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It has been a very exciting week in Class 4. We have started our ‘GreenPower’ journey. 
Excitingly, we have decided on the themes for our cars (Postman Pat’s Van and a Surfer Camper Van). During the session we acquired many new skills and had lots of fun too! 

In maths Year 1 have been learning all about the teen numbers and today in pairs we represented the numbers 17, 18 and 19 on the tens frames and worked out how many tens and ones each number had. 
 

In geography we have been learning all about the United Kindom and in English we have been basing our writing on the story ‘Katie in London, by James Mayhew. Today we combined our prior knowledge from both subjects and created some fantastic posters about London. 

We had a fantastic time taking part in our TSSMAT dodgeball tournement today. We all tried our hardest and worked brilliantly with our teams. Thank you to Mr Challinor for organising the event - we can't wait for the next one!

Class one have been exploring ice! We used words to describe the ice. We looked at how the ice changed and melted back into water. We used vocabulary like; freezing, cold, hard, wet, slippy. We drew our observations and compared the ice inside and outside. The ice inside melted quicker than the…

This week have learnt about electrical circuits in our science lesson. We identified the key components needed to make a simple circuit and worked in teams to create a circuit to light a bulb / lamp. We used some brilliant scientific vocabulary and used our scientific enquiry skills to support our…

We have welcomed some new pre-nursery and nursery friends into school this week. We have been getting to know each other by drawing things we like and sharing these things with our friends. We have been very kind and helpful to each other. We have also used super manners. Well done class one!

In English, we have been learning about the key features of journalistic writing. We did lots of research on the eruption of Eyjafjallajökull in 2010 and then used our knowledge of journalistic writing to write our own newspaper reports. We are so pleased with how they turned out!

Today we worked as a team to create Rocky Road to Bethlehem treats. All of the ingredients smelt delicious! Ask us what each ingredient represented! Why do you think we put sweetie hearts into our Rocky road? ‘It is for God’s love!’ ‘The love of Jesus.’ ‘Mary’s love for her baby.’ ‘Mary and Joseph…

Today in maths Year 1 have been sorting 2D shapes according to their properties. The children worked as a team to sort the shapes into triangles, squares, rectangles and circles. 

What a fantastic carol service! We really enjoyed singing all of the songs and sharing our knowledge of WWI and the Christmas truce with you. 

In maths Year 1 have been learning all about shape. Today we made 2D shapes using lollipop sticks and play dough. We talked about the properties of the shapes we had made.