Class 1

In our Science and Understanding the world learning, we were talking about plants and why in winter we need to plant inside. We then had a go at  planting some pea seeds to test our theories. They really began to grow tall so we decided once some better weather began to come that it was time to plant them outside. A very generous couple from Golcar made us some new planters and we are now hoping that they will continue to thrive so we can get some peas to try! Year 1 also recorded the changes which occurred week on week.

A huge thank you to Malcom and Patricia Lindsay for their kind donation of the planters.

In our R.E. learning, we have discussed the festival of Lunar New Year, who celebrates it and how it compares to celebrations we may have. We talked about preparations made and customs and traditions which are kept during the festival.

We heard a traditional story told in China about Nian the monster and used this as a focus for our Drawing Club and Curious Quest inventuring. We had lots of fun learning about how the people finally scared him away from their village and then had some great ideas for a Nian Scare-o-Matic 3000 to help them.

Reception have been focussing on tricky word spellings and also labelling with two/three word captions. Year 1 have been consolidating learning on simple sentence structure and have been working hard to add more description using adjectives. We finished our learning with a fried rice and fortune cookie party. It was great fun. Although, we found the chopsticks tricky!