Good morning everyone,

Geography

As part of Year One’s Geography topic, we explored our local village, Lanchester! We observed what Lanchester has to offer such as hairdressers, restaurants, churches, fruit and veg shops, bakeries, pubs and a park. Year One discussed that villages are not as busy as cities but a small amount of people do live in villages and they do share some similarities to cities such as having churches, shops and restaurants. Year One loved our walk into Lanchester and we especially loved having a play in the park!

Maths

Year One have been busy learning all about shapes this week. They did a great job identifying various 2D and 3D shapes.

We can’t wait for Winter Wonderland today and we will share some pictures once we’ve been!

Have a lovely weekend everyone!

Mrs Morgan and Mrs Days

Year 2 have spent a lot of time this week thinking about Advent. We have explored a guided meditation where we sat with Jesus and thought about how we can get ourselves ready for Christmas. We then created our Advent prayer space. Each day we are adding a pebble to the path to the Nativity scene and we have an Advent calendar of kindness. Each day we add a kind act we have completed and challenge the rest of the class to do the same.

We have also filled our prayer tree with our Advent promises.

In art we have had a fantastic topic all about sculpture. We have explored Michelle Reader, Barbara Hepworth, Brendan Jamison and Eva Rothschild. We have also used some fantastic resources to sculpt with- from junk sculptures, to spoons. From sugar cubes to marshmallows.

Look at these amazing abstract designs.

This topic has also helped us develop lots of other skills like patience, teamwork and forward planning. We cannot wait to see what we will be doing next!

Good morning everyone,

Marvellous Maths

Year One have been consolidating their knowledge using bar models to represent number bonds to 10. We have been practising how to write number sentences in different ways by either writing the parts first or the whole first. Mrs Morgan was blown away by Year One’s gorgeous presentation in their books – can you believe these children are only 5 or 6!?

Wonderful Writing

Mrs Morgan is always proud of all of the children but this week, four children in particular have really gone above and beyond by writing more independently and using their known sounds and tricky words. Well done to Kasper, Vincent, Isaac and Charlie for their amazing work in English this week. They sequenced the fairy-tale ‘Jack and the Beanstalk’ and wrote sentences to describe each picture with limited help from Mrs Morgan. Wow!

RE

Year One learned about the important story when Angel Gabriel visited Mary to tell her that she, and her cousin were going to have babies. We learned about the story when Mary visited her cousin Elizabeth and discovered how happy they were for each other. We talked about what the babies would be called (Jesus and John) and we even talked about when the babies were older, Elizabeth’s son, John, turned out to be John the Baptist who baptised Jesus in the River Jordan. We acted out the story of when Angel Gabriel told Mary she was going to have the son of God and we drew representations of the story of Mary and Elizabeth. Great work, Year One! Year One have also wrote their Advent promises which are displayed on our RE display in the classroom. We have lots of lovely promises such as sharing with other, being kind and helping people who are sad.

Have a lovely weekend everyone!

Mrs Morgan and Mrs Days x

Good morning everyone!

Computing

Year One have been focussing on online safety recently and have learnt the importance of telling a trusted adult if something upsets them online. We also have been exploring ways to stay safe online especially when using a search online. We discovered that the best way to stay safe is by using a safe search engine such as: safesearchkids.com

We used this search engine to find various animals, linking to our Science topic – animals including humans. We even talked about how some animals are mammals, birds and amphibians. We then started to search for things that were an interest to us by typing key words and navigating the mouse on the laptop. Some children decided to search their first name to see if there were any famous people who shared their name. Vincent searched his name and learnt all about the very famous artist, Vincent van Gogh! Great computing skills, Year One!

Art

This week, the children have progressed their Picasso pictures from last week and have been focussing on colour. The children have been exploring various colours that could represent emotions. Check out Thomas’ colourful work this week showing the emotions happiness and sadness. Amazing!

Phonics

This week, we have still been focussing on the /oe/ sound but have progressed our learning by learning about syllables. We learned that a syllable is a part of a word that contains sounds (phonemes). We used Mrs Morgan’s ‘hand and chin’ method to figure out how many syllables are in words. We have then been figuring out syllables in words containing the /oe/ sound. Great job!

RE

As it is the first Sunday of Advent this coming Sunday, Year One have been learning about the signs and symbols are Advent. We have been learning about how Christians all around the world spend time with their family and friends at Christmas and often use an Advent calendar to help count down (a lot of Christians don’t have chocolate behind their windows, they have bible text or a nativity story behind the windows!) We also learned about Advent wreaths and how they represent God’s everlasting love for us. We looked closely at what the candles each represent and then created our own interactive Advent wreath and lit the first purple candle (hope) in preparation for the beginning of Advent on Sunday.

Well done for a fantastic week Year One! Hope you all have a lovely weekend. Mrs Morgan and Mrs Days x

Good morning everyone!

English

This week, Year One have been reading, ‘Ruby’s Worry’. We have been talking about what worries people might have and discovered in the story that the best way to deal with a worry is to talk about it. Year One thought about some worries children and adults might have and discussed ways that we can deal with them such as talking to our family, friends and teachers. Check out Iris’ gorgeous writing and ideas.

Science

This week, Year One started their second Science topic all about ‘Animals including humans’. On Wednesday, we talked about different types of animals and identified a range of animals and sorted them into the following animal groups: mammals, fish, amphibians, reptiles and birds. Look at Isla’s lovely sorting!

Art

Year One and Mrs Days have been learning about the very famous artist, Picasso. The children got creative and drew an abstract portrait in the style of Picasso. Just look at Harriet’s amazing art skills!

Children in Need

Thank you to all families for their generous donations for Children in Need. Year One, Mrs Days and Mrs Morgan have loved dressing in their spots today! We also loved our dance-a-thon with Year Two and Year One even made spotty biscuits!

Have a lovely weekend everyone! Mrs Morgan and Mrs Days x

Another busy week!

We started by thinking about our odd socks! We thought about how are socks are all different but they are still socks- just like us. It doesn’t matter that we are all different shapes, sizes, colours we are all humans and should be treated fairly.

Poppy pledged to look after her friends when they get hurt and Ellen pledged to treat others how she would want to be treated!

In science, we have been sorting again but WOW! Our knowledge has increased so much. Now when we sort materials we can use vocabulary like: transparent, translucent, opaque, waterproof, water resistant, shiny and dull.

We could also justify our choices when Mrs Pearson tried to convince us to move a material!

In D.T. we are exploring lighthouse structures. Last week we found out what a lighthouse needed. This week we investigated different 3-d shapes. It was really tricky but we showed great determination. Arlo and Oscar managed to create a tetradecahedron- with 14 faces! It didn’t blow over but it was a real challenge to construct

Remembrance Liturgy

Thank you to all of our Year One families for attending Year One’s liturgy on Remembrance. I think you will all agree that the children did such an amazing job and were so well behaved and respectful. We are so proud of them for doing their liturgy not only in front of families, but also in front of the whole school!

Year One have been learning about Remembrance Day and what is means.

Phonics and Literacy

This week, the children have been learning the /oe/ sound. Mrs Morgan is so impressed with the progress Year One are making in their Phonics lessons. When reading, more and more children are recognising different spellings of /oe/ – amazing! Carrying on from our book last week, Sparks in the Sky, Year One have been focussing on poetry and wrote fantastic firework poems this week!

Maths

Year One have been doing lots of subtraction work this week and are becoming more confident when using number lines.

Geography

Year One have been using Google Maps, an atlas and a globe to locate Lanchester on a map. We talked about how Lanchester is situated in the North East of England.

Art

Year One have been creating their own self-portraits. We are amazed by their wonderful work and can’t wait to study Picasso next week!

Hope you all have an amazing weekend! Mrs Morgan and Mrs Days x