosty cake and we enjoyed eating these before we went home on Friday.  The frosty cakes look pretty yummy, don't they!

Week 2 - 14th September

Another busy week in Class 1.  We've done lots of amazing things again and we've had  amazing children who are trying really hard with the new classroom set up and routines.

In our Maths, we've been looking at putting things into groups and we've used a ten frame.  Ask the children to tell you what a ten frame is and how it helps them.  

English

We've read some of the pages of our Grandad's Island book.  Grandad left a key under the flowerpot for Syd to go into the house.  Grandad hid some keys for us in the Wildlife area and we had to go on  a hunt to find them.

We had to look in lots of different places and we all found one of the keys.  We used our imagination to think about the things that we would find in Grandad's house.

Syd and Grandad have just found a metal door in the attic.  We had to give our ideas about what was behind the door.  Where do you think Syd and Grandad will get to?

My Happy Mind

We've started our 'My Happy Mind' journey and we've been thinking about the different parts of the brain and the jobs that our brain helps us to do.  Please remember that there is a free parents app that can support the children with the learning that we are doing in school.

Reading 

Thank you for supporting us with the change to our home/school reading.  It was great to see so many books being returned on Friday.  New books will be sent home on Monday.  Please remember to sign each time that your child has read to you, as we will still be awarding stickers for children who read 5 or more times in a week. 

Dojos

Dojos are our reward system in school.  Each child has their own individual character which looks very much like an alien.  The children are given dojos for the great things they are doing in school.  This may be:

work related

   being kind

being helpful

keeping tidy and lots of other things. 

The children are already doing great with collecting their dojos.  When they have collected 50 dojos, they are able to choose a prize and they can then continue to collect dojos and aim for bigger prizes each time.

Home Learning

We are starting the children with our 'pre-cursive' handwriting style and we have been practicing this in the classroom.  There is a link to a clip that will help your child, if you would like to have a go at home.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1nnOO2OFVI

Please remember that we are always available if you have any questions or if you need any support with anything.

Have a lovely week and look out for the things that we get up to this week.

 2020 - 2021

Welcome to Class 1

This page will be updated regularly.

Week 1

7th September

How fantastic to have all of the class back in school again and how amazing they have been this week with coping with such a different situation.  I am already SO proud of them all.

Just a few little reminders for our class that I hope will help you with organising your week:

PE days - Tuesday and Friday. (Children will need to have full PE kits on these days and could we please ask that earrings are removed.  Children will be doing much of their PE outdoor, so suitable shoes will also be needed.)

School reading books will be sent home on a Monday to be kept at home through the week.  Please return to school on a Friday for quarantining over the weekend.  Children need to be reading four times a week and rewards will be given in Celebration assembly for children reading 5 times or more. 

This week, we have been thinking about our feelings.  We read the story of 'The Colour Monster'.  We thought about the facial expressions that we could make and the body language that we could use to show our feelings.

Can you see how we are feeling from the photos?

In our maths work, we've been looking at counting objects.  We know that there are lots of objects that can help us with our counting.

What a busy week we've had.  Keep an eye on our class page for more information.

Monday 13th July  

Good morning to you all at the beginning of another new week and what would have been our last full week in school for this  academic year.  I just wanted to say an enormous THANK YOU for how amazing you have all been throughout the last few months.  No one could ever have imagined the massive changes that children have dealt with in the last few months.  THANK YOU to our amazing children and THANK YOU to our amazing families for all you have done.

Transition mornings are on Monday 20th July and Tuesday 21st July.  Information packs will be delivered this week, giving more details about timings for the mornings.  The packs will also include information about which class children will be in from September and who will be teaching that class.  School reports will also be included in the information packs.  

Miss Riley has successfully completed her teacher training year and has taken on a teaching position at Thrunscoe Academy from September.  She has been in contact without me throughout school closure and always asks about our class and how they are doing.  

Please remember you can still contact us at Y1@woodlands.academy if you have any question, or you just want to say hello and let us know how you're doing and what you're up to.  Here is the home learning for this week.  It's all about travelling to Space.  Hope you enjoy working through it and let's hope the sun starts to shine again so we can enjoy some time outside.

Take care to you all and your families,

Mrs Mountain

Woodlands Academy- Home Learning timetable

Year  1  -13th July, 2020

Monday 6th July  

Good morning to you all and your families.  Hope you are all doing OK and keeping well, as we start another new week. Let's hope for some good weather again and enjoy some time outside.   We're looking at sports for this week as we would have had our sports day if we'd been in school properly.  It would  have also been the start of the Tokyo Olympics in a couple of weeks time, so let's see what sporty things we can get up to this week.

Don't forget that you can email me at Y1@woodlands.academy if you have any questions or to show photos of your work or, even if you just want to say hello and let me know the things that you are up to.  

Take care to you all and all of your families and hope you have a good week with our sports.

Have fun!

Here is the home learning for this week.

Woodlands Academy- Home Learning timetable

Year  1  -6th July, 2020

Monday 29th June   

Morning to you all and hope you are all OK.  I can't believe that this week is the last week of June.  Time seems to be going very quickly.  I think we're going to have a bit more sunshine again this week, so have some fun outdoors.  The work this week is about mini beasts and it will be good to get out and about and have a look for some.  If you do find any, please be careful to leave them where you find them and if you touch them, remember that they are very delicate.  The book this week is called 'The Giant Jam Sandwich' and it's all about lots of wasps coming to town and how the villagers make a plan to get rid of them.

Hope you have fun and enjoy the week.  Remember to let me know what you're up to or just to say hello.  I really miss seeing you all and all of your happy, smiling faces.

Email Y1@woodlands.academy

Take care to you all and enjoy your week.

Mrs Mountain

Here is the home learning ideas for this week.

Woodlands Academy- Home Learning timetable

Year  1  - 29th June, 2020

Monday 22nd June 

Good morning to you all and hope you and your families are well.  It was an amazing storm that we had last night and it was crazy to see hailstones at this time of the year.  They were enormous.  It looks as though the sun is going to come out again for us this week so we can have some outside time again.  Remember to us sun cream and cover up if you are outside a lot.

Here is the home learning for this week.  It's all about some naughty seagulls and what they get up to.  I hope you enjoy listening to the story and the activities to go with it.  Have a lovely week and let me know what you are up to Y1@woodlands.academy or just say 'Hello' which I would love to hear.  I miss you all and all of your happy, smiling faces and the amazing work that you always do for me.  Enjoy your week.

Have a look at these short clips and have a go at the joining up handwriting letters.  Practice a, c, o, d, g.  Keep them neat and tidy and keep the letters on the lines.  Remember to sit close to your table and hold your pencil correctly too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1nnOO2OFVI&list=PLXKeximRDJ8p4lFaITqIZ1WSSAdotcgGN

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Z3D7q8LxiA&list=PLXKeximRDJ8p4lFaITqIZ1WSSAdotcgGN&index=3

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dyueHN6iP4Y&list=PLXKeximRDJ8p4lFaITqIZ1WSSAdotcgGN&index=4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPIywbNhias&list=PLXKeximRDJ8p4lFaITqIZ1WSSAdotcgGN&index=7

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dUg1p-pk_CE&list=PLXKeximRDJ8p4lFaITqIZ1WSSAdotcgGN&index=15

Woodlands Academy- Home Learning timetable

Year  1  - 22nd June, 2020

Monday 15th June  

Good morning to you all and hope you are all well and keeping busy.  Let's hope for a bit of sunshine this week after all of that rain last week and we can have a chance to get out side again.  Here is the home learning for this week and it's all about Dinosaurs.  Let me know what you are up to and please message if you have any questions, or just want to say 'Hello'.  

Y1@woodlands.academy

Woodlands Academy- Home Learning timetable

Year  1  - 15th June, 2020

Monday 8th June  

Good morning to you all and your families.  Hope you are all well and let's hope that the sun will start to come back to us for this week.  It was lovely to see some of you in school this week and I know that there are some more children starting in the next few days. I feel so very proud to work with such amazing children and families who have just dealt with all that has been going on in the last few months and still manage to have happy, smiling faces.  I miss you all and all of the amazing work that you do for me. 

For those of you still at home, please remember that you can contact us on Y1@woodlands.academy for any questions or if you just want to say 'hello'.  It would be great to hear from you.

Here is the home learning for this week.  Please be in touch if you have any questions or need any help at all.

Take care to you all and your families, 

Mrs Mountain

Woodlands Academy- Home Learning timetable

Year  1

Monday 1st June  

Good morning to you all and hope you have enjoyed some fun int eh sun over the holiday week.  Some of you will be returning to school this morning and some of you will still be staying at home.  The work that the children will be doing at home and school will be the same and staff in school will be following the learning ideas on the grid below.  Please remember, that for those children who are not returning to school, we are still contactable through  Y1@woodlands.academy  if you have any questions or you just want to say 'hello'.  An amazing 'THANK YOU' to all of the children and to all of their families for how amazing you have been through out all of this.   We miss you all, take care, keep safe and let us know how you are doing.

Mrs Mountain

Woodlands Academy- Home Learning timetable

Year 1

Monday 25th May  

Good morning to you all and your families and hope you are all well and keeping safe). 

It's a holiday week this week, so we've planned some activities to help you have a little bit of fun for this week.  Enjoy spending some time in the sunshine (the weatherman says that it's going to be a nice week this week, so let's wait and see!)  As it is starting to get a little warmer, please remember to cover up in the sunshine, use sunscreen and drink lots to keep you hydrated.

Here are the ideas for this week.  Enjoy them and send in your photos to Y1@woodlands.academy.

 If you have any questions or just want to say hello, email Y1@woodlands.academy

Have a lovely week.  Take care to you all and I miss  you all, your happy smiling faces and all of the fantastic work that you do for me.

Mrs Mountain 

Monday 18th May  

Good morning to you all and all of your families and welcome to another new week.  Hope you are all keeping well and managing to find lots of things to do.  I think the sun is going to come out again this week, so have some fun time in the garden  and enjoy spending time with your family.

Here is our Home learning for this week.  Don't forget to email Y1@woodlands.academy to say hello or if you have any questions.  I am missing you all and it would be lovely to hear from you.  If you don't have an email address, you can always use the school Facebook page and let us know what you are up to.  Keep safe and take care, Mrs Mountain.

Woodlands Academy- Home Learning timetable

Year 1

Monday 11th May  

Good morning to you all for the start of our new week.  Hope you are all well and let's hope for some more sunny weather a little bit later.  Thank you to all of the children who have sent photos of what you are up to.  It has been great to see what you have been doing.  I miss being with you at school and I miss all of the amazing work that you do.

  Please remember you can message me Y1@woodlnds.academy if you just want to say 'Hello' or if you have any questions you want to ask.

Here is the home learning for this week.  Have fun.

Woodlands Academy- Home Learning timetable

Year 1

Monday 4th May 

Good morning to you all and hope you and your families are all well.  Just wondering where the sunshine has gone to and hope that it comes back again later.  Please remember to  get in touch if there is anything that you need any help with:

Y1@woodlands.academy or post images onto the school Facebook page.  

Here are the home learning ideas for this week.  Lots of things for you to be thinking about.

Friday 24th April  

Good morning to you all on another sunny day.  Hope you and your families are all ok.  I'm in school on Monday and Tuesday, so I thought I'd get a little bit ahead and put the home learning on ready for next week.  Have a look at the links to the Oxford Owl and you can have a look through the reading books that we have in school.  Please remember to let me know what you're up to, or if you have any questions email Y1@woodlands.academy

Can't wait to hear from you...

Take care, Mrs Mountain

Woodlands Academy- Home Learning timetable

Year 1