Blog Author: Lyndsey Faulkner

The children dip dyed kitchen roll in blue and yellow food colouring to create the feathers. They then used art roc to cover balloons to create the 3D eggs. Our Blue Tit certainly shows evidence of new life at St Stephens. We are very excited as the bird boxes near our classroom are housing a…

Check out the ICT games website and select the time section. Try playing the hickory dickory dock game. We love using it in class.

Julian asked the question "Why does o'clock have that line in the air?"

Did you know that it is because it's an abbreviation of 'of the clock'. We didn't but now we do and so do you!

Our mega maths time medal winner explained why our clock showed half past seven. "The minute hand had gone half way around and the little hand was half way between seven and eight." We're very impressed!

Today we have been creating sign post maps using our knowledge of the school, fractions and turn. Libby created this lovely map showing key rooms and features of our school. Try making a sign post map at home.

The children created fabulous artworks using mixed art techniques including paint application and collage. We'll miss our Winter display. Bring on Spring.

Well done Year 1 on winning the attendance award .

This week the children will be learning to tell the time to the hour and half past the hour. Try to use opportunities at home to develop these skills further.

Well done to this weeks winners:-

Astrid for "Brilliant Behaviour",

Ruby for being our "Super Learner",

Thomas for being our "Good Samaritan"

and finally our Star Award Winner Lewis! Mrs Robinson and I are very proud of all of you.

Well Done Alex. Great reading! Keep up the monster effort. 

Today in phonics we consolidated our knowledge of graphemes by playing phonic loop cards. We all had great fun!

We have studied mini beasts that we might find in our eco garden. We thought we might find a pesky bluebottle buzzing about the compost bins alongside spiders, ladybirds and bumble bees.