Thank You for Everything... Except for Brussel Sprouts!

This week in year 1 we have been celebrating the Autumn Season, particularly with the Harvest!  It has been a busy week with our history topic merging into our R.E (Belonging).  The children have been creating their own year timelines in the classroom, showing what has happened throughout the year and looking at timelines of our lives from start to now. 


We have also been reading about the different Kings and Queens of England, they were mostly taken by Henry VIII! We did get to read extracts from a fascinating Tony Robinson book, 'The Worst Children's Jobs in History'. With some gory yet hilarious stories about chimney sweeps, whipping boys and tooth donors,  I think we can safely say that each one of us is incredibly thankful to be living In 2014! 


We have also been learning about our own families history.  The children have made their own family trees, writing about their parents and grandparents and using our very own unique fingerprints to paint the autumn leaves.

We have also been making family history quilts using tessellating shapes! Maths, R.E, History and Art. have combined forces!  The children have made some beautiful quilts using photos and quotes of and from their families and friends to make something special and unique to each child. Our RE topic, belonging, has meant that we have been thinking about the different groups we belong to, starting with our families and then thinking about all the other groups, like school, clubs, sports, friendships and so on.


We have had a very special treat this week.  Great Aunt Margaret (Mrs Pimlott's auntie, although she has been adopted by the children!) came to visit us.  She told us all about what it was like for her growing up.  Aunt Margaret grew up during the war when things were very different!  The children found it fascinating to find out what type of clothes she would have worn, food she would have eaten and what Christmas was like, imagine fruit in your stocking instead of iPods!


To link in with our RE topic of belonging, in our forest schools lessons we have been joining together as friends, working together and building dens in the woods.


Our special harvest festival
On Thursday afternoon we all took a special trip with years reception, 2 and 3 on our mini busses to White House Farm.  We were joined by lots of parents and grandparents and members of the public who watched our wonderful performances.  We have been practising very hard and it definitely paid off, it was a beautiful setting for our harvest festival, all the songs and poems sounded amazing and we hope you enjoyed it as much as we did!

By the time you have read this we will have already had our whole school harvest festival which I'm sure will be as spectacular as our ‘mini’ festival yesterday and I hope you all enjoyed it! 
Wishing you all a wonderful half term with your children, see you all in two weeks - refreshed and ready for lots more exciting learning!! x

All About Me History Week

This week we learned about life as a child in the 1950s.  We met 'Great Aunt Margaret' who told us all about her childhood, teaching us some of the games they would play in the road (!) and on the playground at school.  She showed us a pound note and an old map of London with no motorways at all.  We looked at some very old photographs and talked about the fashion, she even taught us how to tie bows in the girls hair.  She asked us what we would do without our iPads, computer games and telephones.  Also, what we would have done to get the doctor out without a mobile phone.  We looked at telephone booths, old games and toys, 1950s cars, the Queen's coronation, old gramophones and we even got to listen to her favourite 1950s music! She showed us an old Christmas stocking (just her Mum's real stockings cut up) and what was inside.  We thought the clementine was especially kind of Father Christmas, because Great Aunt Margaret told us that in those days everything was rationed and that clementines were a luxury as they came on the ships. Great fun was had by all and we look forward to hearing all the show and tell interviews on Monday!

And on the Seuss menu tonight... anyone for Green Eggs and Ham?

Poetry Day

We saw some amazing costumes and characters yesterday for our World Poetry Day!

Can you spot our headmaster!?







Poetry
We visited our old school site to use the outside stage.  We stood up in front of our friends and made up onomatopoetic  poems!

                                                                             Art Attack!          

                                             We  made Dr Seuss landscapes, the wackier the better!

                                          

All About Me

Mr Oldroyd came and spoke to us this Friday to tell us all about him! We learnt lots of special things about him and then got to ask questions to find out all kinds of interesting facts!

                                            

Maths

In Maths we have been learning about so many things… from ordinal numbers to 2D shape.  We had a very special maths lesson in the woods finding real shapes! What was even more special was that it was team taught with our specialist maths teacher Mr Sowry!
‘We found a trapezium’ Cameron R.
‘We found a parallelogram’ Karl