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Thank you to all of the parents and children who attended our maths workshop. The aim of the workshop was to explain some of the methods for teaching addition & subtraction in KS1 so parents have a clear understanding of how these concepts are taught in school. Everyone had great fun working…

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 In music this term we've had lots of fun learning about keeping the beat and playing rhythms. We've learnt lots of new songs and learnt to name and play some amazing mucsical instruments. 

In RE we have been learning about symbols used in Baptism.  We then role played our own class Baptism!

Our topic during Science Week was 'Healthy Me.' We learnt about lots of different ways to keep our bodies healthy. 

 We found out about what a healthy diet looks like and had a special visit from a lady from Tesco who brought in lots of different fruits and vegetables to taste. 

We…

Today, we have been exploring our autumn discovery tray. We have been talking about colours and textures. We have also been looking at the number stones and counting out the correct amount of conkers. 

Our topic is what toys were famous when um and dad were little? 

This week we had a look at a toy from over 100 years ago that our grandparents grandparents may have played with. It was a ball and a cup. 

We made it using a plastic cup with a hole in the bottom. We attached string to the cup…

We made a repeating pattern using shapes and paint this week. Hassan had a blue circle, orange square, blue circle, orange square pattern. 

This week in maths we were looking at 2D shapes. Miss Law gave us some shapes and a shape we had to fill using the shapes. Some shapes we used were squares, rectangles, circles, pentagons and hexagons to name a few. 

As part of our 'All About Me' topic, we talked about our favourite food and what foods are healthy. We looked at lots of different vegetables, including mushrooms, peppers, celery, cucumber and tomatoes. We talked about what they looked like and then tried the different vegetables; some were nice,…

Year 1 became scientist for an afternoon and had a slimetastic time.  Equipt with safety glassess and equipment the children mixed soultions and added colour to create some delightful looking slime. They even impressed the mad scientist when coming up with other polymers like slime - elastic bands…

The children in Y1W have been using their imaginations to decide what their NOT A STICKS are! See if you can tell what the children are using. They range from hats to back scratchers! 

The chidlren have settled in well to Year 1W and have been enjoying the practical math lessons. They have worked in pairs to order numbers and match amounts, showing good great team skills. The children have also been using numicon to help with pairs to 5,6, and 10! Have a look at some of the…