Welcome to Class 1 Activities 2023-24
Spring 2
Week 4 Highlights….
In Literacy, we have been busy using speech bubbles to write what our handsome Prince whispered to Sleeping Beauty before she woke.
In Numeracy we have been exploring and experimenting with shape and repeated patterns.
We have made knights with movable parts and Easter cards in our Design and Technology sessions.
In French we have been learning French nursery rhymes and singing them with our fabulous accents.
We have been exploring magnets in science and we now know the terms , attract and repel.
Week 3 Highlights…
This week we have been working on our Sleeping Beauty story. We have been writing about our characters and role playing them in our castle area.
In Numeracy we have been exploring shape by creating pictures using a variety of different shapes.
Our music sessions have been spent learning our new ‘frogs legs and dragons teeth’ song. It was very funny, we loved it.
In P.E we concentrated on making slow and fast dance moves to our music and making big and small movements.
We made knights with movable parts in our Design and Technology session.
We had a fabulous time celebrating Comic Relief by competing in our funny football session.
Week 2 highlights….
We have had yet another extremely busy week this week. In Literacy we have been working on our ‘Sleeping beauty’ story, sequencing and learning our princess song. We are fabulous at this job!
In Numeracy we have been counting groups of objects and matching the totals with their numerals.
On Tuesday we visited Rainton Meadows and enjoyed ‘going on a bear hunt’ activities. They were so well behaved and had an amazing time.
In P.E we enjoyed moving to music and keeping to the beat. We investigated Rosa Parks for to celebrate Woman’s history month.
Week 1 highlights…..
We began our week with a visit from Adam Bushnell, who introduced our new topic ‘Castles’ by telling us amazing tales and showing us his collection of ‘royal findings’. We have been writing and talking our castles in our Literacy sessions.
In Numeracy, we were busy bees ordering numbers to 5 and 10 on our number lines and forming our number 9’s.
We have been learning, ‘a princess lived long, long ago’ in music and loved role playing the different parts of the song.
In P.E went completed our final gymnastic session of this half term, we are amazing at our forward rolls!
In Science we have been investigating changes of state and being investigators of changing materials.
Spring 1
Week 7 Highlights….
We’ve had yet another fun packed week beginning this week with celebrating Chinese New Year. We made lanterns, dragon masks, watched dragon dances and ate Chinese food. What a treat!
We then celebrated Shrove Tuesday by designing, making, then eating delicious pancakes!
Our Literacy this week was all about sequencing Dinosaur pictures and writing about our yummy pancakes.
In Numeracy we practised our counting skills and we’re introduced to our Ten Town number 8.
P.E this week was all about our special gymnastic rolls and we even got our parachute out to play with. We loved that!
We have had such a brilliant week!
Week 6 Highlights….
This week in Literacy we read ‘Harry and the bucketful of Dinosaurs’ and talked and wrote about our favourite things and what we would carry in our buckets. Our Numeracy jobs this week have involved the introduction of 5/10 Frames and placing the correct amounts of objects in each section. We have also been introduced to Knight seven. We have been trying so hard to form our numbers correctly.
In Art, we worked as a team and created Dinosaur homes with our collected recycled materials, ( thank you again for those who contributed).
Being mental health awareness week we completed many tasks relating to our mental health and what makes us happy.
In P.E this week we perfected our forward rolls and played lots of team building games.
We have had so much fun!
Week 5 Highlights…
We have been such busy bees this week!
In Literacy we read, ‘How do dinosaurs eat their lunch’ and talked about their own food preferences. They drew their favourite meal and wrote words or sentences about their food choices.
Our Numeracy job this week was counting sets of objects and selecting the correct numeral to match our set. We have also been searching for our hidden numbers around our classroom and building towers of that number. Our Ten Town job was number 6 and we enjoyed watching ‘Seal six’ get up to so much trouble in the sea and practised forming our number 6 beautifully.
This week, in P.E we tried hard to do our 5 step forwards rolls. We talked about our feelings in our SEAL time and discussed what made us happy or sad, using our feeling fans to help us.
Our Art job this week to create printed repeated patterns using paint, which we placed on our dinosaur templates, we loved this job!
In computing we had great fun programming our Beebots to move forwards and backwards using our arrow keys.
Week 4 Highlights…
This week we have been introducing 5 frames in numeracy and focusing on blending CVC words in Literacy.
We have also been using adjectives to verbally describe dinosaurs and what they look like.
At forest schools we had lots of fun toasting marshmallows on the firepit.
In PE we have had a great experience taking part in New Age Kurling.
Swimming Superstar!
UNCRC Article 29: Every child has the right to an education that develops their personality, talents and abilities to the full.
Well done to Maisie who has blown us out of the water with her swimming ability!
Level 4 and she is only in our Reception class – we can definitely see a talented swimmer of the future. Keep this up 🙂
Week 3 Highlights…
UNCRC Article 31: Every child has the right to relax and play.
This week we have had lots of fun making dinosaurs in Art/DT. We got really creative and added personalised touches making our own OSAURUS!
In numeracy we have been doing rapid number recall for subitising numbers up to 5, 10 and some of us beyond.
We learned how to say hello in French and the children have been saying ” Bonjour” ever since 🙂
We had lots of fun at our Arts coffee morning too so thank you for everyone who came along. For the next 2 weeks Mrs Dyer will be shadowing in Class 1 so that she can get a good feel for our daily routines whilst watching Mrs Morton deliver our curriculum.
Week 2 Highlights…
UNCRC Article 29: Every child has the right to an education that develops their personality, talents and abilities to the full.
This week we have been focusing on oracy skills in literacy and sharing our weekend / holiday news. In Numeracy we are continuing with ten town and really trying hard to form all of the numbers correctly, saying their number rhyme as we go.
Phonics regrouping and assessment has taken place and we are encouraging all of the children to update the writing in their red phonics books if they haven’t already. Sounds will be less frequent in these books now as we move into the blending stage of reading words e.g. c/a/t = cat.
Forest schools was fun this week and we enjoyed making natural woodland crowns.
Week 1 Highlights…
UNCRC Article 24: Every child has the right to good healthcare.
This week we have launched our new topic chosen by the children; ‘Dinosaurs’. In PE, we have moved onto the new skill; Gymnastics where we will be focusing on skills in balance and core strength 🙂
Autumn 2
Week 6 Highlights…
UNCRC Article 14 – Every child has the right to freedom of thought, belief and religion.
The Elves have arrived at Nettlesworth!
This week the elves have arrived in school – ooooh what a disaster they have caused! We need to show them our best Rights Respecting behaviour before it’s too late! Santa Claus will NOT be impressed 🙂
Week 5 Highlights…
UNCRC Article 14 – Every child has the right to freedom of thought, belief and religion.
This week we have been working hard in literacy to write our name independently, for making the capital letter tall and other lowercase letters smaller. We have been writing letters and making lists for Santa so that we can send them to the North Pole 🎅🧑🎄
In Numeracy we have been identifying sets / groups of numbers quickly. This is called subatising and is a skill we will use throughout school to recognise groups of numbers in different ways in mental maths. The quicker the better is the challenge and without counting 1 by 1 too, just knowing what the number looks like 🔢
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We also performed our Christmas nativity on Thursday and blew our teachers away with our singing, dancing and speaking in front of a big audience. We hope you enjoyed the show as much as we did!
Week 4 Highlights…
UNCRC Article 29: Every child has the right to an education that develops their personality, talents and abilities to the full.
This week we have been getting into the festive spirit with rehearsals for our Nativity show. We have been learning about the Christmas story in RE and talking about the different ways it is celebrated around the world.
Our classroom was sprinkled with Christmas cheer as the tree and decorations went up on December 1st and we all joined as a whole school to decorate our Christmas Tree in the Hall. Forest schools this week was fun as we took a magical trip to the woodland and created wands from natural resources we could find. Finally, we had LOTS of fun in the snow this week and it linked great to our science work of melting and freezing 🙂
Week 3 Highlights…
UNCRC Article 31: Every child has the right to relax and play.
We have had so much fun exploring our new role play area – We make wonderful Jungle Explorers 🙂
Also this week we had lots of Forest Schools fun, learning about road safety and the boundary of where we can and can’t go in the woodland, a mini Little Kickers sessions – which we excelled at and music movers – jungle style 🙂
Week 2 Highlights…
UNCRC Article 29: Every child has the right to an education that develops their personality, talents and abilities to the full.
This week we have taken part in many whole school events; not only with our peers but the local community. These involved World Kindness Day, UK Parliamentary Coffee Morning, Anti-Bullying Week & Children In Need. We also completed our Balance Ability sessions and have made excellent progress.
Week 1 Highlights…
UNCRC Article 24: Every child has the right to good healthcare.
This week we have launched our new topic chosen by the children; ‘Down in the Jungle’. In PE, we have moved onto the new skill; Games. We are practising following instructions in throwing and catching as well as working so hard to dress and undress ourselves fully – it would be great if you could continue this at home too 🙂
We have also had our first visit from Oral Hygienist, Elaine and took part in the whole school Remembrance Day Service.
Week 7 Highlights…
Class 1’s Stay ‘n’ Play
Today we had lots of fun celebrating the end of our topic; Marvellous Me with our family. We worked with Stacey from STAR’s community group to make pizza portraits and read the story, ‘This is me’ before playing in our favourite classroom areas with our favourite people 🙂
Careers Experience – Intensive Care Nurse
UNCRC Article 29: Every child has the right to an education that develops their personality, talents and abilities to the full.
Today we had a visit from Nurse Louise who works in a big hospital near Newcastle. She came to work with Class 1 who are working on the topic ‘Marvellous Me/People who help us’ but also worked with children who are interested in a career in medicine and healthcare.
Halloween Disco 2023…
Week 6 Highlights…
We have had so much fun this week looking at different careers. It was a great experience having a fire service engineer come into school to show us the different types of extinguisher to help protect us in the event of a fire. Here are some of our highlights…
Week 5 Highlights…
This week we have introduced musical instruments into our music lesson with Mrs McCartney. We explored tapping, scraping and shaking instruments and had lots of fun forming our own little band 🙂
We launched our Literacy topic of ‘We’re going on a Bear Hunt’ and had so much fun exploring and describing all of the different textures from different parts of the story.
In Yoga we learned 2 new poses – Tiger and Slide which practised our balancing and core strength skills.
We have been taking a close look at Seasonal Changes as the Autumn leaves begin to fall and have created a wonderful class artwork display using different techniques such as; stroking, splatting and printing.
Week 4 Highlights…
This week we have enjoyed yoga and music again with our coach and music teacher. We have also been learning to sing Big Red Combine Harvester for our upcoming performance at the Harvest Festival in Church. The children have tried really hard to copy the actions at the same time as singing 🙂
We have also set our personal targets for the term and talked about our class charter. We have chosen to focus on UNCRC Articles:
28: Every child has the right to an education,
31: Every child has the right to play and rest,
23: Every child has the right to join in even if they have a disability.
Week 3 Highlights…
UNCRC Article 28: Every child has the right to an education.
This week we have began our baseline work looking at numbers, shapes, letters, colours and many more concepts.
We have been looking at our own features and spotting what makes us unique and special. It was so much fun looking in the mirror and painting a self-portrait for our classroom display board.
Week 2 Highlights…
UNCRC Article 24: Children and young people should be entitled to as good as possible healthcare.
We have completed our first full week back in school after the summer break and have had lots of fun taking part in new activities.
We have been looking at how doctors and nurses can look at our bones inside of our bodies by using X-Rays before creating our own X-rays of different body parts 🩻
We also had our first music lesson led by Mrs McCartney who had us fascinated with the sound of the ukulele, as well as our first PE session with coach Beth who showed us many new yoga positions 🧘♀️It has been great to see the children build more friendships this week 😊
Week 1 Highlights…
UNCRC Article 31: Every child has the right to relax and play.
What a great first few days at school we have had in Class 1. The children have settled in really well and made lots of new friendships. It has been exciting to explore our indoor and outdoor classroom – with the new areas and topic ‘Marvellous Me!’ I can’t wait to come back next week and see all of our lovely smiling faces – until then, have a wonderful weekend 🙂
WELCOME BACK!!!
UNCRC Article 24: Every child has the right to good healthcare.
It is wonderful to see all of the children settling into school really well. We are beginning the year with our first topic that is; Marvellous Me!
We are learning about all of the wonderful things that make us similar and different and about the careers of different people who help us. We have settled in to our new routines exceptionally well – we LOVE the dinner hall where we can see all of our older friends and family members.
Here are some photos of our role play area which is a hospital 🙂