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The children had a great time this afternoon working together and playing parachute games!

This week in English, the children have been writing a bigraphy about Alan Turing. They were amazed by his life and achievements, and appauled to hear how he was treated just because of his sexuality.

In topic this week, we have developed our knowledge of rivers, looking at the parts of a river basin and how features of river are formed.  We applied our knowledge to describe the features we saw on our walk along the River Leven, noting the meanders and how they might develop into oxbow lakes in…

As an alternative to the traditional tale of The 3 Little Pigs we read The Three Little Wolves and the Big Bad Pig.  We enjoyed the twist on this story with the pigs and the wolf swapping places.  We liked trying to guess which tools the Big Bad Pig was going to use to knock down the wolves…

This week we have explored…

The Three Little Pigs

We have been reading the much-loved story ‘The Three Little Pigs’. The children spoke about houses made from different materials. We decided a house made from bricks is best, as it is strongest.

We made our own houses, made from…

As part of our current topic, ‘Rio de Vida’ we’ve been learning all about Brazil and it’s landmarks. This week we’ve also sorted images into physical and human features and also learned the names of some specific flags! What a busy week! Well done, Year 1! 
 

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As part of our topic, the children learned names for some animals in Portuguese this afternoon! Well done, everybody! 
 

Because football is such a popular sport in Brazil, and we’re currently learning about this country, we took part in our own penalty shootout! The children had lots of fun and celebrated at the end by taking part in a mini football match! 
 

We have been exploring the book Iggy Peck Architect by Andrea Beaty.

In the story Iggy Peck's teacher mentions Gothic and Romanesque buildings so we explored these words further and compared these 2 styles of architecture.  We really liked the Gargoyles used as decorations on Gothic style…

After an extra long weekend we came back to school raring to go! On Wednesday, during PE the children developed their team building skills, in preparation for the up and coming sports day on Friday 20th May. Everyone worked together to support each other and showed great sportsmanship and team…

The children have enjoyed experimenting and building electrical circuits. Firstly, they learnt the different symbols within a circuit and then they successfully built circuits from diagrams. Lastly, they had to predict whether a circuit would work by looking at the different components and how…

Today we played a game to recall our numbers. First, we rolled the dice. We then identified the number, by simply subitising, or by counting each dot on the dice.

After, we crossed off the number on our number board. This enabled us to match the dice to a written number. We had a…