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  • Homework Blog 04.03.24

    Published 03/03/24, by Claire Jones

    Hello,

    I hope you're all enjoying a great weekend. It is another busy week ahead with book week so I wanted to get in early to talk about what is happening this week. Keep an eye on the blog this week for photos of some of our lovely activities. In Year One we have started Book Club - we do this weekly and rotate the children that we focus on in our discussions around book choice. The children have thoroughly enjoyed it the past few weeks and have talked so much about their favourite books. Over the next few weeks, Mrs Morgan and I will be sprucing up the book corner and we look forward to sharing this with you at the end of the term when you are invited to parents evening.

    Huge well done to all the children who have completed their topic homework already. I've been really impressed by the variety and quality of homework. The children are enjoying finding out about Florence Nightingale; thanks for all your support. This week in topic we had a good look at the non-fiction books in our classroom to find out more facts. These are now on our display board and are a very impressive display of knowledge from across the class.

    LIBRARY visit - Thank you to all the parents who have said they can help walk us to the library and back. I will email you separately to confirm.  Our trip is on Tuesday 5th March @2:30pm. We will aim to leave school just after 2pm. ALL children must have their LIBRARY cards for this if they wish to borrow a book; without them, they will be unable to take a book home with them. Please send these in either Monday or Tuesday next week and I will carry them to the library and return them back to your child when we return to school to go home with you.

    Our dress up as a book character is next Thursday (7th March) and we have lots of other lovely things happening in school to celebrate reading.

    CHURCH trip - Time Travelling - Tuesday 19th March 12:55pm - 3:05pm. Again, thanks for the additional parent support to help with this visit by walking to and from the church in Keyworth and accompanying us.  We will have an early lunch for this and aim to leave Crossdale just before 12:30pm. There is a payment on SchoolMoney for a contribution towards the resources used at the church.

    *Your 'special homework' this week will be in homework books and returned to you on Tuesday, as usual.

    *Spelling activity this week is linked to week 3: split digraphs i-e and o-e. Our ten words this week are: five, ride, like, time, side, home, those, woke, hope, hole.

    *Please listen to your child read at least 3 time a week and try to stay in the green zone on doodle by completing your '5 a day' and your assignments. Short and frequent returns to learning really helps to consolidate knowledge!

    Mrs Jones

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  • STORYTELLING WITH MEXICO MIKE

    Published 01/03/24, by Jennie Morgan

    Year One had a captivating morning listening to our favourite storyteller, Mexico Mike.

    He came to school to help get us excited about book week starting on Monday.  Mike shared stories with us from different countries around the world and we experienced a whole range of emotions listening to him. He asked us to try to share one of the stories with our families to help spread the love of storytelling. If you ask the children how the robin got his red breast they should be able to tell you about the father and son the robin helped. 

    I have attached a PicCollage below - you will be able to see how mesmerised the children were!

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  • Homework WB 26.02.24

    Published 26/02/24, by Claire Jones
    Hello, Welcome to your weekly homework blog. A few key pointers for next week: LIBRARY visit - Tuesday 5th March @2:30pm. We will aim to leave school just after 2pm. If you are able to join us on this trip, I'd really appreciate any&nb
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  • SPRING 2 KEY INSTANT RECALL FACTS

    Published 21/02/24, by Jennie Morgan

    Please find attached the Key Instant Recall Facts for Spring 2. These are a series of maths facts that we would like the children to answer quickly. When children are able to do this it means they can problem solve with greater ease. 

    This term we have two measurement units which are often best learnt with practical application. Baking is a great way to measure mass which could have a fantastic Easter recipe link. Yummy!

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  • Homework Post WB: 19.02.24

    Published 16/02/24, by Claire Jones
    Hello, I hope you are all having a wonderful half term. A few more days to enjoy over the weekend. I'm looking forward to seeing you all and catching up with your news next week while we've all been away. We have another fun and busy half
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  • Year One Writers

    Published 09/02/24, by Jennie Morgan

    Year One have been working really hard this week to write their own independent stories based on our class text, Awongalema. They have thought very carefully about using capital letters, finger spaces, full stops and slides from the line when writing.

    Today we made our stories into our very own books. We edited our first ideas, illustrated the different parts of our story and presented it all in a special book. 

    What great work Year One. We are very proud of you.

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  • Time Travelling Trip

    Published 08/02/24, by Claire Jones
    On Tuesday 19th March, Year 1 and Year 2 (in the afternoon) will be visiting St Mary Magdalene Church in Keyworth. We will be walking there and back and whilst there we will deepen our understanding of the Christian celebration of Easter. Children wi
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  • Key Information for Spring 2

    Published 07/02/24, by Claire Jones

    Hello,

    Please find all the key information for Year One this half-term in this blog, for your reference.

    *Curriculum Map - which tells you what our learning is in each subject for this half-term

    *Knowledge Organiser for Science (Seasonal Changes)

    *Knowledge Organiser for History (Florence Nightingale)

    *Spelling overview 

    *New topic homework overview

    Also, we have two visits next half-term to look forward to.

    Other Key Dates:

    Book Fair visits us on the 22nd February. Please support us if you can by visiting the fair and enjoying some great book titles.

    We will visit Keyworth library on Tuesday 5th March at 2:30pm (we would love to have parent helpers join us on our trip to help out with our safe walking there and back and with the borrowing of multiple books! If you are able to help us, please let me know, thanks!).

    To enhance our learning in RE (about Easter this half-term), we will visit St Mary Magdalene Church in the village. We will take part in activities linked to this Christian festival which we call 'Time Travelling'. More details to follow about this when the date is confirmed.

    We celebrate Book Week week beginning 4th March (we have dress as a character on Thursday 7th March for some forewarning!) and we will do lots of other fun activities. That week we also have a book competition to design a new front cover for a favourite book.

    Science week plus information on competitions and activities to follow.

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  • Homework 05/02/24

    Published 04/02/24, by Claire Jones

    Hello,

    It is the last week of this half-term, but we still have a busy one ahead! Each day we will be doing some wellbeing activities - things that we can learn and work on as and when needed. Hopefully the children can show you what they have learnt in school and use these techniques at home, too). We will be learning songs, doing some short yoga activities, finger breathing and much, much more! Also, it is our internet safety week. This is always important and something we refer to and teach throughout our ICT but this week we spend additional time talking about staying safe online. It is our last week in school with the chicks and I know the children will be sad to say goodbye to these. They have been very welcome visitors to Year 1 and have really helped with our science topic.

    *Your 'special homework' this week is a task for the holidays - try to write a few sentences a few times in the week about some activities you have done. Please try to encourage the children to remember their targets when doing this - they should be able to tell you what we are working on individually.

    *Spelling activity this week is linked to week 5 (adding -er and -est to adjectives where there is no change to the root word). Our 10 words are : grander, grandest, fresher, freshest, quicker, quickest, taller, tallest, slower, slowest). These can be found on SpellingShed linked to games and an activity will also come home with you on Tuesday via the homework books.

    *Please listen to your child read at least 3 time a week. New books will come home with you on Monday and Thursday.  Please send in any books to be returned on Mondays and Thursdays as well so that we can re-stock our shelves (thank you!). We have also asked the children not to carry water bottles in book bags as we have had a few leaking incidents where books have been water logged and unusable.

    *Try to stay in the green zone on doodle by completing your '5 a day' and your assignments. Well done for working hard on doodle, Starling Class - you are amazing!

    After the holidays you can look forward to our book fair that is coming to school on Thursday 22nd February. An exciting opportunity to have a look through new book titles. Shortly after that, we have our book week in school (more details to follow!).

    Please also keep an eye on the new Spring 2 blog with curriculum, spelling, homework information for the half-term leading up to Easter which is coming soon!

    ***Following on from our phonic assessments this week, I will be sending home some phonic video links for some children. These will be tailored to each child's gaps and we appreciate you working with us to help keep the children moving with their reading.***

    Mrs Jones

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  • Chick handling

    Published 30/01/24, by Claire Jones
    We had such a lovely time today cuddling the chicks in school. The children loved holding them (we hope to do the same again tomorrow!) and we noticed all the ways that they have grown and changed already. They are now much fluffier, louder, more con
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  • Homework 29.01.24

    Published 29/01/24, by Claire Jones
    Hello, Welcome to your weekly homework post. Another super week, watching the chicks grow - they have changed so much. Only last week we had 9 eggs in an incubator, now they are moving and growing, feeding and being very nosey.  *Your &
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  • year one artists

    Published 26/01/24, by Jennie Morgan

    Year One have been having a wonderful time learning about the artist Andy Warhol over the last couple of weeks. We have been inspired by his animal pictures and have enjoyed creating our own artwork based on his ideas.

    This week we learnt how to make a pencil transfer print and were all so impressed with the results we got. I have included a link explaining how to do it if you would like to give it a try at home.

    Using Pencil to Transfer an Image (youtube.com) 

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