Author: Mrs Thompson

I hope all the children have recovered from our walk on Thursday to St Alban’s Museum. They all did very well going up Holywell Hill and were sensible throughout the trip.

During the trip we were taken back to when Ryder’s toy shop was in St Alban’s. The children were able to play with a large variety of toys from different periods. They discovered the change in materials and how some have developed to the toys which they still us today.

We had time to explore the museum before having lunch and the walk back to school. The children didn’t like the look of the cells and how empty they were!!

Thank you to the parents who were able to help during the day.

I am looking forward to our next trip in April.

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Wow, we’ve made it to the end of a fantastic term. The children have settled in very well into year 1 so well and have made myself, Mr King and Mrs Ruffell very proud.

Thank you, for you all support with homework, reading, phonics and everything else that has happened this term; it is really appreciated.

I have set a topic based homework, but there is no rush to complete this as it is for our next History topic, Toys.

The children have worked so hard and deserve a well relaxed break, enjoying the festive spirit and taking time to show love and kindness to their families. I hope you all have a joyful break.

Of course, if you do have a spare few minutes please practise, phonic sounds, segmenting and blending, reading and writing for a purpose.

A massive thank you for all your kind words and gifts. I am overwhelmed. I hope the children have all enjoyed year 1 so far. I am really excited to what the new year holds.

I wish you all a wonderful Christmas and a very Happy New Year.

Miss Perry

Well done, you have made it to the end of a fantastic term in Year 3. It has been a pleasure to see how you’ve all really settled into KS2!

Thank-you, parents, for your support with homework, trips, swimming, reading/timetables and everything else this term; it has been really appreciated. An additional thank-you for the lovely KK gifts that have been brought in- it was great fun guessing and opening the gifts!

Over the Christmas holidays, Ms McCarthy and myself are not setting any written homework as we would love for you to spend this time having a well deserved break with your family and friends. You’ve earned it!

Of course, as always, if you have some time there is always:
1. Times tables practice
2. Number bonds practice
3. Years 3 and 4 Spelling list practice

Finally, I would like thank you so much for your incredibly kind words and gifts. And Mrs Robins would like to add her thanks as well!
I hope you have a wonderful Christmas and see you in the New Year!

Miss Costello

Yesterday, we were lucky enough to travel back in time to the Stone Age! We were even luckier that the weather stayed dry and the skies remained (mostly) blue.

On our trip we got to make shelters, watch how people in the Stone Age made fire, learn more about Stone Age tools, make a Stone Age ‘salad’ using kale, rosemary and mint, gather a range of wild plants and we even go to go hunting using our practice spears!

Thank-you very much to the parent helpers and to all of the parents for your support.

Miss Costello

It has been a fantastic half term in year 1 full of engagement and progress. Thank you for your continued support, working with the children at home with their learning.

Please continue to encourage your children to read as often as possible in varied contexts. I would love to hear about the adventures you get up to over the half term. Please support the children to write about something they do or see during the week.

This week the children performed their interpretation of Farmer Duck from the farmer’s perspective. We continued to develop our computing skills to open a document and type text and ended the week painting self portraits.

Thank you for all your kind words at parents evening.

I wish you a very happy half term.

Miss Perry

With our current topic in Geography for this term being Our School, we went around the school to complete some fieldwork.

The children used all their senses at different areas of the school and recorded this information.

Next lesson, we shall be using this information to create an aerial map of the school.

Have a lovely weekend,

Miss Perry

This week saw the end to our first English topic on a book of poems ‘What I like’. All children worked very hard over the last few weeks, building a variation of techniques to create their own stanza based around the poem ‘Noises Off’. We went to various locations around the school to see what different things we could hear to support our writing.

On Wednesday, after reviewing our work, the children performed their poems to each other and the whole class.

Well done year one for all the hard work you put in!

Today, we created a piece of art using leaves and twigs from the playground. Throughout the year, the children will be learning about the different seasons. With the definite change of weather this week, we learned about how autumn is different to the other 3 seasons and then created trees using leaves.

We saved the slug that wanted to be a new member of year 1 back to it’s habitat!!

Please can I remind you to record in your child’s reading record once you have read with them. Thank you.

Have a joyful weekend!

Miss Perry

Thank you for all the junk modelling resources your children brought in. In Geography, our topic is Our School. During this topic, we have been looking at school and classroom maps. In groups, the children have planned what the classroom would look like from an aerial view.

Using various resources, we created ‘Messy Maps’ of the classroom imagining what the classroom would look like if we were a big giant looking down into the classroom. They had many amazing ideas how to make various equipment and furniture. Here are some pictures.

I am afraid we were unable to change reading books due to Mass being set up in the hall. Please practise the high frequency words with your children that are in their book bags.

Have a lovely weekend.