December is here!!!
Today we came back to school to see that our school has been sprinkled and sparkled with a dose of Christmas. Each class have their own beautiful decorations and we took part in the special tree decorating assembly – every child helped and added a toy decoration to our huge Christmas Tree; there was lots of singing dancing and festive fun, before settling down for the big switch on and a famous Christmas poem.
Week 3 & 4 Highlights…
The last 2 weeks have seen the children developing lots of knowledge and understanding in their topic, polar explorers. We have been looking at similarities and differences between the North & South Pole as well as observing locations on a globe, in an Atlas and on Google earth 🌍
We have been widening our scientific vocabulary when talking about seasonal change – quite literally as we had Autumn, Winter, Autumn all in the same week 🍁❄️
We also began our Forest Schools sessions which take place in our local woodland site. The children were extremely confident and safe when out of the school grounds and an absolute credit to all of you – we can’t wait to go back next week 👏🏼
In PE, we have been practising throwing beanbags to hit a target hoop, all at different lengths away from our starting point. We are becoming accurate when throwing underarm and adjusting our aim 🎯
In Art, we have been designing and creating our own polar animals using a range of different collage materials to achieve our desired effect 🎨
Week 1 & 2 Highlights…
UNCRC Article 31 Every child has the right to relax, play and take part in a wide range of cultural and artistic activities.
Autumn 2
UNCRC Article 31 Every child has the right to relax, play and take part in a wide range of cultural and artistic activities.
Welcome back after the half term holiday. Our new topic is Polar Explorers, where we will be visiting the North and South Pole on our Learning Journey 😊
Our First Harvest Festival at Church 👩🌾🌽🚜👏🏼
UNCRC Article 31 Every child has the right to relax, play and take part in a wide range of cultural and artistic activities.
Week 8 Highlights…
UNCRC Article 28: Every Child has the right to an education.
Wow, how did we get here so fast?! We have completed our first half term in school and what a success it has been. I would just like to say how incredibly proud I am of your children for settling in so well, they are an absolute delight to teach and I can’t wait to share more milestones with them after the holidays 💫
This week we have been working hard to bring together our topic that we have been looking at this half term, ‘Marvellous Me and the People who help us’. We have been painting self portraits in art and used a mirror to carefully look at our features and talk about how we have changed from being a baby to now.
We have focused on hand hygiene with it being the time of year for bugs to hit, we learned a song to help us wash our hands correctly and practised hand washing for 20 seconds to match the length of time we sang 🤲🏻
We also had our first Halloween disco after school 👻🎃
Finally, we said a sad goodbye to our good friend Oskar who is moving to Scotland during half term, we had a party for him and have sent him away with a huge book of photos and memories that will last a lifetime – we wish you all the best Ozzy and hope you come down to visit soon ❤️
Week 7 – Stay ‘n’ Play…
UNCRC Article 31: Every child has the right to relax, play and take part in a wide range of cultural and artistic activities.
We had so much fun at our first Stay ‘n’ Play afternoon and the children were so excited to share with you their classroom and favourite areas to play. Thanks again to everyone who came along 🤗
Week 6 Highlights…
UNCRC Article 28: Every Child has the right to an education.
This week we have been really focusing on Oral blending. We have blended the sounds that we have learned this half term such as c-a-t together to say the full word afterwards. By the ends of half term, we are hoping to be able to blend 3 letter words when an adult says the sounds in the words to us 🙂
In art we have been creating skeletons of ourselves which links to the science work we have been doing which is all about our body parts.
In Little languages we have learned how to say Hello in French and we have also had an exciting taster lesson of Judo with Jamie.
Finally we came together with the rest of the school to raise awareness of Mental Health by taking part in Young Minds #wearyellow day. We were talking about feeling unwell on the outside e.g. falling over and hurting our knee – and explaining that we would ask for help or go to the doctors. Then talking about if you felt unwell or sad on the inside you would do the same thing!
Week 5 Highlights…
UNCRC Article 31 Every child has the right to relax, play and take part in a wide range of cultural and artistic activities.
This week we have been putting all of our skills learned from Leanne’s weekly Fundamental Movement sessions into practise when introducing a ball to our game; Dodgeball. She is very impresssed at how good we are at listening and following instructions for Re pet ion children! Well done class 1 👏🏼
We have been focusing on forming the letters in our name this week, so if you could continue this at home that would be amazing ✍️
In music, we have been adding instruments and action scarves to the songs we have learned, as well as starting to learn the songs for our Harvest Festival at church in a couple of weeks time 🚜🌽
Week 4 Highlights…
UNCRC Article 1: Everyone under the age of 18 has all the rights in the Convention.
This week we have been talking about all of the careers around us that help us when we need it; doctors, nurses, dentists, police officers etc. We had lots of fun learning about these wonderful careers and all of us have big dreams and high aspirations for our future.
We have been creating our Class Charter, linking to the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC). As a Rights Respecting gold school we ensure that children’s rights are learned, practised, respected, and promoted – not only in our school but within the local as well as wider community. The children chose articles:
🌍 23 – Every child has the right to live a happy and decent life even if they have a disability.
🌍 28 – Every child has the right to an education.
🌍 31 – Every child has the right to rest and play.
Look below to see how we; as right holders and the adults; as duty bearers help us to ensure these rights are in place 🙂
Week 3 Highlights…
UNCRC Article 24: Every child has the right to the best possible health.
This week the children have explored our outdoor provision and it is wonderful to see so many friendship’s blossoming. We have been learning about people who help us and talking about how everyone is different but equally amazing.
We have celebrated Fairtrade Fortnight in School this week and have been identifying items that have the logo on, making sure that workers around the world get a fair price for their hard work. On Thursday we visited our school, Fairtrade Shop and had the opportunity to buy a range of Fairtrade products.
Today, we came into school wearing Jeans to raise money and awareness for children with genetic disorders; such as, sickle cell anaemia and brittle bone disease. We talked about how we can include children with genetic disorders and make them feel safe and happy 🧬
Week 2 Highlights…
UNCRC Article 31 Every child has the right to relax, play and take part in a wide range of cultural and artistic activities.
This week we have had so much fun getting to know our friends in class 1 and the routines in our school day. We have enjoyed our daily Storytime and singing nursery rhymes as well as acting our different roles in the areas of the classroom.
We began our weekly music lessons with Mrs Foster and Mrs Morton was extremely proud of how well we could keep the beat to different song tracks 🎶
We also began our PE sessions with Coach Leanne on a Monday; focusing on fundamental movements and Beth on a Wednesday; teaching Yoga 🧘♀️
Our Topic…
This half term we are learning about ‘Marvellous Me’ and how we are all unique.
UNCRC Article 24: Every child has the right to the best possible health
Welcome to Class 1…
This week our youngest members of our family joined the school. They have had so much fun exploring their new classroom and meeting their friends and teacher.
UNCRC Article 28 Every Child has the right to an education
