Another Wonderful Week!

We have been doing a lot of hard work this week, like doubling, halving and writing instructions. We have also been creating masterpieces in the style of Andy Warhol.  We sketched a toy using black sketch pens, and then Mrs Pimlott and Mrs Brown printed it out with 4 of our pictures on the sheet.  Then we coloured them with different colours.  We drew a Guess How Much I Love You puppet, B.A from the A Team, Ollie the Owl, My Liittle Pony, an old telephone and Bibi's old-fashioned doll's house.  They look brilliant! (Elizabeth)

It was the best at Dutch Day on Tuesday.  We learned all about Holland and Amsterdam and I made a spinning windmill and clay mice.  We learned some Dutch - five is the same in English and hello is 'hallo'.  The Dutch flag is red, white and blue.  We also learned about a famous Dutch artist called Vincent Van Gogh and we did pastel artwork about sunflowers and tulips.  We also painted our own versions of Starry Night. (Leila)

It was fun and exciting to meet the Norwich City Footballer, Ricky Van Wolfswinkel who is Dutch. He is cool.  (Alice)

I got Ricky Van Wolfswinkel's autograph! Thank you for coming Ricky, it was amazing. (Harry)

I was really excited to get his autograph.  (Elizabeth).

We met Ricky Van Wolfswinkel!  I was a big fan of him.  He is so so good, I thought I was in a real football stadium.  (Alfie)

As we draw to a close with our Terrific Toys unit, we would like to thank parents and children for all the toys, games and books that have been brought into school.  The response has been amazing!  

To wrap up our fantastic games task, we felt it necessary to invite a special guest (Mr Hughes, Langley School and Key Stage 2 DT specialist) to judge our Year 1 children's games. He said "It is great to see such creative ideas coming alive through these games.  I love the freedom of thinking that younger children have which seems to evaporate as they get older."  Mr Hughes was extremely complimentary about each of the games, and found it tricky to make his decision.  The five finalists were (drumroll please...) Lennon, Lucas, Elizabeth, Alfie and Leila, with the overall winner being... Leila! Well done everybody!

Coming up next week:

We will be looking at place value in Maths lessons this week, and using money to reinforce this. We continue our instructions topic and will be making puppets for Goldilocks and the Three Bears.  

On Wednesday it is our Invitation Cross Country where Emily, Lily, Lennon and Finlay represent THLPS for Key Stage 1.  We look forward to seeing them win all the medals!!  And finally on Friday we celebrate St. Valentine's day with many fun crafts and activities.  What a great ending to the first half of the Spring Term!