Today Year 1 have been learning about the four different types of sentences. They worked on statements, questions, exclamations and commands linked to the book they are studying called ‘The Storm Whale,’ by Benji Davies.
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The Lighthouse Keeper’s Lunch
Reception have enjoyed lots of learning and play opportunities inspired by the collection of stories about Mr and Mrs Grinling and their lighthouse. They liked Mrs Grinling’s clever plan to stop of making mustard sandwiches to stop the seagulls pinching Mr Grinling’s picnic lunch. Everybody tried some mustard, they thought it was “spicy” “hot”… Continue Reading
Phonics fun in Year 1
Today the children were recapping the diagraph ‘ie’, they played a dice game to practice reading lots of words containing this sound. The children had to roll a dice and read the word that matched the number. It was super to hear the class working with their learning partners and confidently segmenting and the blending… Continue Reading
International Week – Spain Y1
Today Year One have been learning to count to 10 in Spanish. They sang counting songs and did action games using numbers up to 10. The children then went on to learn the names of the colours and got really good at recognising the the colour words and saying them. Year One enjoyed watching the… Continue Reading
International Week in Year 1-Africa
Today the children in Year One learned some facts about the continent of Africa. In particular, they looked at African animals and were challenged with the task of writing a fact file. The children worked with a learning partner, looking at information sheets and then researched information on ipads about a chosen animal. They all… Continue Reading
Year 2 – Poetry
Children have been learning all about free verse poetry over the last two weeks and have focused on the life of Neil Armstrong as inspiration for their writing. Children produced a list poem called: 10 things found in Neil Armstrong’s pocket, itself based loosely upon Ian McMillan’s 10 things found in a wizard’s pocket. We… Continue Reading
Geography in Year 1
The children in Year 1 have been learning about simple maps and how they work. They all had great fun finding features around school, in forest school, the prayer trail and church. They used a birds eye map of the school and the local surroundings. Continue Reading
Christmas Story Telling
Reception have enjoyed retelling the Christmas stories that we have read and shared as a class. They even managed to retell the story of the First Christmas using puppets. Brilliant language and use of phrases from the text! Continue Reading
A sneaky peek at our phonics work
Reception are making brilliant progress in phonics. They are learning the Grapheme Phoneme Correspondences (GPCs) quickly and are able to apply their phonics knowledge to read and write simple words and captions. Look how their work has progressed! Continue Reading
A sneaky peek at some of our literacy work
Reception have been doing some wonderful writing in response to the stories that they hear in class. They are developing a love for books, the story area is one of the most popular areas of our class during ‘choosing time’. Often children are observed here re-telling the stories we have shared as a whole class… Continue Reading
