Well done to Percy, Skyler and Charley who all received headteacher awards for fantastic maths work today. Not only were they all able to complete addition questions, they were able to create their own and record them!

This week in D & T, we practised various skills that will help us when we come to make our final product. We practised lots of safety skills when using the equipment.

In maths this week, we have been learning about 2D shapes. We learnt the names of some common 2D shapes and how many sides and corners each one has. One of the activities that we did this week was going on a 2D shape hunt. We looked for lots of different shapes in our environment. Here’s what some of us found…

Last week at forest school one of the children brought in a leaf identification fan so this week we decided to do a session on leaf identification for the whole class. Each group had their own leaf identification chart and went on a leaf hunt. Afterwards they matched the leaves that they had found to the leaves on their charts and wrote a label for them. Later on Kris our forest school leader lit a fire and we all got to toast our own marshmallows on it. They went down very well with a cup of hot chocolate!

As part of our year 1 work on Eat More Fruit and Vegetables for Design and Technology, we tasted various vegetable products. We then decided which product was our favourite one. This will form part of our research for our final plans.

We had a great time using the gymnastics equipment last week. We were learning about different ways of travelling. We practised bouncing, hopping, skipping and jogging. We also did lots of climbing…