Class 1

Welcome to Class One

Welcome to Class One's page. In Class One we have Early Years Foundation Stage Two children and children in Year One. Mrs Curtis will be teaching on a Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday and Mrs Barratt on a Thursday and Friday. 

Fun Activities for Easter!

Hi everyone! We hope you enjoyed the activities we suggested for this week. As we should have been breaking up for Easter today we thought we would have a bit of fun and play 'Class One Guess Who!' So below are some photographs of the Class One grown ups when we were all little girls. Can you guess which photograph is Mrs Barratt, Mrs Curtis, Emma, Mrs Mckay, Mrs Coleman and Mrs Oates? 

 

The Class One grown ups have also been busy at home working with our own children. There are some activities that we have done that we would like to share with you. Mrs Colman has enjoyed making handprint butterflies. Mrs Oates has been making sparkly Easter Eggs that can open using a clothes peg. This is a great Funky Fingers activity! Mrs Barratt has looked at how we can make rainbows using kitchen roll. This is a fantastic Science activity!

I have been busy thinking of activities for this weeks ECaT. If we had been in school we would have been looking at our school pond and seeing if there was any frog spawn in it. There is usually loads! We would then learn about the life cycle of a frog observing how the tadpoles hatch from the frog spawn and develop into frogs. So this week is all about Fantastic Frogs. I hope you enjoy it!

Next Thursday I will upload ECaT with lots of Easter crafts and activities. I think Mrs Barratt also has a funny video clip to share as well! Happy learning and stay safe and well.

Hi we hope you are all safe and well. This week has been a strange one for us all and we are keen to make sure that you have plenty of activities to keep the children happy and learning. We have uploaded a revised sheet with ideas for learning and a letter that we thought the children would enjoy. I will also continue to upload the weekly ECaT tasks as I know many children enjoy them.

                             Early Years Foundation Stage

Early Years Foundation Stage

The early years foundation stage (EYFS) sets standards for the learning, development and care of your child from birth to 5 years old. Many children will have been educated in pre-school settings or nurseries where they will have been working within the Early Years Foundation Stage Profile (EYFSP). Many settings refer to this stage as Foundation Stage One and so as your child progresses into school they will complete Foundation Stage Two. 

The EYFPS is divided into seven areas of learning, three prime and four specific. The areas of learning are; Personal, Social and Emotional Development, Communication and Language, Physical Development, Literacy, Mathematics, Understanding of the World and Expressive Arts and Design. 

In Class One we teach this curriculum through play!

 

 

We operate a freeflow classroom so the children can decide for themselves if they wish to learn inside or outside. We also use the garden and orchard to support the children’s learning, especially for Understanding of the World.

Communication and Language is one of the prime areas of development within the EYFSP. To support our teaching of this we use elements from Every Child a Talker to encourage our children to engage with each other and to use and explore new vocabulary. We support communication in Class One by using Makaton and teach the children new signs on a weekly basis. ECat helps to boost confidence and provides the children with the opportunities to share their own experiences.

We use Letters and Sounds to support the children's learning in Phonics.Many of the children begin FS2 with a sound understanding of stage one and so we immediately begin teaching the first 26 phonemes. We begin with s,a,t,p,i,n and as soon as the children can recognise the grapheme and say the pure sound we teach the children to blend these sounds together to read words. We encourage a joy of reading and have daily story time with an adult as well as opportunities for the children to explore Reading independently.

So parents can follow the learning of their children we use the online learning journey Tapestry. This allows us to photograph the children during play and explain the learning occurring in relation to the EYFSP. It also enables parents to upload pictures from home to add to their child's profile providing wider evidence of their child's learning.

Spring Term Two

It's going to be a busy term with lots of fun things to look forward to. We have a pirate day planned, a school trip to the Butterfly House, dance sessions and World Book Day is always great. We will keep our page updated with photographs of all our learning.

Please download the Medium Term Plans for this term to see what we will be covering.

The children had their first dance session this morning. They had a great time dancing to Dingle Dangle Scarecrow, We're Going on a Lion Hunt and Down in the Jungle amongst other favourites. A good time was had by all!

Class One looked amazing on World Book Day! We loved seeing you all in your costumes and so many of you brought in the book that your character featured in. We had lots of fun reading stories, making potato characters and we even had a visit from an author!

Thank you everyone!

P.S Mrs Barratt and Mrs McKay looked fantastic too! 

Science Week has been very busy. We talked about the changes between Winter and Spring and made our own Spring time flowers. We sorted our rubbish into cardboard and plastics for recycling and we made jelly. We felt the sticky, squashy jelly and saw how the cubes dissolved in the hot water. We put some toys in to see if the would float on the top or sink to the bottom. However the really fun bit was playing with the jelly the next day after it had set!

We decided to bake some cakes during Science Week. We looked at all of the different ingredients we needed and helped Mrs McKay to mix them altogether. We then baked them and ate them! Delicious!

Ahoy there! Pirate day was fun! We built our own pirate ship outside and took sail across the ocean, looking out for other pirates and searching for treasure. We made pirate hats and drew our own treasure maps. We even sent some messages out in bottles. We counted our gold and wrote descriptions about the kind of pirates we were and the jobs we did on the ship.

Spring Term One 2020

We have been learning about materials and looking at what our toys are made of. To begin the topic we went on a materials hunt and found lots of wooden toys and lots of plastic toys. We put some smaller objects like cotton reels and buttons into a tough spot and sorted them depending on what they were made of. We put them into pots and wrote labels of metal, wood and plastic to describe them.

We have learnt about how people celebrate Chinese New Year. We also listened to the story of how the years of the zodiac were named after animals. 2020 is the Year of the Rat. We found out that the children in our class were either born in the Year of the Horse (2014) or the Year of the Goat (2015). We made beautiful lanterns to decorate our classroom for the Chinese New Year!

Happy New Year! The children have come back to school excited about their holidays but ready for the new term which is great! We will be learning all about toys this term old and new and the materials that they are made from. Please find the Medium Term Plans for both EYFS and Year One below. The topic knowledge organiser and key vocabulary tables are also available from the links below.

Autumn Term Two 2019

The children in Year One joined Class Two for their performance of 'A Midwife Crisis.' They were amazing in both performances. Well done everyone!

All of the children were fantastic in the Foundation Stage Christmas Play. Lots of great singing, dancing and acting. Well done everybody!

Christmas has begun in Class One! We have started to make Christmas decorations and reindeer food ready to sell at the Christmas Fayre. We have also made our home corner Christmassy and have loved dressing up as Santa and his elves.

We have been thinking about how we can keep our bodies healthy during our Science sessions. The Year One children made plates of food that showed foods that we should eat lots of and food that we should only eat a little bit of. We then talked about all the different fruits and vegetables that we could eat and sang our song of the week which was a healthy eating song. The children in FS made a beautiful rainbow of fruits and vegetables which we have now proudly displayed in our classroom. 

We have started to talk a little bit about keeping safe when we are near a road in preparation for Road Safety Week next week. We talked about using a zebra crossing or a pelican crossing to cross the road safely. The children then role played this outside using our zebra crossing and some road signs. They were very careful to stop on their bikes when the lights were red and allow their friends to cross the road safely. Well done!

The children worked together beautifully to help to clear the autumn leaves in our outdoor play area. Lots of sweeping and turn taking with the brushes and leaf collectors and helping to get the collected leaves into the bags. Well done Class One!

The children had had lots of fun playing imaginatively with a large cardboard box until it finally collapsed. They then decided to practise writing numerals as we have been working on this in class. It started with one and then another one joined until finally there were 5 boys writing on a cardboard box. We decided we could turn this into a new counting song! 'One little boy went out to write upon a cardboard box one day. He had such enormous fun that he called for another little boy to come!'

The Year Ones started the new Science topic of Healthy Bodies. To begin with we talked about the different parts of our bodies and the children were very interested in our skeleton. We looked at our friendly school skeleton Billy Bones, and then the children solved a puzzle to put the bones in the right place to make their own dancing skeletons. They worked well as a team and some of the Foundation Stage children joined in too.

We had a visit from Dan Magness who showed us lots of tricks with a football. We all had a go and even Mrs Curtis and Mrs Kealy showed off their skills!

Autumn Term One 2019

Buddy Time!

On Thursday afternoon we invited our Class 5 Buddies to join us. They helped us finish off our Leaf Art. We played and shared stories too. Later we enjoyed eating bread stick and chocolate sprinkle 'wands' whilst we listened to 'Room on the Broom'. We love seeing our special friends.

 

Forget Marble Runs!

Class One used the guttering and stands to create a fantastic track to roll the conkers down. When they realised that it was too high to reach they pulled over the crates to stand on to make them tall enough! They decided that it would be dangerous to stack the crates and then stand on them. Quite right Class One! Great problem solving skills!

A huge thank you for the amazing ECaT work the children have been bringing into school. Our wall is bursting with paintings, models and the children's work that they have loved talking about and sharing with their friends. It has also inspired lots of creative activities in the classroom!

We went on our own lion hunt around our playground. We splashed through the water, squelched through the smelly mud, crawled into the cave and then ran away quickly hiding under the covers away from the lions at the end! It was lots of fun!

We have been learning about animals living in different parts of the world. The children have been using some fantastic new vocabulary to describe the places including climate, camouflage and habitat. Whilst exploring the ice the children described how it felt and noticed as the ice melted it became transparent! A fantastic wow word! Our Year One children in Science have been sorting animals into carnivores, herbivores and omnivores. 

The painting for Take One Picture this year was 'An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump' by Joseph Wright. We talked about the details the children could see in the painting. They identified the bird in the 'glass jar' and we talked about how the bird would feel sad in the jar. We also discussed what breed of bird it could be and the children described and named some birds that they knew of. We decided to paint colourful birds and the Year One children painted a scene where the bird would feel happy instead of sad. 

All of the children painted either a picture or a bird and they were all fantastic! They are now on display in our classroom.