David and Goliath

Today, we have learning about David and Goliath. We talked about why we thought God made the tribes fight and why Goliath was so mean. We then made our own Goliath models.

We go together

We have been thinking recently about how although we are all different, we still all fit together to make a big family. We have been ready to learn, respectful and safe of which we are all trying really to do as a focus. I am extremely proud of the children this week, it has been… Read more »

Our body

The children were amazing Scientists today as we learnt about the human body. We explained to Mrs Whybrow how to jump as she had forgotten and gave her super instructions. After, we labelled a child silhouette (called Benjamin) with lots of parts of the body. Class one have been amazing!

Homework for the week

Good afternoon, just to let you know I intend to set a piece of homework every Monday to be completed by Friday. It will be an online educational game which I will play with the children on Friday. I would be grateful if you could support your child with this, play the game at least… Read more »

Listening skills

Today, class one played a listening and instruction game. The children took turns to place food on the bear or elephant. It was good to see some team work and fabulous listening and attention.

Habitats

In Understanding the World this week, we have been looking at habitats and what animals need to survive. The children worked well with Mr Fox on a sorting activity and today we completed our quiz on the topic.

Repeating pattern challenge

Class one were challenged to make complex repeating patterns today using the bears. Some of the children used our movement repeating pattern to help them and represent Meatball, Apple, Apple, Grape with the bears.

Animal facts

Today in Class one, we have been learning about types of animals and habitats. We learnt some of our ‘rocket words’ such as farm, ocean, desert, pet and habitat. The children acted out their pets from home to the class and we had to guess the pet. We then took the opportunity to draw a… Read more »

Lent

Today we continued on our journey through Lent by reflecting on being Friendly and Truthful. We found examples from the Bible of Jesus being friendly to others as well as stories he told. We thought about what a good friend is and what we can say or do to be friendly towards others.

STEMtacular fair

What a wonderful finale to our STEM week! It was lovely to see so many parents and families attend to see the children’s work.