KS1 Community Crew Meeting

26th January 2024Claire Dutton

On Thursday, KS1 gathered once again with students, teachers and parents/carers for our weekly Community Crew meeting. We shared our recent learning, celebrated shout outs and praises, and gave special recognition for our Crew Champions … as well as enjoy singing our crew songs! A huge well done to everybody for a fantastic learning week in KS1, and especially to all those who received special mentions and certificates – keep on being fantastic!

Crew Hilton / Dutton were, for the second week running, crowned 1st place in attendance. Can they make it a hat-trick and keep Paddington the Bear for a 3rd consecutive week? Only time (and the class registers!) will tell …

KS1 Story Club

25th January 2024Claire Dutton

Another Thursday and another fantastic story to explore! This week we have read Tadpole’s Promise, which tells of the unlikely romance and unfortunate demise of a tadpole and caterpillar.

The children have enjoyed thinking of their own unlikely animal pairing, making use of their new learning about animals from different countries and their habitats. What fabulous drawings to illustrate your own romantic tales, KS1 – well done!

Year 1 and 2 XP Outdoors request

24th January 2024Aime Shaw

If anyone has any materials that could be used to make a bug hotel, please could you bring them into school by next Tuesday (for Year 1) or Wednesday (for year 2). The children will be creating their own bug hotels, which links to our expedition learning. I have put some photographs below for ideas of materials that we could use.

We would appreciate any cardboard tubes, small pieces of wood, lollipop sticks, leaves, foliage, paper straws or any natural materials such as acorns or pine cones.

Thank you so much in advance

Key stage 1 team x x x

KS1 Story Club

18th January 2024Claire Dutton

In story club today, we have enjoyed reading the book ‘Lost and Found’ by Oliver Jeffers which tells the tale of an unexpected friendship between a boy and a penguin from the South Pole.

As KS1 are learning about different animals from different places in the world, this was the perfect starting point for us to imagine and draw ourselves with our own animal friend. Children followed the style of Oliver Jeffers and drew themselves with an animal of their choice from one of the places we have studied so far.

Well done boys and girls – a great start to our new after-school club!

Hook week crafts in class 6

16th January 2024Jayne Rodgers

Here are just some of the crafts we enjoyed in class 6 during hook week. Watch this space for photographs of our exciting, newly-immersed classroom. Just a few finishing touches to add before we show you what a wonderful learning space we have!

Class 6 Hook day 2

9th January 2024Jayne Rodgers

We have had a fantastic day today in class 6 learning many more fabulous facts about the amazing continent of Africa. Mr Kershaw joined us to help us begin a KWL chart to record what we already know about our continent and what we would like to find out. We discussed the similarities and differences between some of the countries in Africa and our own, before using IPads to watch a video, noting down the things we will share with our phase at a special presentation of learning on Friday.

Why not ask your child to tell you what they have learned?

Class 6 Hook day 1

8th January 2024Jayne Rodgers

Class 6 have been getting crafty on the first day of our new expedition. We have learned the names of the seven continents using a fabulously catchy tune and have begun to investigate our chosen continent – Africa. We did jigsaws of our expedition title, made world continent maps and cut out animal masks to use in our new African savannah safari area. At the end of this week we will be sharing our learning with the other classes in our phase and hearing all about the continents they have been studying. We can’t wait for tomorrow to find out more!

Key stage 1 nativity updates

8th December 2023Aime Shaw

Please can all of the children make sure that their costumes are in school with their teachers by Monday morning ready for our dress rehearsal…thanks so much for those that we have received already! If there are any problems, please do speak to someone in school.

Also, speaking parts have been sent out again as some children really need to practise them over the weekend. Thanks so much for supporting us with this!

If anyone is wanting any extra tickets, please speak to a member of staff on the door as there are lots of tickets still available and we would love to have a great audience to show off the children’s hard work to!

Thanks so much for your support

Mrs Shaw and the key stage 1 team! x x