Wow! All of the children did a fantastic job of dressing up in their careers themed costumes today, you all looked fantastic!! This week we have really enjoyed learning about different careers, we have read lots of stories about people with different careers and even practised doing different jobs to Read more…
Last week, Reception enjoyed a week of learning all about Chinese New Year. We listened to the story of the Great Race, where we found out about the animals that the years are named after – this year is the year of the dragon. We made Chinese lanterns, paperchain dragons Read more…
We have loved British science week this week; we have been learning about different scientists and the different types of scientists, we have looked at ‘smashing stereotypes’ in science and how anybody could be a scientist. We also learnt about connections and discussed how we can connect with others, we Read more…
In English, we have reading and writing the story Little Red Riding Hood. This week we have been thinking about the Big Bad Wolf; we found out all about wolves using a fact PowerPoint, then we worked in groups; looked at pictures and videos of wolves and collected vocabulary to Read more…
This week in maths we have been looking at length and height, we have being learning vocabulary and thinking of actions to remember the words long, short, tall, short. We really enjoyed finding objects to measure around the classroom, we used cubes to measure each object and then spoke about Read more…
Over the half term, Miss Horrocks set us a reading challenge: To build a reading den or nook to read your favourite stories in. Thank you so much to everybody who completed the challenge, you have all done a fantastic job, your dens and nooks look so comfy and we Read more…
In English, we have been practising our sentence structures, adding conjunctions to make our sentences more interesting and seeing if we can make sentences from packs of words that we were given. We worked in pairs and helped each other to make our sentences, then read them back to check Read more…
This half term, in RE, we are learning about sacred places, this week we were looking at places that are sacred to Christians and so we visited St Lukes church. It was lovely to be able to identify objects we have been learning about in the church. We had lots Read more…
We’ve had a lovely Christmassy time in Willows. We’ve enjoyed Christmas dinner, Christmas crafts, making Christingles, nativity and we even had a visit from the Big FC himself. We hope you have a magical Christmas and a wonderful New Year! Love from all the Year one staff 🎅🎄✝️🧑🎄
This week in forest school we had lots of fun; we used our knowledge of seasons and weather to discuss changes we could see in the environment and how forest school had changed since we started coming again in September – there are lots more leaves on the floor and Read more…