Thank you everyone who has sent in a carrier bag ready for tomorrow. Also to those who have donated some spares. If you have not sent in a carrier please can you send one in tomorrow in case we do not have enough, as each child needs 1 bag to make their ball.

Today we have been talking about the continents and investigating a few different countries, The Gambia, India, Great Britain and Brazil.  We will continue to find out more about some of these countries during the week and then in our next Olympic Week we will be learning more about our own country.

As part of these investigations we have begun to think about people we know who live in other parts of The World.  Some children have already mentioned family and friends who live in Australia and New Zealand.  It would be really helpful if you have links with other countries if the children could bring in a note with the country on.  We can then use a Post-it note to write your child's name on so we can fix this to our big class map and build up a picture of the various countries which year 1 children have links with.  Of course not everyone will know people around The World so when we look in greater depth at the UK in the next Olympic week, beginning 19th March, we will carry out a similar investigation.

Tomorrow morning we are having a visitor to talk to us about bananas and then at 2.30 Kwame is going to show us how to turn a carrier bag into a ball.

Thank you for your continued support