Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas everybody!

 

Thank you so much from all of the Year 1 team for your generous gifts. We hope you have an amazing Christmas holiday. See you in January!

Christmas jumpers on last day

Christmas jumpers on last day

It has come to our attention that tomorrow is causing some confusion as to whether children can wear jumpers or not. We are aware that tomorrow is a National charity day which highlights the wear of jumpers in support. We have chosen due to our three big fund raisers this term not to ask you to support this charity. We are also aware of many parents and children who wish to wear a jumper tomorrow and have been asking the class teams.

So, the simple is yes, jumpers can be worn, but we will not be collecting for charity. If you do wish to donate, then please use the website link highlighted in the press.

We apologise for the lateness and confusion, this event seems to have grown since last year, we will therefore be clearer next year with plenty of time to plan accordingly.

Also -Games are also allowed on the last day of term, named please and nothing expensive in case bits are lost!

Merry Christmas!

Mrs Mewett

Last few things before Christmas!

So Shine Star Shine 2015 is over! All of Reception, Year 1 and Year 2 did a fantastic job and really showed their talents. Well done!!

 

 

This afternoon we had our Christmas party. Thank you all for the delicious food donations. We enjoyed lots of party games and some dancing this afternoon.

 

Tomorrow is our last day before the holidays. The children can wear their Christmas jumpers/ Tshirts with their uniform. We will be having carols in the afternoon.

History in the making....

Year 1 witnessed a piece of history in the making. We watched the first ever British astronaut blast off in to space to board the International Space Station. Tim Peake took off at 11.03am this morning and the children watched it all! We will be keeping track of Tim as he spends 6 months in space.

Lots of festive fun!

Wow what a fantastic first performance! All of the Year 1 team are extremely proud of all of the children.

School is very festive and busy at the moment. Well done to everyone who entered the Christmas DT competition. Congratulations to Thomas who won the prize for Year 1.

Tomorrow is our Christmas dinner where we will be all pulling crackers and eating delicious food. On Thursday we will have our class Christmas party. Your child will not need to bring lunch, instead we will be sharing the food that everyone brings in (the list is up in the classroom). On Friday afternoon we will be having carols in the hall.

Friday 18th December

POW Carols – everyone welcome, come in and join in with singing carols, to begin in hall from 2.45pm.

Musicians – please dust off those old instruments you may have once played (like myself) and come on in and join the parents/ community group, we gather around the piano and offer our sounds to compliment (?!) the pianist and the school singing. We have simple music to follow; sight reading is an easy level. The children love seeing the adults who turn up and show off an instrument! Any qus, please pop by the office and come and see me.

 

Mrs Mewett

This week in Year 1

This week in Year 1 we will be doing all things Christmas! The children have been practising on stage with the Year 2s and doing this brilliantly. If you haven't got your tickets already please see the office. The first performance is Tuesday the 15th.

 

On Friday we have Christmas Technology day. The children have chosen 3 different activities to do and will go to different classrooms throughout the day. This day is fantastically festive and everyone will have things to bring home. It is a school uniform but the children can wear their Christmas jumpers or Christmas hats!

 

I have had a few parents ask me about a food list for our Christmas party. Our party is on Thursday the 17th December. Your child will not need a packed lunch, instead please put your name down for a food item. This will be up in class tomorrow morning.

 

Many thanks

 

Mrs Thorpe and the Year 1 team.

The Jolly Postman and other letters ...

Following our mystery letter from The Jolly Postman we have been looking at the story. We have made lists of characters and replied to some of the letters in the story.

 

In geography we have been looking on google maps and located our houses. We have used the idea of a picture map to make our own maps. The children split into two groups and made the maps. On Friday we exchanged maps and each group followed the clues to the mystery house.

 

In maths this week the children learnt about number bonds using numicon and number lines. 

 

 

 

 

Our mystery letter...

This afternoon we had a package delivered from the Jolly Postman. He asked us to help him to deliver a card as he had ran out of time! We followed the picture clues to the mystery address and delivered the letter!

 

Stay tuned next week for more on the Jolly Postman.....

Big write success!

Yesterday the children spent just over 30 minutes writing their own adapted stories of the 3 little pigs using their story maps. It was fantastic to see all of the children concentrating for this whole period of time. The relaxing music and lighting definitely helped!

 

Money, money, money!

We are carrying on learning about money this week. The children are working really hard to add and subtract using money and have been making different amounts using a range of coins.
We have spoken about how many pennies you need to make the same amount of money as the coins.

Next time you are in the shops or at home sorting out your change maybe you could let them sort the coins out?

Literacy this week

This week we will be doing something called the 'Big Write'. In Literacy we have been learning about the story of the three little pigs. This week with the help of our story maps we will be changing the characters in the story and then the children will sit down and have a set amount of time to write. This is a good time to use everything that they have learnt over the last few weeks in their writing.

At home maybe you could discuss well know characters in books. Are they good or bad characters? What happens in traditional tales?

Well done!

A huge well done to all of the children for a fantastic assembly! They all delivered their lines clearly and with confidence.

Friday saw the end to our British week. As well as our remembrance poems we also learnt about money and Suffragettes and Suffragists.

Thank you to everyone who donated money for Children in Need and bought cakes, it was very successful.

British week plans

This week is our British themed week. Tomorrow morning Year 1 and Year 4 will be teaming up to write remembrance poems. We will also be making a poppy collage.

 

 

We will be learning about important British people in the History of our country such as Millicent Fawcett and Emmeline Pankhurst. We will be discussing British values and the origins of our national flag and money.

 

 

On Thursday afternoon from 3pm you are all invited in to Year 1 to read the remembrance poems and see their poppy art work. 

Forest School sessions tomorrow

Just a quick reminder that it is the first Forest School session for Autumn and Winter group tomorrow.

 

Warm waterproof clothes such as jumper, trousers, coat and wellingtons will all be needed. They may well get dirty so please only pack old clothes. Please bring these in a bag which can stay on pegs.

Children in Need 2015

Children in Need is fast approaching. You should have all received a letter today explaining about Friday (13th).

 

The Children's Voice will be selling Children in Need merchandise from Monday in the area outside Year 1.

 

On Friday our dress up theme is 'Britishness'  (maybe they could dress up in the colours of our flag or famous British person)

 

Just like the country file team all children and staff at The Prince of Wales School will be partaking in a 1 mile ramble around our school grounds.

 

After school on Friday we will be having a cake sale. We would love to have lots of cakes (whole and cupcakes) and biscuits to sell. Please give all the cakes to your class teacher to store in the morning.

 

 

 

 

Year 1 class assembly

Just a reminder that it is our Year 1 assembly on Friday (13th). As you will see it is also our Children in Need dress up day (Britishness theme).

I am happy for the children to come in dressed up but please make sure your child is comfortable in what they are wearing as the whole school watches.

A busy first week back!

This week we have been busy retelling the 3 little pigs. We have been using a story map to help remember the sequence and write it down. Next week we will use the story maps to help us change the story.

In maths we have been estimating and measuring using unifix, rulers and metre rulers. We have been comparing objects and saying which one is taller/ shorter.

Thank you so much to everyone that bought in the home learning we discussed the history of transport yesterday and why we don't use those vehicles now.

Finally, the children have all come home with spellings. As I mentioned at parents evening, spellings are a fantastic way to learn at home. We encourage the children to break the words down in to sounds to spell and then write. I am looking forward to seeing the practice sheets next week!

It was great to see so many of you at parents evening. If you didn't manage to see me please do catch me in the mornings.

Harvest fundraising

Harvest fundraising.

 

To let you all know that a super amount of £350 pounds has been raised! This will be sent to UNICEF to buy water kits as the children requested.

Many, many thanks to everyone for the generosity towards such a needy cause.

Half term home learning...

Year 1 Home Learning

Over the half term we would like you to find out-

Before there were cars how did people travel?

You might want to draw a picture, look for some books from your local library or on the internet? A sentence or labelled pictures would be fantastic!

 

Please bring the home learning in on Tuesday 3^rd November.

Thank you. Have a restful week off!

Year 1 team

Literacy- What is a vardo?

This week we have been learning about another type of home which is called a Vardo.

All of the children should be able to explain what a vardo is. Can they answer the following questions-

-Who lives in a vardo?
-How does it move?
-What is inside the vardo?

As well as learning about a vardo the children have been painting milk churns, making paper flowers and colouring repeating patterns.

Maths- 3D Shapes

Over the last 2 weeks we have been looking at different shapes. The children have looked for 2D shapes in the environment and counted how many corners and sides they have. This week we have been focussing on 3D shapes. I was really impressed with how many 3D shapes the children remembered and their descriptions of the shapes.

 

How many different 3D shapes can the children find in their homes? Maybe they could draw some pictures of the objects and write the shape.

Award assembly 22.10.15

Today we had our first of the year ‘Award assembly’. This is the assembly when we ask teachers and their teams to select children who they think have worked particularly hard during this first part of the year in subject areas; writing, reading, maths, ICT, Creative arts, PE and displaying our Citizenship qualities.  Some awards have a certificate and a trophy to keep for half a term! You may have found one of these when you got home!

For our Reception parents; the awards can stay at home with your child until we send a letter inviting it back in for our next ‘Award assembly’.

Happy half term everyone, we will see you all back on Tuesday 3^rd November!

Poundbury trip

We have had a brilliant day up in Poundbury today! First of all we went to the Garden centre. Whilst half of the group were looking at the very festive Christmas display, the other half planted bulbs and pansy's. Once we swapped over we had a chance for a quick snack before heading to the park.

After eating our lunch at Matilda's Grandmas we met Steve from C.G Fry's building contractors. The children loved building their own walls using bricks and mortar. Mrs Hall went up in a cherry picker to take pictures of us from an aerial view!

 

We will put the photos on the whiteboard in the morning for you all to see.

We went to the moon at The Thomas Hardye School!

Yesterday we went to the Thomas Hardye School to do some Science.

We watched the Scientists make rocket fuel for us to get to the moon. Then we tested some sand to see what planet we landed on.

 

We found what looked like water on the planet. We tested it and this happened!!!

 

After colouring our aliens in we sent a message back to earth.

 

It was a brilliant experience for all of the children and they thoroughly enjoyed themselves. Thank you to THS!

Wassily Kandinsky art work

This week we are looking at the artist Wassily Kandinsky. We have started making some of our own abstract art based on the artwork below.

 

 

We are going to make a piece of our own art work based on 'concentric circles'.

Autumn trip to the farm

We have had a fantastic trip to Maiden Castle Farm today.

 

We looked at the different types of houses we can see at the farm and the animals that live in them.

All of the houses had 3 things in common- the animals feel safe there, they have a bed and they can keep dry.

We looked at where the cows, chickens and farmer lives! On our walk around the farm we collected lots of conkers. A big thank you to Hazel or the visit we thoroughly enjoyed looking at the homes, machinery and animals.

 

 

Our fantastic master piece and a visit from Paul Hollywood and Mary Berry!!

Well done to all of the children for their fantastic singing in the harvest assembly this morning. They made great farmers!

Thank you for all of your donations of food for our display it looked fabulous

If you didn't get a chance to see our 'leaf faces' display then we took a picture below

As part of harvest celebration each class had to make an edible master piece ours was modelled on a tractor! We harvested apples from our trees and made apple muffins and then iced them to look like a tractor.

 

We were lucky enough to have a real 'case' tractor come in to our play ground for the children to look at. Thank you to Mrs Hibberd for arranging this visit and GCS for the tractor!

 

The master pieces were judged and tasted by our very own Paul Hollywood and Mary Berry. 

Well done to Reception who won the 'star baker' award with their farm yard scene below

 

 

The last of the tasty bread!

Wow we have had some amazing bread this week! Thank you all so much we have really enjoyed tasting the bread.

Rubi and Jasmine made rabbit bread!

Sophie made a delicious garlic flat bread

 

George made bread in the shape of numbers

Harvest celebration tomorrow



Harvest celebration tomorrow

 

9.20am in the hall we will be singing our harvest songs and you can buy items from our harvest display.

 

2.30pm- You can collect your child to go to the harvest café.

 

All food donations will be gratefully received tomorrow and a 50p donation for your child to buy a cake in the afternoon.

 

Thank you

 

 

 

 

Lots of bread...

Here are some more pictures of the delicious bread the children have bought in yesterday and today. Thank you all so much for taking the time to cook these tasty snacks we are all enjoying tasting them!

Nell made some yummy cheesy rolls

Sunny made rolls with a mystery ingredient in (he still won't tell us what it is!)

Alfie made this tasty bread using bacon, onion and spinach.

Thomas made this delicious sun dried tomato and parmesan loaf.

 

Leo made hazelnut and mixed peel swirls!

 

 

 

Harvest week- Bread home learning projects!

Thank you to all of the children that baked some bread as part of our Harvest home learning.



Reece made delicious hedgehog rolls with raisins as eyes!

 

Harry made tasty tear and share raisin bread.

 

Bradley made a yummy crusty white roll

 

Matilda made a tasty pepper and balsamic vinegar loaf

Jack made an Italian garlic and herb bread called  Focaccia bread.

 

Inzi cooked this scrumptious loaf in a flower pot.

 

 

All of the class sampled the bread and complimented the children on how delicious the bread was. Well done!

 

We are going to be tasting bread all week so if you have a chance to make a loaf or a roll at home please do send us some in. They can be any flavour and the children really enjoy talking about how the bread was made and what ingredients you used. Fantastic to see the pieces of writing that came in with the bread to show instructions!