Book Week

Why have a book day when you could have a book week?! Because of our love of reading we dedicated a whole week to looking at books about the rainforest and pretended to be explorers. We had many exciting visits: an author and illustrator; a drama workshop; a presentation on living and working in jungles with gorillas. We even had a rainforest room in our school to go and explore and listen to stories in!
Our author/illustrator visit:

Our rainforest drama workshop:

Story time in the rainforest room:

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Science closing event and Geography opening event

As always, we have opening and closing events for our theme each term. Here are some photos of our Science closing event for term 3 and our Geography opening event for term 4.

In Science in term 3, we focused on materials and their properties. We tested different materials to make a boat, thinking about material names and properties. For our closing event we designed and made stomp rockets. We thought about how to decorate it so it wouldn't be too heavy, to attach some wings to make it aerodynamic and what to cover the top of the rocket with so that it would trap the air and fly upwards. Here is what happened...

Then, to kick start term 4 we had a large map of the UK come to our school and we got to explore the Geography of this country. We will continue to learn about the Geography of this country and learning more about the world around us, including the names of the continents and oceans and where in the world we can find hot and cold places. Here we are on the giant map!

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Term 3 zoo trip

A little late, but better late than never, right?

In Term 3 we went on a zoo trip to tie in with our Science learning and also our Reading and Writing focus on Antarctica. We have been learning about different materials you might need to survive in Antarctica. In English, we read The Emperor Lays and Egg and Lost and Found. Here are some photos from our zoo trip, where we did a workshop on polar explorers.

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Our first week back has been full of New Year activity, writing about our holiday news, sharing our hopes and dreams for 2017 and getting back into learning routines.

On Wednesday we had our Science Launch Day, which will be our focus for theme learning this term. Year 1 learnt that some scientists study the weather. We joined classes to experience 3 different activities:

1. Making a weather vane and learning about compass directions and the wind.

2. We made a weather clock to show what the weather is each day and talked about all different kinds of weather and how some scientists work hard to bring us the weather forecast.


3. We made cloud pictures and learnt the names of different clouds: Cumulus, Cirrus and fog.


Here we are making our weather clocks:



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Autumn Artwork

Kingfishers have been busy collecting leaves and conquers to prepare for a wonderful afternoon of autumn artwork, involving making leaf bunting and rolling conquers in paint to make their own unique paintings.

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Toys from the Past

This term's theme in Year 1 is Toys from the Past. Kingfishers have been sorting modern toys and toys from the past and finding out about what their parents and other adults played with when they were children. We have also been thinking about the difference between what we play with now and what we played with as babies.

Here are some photos of Kingfishers looking at different types of toys and sorting them. There are also some photos of show and tell, when children have bought in toys they or their parents used to play with. Thank you to both children and parents for being so involved and sending toys in for us to look at and discuss We have really enjoyed it!

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