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January 2022

  • A wild rumpus!

    Published 28/01/22
    Year 1 have had a brilliant week. We have been reading our story of Where the Wild Things Are and wrote party invitations to a wild rumpus! We then received an invitation from Max to our own class party and had lots of fun dancing and playing party g
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  • Hot air balloons and materials!

    Published 21/01/22
    This week Year 1 have had lots of fun. We learnt all about the history of air transport starting with the hot air balloon invented by the Montgolfier brothers. We enjoyed making our own hot air balloons too using string and plastic bags. In Engl
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  • New topics, whole class learning and counting class inventories in tens and ones - what a week!

    Published 14/01/22

    Year 1 have been incredibly busy in their first full week back. We have been so impressed with their whole class writing where we have written the beginning of the story of 'Where the Wild Things Are" in the past tense and using sentence openers as well as with accurate punctuation! In maths, we have been learning about place value in numbers - tens and ones. We began this module by counting in tens and ones all the pencils, pens, rulers etc we could find in our classrooms and sending Mr Holmes an inventory in tens and ones. He was so impressed! We started our new science topic on 'materials'. This week we investigated what things felt like, and what they were made from, using a feely bag. We worked in science groups learning to record our findings and take turns too! It was so much fun. 

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January 2022