Archived Class 1 2021-2022

Welcome to Class 1 Class Activities 2021-2022

Summer 2

END OF YEAR 2022!

Thank you to each and every one of you for all of your support throughout this year, it had been a pleasure watching your children grown and learn 🙂

As one final party, we invited our families in to have an end of term picnic to celebrate all of our hard work throughout the year. It was a day to remember 🙂

This week we celebrated the final week of school before the summer holidays. We had lots of fun at our Medieval banquet; baking biscuits, making crowns, threading bracelets and most of all eating a feast!

Sixth week highlights…

This week we have enjoyed lots of fun activities celebrating the end year at school 😊

To start the week we had an amazing afternoon with ‘The History Bloke’ who took us back to 1950’s England. He had lots of props to help us visualise what life was like back then compared to now.

We watched class 5 perform their amazing panto; Cinderella Rockafella and all joined in with the horayyyys and the booooos!

Our school was venue for the Multiskills Festival in Durham. We had lots of superhero fun as we moved around the carousel of activities led by our Sports Leaders and the Durham Sports Partnership.

To end the week we celebrated with Rockstar Day – for all of our numeracy work across the year and the rest of the schools Times Tables work.

Fifth week highlights…

This week we performed our end of year show and had so much fun singing and dancing in front of all our parents and careers – we hoped you enjoyed it as much as we did 🤩

Our science this half term has been looking at life cycles and how things can change as they grow and develop… so we were so excited when our 21 day experiment finally ended and we saw the hatching of our very own chicks 🐣 9 new editions to the class means even more cuddles 🥰

 

Fourth week highlights…

This week we have begun practising for our end of year performance ‘The Enormous Turnip’ the children have enjoyed singing the songs and learning when to come on stage. 🤩

In literacy we have been looking at the text Jack and the beanstalk and planning different settings and version of the story using our imagination.

The children had lots of fun on class swap day meeting their new teachers and friends too!

 

Third week highlights…

UNCRC Article 28: Every child has the right to an education.

Second week highlights…

UNCRC Article 29: Education must develop every child’s personality, talents and abilities to the full.

This week we watched a live performance from a Brass Band in our school hall which was super cool! 🎺

At the Forest we practised some more cooking skills and worked in teams to make a den. 🌳

In numeracy we have been using different objects to measure different things in class and in Literacy we have been writing sentences independently linking to our new topic “In a land far away”.

We have also been remembering to turn our chicken eggs in the incubator 3️⃣ times a day so that hopefully in 21 days we will have some chicks in class 1. The children have really enjoyed their science work of life cycles this term 🥚

Football Superstar

Huge well done to Nolan, who has won a fantastic trophy for his football efforts this season! We are so proud of you – keep it up ⚽️

First week highlights…

• Paul Cookson – Poet Visit

UNCRC Article 31: Every child has the right to rest and leisure, to engage in play and recreational activities and to participate freely in cultural life and the arts.

Today the children had a visit from the amazing poet and author (and totally awesome ukulelist); Paul Cookson. He delivered an amazing workshop to the whole school with some hilarious poems! The children (and the staff!) loved taking part in the actions and words. There was so much laughter and love for poetry created at Nettlesworth today!

After the assembly, each class had the chance to take part in a workshop with him and with his creative help we managed to make a class poem! Well done everyone and thanks you Paul 🪕📖

• National Fieldwork Week 

UNCRC Article 28: Every child has the right to an education.

Where are the best places to play in our community?

As part of National Fieldwork week, we decided to look around our local community to find the safest and most enjoyable place to play in our village. We put the question to the children and they wrote a list of 4 places that they thought would be good to explore; Nettlesworth Park, The Community Centre, The Forest & Kimblesworth Park.

We used a large map to navigate our way around the village to the different places we suggested and when we got back to school we recorded our opinions in a pictograms, tally chart and bar chart. The pace with the most votes (11) was Kimblesworth Park and here are some of the reasons why:

* It has a big fence around it and a gate so we are safe when playing,

* This park isn’t near a busy road,

* It’s got lots of things to play on and a basketball court and a big field for picnics,

* It has bins and not much litter on the floor.

Great work class 1 🗺

Welcome back 👋🏼

I hope you have all had a wonderful half term and are ready for the final half term of this academic year. Our New topic chosen by the children this half term is ‘Castles’ and we just can’t wait to get in role in our new areas!

Summer 1

Jubilee Picnic with Parents 🇬🇧

UNCRC Article 31: Every child has the right to to participate freely in cultural life.

Class 1 have has so much fun today celebrating; 70 years of the wonderful, Queen Elizabeth II. We hosted a picnic with the whole school and their families this afternoon. In true British weather style the weather was wet and then broke out onto glorious sunshine. Despite this the afternoon was filled with laughter, dancing and eating soggy sandwiches!

Thank you to everyone who came along and made the day a huge success – it was great to share such an important event with the whole community ! 🇬🇧

 

Fifth Week Highlights…

UNCRC Article 28: Every child has the right to an education.

This week we have had so much fun continuing our jubilee celebrations. We are very proud of our display work in school and out the front of the school on the fence 🇬🇧

We have enjoyed our last session of Bike ability with Darren and the progress we have made is fantastic 🚲

To end the half term we had a wonderful time at the Queen’s jubilee picnic (in true British weather style 🌧☀️☔️)

Fourth Week Highlights…

UNCRC Article 31: Every child has the right to rest and leisure, to engage in play and recreational activities and to participate freely in cultural life and the arts.

This week we have been focusing on the Queen’s jubilee across most subjects 👑

In literacy we have been writing sentences about the Queen and the city of London. This linked closely to our work in Geography – we have been looking at London landmarks and other countries that our Queen works with in the Commonwealth 🇬🇧

In music we have been learning the National Anthem and in Art we have been finger painting flags to display outside of the school and jubilee picnic next week 🧑‍🎨

It has also been National skipping week and Class 1 have really enjoyed working in small groups to learn the rope game ‘Big Bounce’.

Third Week Highlights…

UNCRC Article 29: Education must develop every child’s personality, talents and abilities to the full.

What an exciting, busy week we have had in class – We have started reading our new literacy book; Superworm and in numeracy we are spotting odds and evens.

We took part in a PE event outside on the field led by our Year 4 sports leaders, it was so much fun and we all worked well in a team 😊 Our third week of bike ability saw 3 more children progress to pedals and all children are now lifting their feet for a couple of seconds to glide! 🚲

Forest schools this week involved a fire 🔥 The children were confidently able to follow the fire safety rules and take the ‘respect’ position when toasting their marshmallows 🍡

Finally, in Art we are stepping into the role of Artists as we are recreating the fabulous work of Yvonne Coomber… the children are amazing at us sweeping their brushes when painting with watercolours 🧑‍🎨

 

Second Week Highlights…

UNCRC Article 28: Every child has the right to an education.

Our new role play area is a mini beast investigation lab and the children have had lots of fun being minibeast explorers looking to find exciting and new minibeasts. We have been writing sentence and looking at features of our natural world this week as well as comparing them to old photos of the local area too.

In numeracy, we have been measuring the length of different bugs and creatures and ordering them appropriately. It has been great to see so many children excited to take part in our second week of Bike Ability with Darren – the progress is fantastic!

Finally, In science, we are looking at life cycles of mini-beasts that change when growing. We have some mealworms and can’t wait to see them change into beetles!

 

Crazy Creatures

UNCRC Article 31: Leisure, Play and Culture

Today we had the  Crazy Creatures North East team in to work with the children in handling different animals. Class 1 particularly enjoyed the minibeasts and the scaled creatures the most 🙂

First Week Highlights…

UNCRC Article 28 – Every child has the right to an education.

I hope you have all had a wonderful Easter Break – it is lovely to see so many of you sharing photos of what your children have been up to over the holidays as we share this news at the beginning of every week in our speaking and listening circle time.

This week we have had so much fun seeing our friends again, all of the children are so excited to be back in school and to see on another again. We have had our Forest schools revamped over the holidays so we are hoping it stays this way for our term of campfire cooking 🏕

Darren started his first session of Bike Ability this week and he was very impressed with all of the children, they listened extremely well and we already have some confident riders which is fantastic, this will continue each Thursday morning 🚲

Welcome Back!

Good Morning and Welcome back to Class 1 for our final full term of this academic year! I hope you have all had a Easter half term break!

 

Spring 2

Sixth Week Highlights…

UNCRC Article 28: Every child has the right to an education.

And just like that term number 2 has come to an end, looking back at all of your children’s hard work has made me very proud. We have so many confident reader’s now, lots of eager writer’s and many speedy mathematicians… but most of all we have a wonderful group of happy and inquisitive children who have made such great friends 😊

To end the term we have been investigating 2d shapes in maths, writing about our favourite part of the farm topic, creating Easter eggs and cards, computing with beebot as well as finding some time to hunt for chocolate-y treats that a certain furry friend dropped as he hopped across our school field! 🐰

A truly EGG-cellent week Class 1, have an EGG-stra special break 🤩

 

Easter EGG- straveganzaaaa

UNCRC Article 31: Leisure, Play and Culture.

Today was our Easter Egg Competition – it was so nice to welcome you into the school to see our wonderful designs and hard work. Class 1 had a theme of ‘Down at the Farm’ and I was wowed by all of their entries 🤩 We got to work planning our farmyard animals on paper before crating our masterpieces on eggs, here are some photos of us hard at work 😁

All of the children won an Easter Egg for taking part in the competition, here are our runners up and winner from Class 1 (judged by Class 2 children):

1st Place: Sebastian Buttle with Horsey 🐎
2nd Place: Thomas Longstaff with Percy Pig 🐖
3rd Place: Nolan Aspinall with Super Cow 🐄

 

 

 

Fifth Week Highlights…

This week we have been looking at characters in stories and using describing words to tell others what they are like. We used adjectives like “hardworking, kind and helpful” for the Little Red Hen and adjectives like “grumpy, lazy and greedy” for the dog. 🐔 🐶

We made bread just like the Little Red Hen in the book we are reading and it tasted delicious! We were so good at following the instructions 🍞

In numeracy we have been looking at measurements and how to weigh different ingredients when following recipes. ⚖️

In PE this week we have put all of our throwing skills together to begin a team game and we had the opportunity to work with a skipping coach who showed us how to skip 🤩

Happy Mother’s Day 2022

Happy Mother’s Day from your little ray’s of sunshine ☀️🥰

Fourth Week Highlights…

UNCRC Article 28: Every child has the right to an education.

Spring has been a huge focus this week and the weather has been glorious too! In science we have been nature detectives, spotting signs that Spring has Sprung. This continued at the farm, where we saw lots of new life! We fed baby lambs from bottles, held baby chicks and watched the newborn piglets feed from their mammy. We also had a tractor drive around the farm to see the other animals and because we were so good at listening and following instructions we had some time at the end to play on the soft play 🐮🐷🐥

In Literacy, we have been looking at the story the Little Red Hen and using the vocabulary beginning, middle and end to organise the different events that happened in it 🐔

We have been getting our BAKE ON this week, in preparation for the Big Hatty Bake Off on Friday to support Brain Tumour Awareness. We had lots of fun baking and even more fun revealing the cake in a whole school assembly and tasting everyone else’s! We were all winners in the end and had ice lolly treats for prizes. 🍰🧁👩‍🍳🧑🏽‍🍳

Third Week Highlights…

UNCRC Article 31: Leisure, Play and Culture.

This week we have been enjoying the Farm role play area and exploring different animals and their young in preparation for our visit to Hall Hill Farm next week 🐮🐷🐥

In French, we have been learning how to say “My name is…” when asked the question: “comment tu t’appelles?”. We were so good at answering “je m’appelle” and their name 🇫🇷

We dressed in Blue and Yellow on Wednesday to show support for the Ukraine and painted some amazing artwork, displayed both inside and outside of the school. Thank you for everyone who donated, we raised £125🌻🇺🇦

Today we took part in Red Nose Day; dressing at the rare multicoloured nose in order to raise money and awareness about the wonderful charity – Comic Relief. We have raised £93 🦸🏼‍♂️ 🦸🏻‍♀️ we spent the afternoon involved in cheerleading workshops before the teachers dressed up as superhero’s as a surprise and performed their own routine to the whole school… we found it super-silly 😂

Second Week Highlights…

• Dental Hygiene

Today we stepped into the roles of; dentist, dental nurse and the patient and performed an oral checkup. We looked at different food and drinks that are good / bad for our teeth and were surprised to see how much sugar is in some of our favourite foods! 😳

Building on our knowledge that we brush our teeth twice a day (morning and night) we found out that the most important time to brush our teeth is before we go to bed. We then learned a new song that we can sing when brushing our teeth 🦷

We have all picked our own toothbrush and have been given some toothpaste to take home to share all of our dental hygiene tips with our parents. We have also decided to make a display in the corridor so that all of the school can see how important it is to keep our teeth clean and healthy 😁

• Fairtrade Fortnight

UNCRC Article 27 – Every child has the right to a good standard of living and governments must help to provide this.

Over the past 2 weeks we have been learning lots of new things linking to our UNCRC Rights Respecting work and Fairtrade Schools Award. Every year we celebrate Fairtrade fortnight and this year we have focused on ‘Pablo – the Super Banana’.🍌

We have tracked his location right from the banana farm in Columbia to our supermarket shelves, closely looking at the bananas that make the farmers happy by treating them fairly; (Fairtrade bananas) and the bananas that make the farmers sad; by not giving the farmers, who do the hardest work, a fair price. The children were shocked that this meant the farmers and their families didn’t have the same UNCRC rights as they have here at Nettlesworth Primary School.

We have set a challenge for the next time we are shopping and will look out for the ‘Super Sticker’ on different products so that together we can make a difference to the wider community all around the world! This started on Thursday afternoon when we visited our in school Fairtade Shop – we had lots of fun picking the different products to take home 🙂

Check out the links below to see what we have been working on – especially the super cool song that we have learned 🙂

Pablo Story EYFS 2022
https://schools.fairtrade.org.uk/teaching-resources/pablo-the-super-banana/

 

• Maths Day

UNCRC Article 28 – Every child has the right to an education.

 

Mr Graham and the staff organised us an exciting afternoon of activities to get our mathematician heads into. It was lots of fun and all of the school shared the afternoon with a different class teacher. We had so much fun taking part in a whole school Maths Day. Mr Beveridge even joined in the fun and helped deliver Active Maths with Mrs Morton and Miss Milburn.

Mr Graham worked with the youngest children in the school. They used concrete objects to solve different numerical patterns…. their favourite being the addition with haribos!

• Support for the Ukraine

UNCRC Article 38 (war and armed conflicts)

In Art this week we have been showing our support for everyone in the Ukraine – we painted their flag and added sequin poppy’s on. In Mini Makers a club Class 1 have painted sunflowers too and put them outside the school 🌻🇺🇦

First Week Highlights…

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• Science Day – Growth 

Today we celebrated Science Week by taking part in a whole school planting project that we could take home to watch grow. The children chose their own seeds to plant and have learned about all of the things needed to help it grow.
Across the afternoon, teachers swapped classrooms to deliver different aspects of growth with the children; Class 1 worked with Miss Grimes and had a fantastic afternoon! 🪴

• World Book Day 2022

Today we celebrated the 25^th anniversary of World Book Day! This year’s theme was marked  by the message: “You are a reader.” All of our children were encouraged to to dress as their favourite book characters and bring along their favourite story to share.

It was great to see our oldest children enjoy sharing stories with our youngest children …. And we had a surprise visit from one of our favourite Superheroes! 🕸📚

• Inter House Competition – Class 1, 2 & 3

We had so much fun this afternoon taking part in lots of different sporting activities with our sports leaders and coach Darren, we showed determination, passion and excellent teamwork skills throughout 🏅

• Class 1 Infant Agility 

This morning we made our way to Durham New College to take part in a Reception Infant Agility Festival. We were amongst 5 other schools and moved around a carousel of 12 activities that focused on skills in; rolling, throwing, balancing, jumping and running. The children worked extremely well as a team and they had throughout the entire event 🙂 🏅

• Shrove Tuesday 

Today, we celebrated Shrove Tuesday by making pancakes and serving them to the whole school – allowing each to add their favourite toppings. We have also been looking at the meaning behind ‘Pancake Day’ and why it is so important to the Christian Faith. It was great to be joined by our RE Governor – Mrs Lofthouse! 🥞😊

Welcome Back

Good Morning and Welcome back to Class 1 – I hope you have all had a great half term break! We have chosen our new topic for this half term and it is ‘Down at the Farm’ 🐷🐮🐣

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Seventh Week Highlights…

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• French Experience

We had lots of fun working with Papi, we have been working hard this half term to remember how to say ‘hello’ and ‘goodbye’ in French as well as how to say ‘mam’ and ‘dad’. We took part in some fantastic role play for greetings and even learned a new little rhyme that we can sing each morning 🙂

• Random Acts of Kindness Day

Each class secretly picked out of a hat and received a class name, they then thought of a treat for them which would be delivered to their door at 2pm on Friday…. Class 1 received popcorn, treats and a movie which was scumdiddlyumptious! We had so much fun creating a real life ice cream parlour for class 4 too!

• Spring Disco

Another disco completed at Nettlesworth primary school – we danced and sang our little hearts out and enjoyed the party treats too 😁

• End of Topic

This week completed our half term topic of ‘superhero’s’ 🦸🏽‍♂️🦸🏻‍♀️
To celebrate our successes in learning we emerged into full detective mode to help find supertato; saving him and the other veggies from the evil pea… we had so much fun investigating different areas of the school looking for clues. Sarah in the kitchen was so pleased when we found the villain because he was upsetting all of her other vegetables 🌽 The jelly trap worked! MISSION COMPLETE ✅

 

Sixth Week Highlights…

UNCRC Article 29: Education must develop every child’s personality, talents and abilities to the full.

This week has been very exciting with lots of whole school events happening 😃

We started off e-safety week with a coffee morning carousel of classes in the hall. We shared our team boards which looked at different areas of how to stay safe online; cyber bullying, being kind online, digital footprints and password protection. As a treat class 1 made 120 yummy treats for the children to enjoy when it was their time in the hall 😋

Our next event was taking part in national football day ⚽️
Each class took part in mini football skills activities and worked extremely hard as a team, we then calculated the points from each class to find out our winning team – who then played the TEACHERS… yellow team won by a mile 😂

We finished off the week looking at the country of Italy and celebrated Pizza day; extending our maths to halving and sharing and writing lists of pizza toppings in our literacy 🍕

Fifth Week Highlights…

UNCRC Article 28: Every child has the right to an education.

Another busy week for our little superhero’s in class 1!

We started the week off with our Chinese New Year celebrations 🎊 🐯 and we have made some fabulous carrot superhero’s in Art this week; some of the children even created wonderful stories to share with us in literacy 🥕🦸🏻‍♀️🦸🏼‍♂️

Today saw the end of National Storytelling Week; as a grand finale the children across the school had a surprise knock on their classroom doors at 10am and each teacher shared a story with a different class 🥳 Class 1 also took part in NSPCC number day – we worked hard through different challenges on the computers on our Numbots portal 😊

Kung Hei Fat Choi!

UNCRC Article 31: Leisure, Play and Culture.

Today we celebrated Chinese New Year!

We have had lots of fun learning about the ancient Jade Emperor who called a Race of the animals to get a name on the Zodiac Calendar, we found out that some of us in Class 1 were born in the year of the Monkey and some were born in the year of the Rooster.

We made fantastic Chineses dragon masks, Lanterns and Red envelopes with sweets and chocolate golden coins in.

We looked at how the New year was celebrated by lots of people around the world and tasted some traditional Chinese foods – YUM

We also learned how to say ‘Happy New Year’ in Chinese ‘Kung Hei Fat Choi’

Fourth Week Highlights…

UNCRC Article 29: Education must develop every child’s personality, talents and abilities to the full.

Third Week Highlights….

UNCRC Article 31: Every child has the right to relax and play.

This week we went on our first school trip to Washington Wetlands. The children were an absolute credit to you all and they smiled from getting on the bus to getting back into school. We watched the Otters being fed, spotted lots of different birds and ducks and took part in some fantastic activities, before playing on the climbing trails 🦩🦢🦆

From the trip we have done some great writing in literacy and in numeracy we have been focusing on subtraction, in the form of “1 less than” 😊

Superstar Swimmer 😁

Huge well done to our friend Nolan who has moved up top Stage 2 in swimming lessons this week – we are so proud of you, Keep it up 🙂

Second Week Highlights…

UNCRC Article 28: Every child has the right to an education.

This week we have has lots of fun getting into the superhero spirit! At the Forest we made “SUPERSTICKS” and turned all of our friends into different animals / gave them different super skills! 🦸🏻‍♀️🦸🏽‍♂️

In numeracy we have been measuring different lengths, weights and capacities in different ways and in Literacy we have been reading our new text Supertato 🥔

This half term we are working with coach Catherine focusing on Relax Kids – we all had so much fun looking at coordination when moving in different ways and learning different relaxation techniques 😁

First Week Highlights…

UNCRC Article 31: Every child has the right to relax and play.

This week we have had been so excited to share our Christmas holiday news and meet up with our friends again. This week we launched our new topic that the children have chosen ‘superheroes’ 🦸🏻‍♀️🦸🏽‍♂️🤩

We also had a visit from children’s creative author Adam Bushnell who brought his super-tortoise along to help with his story telling 🐢

Not forgetting that we had SNOWWWWW 😃

Our New Topic!

This half term our new topic is Superheros. The child have chosen this to be the overarching theme for their learning this half term and are super excited that their classroom learning environment has been transformed 🙂

 

Welcome Back 2022!

Good Morning and Welcome back to the first day of 2022! I can’t wait to see you all and hear about all of the wonderful Holiday news you have to share 🙂

 

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Merry Christmas….

This week we saw the end of our first term of this academic year!!

Thank you all for your continued support and a huge thank you for all of the Christmas cards and gifts that myself and the team have received.

As always it is my pleasure to help your little ones glow the brightest they can 💛

Have a wonderful Christmas and I will see you in 2022 🎄

Seventh Week Highlights….

UNCRC Article 28: Every child has the right to an education.

• Christingle

• Christmas Crafts; Calendars, Cards & Baubles

• The Elves have Arrived

• Letters from Santa

• Christmas Dinner

• Christmas Party

 

Sixth Week Highlights….

UNCRC Article 31: Every child has the right to relax and play.

• Prickly Hay Nativity  – EYFS & KS1

• The Christmas Craft Fair

Fifth Week Highlights….

IT’SSSS CHRISTMASSSSSSSSS!

UNCRC Article 28: Every child has the right to an education.

This week the magic of Christmas has well and truly arrived…

We started off with a pantomime in school and Tinker McJingles was the naughtiest elf! On Wednesday, we entered our classroom to find it had been turned into a festive grotto of fun! We then came together as a whole school to decorate our huuuuge Christmas tree; each one of us placing a bauble on, making it so special. We have been so good at practising our lines for the nativity rehearsals that we are doing daily in school too! 🎄

At Forest Schools we saw the effects of Storm Arwen as some of trees had been blow down, we still enjoyed a yummy snack in our safety circle though 🌳

We have been continuing with our story Tiddler in literacy and acting out some of the different parts and in numeracy we have been counting backwards as well as forwards.

Thank you for all of your donations for the raffle prizes for the school Fabre! The coloured Team hampers are fabulous – have a great weekend! ❤️💚💙💛

 

Fourth Week Highlights…

UNCRC Article 29: Education must develop every child’s personality, talents and abilities to the full.

This week we launched into a day of wonderful Science with Professor Brainstorm doing some of the most amazing Science experiments we have ever seen! We learned how to make electricity flow around a circle whilst we all held hands…. and it lit up Mr Clown’s nose 🙂

In PE, we were working on balancing on different equipment outside – using our core skills… the children enjoyed it so much that we continued this in the forest when we had our Forest Schools session.

We have been exploring the creatures in our Oceans and looked at the food chains that matched some of them. We found out that sharks eat other animals and that is where they get their energy from!

Finally, we have given out part for the Christmas Play and it is sooooo exciting to start practising al of the songs in our Music Lessons 🙂

 

Children In Need 2021

UNCRC Article 31: Every child has the right to relax and play.

What a fantastic day Class 1 have had raising money and awareness in support of BBC Children In Need! Altogether the school have raise £74 and took part in fantastic activities organised by the Sports Leaders & SSOCS Crew. This began with Joe Wicks and finished with a children verses teacher hoopla competition 🙂

Third Week Highlights…

UNCRC Article 24: Every child has the right to education.

This week we have been practising our fine motor skills through decorating rainbow fish for our under the sea role play area. We have also been practising our gross motoro sklills at the Forest when climbing trees and in gymnastic where we have been working our core muscles when balancing.

In Numeracy we have been subatising number sup to 5 using, numicon and other concrete and abstract concepts. Our Julia Donaldson books in Literacy have continued to be a hiot and we have been sequencing stories into the beginning, middle and end.

Maths Day

UNCRC Article 28: Every child has a right to an Education.

Today we took part in a whole schools mental arithmetic day. It was so much fun to see Mrs Aspinall and Miss Grimes teach us different activities linking to the number work we have been doing.

Second Week Highlights

UNCRC Article 31: Every child has the right to relax and play.

This week we have introduced the fire circle up at our Forest Schools site and read a fantastic story all about saving our woodlands linking to all of the talks that are happening globally in the news at the moment. We have been ordering numbers up to 5 and learning lots of new sounds in phonics. Our new topic ‘Under the Sea’ has got us looking at animals and sea creatures that may be extinct, so we have been thinking of ways to help save our sea life.

Remembrance Day Assembly

UNCRC Article 29: Governments must protect children from war.

On the 11th day of the 11th month; on the 11th hour Nettlesworth Primary School got together to take part in our annual Remembrance Day assembly. We have been working hard in Art & History as a whole school to create different displays in preparation for this day and it was great to see it all put together. Class 1 have made some beautiful poppies and talked about how the video below makes us feel.

CBeebies – Poppies is a beautiful 2 minute animation to… – Bing video

Engineering Day

UNCRC Article 29: Education must develop every child’s personality, talents and abilities to the full.

Today we took part in the whole school engineering day and we tried to build bridges for our trains to cross using different materials. We were extremely resilient throughout the afternoon as lots of our bridges collapsed and were just not strong enough but we went back to the plan and worked out a solution!

Our First Week Highlights…

UNCRC Article 28: Right to an Education.

This week back we have had lots of opportunities to showcase our communication and language skills. Our homework activity was to look at baby photos and then compare how we looked then to how we look now. We also enjoyed speaking to our friends and showing them photos of our holiday news. In RE we have been looking at the important celebration across our country which takes place on 5th November….Bonfire Night. We learned about Guy Fawkes and his plan to get rid of the King, but most of all we are pleased that the plot was foiled! We have started our new topic in PE, gymnastics 🙂

Welcome Back

Hello everyone and welcome back to the new term! I hope you have all had an amazing holiday and it is great to see all of the wonderful half term adventures on Class Dojo.

Our new Topic; chosen by the children is… UNDER THE SEA – We can wait to get our fins stuck into this one 🙂

 

 

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Halloween Disco

UNCRC Article 31: Leisure, Play and Culture.

We had so much fun at our first Halloween disco after school 🙂

Our Seventh Week Highlights…

UNCRC Article 31: Leisure, Play and Culture.

Well done Oscar…

UNCRC Article 31: Leisure, Play and Culture.

Our Little Kickers’ superstar Oscar has been working very hard at his football club – keep it up 🙂

Harvest Festival 2021

UNCRC Article 14: Every child has the right to practise their religion.

We were sooo excited to take part in our first ever Harvest Festival this week – we sang with the whole school and listened to some lovely readings teaching us all about this wonderful festival 🙂

 

Our Sixth Week Highlights…

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This week we have been busy putting all of the skills we have learned so far into practise. We have been perfecting our letter and number formation in lots of different ways: on paper, on the whiteboard, in playdough and other malleable mixtures. We put our rolling skills into practise in the team game; Rolla Ball and put our reading skills into practise by finding different phonic letters around out classroom! We have also found that we have some very creative builders in class 1 who have constructed with a purpose as well as planning their designs! Another amazing week for us in Class 1 – I am very proud 🙂

Campaign Save our Forest…

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This week we put the posters up all around our Forest to hopefully prevent more damage to our woodland environment 🙂

Our Fifth Week Highlights…

UNCRC Article 12: Right to have a say in all things that affect them (forest schools campaign)

This week we have been inspired by Ten Town and gone with the interests of the children and made maps. We started off with treasure maps and moved into maps of things in our lives and villages that we find really special and important. We then used the computers to find google maps and where we lived… it was super cool to see our cars and back gardens on the Interactive Whiteboard! We had lots of fun on the field when the weather finally brightened up and did our first forest schools session. We found lots of fly tipping so we started a campaign with the parish council and local council to help us keep it a safe environment for us to continue these sessions! We came back to class and made some amazing posters to stick around the village and our forest to hopefully prevent this 🙂

Our Fourth Week Highlights…

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This week we have made some wonderful Autumn artwork and put it on display! We have played team games and really looked at turn-taking and sharing with our friends. We took SELFIE’s and used the iPad’s to change them and make them look funny. We continued to look at seasonal change and the children have brought in some fantastic Autumn finds from home! Finally we began practising our new songs for the Virtual Harvest Festival coming up 🙂

World Smile Day 2021

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Today we had so much fun taking part in World Smile Day organised by the Rights Respecting Champions to launch their Outright 2021 campaign linking to Mental Wellbeing – we were blown away by our Random Act of Kindness that was delivered at 2pm… and we loved organised and delivering pizzas to our hat draw; Class 5. It really makes you happy when you make someone SMILE 🙂

 

Hoopstarz

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We had the most amazing time taking part in Hoola Hoop lessons today – Every child listened to the coach so well and were practically hoopla legends by the end of the session 🙂

 

Our Third Week Highlights…

This week we have baked, played team games, practise turn-taking and followed instructions so well! We have also been matching the equiptment to the occupation. For example; the person who would use a stethoscope would be a nurse or a doctor.

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Our Second Week Highlights…

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Sports with Darren

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Roald Dahl Day

We had such a fantastic day, celebrating all things Roald Dahl today. The children all looked amazing in their costumes and wearing yummy yellow – his favourite colour! There were some outstanding homemade costumes that must have taken so long to make. The children all came together in assembly to celebrate Roald Dahl and the children then took part in various Roald Dahl activities in their classrooms throughout the day.

LIZ MILLION!!!!!!!!!!

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Well what can we say? We had the opportunity to take part in a workshop with the award winning illustrator Liz Million – she worked with us to launch our new topic of people who help us and designed us our very own Vet with different animals that may need to visit this super special place if they are feeling unwell. We talked about our pets and what we wanted to be when we grow – it was fantastic to see so many different carers from such a young age; from Doctors to Builders; Teachers to palaeontologists we celebrated them all!

 

Our First Full Week Highlights…

This week we have really got to grips with our new routines and Mrs Morton and the staff are soooo proud of us. We now play outside with the whole school as well as eat our lunch with them which is super cool!

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WELCOME BACK!!!

This half term we are kicking off the year with our first topic that is; People who help us.

We are learning about all of the wonderful things that make us similar and different and the 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 🙂

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