Wow, we have been extremely busy in our class so far in our final half term of Year 1!

We began the half term with Healthy Lifestyles Week, completing a circuit with gymnast Dominick Cunningham, using the Crossbar inflatables, going on different inflatables in the hall, meeting Dan Udoh, doing Zumba with Miss Lowe, riding our scooters and bikes in the playground and much, much more!

We had a fantastic careers day dressing up, meeting a farmer who works for the UK’s largest salad producing company (he drove his tractor to school to show us!)  and having a session with West Mercia Search and Rescue.

This half term has been all about sandwiches! In literacy, we are writing instructions for making sandwiches, and in DT, we have learnt about healthy foods and made ourselves a healthy sandwich!

Last week, we showed our competitive spirits breaking into houses for a brilliant sports day! We loved cheering on our teams and showed great sportsmanship.

On Thursday morning, we had chicks come into our classroom. They were only 1 week old! We put them in the middle and observed them interacting with each other, stretching their wings, running around and some even pooing! We all got to stroke the chicks too – they were so soft!

We cannot wait for what the last four weeks of Year 1 has in store!

First of all, a huge thank you to everyone who sent a stamp into school this week, it is much appreciated by the children and the staff!

This morning, the children took great pride in writing a postcard about their visit to Dudley Zoo and Castle. This afternoon, we went on a ‘post box adventure’ to post the children’s postcards. The children had a fantastic time and were very excited to post their very own postcard!

Keep those beady eyes out for the postcards arriving at your house.

This half term, we have read the story ‘The Jolly Postman’ by Janet and Allan Alhberg. The children have loved learning all about the life of a postman and are working so hard with their writing in literacy.

To finish the unit, we would love for the children to write a postcard to post home about their trip to Dudley Zoo and Castle. Please can you provide your child with a stamp to attach to their postcard so that we can take the children to the post box to post. Please can you send the stamp into school with your child by Wednesday 22nd May.

We know the children will relish the opportunity to write to you and to post their own postcard home – it will give them a real, exciting purpose to their writing.

Thank you so much for your continued support,

Year 1 Team

The children looked amazing and had a wonderful day today!

Across Year 1 and Year 2, we split into houses and visited each teacher to take part in a different Julia Donaldson themed activity – we made a moving book cover, we made paper dolls, we created maps of a story setting and we explored what floats and sinks.

This afternoon, we did ‘Stop, drop and read!’. We all chose somewhere in our classroom or outdoor area to get comfy and read.

We also made our own books, made reading dens, made playdough dinner for the Gruffalo, built an outdoor reading space and were inspired by athletes in books to be sporty outside.

What a busy day! We can’t wait to hear what book the children chose with their voucher.

The children were amazing at learning the compass points this week. We discussed that we always have to find North on our compass, and learnt rhymes to help us remember the four points.

We went outside with our own compasses and drew what we could see under each direction! We were brilliant geographers!

The children loved making their compasses and asked me if they could make another at home – those who wanted to have bought home a template today!

(Write the compass points on – N,E,S,W. Orientate the compass to face North. Open the flaps and draw what you can see in each direction)

Have a lovely weekend,

Miss Buckingham and Mrs Goodwin