Key stage 1 celebration of learning

27th April 2022Aime Shaw

We are so excited to finally invite parents to see the fantastic video that our children made during the Autumn term. The expedition was called ‘ What will I do to be a superhero in my community?’ and we believe that this video showcases all of their hard work throughout the term.

We would like to invite all parents and carers to XP East for our film premiere on Tuesday 17th May 2022. It will begin at 5pm and last for approximately 45 minutes to an hour.

We would love if the children could come in their best party clothes, just like the movie stars do at a film premiere. There will be refreshments available.

Please let teachers know how many people from your family will be attending. It would be great to see as many faces as possible at the event to really celebrate the children’s learning!

Please complete the following form by clicking on the link below so that we know how many people will be attending. Alternatively, please speak to your class teacher to let them know who will be coming from your family.

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSf-08dh6Havvko5kYPwyJaKw9xQidJEjE76HgfQNAzKnqoq1A/viewform

Can’t wait to see you all there

Mrs Shaw and the Key stage 1 team x

Postcard winner!

26th April 2022Samantha Good

Well done to Ria-Mae today for blowing Miss O’Neill and myself away all day! She has been working hard to find halves this morning and done some wonderful writing this afternoon. We made predictions about what we think our new case study, Geography, is going to include! Great job class 5, and especially Ria-Mae!

Getting our Kixx on!

25th April 2022Samantha Good

We had our first session with Kixx football today in class 5, and what fun we had! The children loved learning new skills, some of us got to show off their football skills and the children loved playing some fun games.

This will be our PE sessions for the next few weeks on a Monday afternoon, so if we could make sure to bring a change of shoes in particular but in general an outdoor PE kit.

Can’t wait to see the children learning new skills and having fun!

HOWL winners!

21st April 2022Samantha Good

Big shoutout to all of class 5 for our first week back after half term. It’s been full of fun and hard work, a lot of us even getting to share our amazing learning with parents and families. What a week so far!

These 3 superstars have been voted by our awesome crew for their hard work, kind manners and attitude around School, as our Be Kind, Get Smart and Work Hard postcard winners this week. We held a vote throughout the day and I totally agree with the outcome. Such fantastic members to have in the class.

Keep it up! Miss Good x

Drone fun in ks1

20th April 2022Aime Shaw

This afternoon, the children were very lucky

as they had a drone expert in to show them how we can take aerial photographs and get a birds eye view of everything on the ground.

They loved watching it take off and fly over the school but they especially loved seeing the photographs afterwards which showed a lot of Thorne and areas surrounding the school.

what a fantastic experience!

Thanks so much to Geoff for coming in and doing this for us…the children appreciate it so much as we will use these photos in our Summer expedition!

Mrs Shaw and the key stage 1 team x

Learning legends

20th April 2022Samantha Good

Well done yesterday to these four legends! It was just too hard to choose one, such great attitudes to learning and some amazing outcomes in phonics, maths and in our talk for writing exercise, retelling the story of the Story Machine. Keep up the great work, I love seeing your proud little faces shine 😀

Take a look back..

20th April 2022Samantha Good

Our first introduction to our new expedition for Summer term was to have a go at matching the adults in school to their faces as babies! We had lots of fun looking at who was who, guessing by identifying features that looked similar. It was such fun seeing how people have changed. The children then got a chance to draw ourselves as a baby and then as they are now, where they could identify that they might have looked similar but the two drawings were not going to be the same. We wondered, what will we look like in the future…?

Droning on!

20th April 2022Samantha Good

WOW what a fantastic afternoon we had when Geoff came in to teach us all about the amazing ways a drone can be used to capture arial images. The children (and adults!!) loved watching the drone take off and head up into the sunny sky. We learnt all about the quadcopter style of drone, and we even figured out it was called that because of the 4 propellers it uses to fly! After we watched it take off and fly through the sky, we then got to see some incredible images that had been taken of the school and Thorne, we could see for miles! We can’t wait to share those pictures too.