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Year 1-Science-Material hunt

The children worked in groups to explore and find different materials around our school.

“Fred is made out of fabric.”

Year 2 talked about different vegetables and how eating a colourful selection of vegetables often contains a wider range of nutrients. They experimenting in chopping, grating and peeling vegetables to make a colourful layered salad pot.

The cold weather last week has inspired us to investigate ice.  The week is off to a great start using ice to practise our fine motor skills.  We are using ice blocks with food colouring to draw pictures, write our names and make shapes on the paper. 

Year 2 visited church today to see the crib. 

Practising our subitising skills in class this week. We are rolling a dice, recognising the number then circling the corresponding dots on a piece of paper.  The children are loving this already.  

After a discussion in Nursery, one of our children brought in a pack of balloons.  Mrs Bruchez had been talking about papier mache and how to make it.  As she started to demonstrate, some air escaped from the balloon, much to the amusement of the class.  It turned into 5 minutes of pure joy and…

This term we are looking at how the Earth is divided.

We looked at how the Equator bisects the Earth into the Northern and Southern Hemisphere.

We then researched and discussed the differences between the two hemispheres.

We visited to church to see the crib and the three wise men visiting baby Jesus.  We talked about how the 3 kings are also called ‘The Magi’ and we spoke about the importance of the star that they followed to find baby Jesus.  One of our little boys suggested we sing the ‘Little Baby Jesus’ song…

Our first session with Beth Tweddle coaches was fantastic.

This week we have started our new book ‘Naughty Bus’. We have explored some of the famous landmarks in London as part of our work.  The children have loved taking this into provision and building their own versions. 

We have been talking about how Jesus loves us all and how we can show that love to others. We used the example of Jesus washing feet and demonstrated this in class.  We then talked about how we can show Jesus’ love by being kind to others, helping our friends, smiling and giving…

Year 1-Active Sefton-Oral Hygiene 

Ben from Active Sefton came to visit Year 1 this afternoon to talk about oral hygiene and how to keep our teeth healthy. The children were very excited to tell Ben about their wobbly teeth ????