On Friday, we found a note from our classroom elves saying that they had arranged a surprise for us. We followed their instructions and went down to the hall at 9:30am. We couldn’t believe our eyes when we saw Mr and Mrs Christmas 🤶🎅 Mrs Christmas read a story to us and we had  to make sure Santa stayed awake! We then made a special Christmas wish with Mrs Christmas’ magical mince pie mixture!

We were SO excited to have our Christmas dinners today! Thank you all for sending in Christmas jumpers – we all looked very festive! It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas …

We decided that we wanted to dig all the way to Australia today in Forest School  … some of us even found hidden treasure! Great teamwork Year 1!

Year 1 had such a fantastic time this afternoon playing in the Autumn leaves. They decided to make a ‘leaf pool’…

We have absolutely loved being builders and engineers this week. We had SO much recycling brought in from home so thank you very much! The children loved looking through all of the different shapes and materials we had. They thought carefully about what they needed and the best way to join them together. We were all very excited to bring our models home and share them with you! 🙂

Today, we learnt all about Remembrance Day and reflected on why it is such an important day. We all participated in a two minute silence and wrote sentences to answer quiz questions about Remembrance Day. We took part in our ‘11’ challenge by completing 11 laps of the bicycle track.

We weren’t able to visit the zoo so we decided to bring the zoo to Newdale! We planned and designed our very own zoos; thinking carefully about what each type of animal might need in their home.

In the afternoon, we became wild animals and visited the ‘Newdale Jungle’. We each chose an animal mask that we would like to make. In the jungle, we looked for and made different animal footprints. Some of us even built dens that we thought our animal would like to live in. We had lots of fun exploring the Forest, pretending to be animals – the koalas particularly enjoyed climbing the trees.

Year 1 have loved making their own spooky, monster masks for Halloween this week. In Literacy, we wrote instructions to teach other people how to make them too.

I think you will agree that we can pull some very scary faces!

We want to say a big well done to all of our children for a FANTASTIC first half-term in Year 1. We hope you all have a fun and well-deserved week off. Stay safe and we look forward to seeing you back in school the week after! 🙂