Hello and welcome to Class 1!

 

We are the youngest class in school and we are made up of EYFS, Year 1 and Year 2 children. Miss Kitchen is our class teacher and we have Miss Brooks and Miss Burgin as our teaching assistants.

Notices:

  • Children in KS1 will receive a set of spellings to learn every Thursday and will be tested the following Thursday.
  • PE is every Thursday, please ensure PE kits are in school for this.
  •  We have daily phonics lessons in Class 1. Click on the 'our curriculum' tab on the home page of the website for more information regarding phonics and early reading.

WELCOME!

As we move into Spring Term, the children in EYFS will be exploring their topic

'Starry Night'.

Key Stage 1 will be jetting off to explore 'Bright Lights, Big City'.

 

Homework

Below are KS1's homework projects for this term.

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2024 - 2025

This week, the children in KS1 have been exploring London using digital maps. They were tasked with finding landmarks and other human features. They did a fantastic job and showed confidence when exploring ths type of settlement.

This week, the children in Nursery and Class 1 have made pizzas! They were busy spreading, sprinkling and decorating and created some delicious pizzas. We used KS1's instructions to make them and were very successful!

This term, the children in Key Stage 1 have been exploring primary and secondary colours in their art lessons. Yesterday, we mixed the primary colours by printmaking to see what effect we could make on our paper.

The children had a wonderful time and made some fantastic pieces of art!

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18.06.24

This term, the children have been learning about sacred places in their RE lessons. We have discussed mandirs, churches and mosques and have had some lovely discussions about special places we have in our own lives. Today, we created our special places! The children did a fantastic job cutting and sticking to create their final piece - well done!

22.03.24

This week's PSHE lesson focused on respecting our similarities and differences. The children in Reception and KS1 were incredible when recognising things that were the same and different between them and a partner and were, of course, very respectful throughout!

18.03.24
Nursery and Class 1 had a magical trip to Skegness Beach today. They played in the sand, found multiple features of a coastline, had a tour of the RNLI centre and enjoyed an ice cream in the sun!
I am so proud of the way all of the children behaved today and extremely thankful to the staff for making it happen!

08.03.24

This week, the children in Year 1 have been exploring length and height in their maths lessons. They did a fantastic job comparing length, and using a ruler to measure in centimetres.

World Book Day

The staff and children in Nursery and Class 1 had a fantastic World Book Day again this year! They all looked incredible in their cosutmes and had a fun-filled afternoon exploring texts and enjoying story-themed arts and crafts!

The children in KS1 have been working on hard on learning the features of beach huts this term. After exploring ways of joining wood and the suitable materials needed, the children cut and decorated wood to build their very own beach huts!

19.12.23

As we were making Christmas crowns yesterday, we came up with the idea to have a spontaneous fashion show! The children had a fantastic time strutting down the catwalk to the music!

19.12.23

We had a very special visitor in school today. Santa came to see us all before the big day! Class 1 told him how well-behaved they've been this year and gave him a few present ideas too.

10.10.23

The Reception children have had a fantastic start to the year! They have shown confidence when exploring their learning environments and have begun creating some lovely friendships with one another.

02.10.23

This term, the children in Year 1 have been looking at the uses of technology around school in their computing lessons. This week, they practised using a keyboard and a mousepad. They all did a fantastic job navigating the keyboard to write their names!

12.09.23

Yesterday, the children in KS1 had a wonderful time when experimenting with colour mixing. They showed good knowledge of the primary colours and which secondary colours are made when mixing.

Summer Terms - 'School Days'

07.07.23

This term, the children in Class 1 have been using their senses when exploring sights, tastes and smells in different religions. After that, we moved on to exploring foods from around the world.

Over the last few weeks, we have tried croissants, vegetable gyozas, spring rolls, samosas, onion bhajis and pakoras!

26.06.23

At the start of this term, the children had a very special delivery - caterpillars! The children have enjoyed watching the caterpillars grow, building cocoons around themselves and finally hatching as beautiful butterflies! Today, it was time to release them!

23.06.23

Over the past few weeks, the children have been growing a variety of vegetables. Today, it was time to pull the potatoes up and eat them! The children thoroughly enjoyed watching the process from planting their seeds to being able to eat their home grown produce!