Blog Author: Natalie Stokes

Look what arrived in the post today.  We had lots of fun looking at all of the different things Katie Morag sent us.

Division is a bit tricky to understand, but we have been working really hard to share things into different groups.

We have been very busy making jellyfish.  Becareful if you come into Year 1, they might sting you!

I hope your all ready for our last term in Year 1. We have lots of exciting things we need to do before we break up ready for the summer holidays.  

Please ensure your child has got their full PE kit including trainers in school. If they have not please can we have them tomorrow. 

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To help us prepare for our Phonics screening check next week we have been reading alien stories, making alien words and comparing them to real words.  

We have also had a lot of fun making our own aliens!

Next week Year 1 will be having their Phonics Screening check.  This will consist of 20 'real words' and 20 'alien words'.  The children will need to sound out each of the words and then say them.  There is nothing to worry about as the children are used to doing this daily, and they even quite…

To finish off Art week we have had lots of fun making flowers out of junk.  We were very lucky to have an artist, Mr. Shuttleworth, here to help us.

Today we visited Miss Stokes and learned about Claude Monet.  We had lots of fun making our own pond and water lilies.

Today we have started to learn about Monet and his artwork. We have started to make our own Water Lilies work by colour mixing to create a pond.

Today we have been learning about Van Gogh.  We experimented with working in a similar way and tried to recreate his Starry Night painting. 

Today we had a visit from an artist, Mr Templeton.  We worked in the hall to create a watercolour painting based on the Aurora Borealis.  We are very proud of our work and we hope you will come and see it in our exhibition in June.

Today we have been very busy making our own prints.  

It was lots of fun!