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15 January 2025

Fabulous Phonics

The children in Year 1 have been learning about the spelling patterns for the ‘ow’ sound. They were able to use their phonic knowledge to write a selection of words containing the sound. Well done Year 1!

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15 January 2025

RE - What do Muslims believe?

The children in Year 1 had a fabulous RE lesson with Miss Jennings this afternoon. They have been learning all about ‘What do Muslims believe?’ 

The children learned all about the 99 names of Allah and then they made special pieces of artwork to represent 1 of the 99 names. Lovely work…

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13 January 2025

Artists exploring clay

Our year 1 children have had a wonderful lesson exploring clay as part of their art topic. They have tried different techniques to shape and mould the clay. 
In their lesson today, they have made clay pots using the pinching technique. They had a great lesson and loved making their pots which we…

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10 January 2025

Winter fun!

Reception have had another busy week in class 1! This week they have been exploring the topic of winter and deepening their understanding of the numbers up to five. Lots of fun!

 

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19 December 2024

Class one Christmas fun!

What a fabulous day class 1 have had! We have enjoyed Christmas themed choosing, watched ourselves in the nativity video, listened to a story read by Santa, had a delicious Christmas dinner, danced the afternoon away at our party and even had a visit from Santa himself! Wow! So much fun to end a…

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22 November 2024

What shape it is?

Year 1 have spent some time with Mr Wynn thinking about what they already know about shapes? They explored the 2D and 3D shapes together and collated their knowledge. A great metacognition lesson.  Well done year 1!

 

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22 November 2024

Frosty, frozen fun!

Reception have had fun exploring ice. During their science lesson, creepy crawlies were frozen due to the cold weather. How could Reception set them free? 
 

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13 November 2024

Year 1 get Into The Groove

We have had lots of fun this afternoon in our music lesson. The children really got ‘into the groove’ by finding the pulse in different pieces of music. They stomped, clapped and swayed in time to some Latin music. They then used the musical instruments to play in time to the pulse. We listened to…

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8 November 2024

Exploring the natural world

Reception have had lots of fun exploring the natural world around them. This week they looked at spiders and their webs. They then had a great time creating a spider web and trying to catch as many insects as possible. Super job everyone!

 

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5 November 2024

Bonfire Night Themed Day

We had a fabulous day, learning all about why we celebrate Bonfire Night. We completed lots of fun activities in our forest school area, the outdoor classroom and in our classroom environment. Our favourite activities included making breadstick sparklers, they tasted delicious! We loved making…

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18 October 2024

Microhabitats and minibeasts

Key stage 1 have had lots of fun exploring microhabitats and finding out which minibeasts live in them. 
 

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4 October 2024

Which habitat is my animal best suited to and why?

Year one and two have been learning about biomes. They have spent two weeks exploring three biomes (rainforest, desert and tundra) and the animals that can live there. This week they wrote about how their animal was adapted to its habitat. Great learning everyone!

 

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