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