Exciting spaces for year 1!

By J Francis4th September 2015

We are so excited to welcome you back on Monday and are really looking forward to hearing all about your summer adventures!

Over the summer we have tried to create a learning space that will help you grow your ‘determined ‘ muscles. Here’s a sneaky peak of our writing, project and maths areas…

See you with a great big gotcha smile on  Monday morning!

Mrs Francis, Miss Pinder & Miss Draper

You were so DETERMINED

By 3rd September 2015

Hello everyone I hope you all had an amazing summer holiday and ate lots of ice cream!

I just wanted to let you all know how proud of you we are in Year 1. You have all grown in your learning and become DETERMINED. I hope you enjoy the exciting new challenges Year 2 will bring. Remember to stay Determined!

I look forward to seeing you all grow and become CALM on the next part of your learning journey.

 

Miss Tate

 

Summer holiday homework

By 22nd July 2015

Summer Holiday Homework

During our transition Project, we looked at the painting ‘Mr and Mrs Andrews’ by Thomas Gainsborough. We will be continuing to link our learning to the painting in September, as part of the National Gallery’s ‘Take One Picture’ project.

Please choose at least one of these activities to do for your summer holiday homework:

  • Re-create the painting ‘Mr and Mrs Andrews’ in your own style! You could paint it, collage it, do it as a mosaic, sketch it etc
  • Research Thomas Gainsborough – his life and his most famous pieces of artwork. Create a Powerpoint presentation or information leaflet about him.
  • Pretend you are Mr or Mrs Andrews and write your diary. You could share how you are feeling, your thoughts on your relationship etc.
  • Write a story with Mr and Mrs Andrews as your main characters and their farm as the setting.

Please bring your homework into school on the first day back, Monday 7th September, so that classes can share what they have done over the summer together.

 

If you are looking for a day out which will link to our ‘Take One Picture’ Project, then we recommend you visit the National Gallery in London and find Thomas Gainsborough’s painting ‘Mr and Mrs Andrews’ to have a look at the real thing!

 

mr and mrs andrews

Getting our brains into action…

By 19th May 2015

Today we have been busy learning our new text! It has lots of rhyming words can you spot them?

First we turned it into a text map to help us memorize it…

Next we worked together in our learning trios to add actions to it and performed it to each other.

Tomorrow we are going to start writing our own non-fiction books about the brain using the information we have found out so far this week….

 

Miss Tate