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Celebration for ‘Nothing’

As we come to the end of our learning about ‘Nothing’, Year 1 enjoyed a celebration event.

During this topic, children have learnt how to look after and care for ‘Nothing’ by keeping him safe and healthy and in turn how they can apply this to their own lives.

Here are some of the comments made by the children to Nothing:

• ‘I like to be friends with you.’
• ‘I like you being our friend.’
• ‘I hope you enjoyed your party.’
• ‘I liked it when you came to my house.’
• ‘I hope you can come to my house.’
• ‘I hope you have a good time at your new class.’
• ‘I hope they make you safe.’
• ‘Remember don’t put other peoples’ medicines in your mouth.’
• ‘Bye, bye, Nothing.’

Phonics sessions

Thank you to all the parents who attended last week’s phonics sessions, the third of three rounds of ‘open mornings’ over the course of the year. Nearly all children had a dad, mum or other relative attend, taking the time to learn more about how we teach phonics and thinking about you can can support at home.  Here are a few of the comments:

• “Love these sessions – they are very helpful.  It’s amazing to see the class learning and seeing the improvements and progress over the year.  Very effective in helping parents to help their children.”
• “The children were so well-behaved and paying attention.  Great to understand more about how they blend words and to see how the class is progressing.”
• “Lovely session.  Very informative and great to see the children working.”
• “Surprised at the level – much higher than expected.”
• “Loved seeing the techniques used to create sentences and understand them.”

As you can see, visitors found the session entertaining and informative.  There were lots of comments about the high level of children’s learning.

01 May 2015

The homeworks this week are Creative and Practice Makes Perfect.

The Creative homework is:

I can show what I have learnt about the General Election.

In this homework, children have to produce a piece of work which demonstrates what they have learnt over the past two weeks about the upcoming General Election. This could be about the political parties, their leaders, their policies / ideas or  their own ideas about politics.

Here are some of the ideas the children came up with:

• A profile of a politician
• An interview with a politician
• A manifesto of your political plans
• A 60 second video about a political party or leader
• An interview with you, the leader of your own political party
• A poster detailing your party, logo, slogan and political plans for the country

01 May 2015

This week’s homework is creative homework.  Please make sure it is handed in by Wednesday 06 May. 

Design a home for “Nothing”.  How are you going to keep him safe?

When you are thinking about your design, remember:

• what does he need to keep him safe?
• what is important to him?
• gadgets and toys are not things that he needs
• think about all the things that you have learnt in the past two weeks

01 May 2015

Here are this week’s spellings.  There will be a spelling test on Friday 08 May 2015.

Pizza making

Today, we’ve been making our own pizzas. We focused on particular skills such as chopping, grating and slicing. The children were able to use methods such as the ‘The Bridge’ and ‘Claw’ effectively. While the pizzas were cooking, the school was filled with an aroma making everyone’s taste buds tingle! I was particularly  impressed with how many offers to wash up there were!

Take a look at our master chefs at work.

01 May 2015

This week the homework is creative and is due in on Wednesday 06 May.

I can show what I know about magnets and forces.

In class, we’ve been learning about different forces and magnets. This is a chance for your child to show what they know and have learnt over the past couple of weeks.

They could:

• make a game
• create a quiz
• write a poem
• draw and label different types of magnets
• create a table to show magnetic and non magnetic materials, or…
• any other creative idea they might have!

01 May 2015

The spellings this week are linked with our current science topic of magnets and forces. Also, in class, we’re looking closely at root words, prefixes and suffixes. Added to the end of the spelling list is an extra challenge. Using the root word ‘act’ the children need to build a word family. For example, actress, action, acting.

• repel
• attract
• magnet
• friction
• force
• iron
• copper
• pole
• materials
• gravity
• Extra challenge, use the root word ‘act’ to create a word family.

100% Attendance

Congratulations to all those who have had 100% attendance since the end of February:

• Matteo
• Aleena
• Owen
• Nishaan
• Sam
• Pippa
• Hibba
• Zack
• Isobel
• Edward
• Umaimah
• Nico
• Oliver
• Harry
• Zeewa
• Pavan
• Neive
• Grace
• Megan
• Archie
• Stanley
• Saleem

Wow! That’s 22 children in total – very impressive. Keep it up!

01 May 2015

This is the first spelling week about verbs. All the verbs have a doubled consonant for a short vowel sound.

The verbs are listed in their infinitive, present tense, past tense and continuous (this form could be either past or present tense).

• Infinitive – I like to shop.
• Present – She shops very often.
• Past – She shopped all day long.
• Continuous – She was shopping. / She is shopping.

Group 1

Group 2