2A Phonics

We've been enjoying some outdoor learning this week in 2A. We were practising the /ear/ trigraph in our Phonics lesson!

Art in Year 1 - Exploring Albert Giacometti's style

Year 1 have been exploring the work of the artist Albert Giacometti. We found out he has created tall and thin sculptures of people.

We tried to replicate his sculptures ourselves using wire. We twisted, pulled, pushed and bent our wire to make the face, body, arms and legs.

Year 1 have been amazing readers this week!

Year 1 excitedly had their first dips in the treasure chest this Friday, and grabbed a prize, as a reward for reading 5 times (or more) this week.

All week they have been reading with their adults and receiving DOJO points each time they read.

Well done Year 1, keep up the awesome reading!

1S - Learning how to stay safe online

We have been learning alll about what to do to keep ourselves safe when we are online this week.
We decided we should only tell our passwords to an adult we trust and nobody else and Lock-It.
If anything pops up on screen that we are not sure about we should Block-It and Show -It to an adult.
If someone is being unkind to us we will Tell-It to someone we trust so that they can help us stay safe. We learned some actions to help us remember these important rules and then used an ipad application called Morfo to make some crazy faces with messages to remind us.

Ever wondered how safe you are online? If the answer is yes, check out Year 6's e-safety videos

 

Always remember to Lock it, Block it, Show it, Tell it!

Our Super Reading Corner!

Today 1L enjoyed having a lovely reading time in our new, super reading corner.

It was great to watch children get excited and enthusiastic about reading books.

They read brilliant and shared books nicely.

Keep it up 1L and I am really glad you like the new corner :)

Helping The Three Little Pigs - 1S

We have been learning all about the properties of different materials this term in 1S. When we found out that two of The Three Little Pigs needed a new house, we decided to put our new knowledge to the test and design and build them a new home. We had to decide which materials would be strong and stable enough to stop the new house from being blown down whilst keeping the pigs warm, safe and dry.

After lots of careful thought and designing there were some very impressive houses built. In fact Mr Soffe was so impressed he emailed pictures of them to The Three Little Pigs!

Christmas fun in 1S

The festivities have been in full swing in Class 1S this week. We have been learning about Advent - the countdown to Christmas. We discovered what the five candles on the Advent Wreath represent and had a fun afternoon making our own version. On Tuesday afternoon, we had just started to plan and design our own pop up Christmas cards when news spread that a special visitor had dropped by our school.

 

We decided to stop what we were doing and to go and investigate. Imagine our surprise when we discovered Santa had called in to bring us our own special class present. After Santa had told us all how busy the elves were in the North Pole, as well as a few other interesting tales, we returned to class and the fun continued as we finished  making our pop up Christmas cards.

1S E-safety Week

This week the children were also learning how to keep themselves safe when going on-line both in school and at home. We discovered that when going online  we should not give out any important information such as which school we go to, our names, our address or our passwords.

More importantly if anything doesn't "feel right" we should tell an adult we trust and follow the rule:-

Lock it, Block it, Show it, Tell it.

The children designed their own posters to help remind themselves what to do.