Class 1

This week in Class 1 we have kick started our ‘Around the World’ topic by flying to Australia (imaginatively). We had lots of fun pretending to pack our suitcases, travelled to the airport and board a plane. We watched a video which showed us the view from an aeroplane landing in Sydney. We…

We had a wonderful walk around Elford with our travelling tale cuddly toy, Pig the Pug. We showed him the sites of the village including the pub, the village hall and the park. The children were excited to show Pig around the village. Even though it was a little bit wet, we all had a lovely walk. 
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We have had lots of fun completing activities linked to our travelling tale. In Literacy we became rhyme detectives and worked with a friend to spot the rhyming words in our story. It was lots of fun! Great work Class 1!

This week in Class 1 we are doing an exciting new text. Yesterday Mrs Gethin and Ralph came over to visit us and brought in a very special parcel. Inside was a brand new story, some cuddly pug toys and a very special book. Mrs Gethin explained that the book would be travelling to all of our…

We had a wonderful morning meeting the Gladiator Steel. We went into the hall with Class 2 and listened to Steel tell us all about being a Gladiator, how he keeps himself healthy and what made he decided he wanted to be a Gladiator. He also did a 30second hand stand which was very…

During our ‘wonderful winter’ week the children were challenged to build a sentence. They were fantastic at spotting the capital letter and full stop and knew exactly where to place them in their sentences. The children worked hard to use their phonics skills to sound out the words and put them in…

We have been working really hard in Maths this week. We started a new unit called ‘Alive in 5’ and are perfecting our understanding of the numbers 0-5. On Monday we met zero and over the next 2 weeks we are going to be learning all about the numbers up to 5, what they look like, 1 more or less…

Class 1 have had a wonderful first day back after the Christmas break. Our learning this week is focuses on the season winter, we couldn’t have asked for a better day to start off our topic! This morning we read our focus text ‘Hello Winter’ and went on a winter scavenger hunt. We found lots of…

We’ve had a lovely morning in reception! We’ve used our phonics learning to help sound out our writing in our Christmas cards. We also made independent pictures as well as built and role played santas sleigh! Their crafts will be coming home in their book bags today.
Hope you all have a lovely…

We’ve had a lovely morning in reception! We’ve used our phonics learning to help sound out our writing in our Christmas cards. We also made independent pictures as well as built and role played santas sleigh! Their crafts will be coming home in their book bags today.
Hope you all have a lovely…

This morning we went on a very special walk to our local post office to post a very important letter. The children were so excited and walked beautifully down to the village hall. We purchased our stamps and stuck them on our envelopes. After that we posted them into the post office post bag, we…

We have had a lovely morning in Class 1. We measured out some different amounts of our special reindeer food and sprinkled in some magic. The children then counted out the right amount of spoonfuls for their bags. Great work Class 1! Remember to sprinkle them outside for the reindeer on Christmas…