Welcome to Class 1! 

Our class team is:

Mrs Gibson, Miss Bellamy and Mrs Sawkins

               🦥🦁Hertfordshire Zoo 🦓🐯

Class 1 had a fantastic time at the zoo! We visited a workshop to learn all about the different animal groups; mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians and fish. The sun was shining as we enjoyed exploring the zoo to see a variety of animals. We watched a bird show too and listened carefully to the information about the birds catch their prey. 

Reverend Sam visited Class 1 to teach us about all the wonderful and enjoyable ways that Easter is celebrated at Blackmore Church. 
Children can you remember some of the activities that Reverend Sam taught us about? 

This half term we are looking at alternative phonics sounds. Below are our new sounds with the rhymes to help remember them!

English

This term in English we will be looking at the story of The Sea Saw by Tom Percival. We will be retelling the story, working on our sentence structure and use of adjectives. We will then be making our own versions! 

Maths

This half term in maths we will be looking at numbers all the way to 50! We will be making numbers and counting forwards and backwards. We will also be learning about measure. 

Wider Curriculum

Geography

Our geography topic this term is ‘What is the weather like in the UK?’ We will be looking at the countries and capital cities of the UK and investigating daily weather patterns. 

History

In history, earlier in the term, we looked at significant individuals including Florence Nightingale and Mary Seacole. We looked at how they helped people and how it has changed over time. We finished with a doctors and nurses day which was great fun!

Autumn Term

In our Science learning we have been looking at materials. We went on a material hunt around the school and then looked at the properties and what made each material special. We have been searching for the best material to make Paddington Bear a new raincoat! We investigated lots of materials and looked at their properties.

History

Our topic in Autumn was 'What is it like here and how has it changed?' We  spent lots of time looking at the Geography of our school and village and are now started to look at the history. We looked at some toys through the ages and wrote questions  for our Grandparent visit! To finish our topic we wrote letters home and took a walk through the village to post them! We hope you enjoyed reading them!

In Geography we looked at maps and made messy maps of our classroom! We also worked with Year 6 to make maps of the school.

PE

In PE this half term we have been practising a variety of fundamental skills! We have been balancing, throwing, practising our agility skills, skipping, hopping, jumping and catching. 

In PE this term, we have started our Dance unit and have begun putting together steps to create a routine about the weather! We worked hard to dance to the beat and keep in time.