Monday 14th June

Today Reception learnt how to share and take turns when playing snakes and ladders.


Our new topic for the next 2 weeks has a Geography focus. We are learning about 'Islands and Pirates.' Some of the children designed and made pirate hats today.

We continued our poetry this morning. The Year 1 children were looking at the poem 'Animal Muddle'. We created our own animal muddles including snails with lobster claws and elephants with giraffes necks. We had great fun being so creative.

We are tackling time in maths this week, looking at both o'clock and half past times. The year 1s played a new version of 'What's the time Mr Wolf?'. Setting and matching times with a partner.

Well done to all the children in class 1 who took part in the talent show. They were very brave standing up in front of such a big audience.

REMINDER: Please bring in tomorrow a photograph/postcard/image of a holiday that you have had in the UK.

Friday 11th June

Today the children worked with Mrs Southall in the morning. They continued their work about creation and made a fantastic dance of their own to go with the music. It was really super. The dance moves included resting, the world turning, growth, different animals including flying, water and land etc.

The children all dressed up as famous people today. We had a wide selection of famous people in our class today including David Beckham, Puss in Boots, Dorothy and Doctor Who. The children looked excellent and a lot of work had been put into the costumes. Well done!

Puss in Boots (Iona) won a prize for the best costume.

Thursday 10th June

Today reception created their own under the sea poem. Come and read it in their Literacy books.

Year 1 wrote up their under the sea poem. Each one of them wrote a verse which has been put together as a class book. This is living in the classroom book box and the children are very proud to have their work 'published'!

We have nearly finished looking at the Titanic. Today we learnt about the lifeboats and the survivors. The children were fascinated with the facts and have remembered lots of information including how many lifeboats were on the Titanic and how many people could fit in each lifeboat. The children have really loved this topic and have learnt so much.

Lots of reminders about tomorrow.

- Mrs Southall would like everyone to bring in their favourite story book.
- Dress up as a famous person or in non school uniform (50p)
- Cake sale at play time (20p)
- Bring and buy sale after school: bring along anything you do not want anymore that is in good condition.

Wednesday 9th June

Yesterday the Reception children had a story time with some of the new starters from Bussage Nursery School. The current Reception children enjoyed being called the 'year 1s'! They arrived at 2:30 and came to play and listen to a story.

On Tuesday we also continued our learning about the Titanic and looked at the collision with the iceberg and the following hours after that.This morning was the pet show. Due to the weather we had to hold the pet show in Class 3. Some of the children in Class 1 brought along their pets including Abi and Archie with their dogs and Kim and her rabbit. (Photographs to follow tomorrow)

Well done to Isaac who won the best toy pet!

This afternoon the Reception children had individual photographs and a group photograph taken on the village green. We had some real movie star poses and smiles!

Thank you to Molly N's nanny who has knitted Crispin a fantastic navy school jumper. He looks very smart!

REMINDER: Mrs Southall has asked the children to bring in their favourite story book for Fridays RE lesson.

First day back after half term

We started looking at poetry this morning. The children enjoyed the poem 'Bears don't like Bananas'. We talked about the features of poems. Some children were very knowledgeable about poems that have read before. The children then worked in small groups/partners to learn a poem before having to recite it to the rest of the class. We looked at a variety of poems.

In Maths we looked at capacity and describing containers to keep a magic potion in. The children used language such as empty, nearly empty, half full, nearly full and full. We talked about how we knew when it was half full.

This afternoon we continued with the Titanic and looked at what happened and how the ship sank. The children watched a simple computer recreation of the moments and then wrote about the sequence of events.

There is lots happening this week at school. Tomorrow some of the new starters from Bussage Nursery will be joining us for story time. This will mean that the year 1 children will have story time up in Class 2!

REMINDER: Reception will be having their group photograph taken on Wednesday afternoon.