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Blog for Friday 22^nd November 2024

During P.E. lessons on Wednesdays, Mrs Corlett has been very impressed with the excellent teamwork the Year 1 children are showing when they are practising their ball skills. This has included working in teams of five to intercept another team.

In science lessons the children have been naming and grouping animals. Last week, the children discussed the meaning of the word ‘familiar’ and how this could be applied to animals, such as pets, farm animals and those that feature in books and places children have visited. When they grouped animals into ‘pets’ and ‘not pets’, they discovered some animals could be included in both groups.

In class, Year 1 have finished reading the book ‘Leaf’. After completing some factual writing about polar bears, they thought about the polar bear in the book and how it represents a stranger in an unfamiliar place.  The children exchanged ideas with their talking partners about how the polar bear ‘Leaf’ feels at the beginning of the book and how his feelings change at the end. They moved on to writing their ideas in sentences and were challenged to use the conjunction ‘because’.

Year 1 have started preparing for the Nativity production which they will perform in December with Year 2 and Reception. The children are already showing lots of enthusiasm learning and practising the songs.