To celebrate recycling week, year 1 have been learning about what happens to our waste and why recycling is important. This linked in really well with our science topic ‘materials’ in which we have been identifying different materials by their properties. In our enquiry area, children have been using their Read more…
All of year 1 had a fantastic time at forest school today. Oaks enjoyed finding things that grow and went on a hunt for different types of seeds. We then carried out a mindfulness activity, thinking about where the seed has come from and what it might grow into. We Read more…
This afternoon, the year 1 children spent some time completing social reading. The children chose a partner and a book of their choice, to sit and read together. The children were very grown up. They sat beautifully taking turns to read and discuss the books. I
Wow! What a fantastic first week in Year 1 Willows! We have been very busy learning about parts of a sentence in Writing, sorting objects in maths, using mirrors to draw self-portraits in art, writing prayers for our reflection area and much more. We have also really enjoyed learning about Read more…
A fabulous Summer fair with a great turn out.
In gardening club over the last 2 weeks, we have had lots of fun making caterpillar grass heads and creating watercolour paintings. We have planted plugs into our planters and we hope to see some growth soon.
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…
In Willows, we have been creating artwork linked to the Christian value of Love. We worked together in a pairs to shade some hearts and then painted hearts in the style of Kandinsky. We used lots of bright colours to make them stand out. We think the artwork will look really Read more…
During reflective Friday, we listened to the story ‘Jesus calms the storm’. Willows came up with some fantastic answers about who was on the boat and what Jesus did to calm the storm. We talked about what we could do if we felt as though we were ‘in a storm’ Read more…
