This week has been Anti Bullying week and the children have been thinking about what bullying is and what we can do to help stop it happening. As well as learning a stop bullying rap the children took part in odd sock day on Tuesday. All the children wore odd socks to show our individuality, celebrate our uniqueness and remind the children that we respect everyone in our diverse school community.

Remembrance Day

On Monday in collective worship we had a Remembrance service to remember the service and sacrifice of those that have served in the nation’s defence. In preparation the children each made their own poppy then we made it into a poppy field to lay with the other classes during the service. This linked with the value that we are thinking about at the minute which is peace.

This week in our Talk for Writing, we have started to learn about how to write instructions. We started by making some marmalade sandwiches and ate them for our snack. After that we have written some instructions together using pictures and actions to retell them before we start to have a go at writing our own next week. Take a look at the video and let us know what you think of our instructions. Could you use them to make your own marmalade sandwich?

This week in Art the children did some observational drawings of a fish. They did a great job at carefully looking at the different shapes and texture such as their scales and gills to then draw the fish in their sketch books.

Composting

In 1BN we decided that rather than throwing our snack rubbish such as banana peel or apple cores into the bin, we should be adding them to the school compost heap so Mrs Barnett bought some special composting bags and George is now our composting monitor. He has done a great job this week not only making sure that 1BN are composting all their food waste but also going to the other year 1 classes to collect theirs as well. Well done George!

This week for one of our provision challenges we have been continuing to practice using the greater than, less than and equals to signs. The children used Numicon to complete the challenge then took a photo using the ipad to show they had completed it. As you can see George could tell me that 1 is less than 3, 10 is greater than 8 and 6 is equal to 6.

We also made the most a sunny day this week and got outside to do some of our Maths work. We used practical resources such as dice, number lines and chalk to make number tracks, find one more and one less and numbers that are greater than and fewer than another number. What a great, hands on way to help with our learning and a great way you could try some Maths at home too!

We were very excited in 1BN to welcome a very special visitor, Olive. Olive is Mrs Barnett’s new puppy and she is a Labrador. The children all did a great job of being caring and gentle with Olive and we hope that she visits again soon.

We have had a really challenging week in Maths learning about less than, greater than and equal to. The children are really good at saying if one number is greater than or less than another number but have found remembering the < and > symbols a bit trickier though.

This week we have continued to learn the story of Handa’s Surprise, using actions and a story map to help us. Take a look at our video, we think the children have done a great job!

Today we welcomed the amazing Sam’s Safari into Year 1 and we all had a great time learning about all the different animals in such a hands on way. We saw a stick insect, leaf insect, salamander, skink, millipede, snake, tortoise, chinchilla and armadillo. Sam told us where in the world these animals are from and gave us lots of information such as if they were a mammal, reptile or amphibian, what they like to eat and how long they live for. The children were very brave and had a go at holding or stroking these animals. They were also really gentle with them. A huge thank you to Sam’s Safari for such a wonderful experience!

We cannot believe that we are already at the end of week 3 and what a busy week it has been! This week we have been busy learning 1 more in Maths, creating animal prints using ink and rollers in Art and learning the story of creation with Mrs Barnett in RE. We are so excited as Sam’s Safari are coming into school next week with lots of different animals so come back to the blog next week to see some photos of that.

This week the children have been continuing to learn the story/song There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly. To help we had some children holding up the different animals and then we put some actions to the story to help us remember it. We think the children have done a great job, take a look at our video and let us know what you think.

We have had a wonderful week welcoming all the children into 1BN after the summer holiday, they have all settled in really well and are quickly picking up the rules and routines of the day. The children have been spending time this week thinking about our value of Respect and our school rules ‘Respect yourself, respect each other and respect our school.’ They have also spent time thinking about our school vision ‘We work towards a world where we love, learn and flourish.’ We have spent lots of time in our areas of provision, learning through play and doing an amazing job at tidy up time.