Robins in action!

On the first day back at school after Christmas the Robins found litter in the outside area. We talked about why littering was a problem and went on a litter pick around the rest of the school. Some very observant Robins suggested that if there were more bins outside then people might not litter as much. The children then decided to write a letter to Mrs Welch who explained that if they wrote to The Friends they might be able to help. So that is what they did! Please read the response below…

Robins, I am so proud of how hard you have been working at home and most importantly you seem to be doing it all with a smile. It has been so lovely to talk to those of you that are not in school during class socialising slots. Keep up the good work!!

Click this link to check out Noah’s amazing news report! He even turns into a corona-fighter!!

What a fantastic piece of work to explain how composting works!

Beatrice and her sister have been busy making a den.

Beatrice has been doing a great job counting with coins.

Ali has really been enjoying exploring coins and their value.

Look at all the different ways Ali made 10p!

Working hard to match words and pictures.

Oliver has done a fantastic job practising his tricky words!

Look at this delicious bread Oliver made with his Daddy. Yum!

Emily has been discussing and matching some pictures and words.

Emily has also been using coins to make different amounts.

Look at these fabulous paintings Emily has been doing at home,

A beautiful fruit bowl painted by Emily.

Ali has been learning the ‘oa’ digraph today and managed to complete the phonics frog game. Well done, Ali!

Ali has set up a dino shop so he can practise using coins. This looks fantastic!

This looks like a very yummy litterless lunch!

Jack has been enjoying solving some subtraction problems!

Beatrice has been recording everything that was thrown away at home. Fantastic writing!!

Beatrice has been having fun with some practical maths.

Ali has been having fun playing hit the button.

Noah has been busy practising his sounds with Daddy.

Noah and his Mummy have been writing thank you letters. Look at that fantastic pencil grip!

Great number work Noah, you look very proud of yourself!!

Felicity has been practising ordering and writing numbers.

Felicity has been keeping a very neat list of things that have been thrown away at home today.

Well done for keeping a picture diary of everything you threw away, Ali!

Cassidy has made a fantastic list to see what gets thrown away at home.

Jacob has been working really hard at home solving some subtraction maths problems.

Felicity has been working out which letters are missing from words.

Felicity has been practising joining her letters.

Beatrice and her sister enjoyed doing some PE with Joe Wicks.

Look at Beatrice’s fantastic additions using a number line!

Beatrice has made a fantastic thank you poster for the recycling collectors!

Ali and his brother have been doing Mr Colbeck’s PE sessions!

Jack made a super poster for the recycling collectors.

Oliver has been busy making a fantastic ‘thank you’ poster for the recycling collectors.

Oliver has also been creating pictures of Pokemon for a game he has created with his brother.

Emily learned the ‘th’ sound in phonics and used her new skill to make a thank you card!

Look at this fabulous writing from Emily!!

Beatrice has been practising her letter formation.

Beatrice is a fan of the book ‘Tidy’ too!

Look at Emily’s amazing picture of Huxley on a lead!

Boyd has been using his phonic skills to play buried treasure!

Boyd has been matching numerals to written words.

Jack has been looking for the recycling label on packaging at home.

Beatrice and her sister made some friends on their walk.

Beatrice has been sorting out her recycling and getting creative.

Cassidy has been doing some fantastic maths and has been using coins to make different values. Well done, Cassidy!

Ruby has been sorting some rubbish by checking for the recycling logo.

Ruby made a list of words that have ‘ch’ in and is still adding to it! Great work!

Arthur has been doing some amazing maths!

Ali has been busy sorting rubbish and looking for shapes. He then decided to reuse the items by inventing things.

Noah went on a sound hunt around his house!

Noah has been sorting some rubbish to find out what can be recycled!

Look at this fabulous poster about why we shouldn’t litter. Great work, Oliver!

Noah did some mindfulness colouring at home!

Cassidy has been finding out why rubbish is bad for the Earth and has also made a poster to encourage people to recycle. Great work!

Great picture of the Earth covered in rubbish, Ali. Well done!

Ali has been practising his numbers and letters outside!

Ruby is busy creating a litterless lunch!

Ruby has been practising reading words using the new digraphs she has learned.

Jack has been enjoying ‘Save the Whale’.

Jack’s Daddy has been teaching him some football skills!

We have had some wonderful festive fun during our last week of school together before the Christmas break. We had a very yummy Christmas lunch together and had great fun dancing and playing games at our class Christmas party. On Thursday we enjoyed being with the whole school for an outdoor Christmas collective worship.

On Monday 14th December we had a very special visit from Father Christmas and the Grinch!!

We have had lots of Christmas fun in Robins class this week. We all made Christingles on Tuesday morning and really enjoyed lighting them at the school Christingle service on Tuesday afternoon. On Friday lunchtime we did a Santa run with Mr Colbeck! We brought our Christmas hats and ran around our part of the playground over lunch time.

Things have really started to feel festive in Robins class. We started the week by decorating the class Christmas tree and also adding our baubles to the school Christmas tree in the hall. It looks so beautiful! We also filmed our class nativity! A huge thank you to all parents and carers for sorting out costumes. If you haven’t already seen the trailer then be sure to check it out on the school stream page. We also made some salt dough decorations for the school Christmas fair. The year one children were great at reading the instructions!

This week we have been exploring shapes and talking about their properties. We have been building with shapes, playing shape games and sorting shapes. We also started to narrate our class nativity and made props and scenery ready for filming next week.

We have all had a lot of fun this week learning about Diwali. We found out that Diwali is celebrated by Hindus and it is a festival of light. We really enjoyed listening to the story of Rama and Sita although some of us said we thought Ravana was a bit scary. We all made diva lamps which we will bring home to show our adults on Monday.

This week we also took part in the school active challenge and made Miss Larter really proud by scooting through the rain and getting back on our scooters when we fell off. We were a fantastic team and showed great determination and resilience.

We were all really interested in finding out how Diwali is celebrated!

We were fantastic at cheering each other on during the sponsored scoot!

The year 1 Robins have been using a number line to count backwards and solve subtraction problems.

This week we had some sad news as our lovely class bunny Ned sadly passed away. We had been planning a party for his birthday so decided to still have our party and celebrate Ned’s life – he would have loved it!

On Friday we joined Joe Wicks’ 24 hour PE challenge to raise money for Children in Need.

We made pom poms to stick on Ned balloons.

We made some carrot cakes to celebrate Ned.

We had great fun dancing at Ned’s life celebration

We have all really enjoyed being back at school and seeing our friends this week. We had lots of fun learning about The Gunpowder Plot.

Some of us built the houses of parliament out of Duplo.

We enjoyed retelling the gunpowder plot!

We had great fun drawing fireworks in a tray of glitter.

We have all been enjoying the crunchy Autumn leaves!

Jacob has been showing us his juggling skills!

It was great fun making sparklers out of straws and cellophane.

This week we have all been enjoying maths! We have been making Numberblocks, practising counting and the Year Ones have even been making their own number sentences using mathematical symbols.

Miss Larter accidentally dropped her torch at the weekend and we have all been investigating how to make an electrical circuit to fix it. Some of us even drew our electrical circuits to help Miss Larter when she gets home.

Investigating how to make the bulb in Miss Larter’s torch light up.

Miss Larter found the switch for her torch on Tuesday!

Instructions for Miss Larter to help her fix her torch.

Harvest Festival

We all really enjoyed walking to the Church and taking part in a class Harvest festival. We took some of our donations for the food bank up to the alter when we arrived. Then we listened to a story that Reverend Chris read to us from the Bible and talked about being thankful at Harvest time. We displayed the fantastic fruit and vegetables that we made out of clay in class and also shared a class prayer.