The Year One Team would like to wish you all a very Happy Easter break. The children have been working so hard all term and they were super excited to have a surprise Easter Egg Hunt.
The children went on a Common Exception egg hunt around Year One finding the secret letters and breaking the secret code. The reward…..chocolate of course!
The children have worked incredibly hard over the past two weeks completing their tasks and assessments. We were incredibly proud of how the children completed their practice phonic screening check. The children enjoyed reading the real and alien words without realising we were practising for the Year 1 Phonics Check Week which begins in June.
2019 Screening Test Information
Literacy
The children have turned into newsreaders and journalists. The children completed their own news cast and have written up newspaper articles because a Snail has been washed up onto Southend beach!
‘ Breaking news, the snail has been found in Southend and went to the water park’ -Ayla
‘Breaking news, the snail went to go on the roller coasters’. - Elliot Ellis
https://www.twinkl.co.uk/resource/fact-file-layout-t-l-4553
Maths
The children learnt about mass. They used scales to measure how heavy different objects are using cubes to balance their objects. In addition, they compared different masses and used vocabulary associated with mass like heavy, heavier and lighter.
Aadya: ‘The apple is heavier than the orange.’
Aniah - Mai: ‘The banana weighs 7 cubes.’
Mental Math Train - A Four Operations Game
Geography
This term, we have been learning about the continents and oceans around the world. We have mapped the continents and oceans using atlases, Google Earth and maps of the world.
Science
The children have been planting bulbs in our gardening area and discussing what plants and flowers need to grow.
Computing
Thank you to Year 5 for your support helping the children practice their keyboard and touchpad skills.
Apricot Class Forest School
Apricot class had their final session this term and it was jam packed. Everyone got busy making woodland warrior wristbands with varying designs depending on what they were able to find. We had a fire and enjoyed toasting marshmallows. Some children made them into s’mores and others had their marshmallow and biscuits separately. There was hot chocolate on offer as well as squash. The children helped extinguish the fire and shared their favourite memories from the sessions, these included seeing tadpoles, making the wristbands and of course eating marshmallows.
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