Author: Mrs Hayes

On Friday, the children joined up with Year Two for History Day.  They enjoyed four different activities, which encouraged them to find out about the past through exploring the clues that real artefacts held.  The children had some wonderful ideas and developed their skills in historical enquiry.

Thank you very much for all the donations that were made as part of the cake sale on Friday.  Over £200 was raised, which is a phenomenal amount!       We will let you know what the children decide to spend the money on.    Have a Mothering Sunday that is filled with love.

This week, the children have been exploring patterns and considering ways in which they can change the shape, size or quantity as part of a pattern.  They have designed some wonderful new vests for Little Robin Red Vest and are very proud of these.

2nd March is the Year 1 Cake Sale.  The children will be designing posters for the sale and then displaying them all around the school.  If you have time, enjoy baking cakes with your child; alternatively, shop bought cakes are very popular too.  Thank you very much for your support!

On 16th March, we will be holding a History Day – your child is invited to come into school dressed as a character from history.

 

This week, the children have been learning how to give each other directions, before moving on to programming a toy to move left, right, forwards and backwards as well as making half and quarter turns.  One child taught her friends that two quarter turns make a half turn!

This work on position and fractions continued on Friday, when the children made a honey sandwich for their teddy and divided it into halves and quarters.

Thank you very much for the donations that came in as part of our Teddy Bear’s Picnic that celebrated the end of our topic on Toys.  The children have certainly learned a great deal about old toys and have enjoyed talking about the family toys that they brought in.

 

Dear Year 1 children,

Your teddies are having a wonderful evening together.  Here they all are listening to Leon, the giant teddy reading them a suitable bedtime story.  They are looking forward to making sandwiches with you all on Friday morning!

Lots of love from Mrs Hayes (and lots of teddies!)

As part of their English and Geography learning, the children all wrote thank you letters on their first day back at school and then posted them at the local post box.  The children had to follow directions, including using the words left and right in order to get there.  The children learned that they can identify their left hand by looking for the L for Left.  This only works, if the children remember to look at their finger nails too!Please continue to use the words left and right with your child as these directions are very easily confused!  When we returned back at school, the children drew and labelled a map of their route, something that they thought very carefully about.

The children performed brilliantly in the Christmas production A present for the baby.  You should be very proud of them!

Monday 18th December: please send in a present for your child’s kriskringle on Monday.

Tuesday 19th December: details of what you can contribute as part of our end of term celebration have been sent home with your child.

Wednesday 20th December: we look forward to sharing our end of term mass with you on Wednesday at 9am.  Children should come into school in party clothes (please make sure that children are still warm, as children will go out to play as normal), ready for their Christmas lunch.

Thursday 21st December: during our end of term celebration in class, children will have a special snack time, during which they will exchange gifts and sing Christmas songs together.   Christmas holiday starts at 1.30pm!

This week, as part of their learning in Design and Technology, the children have been making Christmas decorations.

To start the week, they worked in pairs to weave ribbons and create huge baubles, which can be seen hanging in the classroom.

Next, the children carefully measured pieces of paper to make strips that could be joined together and made into paper chains.  Building on from last week’s learning, they made sure that their paper chains included both a colour and number pattern.

The week ended with the children reading and carefully following instructions to make lanterns to decorate the class Christmas tree.

These creative activities have developed the children’s English and Maths skills as well as improved the accuracy of their cutting.  The decorations look wonderful as does the whole classroom as we share our Christmas preparations together this Advent.

We look forward to seeing you in school next week when the children perform their Christmas play, A present for the baby.  Bring your child into school at 6.30pm on Thursday 14th December ready for their evening performance, which will start at 7pm.  Please ensure that any requested clothes for costumes  are brought into school by Monday at the very latest.

Have a wonderful weekend.

This week, the children have been developing their understanding of patterns, focussing on creating and continuing patterns that are not just colour based, but also include changes in quantity, size or shape.  The children have been encouraged to name the repeating pattern once, rather than read what they have created over and over again.  This is trickier than it sounds and the children have worked hard on their repeating patterns.  This learning will help the children as they begin to explore patterns in numbers later in the year.

The children created patterns on their Christmas decorations and these can be seen on the class display in the main hall.