Class 1

What a fantastic forest school session today. We harvested courgettes from our garden to create delicious courgette and chocolate muffins. We followed the recipe: stirring, mixing, grating and measuring and had so much fun. It was fantastic to use produce from our own garden.

Thank you to Mrs…

Our science topic this term is all about people who help us and this week we have focussed on the police. We became detectives and used our careful observation skills to study fingerprints. We had a mystery to solve - who stole Miss Jennings cup of tea? The culprit left a fingerprint on the mug,…

We have enjoyed exploring our phonics creatively this week building CVC words with play doh and magnetic tiles. The children have made such great progress.

We had a fantastic afternoon walking around Elford village today. We spotted key features of the village such as the village hall, the school and the park to tie in with our Marty Maps it Out book. We are looking forward to making some of our own maps now that we know the way around our village.

We have really enjoyed our topic this week exploring different jobs of people who help us. We especially enjoyed our visit from a local fireman who brought us some fire fighter uniforms and helmets to try on. We shared stories about fire safety and he taught us how to check our fire alarms and…

Our science topic has been all about people who help us. We have focussed this week on dentists and looked at how to keep our teeth healthy. We used an apple to represent our teeth piercing holes in it to show what could happen to the enamel  if we didn’t brush our teeth. The children made some…

We have now begun our phonics in class 1 exploring initial sounds in lots of fun ways. The children have demonstrated enthusiasm and great understanding - we are so proud of them.

We have enjoyed our maths this week. We explored shape through model making and creating vehicles. We also created some shape themed art work and used the hammers and boards to create pizza designs exploring shapes. We demonstrated great maths knowledge naming shapes and their features. We also…

Class 1 have thoroughly enjoyed learning all about Volcanoes this week. They have completed lots of activities in the classroom linked to volcanoes including, crafting, painting, drawing and building. During our Literacy sessions we have used the information book, ‘Volcanoes and Earthquakes’ to…

We have been studying oceans in Class 1 and this week we were looking at global warming. We used duplo to create mini islands and then added water and ice to see what happens to the sea level when the ice melts. The children loved exploring this concept and the added bonus of the ice kept us…

We enjoyed rescuing our trapped icy animals this morning. Playing with the ice definitely helped cool us down.

We enjoyed exploring doubles in the outside area today playing our caterpillar games.