Author: Mr McGriffiths

Living and Learning – relationships

For the past few weeks, we have been learning about relationships that are important to us, in particular our friends and family. We came up with lots of ways to be a good friend and what friends do to make us feel happy (a healthy relationship).  We thought about the importance of family and we recognised that all families are different. We respect these differences. The ways people care for each other in these families remains the same.  We spoke about special people in our lives and why they are special to us.

Finally, we reminded ourselves of the important NSPCC Underwear rule  and enjoyed the Pantosaurus song too.  We hope you can share this important learning again with your child at home.

 

We even created our own design of pants to remind us of the rule!

Yorkshire Wildlife Park

Year 1 had an incredible time at the Yorkshire Wildlife Park on Thursday! The children were all brilliantly behaved and learnt so much about the different animals we saw. They also showed great perseverance because we did a lot of walking! During a workshop some of us were brave enough to hold a huge African land snail and a wriggly cockroach! Well done to everyone!

 

George and the Dragon writing

This week in Year 1 we have been looking at the story ‘George and the Dragon’ by Chris Wormell! It is a very funny story about a huge, fierce dragon who is terrified of… mice!!

We learnt a class version of the story and then began to change it to make it our own. We invented our own dragon and thought about how fierce it was! Then we decided what our dragon would be so fearful of. We had some great ideas: frogs, snails, worms, birds and even chickens!!

The next step was drawing a story map of our ideas and practising telling it to our classmates. We had a great time sharing our stories in the sun!

The final stage was the writing! We were very keen to get going and showed amazing stamina for writing! Everyone in Year 1 was so proud of the finished writing! Well done to all the children!

First week back!

It was really good to see the children eager to learn again after a half term break. They have clearly enjoyed their week and have been making excellent choices because we won the choice chip cup this week! Well done everyone! It is fully deserved.

We have also started our DT topic this week. We are studying textiles, in particular, joining pieces of material together by sewing. Today, we got some plastic needles and sewing cards out to practise threading needles, tying knots and beginning a running stitch. It was difficult and the children showed brilliant resilience to keep going! We were all very proud of ourselves.

It would be a great help if you could practise tying a simple knot at home! Thank you!