Welcome to Year 1!

A great first week back! We have had so much fun immersing ourselves into the life and learning of Florence Nightingale, including a fantastic workshop where we heard about her experiences and practised bandaging injured soldiers! 

All back to normal next week - PE is still Monday and Wednesday, all other days the children should be in school uniform (including school shoes). Homework has also been added!

If you have any spare socks (adult of children), that you don't mind donating, please send them in on Monday. We are learning about counting in 2s and pairs of socks are fantastic for this, but I can't guarantee they will all be returned!!

Maths:

This week we did our baseline assessment for multiplication and division. We will be learning to count, group and share multiples of 2, 5 and 10.

Writing:

We planned our sentences and designed our front covers for our next book 'Florence Nightingale'.

Reading:

'Hotel Flamingo' was such a hit, we are reading the second book! This one is called 'Hotel Flamingo - Holiday Heatwave'. The hotel is busy preparing for a visit from Queen and King Penguin.

Big Picture:

This week we focused on history, learning all about Florence Nightingale and Mary Seacole. We have done many fun activities, including making lamps and creating our own herbal remedies.

Science:

Our new topic is animals including humans. Today, we named and labelled the basic parts of the body and thought about ways we are similar/different to each other.

RE and PSHE/P4C:

In PSHE this week we recapped how to be a good friend and show respect to others.

In RE, we will be exploring how and why Shabbat is important to some Jewish people in Britain.

PE days:

Monday and Wednesday.