Welcome to Year 1!

Another very exciting and busy week! Chooseday was a huge hit with the class - I am glad all teddies survived their trip to school!! We have also started our STEM work these week, soaking and draining egg boxes before moulding them around bowls - these take a LONG time to dry so we will be decorating them with Inuit designs at the end of term. If you missed the Phonics workshop led by Mrs Strong this week, it is on the page 'Helpful Information'.

Maths:

We started, and finished, our unit of length and height this week. The children all did absolutely amazing in our activities comparing length and height, as well as beginning to learn about centimetres and using a ruler.

Writing:

We finished our book 'Arctic Animals' and jumped straight into our new book 'Museum Treasures', where we are writing about some of the exciting things we saw at the Pitt Rivers and Natural History museum.

Reading:

We continued our chapter book 'Hotel Flamingo'. It is a longer book than we have read previously, but we are all excited to meet the animals in the hotel. This week we have met a flock of flamingos who are there to put on a show to promote the hotel, and Mr Grayson who is a sneaky cat there to write a review about the hotel.

Big Picture:

This week we have started our next unit on art. We will be making a clay mask of a polar bear, the Inuits made masks of animals as they believed in honouring their spirits.

RE and PSHE/P4C:

In PSHE this week we have been looking at best friends, what makes someone a good friend and how we can be a good friend too.

In RE, we have been learning about how Jesus showed kindness and forgave people, and how we can do the same for people in our community.

PE days:

Monday and Wednesday.