Blog Author: Mrs Boyle

Today we have been sorting our 3D shapes. 
 

We have enjoyed celebrating with Alfie this week as he rings the bell completing his treatment!

We followed all of the instructions very carefully to make our fruit smoothie. Mrs Walsh enjoyed it and we have now made our own recipe. 
 

We wrote some Bonfire Safety Instructions and shared them with Reception. 
 

Today we have been learning about our bodies. We have been labelling the different body parts using play dough models we have made. 

We have been working hard to count backwards. We made some rockets and counted backwards to blast off! 

Today, Year 1 heard about the Jewish harvest festival. This is called Sukkot. Jews build and decorate a sukkah, which means hut and spend as much time as possible in there. They eat, pray and even sleep in the shelter to remember when Moses led the Jews through the wilderness. They give thanks to…

The amazing Rock Kidz came in to spread the important message of bullying. We spoke about what bullying is and what it means. 

What a fun week we have had in Y1!
We have begun learning the rules and where things are in our class. It has been lovely to see how well the children have started to settle into Y1 life. 

Steve from SCARF came in and talked about how we can keep healthy and safe. We discussed the foods we should eat to keep healthy, the importance of exercise and sleep. Harold the giraffe also helped us learn that message!

The last few weeks we have been learning about debating. We split into teams and were given a proposing or opposing side on the following: Shorter School Holidays, Banning Computers in School and No School Uniform. After a lot of research and planning we held our debates as well as a vote within…

Thank you to Lancaster Bulldogs for coming in and telling us about wheelchair basketball. We really enjoyed it but realised how hard it really it is!