“Learning, loving and encouraging through Christ.”
Year 1 had a busy few weeks at the end of last term.
We performed our Nativity, completed a range of Christmas craft activities, decorated biscuits to make snowmen, had a Christmas Party and made table mats and hats for our Christmas dinner.
Everyone had lots of fun and enjoyed celebrating Christmas in school.
Over the last couple of weeks we have been busy writing letters to Santa. After we had written the letter we went to buy a stamp from Sandra and then walked to the post box by Spar to post it to Father Christmas. The children are all waiting for their reply from Santa and are trying extra hard to get themselves on the good list.
Last week, we were able to make our own lanterns using bottles, tracing paper and craft materials.
The children had lots of fun making these and were able to take them home ready for the lantern parade last Friday.
We have had a very busy few weeks in Year 1. A couple of weeks ago, we all got to find out what happens when something is cooled by making our own ice-cream! We were lucky enough to get to eat it afterwards, although some children didn’t think it tasted as good as shop brought ice-cream!
To make our ice-cream we used: milk, sugar, ice, vanilla flavouring and put some salt in the bags with the ice. We then had to take it in turns to shake the bag of ice which eventually froze the milk and turned it into ice-cream.
Afterwards we added sprinkles and then got to eat it all up!
At the start of term, Year 1 were lucky to have a Gymnastics coach come in and teach them some basic Gymnastics skills. The children learnt: how to walk and stand like a Gymnast, a range of balances and had a go at completing a forward roll. All the children enjoyed the session and are keen to continue learning Gymnastics in PE this term.
All the children have settled into year 1 well and we have a busy term ahead, especially with the preparation for Christmas and our Nativity.
Attached is a copy of our curriculum letter and homework for this term.
Last term, Fox Class went over to The Marsh Academy and took part in a speed stacking event.
The children learnt how to speed stack and then competed against children from local schools.
All the children had great fun and learnt some great new skills as well!
Just before the holidays, year 1 went over to The Marsh Academy to participate in a Multi-Sports event.
They had to complete a range of activities, testing their: jumping, running, throwing, kicking and hitting skills.
All the children had lots of fun and even got to meet the Shepway Sports Mascot!
Overall there were 12 teams competing and we were lucky enough to have a team come 3rd and 1st. Congratulations to all the children who took part!
Earlier this term some children from year 5 and 6 went over to the Marsh Academy to train as Sports Crew members. The children looked at how to put on mini competitions during lunch times whilst developing children’s sporting skills. All the children had to plan an activity as a small group and then demonstrate and explain it to children from another school, before getting them to complete the activity and scoring them to find a winner! They discussed ways they could make the activity more challenging and less challenging for different ages and abilities.
The children are now keen to implement their new skills and will be supporting children on both KS1 and KS2 playgrounds at lunchtimes in the near future.
Keep an eye for photos of them leading these activities.
Year 1 have been busy learning number bonds within 10 and number bonds to 10. To do this we have been using numicon, part, part whole and 10 frames to help us. The children were able to find different ways to make a number and are starting to write this as a number sentence using the + and = sign.
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