Class 1 - Sponsor a Guide Dog

Misty

Julia

Kasper

Who will the children choose?

This year Class 1 will be sponsoring a guide dog from a puppy until it becomes a fully trained guide dog.

More information to follow!

Friday 3rd September

Photographs being used in the classroom to help the children tidy and remember where things go. They can check the picture to see what it should look like.

This morning Mrs Southall taught the children while Mrs Shiner and myself began the home visits for the new reception children.

With Mrs Southall, the children began to learn about working with a talk partner. This is something which we are developing across the school and will encourage the children's speaking and listening skills.

The children have also been rehearsing classroom routines over the last two days including the new tidying routines at the end of the day and lunchtime routines.

This afternoon we practised some word work in preparation for setting word lists for homework next week. The children also had their 'Golden Time' this afternoon and enjoyed looking for minibeasts outside.

Welcome Back!

The new term began today and the summer holidays are already a distant memory. All 9 new year 1's arrived this morning refreshed and ready to go.
You will notice that there have been a few changes in our classroom. We now have areas including a construction corner, home corner, book corner, writing table and a creation station. All these areas give the children access to resources of their choice throughout the day. Here are a few photos of our new classroom design.

Book Corner

Construction Corner

We talked a lot about our class rules this morning and then drew pictures of ourselves this afternoon to agree to these rules. Our class rules are:

- We are honest, we don't cover up the truth.
- We are gentle, we don't hurt others.
- We listen, we don't interrupt.
- We look after property, we don't damage things.
- We are kind and helpful, we don't hurt other peoples feelings.
- We work hard, we don't waste time.

We also talked about the rules that we find tricky to remember and that we need to work hard on.

Year 1 will now be having their lunch upstairs in Class 2 along with FS2 and year 2. It will be nice for them to still be able to play with some of their class friends from last year.

Well done for all your hard work reading over the summer holidays. It has really payed off and means that we can continue where we left last term rather than working on all the things forgotten over the holidays.

Wednesday 30th June

As the end of the school year draws closer the timetable and routine is beginning to become more flexible to accommodate the school performance practises and various other end of year things happening in each class.

This week Class 1 have been writing some 'Wind in the Willows' adventure stories based upon those adventures had by Mr Toad, Mole, Ratty and others. The year 1 children have written up their stories ready to be displayed at the performance so keep an eye out when you come to see it.

Reception this week are looking at the story 'The Sand Horse'. Today they painted watercolour pictures and added images of the horse and the white horses in the waves. They have also been making sand sculptures in a large tray.

Reception have also been looking at 3D shapes including pyramids and cones. Yesterday they had a go at making their own pyramids.

Year 1 have been trying to understand the concept of numbers being made of tens and units.

REMINDER: On Friday the year 1 children will be going into Class 2 for the day in preparation for their transition into class 2 from September.

Wednesday 23rd June

Preparations for sports day were well under way today. The children had their final practise and had a go at running in a lane. We spent the morning having fun with sports day related activities including the relay, jumping in sacks and the egg and spoon race. The children are now fully prepared for tomorrow and very excited.

Sports day will begin at 9:30am at Bussage Primary School playing field. Bring your trainers! There will be a mums race and dads race!!

Welcome to Tammi who has joined us in year 1.

REMINDER: Please come in PE kit tomorrow with a t-shirt that is the right colour for your house team. Scott=blue, Grace= red, Morris= green. Don't forget to bring your PE kit bag back with your school clothes to change into.