Week ending 27th February 2015

This week in English we have been revisiting poetry. The children have learnt the poem "Queue At The Zoo" by Clare Bevan and were excited to act this out as a whole class performance. We looked at the rhyming pairs in this poem and how each animal was described. The children then came up with their own animals and descriptions to create their own class poem. In maths we have been measuring using standard units of measurement. The children have measured the length of objects and recorded this in centimetres. They have also measured the weight of objects in grams as well as weighing out ingredients to a specific amount by reading the scales accurately. In PE this week we have begun our second gymnastics sessions with the external coach. Remember that on next Thursday we are celebrating World Book Day and all children are invited to dress up as their favourite character from a book for £1, which we will be donated to charity. The next Big Book Share is next Wednesday at 2pm - we look forward to seeing you there.

Week ending 14th February 2015

This week has been International Week and we have learning all about Kenya. Year One started the week with a flight aboard Garrick Green Airways where we visited all seven continents and completed a passport with facts about each and the children took part in African drumming workshops on Tuesday. The children have also been on a safari to learn about the different animals they might see in Kenya and to identify which are herbivores, carnivores or omnivores. We have looked at the day in the life of a child in rural Kenya and compared their houses to our own in the UK. As part of our whole school international award work our classes came up with ten words that are important to them. They then created a move to represent each word and we recorded them demonstrating to send to our link school. We look forward to seeing what the other school send us and to comparing the differences in what each group finds important. Across the week we have been comparing the weather between Norwich and Nairobi and the children have created their own symbols for a weather chart to record this. We finished our dance lessons for this half term by performing to the other class. The theme for the half term was teamwork, inspired by an African traditional tale and this was a fitting way to complete the sequences during international week. Finally, Friday sees our whole school trip to the theatre to see Room on the Broom and a big thank you to FOGG for funding the tickets for this. The travel cost has been met from the proceeds of the Christmas Card sale, so thank you to everyone for their support to make this possible.