On Friday 17th March year one went on a very exciting trip to Carisbrooke Castle. We have been learning lots at school in history about castles, soldiers and weapons and some aspects of life in the lead-up to our trip and the day brought everything to life. We explored the grounds of the castle, climbed up to The Keep to admire the magnificent views and walked around the walls and battlements. We then had a workshop and learnt all about 'life in a castle' through the story of Sleeping Beauty which was very creatively told by Estelle Baker of English Heritage. After the story we had the opportunity to dress up and try out the different weapons and explore the models and artefacts provided. It was great fun! Finally, after an exhausting but inspiring and informative morning we had lunch in the museum. What a great time we had, have a look at our slideshow of photos. (more photos of Magic Finger Class to follow!)
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Year One decided to have some fun with music this week. We have explored music from bands that are linked to the Isle of Wight by listening for pleasure as well as creating art to pieces of music. We developed our musical skills and abilities on Friday afternoon by dedicating it to music in every form. We had background music playing whilst the children explored the many different instruments and their sounds. Alongside these activities were others that linked to literacy, maths, science and fine motor skills. Year One gave the thumbs up at the end of the week, they had a lot of fun and learnt lots too. Have a look at our slideshow. Our topic this term is 'Made on the Isle of Wight'. We have been looking at the work of Gillian Connor an artist from the Isle of Wight. She uses driftwood and natural objects from outside to create pieces of art. We had lots of fun outside creating our own pieces of art. Take a look!
Year One have been on their Big Writing Adventures and have been helping Emily by being Big Writing Agents! We have had messages from Fizz and Emily and have been up for the challenge of helping Emily to find out all about nocturnal animals that visit her garden at night. We have been writing captions for nocturnal animals, helping to sort day and night animals by drawing their own animals and posting them in the correct box. We have been practising our skills in writing sentences, finding and using adjectives and completed lots of verbal activities adding in conjunctions too. It has been great fun! Alongside all of this we have also looked at clues on our 'interest table' to identify which nocturnal animal left each clue behind and have used Ipads to research different nocturnal animals on the internet creating our own mind maps. Finally, we have worked in groups to produce a group report on our chosen animal. Check out our blog next week and see some of the reports that we will post from our BIG WRITING DAY! Goodbye for now! Year One.
After our whole school 2 minute silence in the hall to show our respect for all the people who had died in the war we completed a carousel of activities.
We had fun making 'Fields of Poppies' with our fingers and paint, we created poppy collages and made our own poppies to wear. We also watched clips about Remembrance Day and went back in time with two children to find out what is was like being a soldier in World War I. |
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