This afternoon in Topic we learnt about the role of an archaeologist. We looked at the process they undertake which taught us new vocabulary like excavate. We then took on the role of an archaeologist and excavated various artefacts.
In today’s maths lesson, we had to search for questions around the playground, which related to different things we have learnt. Each answer linked to a letter, which we used to form a word.
This term our topic is Julia Donaldson. Each week we will read a different story written by Julia Donaldson and our first week was Zog! The children learnt what an author was and how we will be looking at the same author each week until Christmas. In the story, Zog tries hard at everything he does and keeps practising if he can’t quite do something, we talked about how he used ‘his rainbow brain’… or Read more
For World Mental Health Day, we all wore yellow. Throughout the day we took part in lots of lovely activities and talked about how it is important to keep our mind healthy as well as our body. We liked that Miss Horrocks called it our ‘rainbow brain’. We did some yoga in the hall and Miss Horrocks was very impressed with how well we all followed the instructions, and in the afternoon we each made Read more
In RE we are learning about Jesus’ life as a journey. We shared important milestones in our lives and discussed why they were important and meaningful as part of our life’s journey. We talked about the difference between secular and religious milestones and and how they might be celebrated in different faiths.
Wow! What a fantastic first half term we have had; we have made new friends, read new books, created, explored and most of all had lots of fun! Some of our favourite books to start the school year were: Rainbow Fish, Owl Babies, The Tiger who came to tea, Dear Zoo, We’re going on a bear hunt and many more… We have lovd taking part in all of the activities surrounding the stories and have Read more
I know we can’t have our choir practice in these challenging times but please do not stop singing it is really good for your mind. Sing in the shower, in your house and even with your family. I’m looking forward to hearing you all when we can practice choir again. see you all very soon Miss Robinson 🎤🎶🎤🎶
We are so excited to share with you what we have been up to in school. We have read lots of stories and made lots of new friends. We have different areas we can play in which can help us with our learning. We like to share our toys and be kind to each other in our class. Although the dinner hall can be very busy, we love to eat our food, we even get Read more
Today Willows have been learning all about temperature and how to read a thermometer! Mrs Nuttall tested how warm her hands were and demonstrated how the liquid goes up and down based on the temperature. We all went outside in pairs and were very patient waiting for the thermometers to read the temperature in the Year 1 playground. We predicted it would be 12 degrees but the thermometers said it was warmer! Willows then came Read more
Hawthorn have written a letter to an author of their choice to persuade them to come to our school to promote the love of reading. They did a splendid job of persuading the authors!