We had a great start to the term today and we're really looking forward to the term ahead!

Rozario earned the making careful choices.

Ovie earned the Value Being Special

We had a beautiful red nose day as well!

We gave Quinn the PE start of the week.

Harper and Yazan earned the Feeling Proud badge. Yazan had been very helpful in D&T and Harper has been working hard to meet her target.

Hiyab is our PE star for listening well to instructions and supporting others with our athletics work. 

Jaxson is the latest Year 1 child to get on the rocket!

If there are any children who would like to make an Easter bonnet and share it with the class, they are obviously more than welcome and these will also be celebrated on the blog. 

Our PE star was Ahmed. 

Jaxson, Wren (and his big brother Luther), Mehki and Areen have made some fantastic models! 

Eric has done some measuring as well. 

This week we are sending home some sheets to support phonics learning. If you scan the QR codes they will take you to a video to practice the focus sounds. I have attached the sheet that will be going home tomorrow. Please do not hesitate to ask if you have any questions. 

We are so impressed with the way the children have come back to school after the half term, showing a really positive attitude to learning. They have settled in well into their new Read, Write, Inc. groups and are working really hard at their phonics. We are also seeing good talk partner work and some very creative minds during out new Design and Technology unit!

Keep it up year 1!

Madison has been learning phonics on buried treasure and working hard to improve her scores!

Poppy has been using buried treasure as well and has written a message in Morse code. She has also been using her Dads tape measure to find the tallest of 5 items and then compared their weight. 

Adam has also been using a tape measure to practice measuring the furniture in his house and he made a fantastic car out of cardboard.

Benji has made up his own code and written a message for me to solve, he completed a treasure hunt using his reading skills and he has been playing dobble with his family. 

And even though Arthur has been poorly he's been doing work at home and was particularly proud of learning his 3 x table!

Great work everyone!

Wren and Kidus earned the Be Positive badge.

Imaani and Hiyab got their rocket badges.

Ovie is the PE star this week.

Our PE star was Adam Ali.

Adam has been playing on buried treasure to practice his phonics and playing board games at home, showing great sharing skills. 

Jaxson has been playing on buried treasure too and wrote a secret message in morse code.

Harper has been using lego to practice her maths! 

Mollie has been using her measuring skills to make a bracelet for her sister. 

Jonah and Elias made a shop out of an old cardboard box and played in it. 

Hunter used his imagination to make a super long bus with magnetic tiles.

Eric has started karate lessons and enjoyed showing the class his new skills. 

Leighton has been out on his bike and playing board games with his mum. 

Letayah has been doing some extra maths at home. 

Well done everyone!

Jonah and Eli have been playing It's a Small World together.

Leen has played dobble with her Dad and she won!

Quinn has been measuring and made a fantastic rocket out of recycled material. 

Elijah made an a plane.

Hiyab made a special telescope.

Eric made a Tesla.

Ruby made bincoculars and a special pencil holder for Mrs Steele (they know that I am always losing my pens!)

Aleyiah made a music box, with a real twirling ballerina!

 Elias made a rocket!

And Imaani made ice cream!

Harper earned the PE star for super listening in gymnastics and helping her partner. 

Two superstars on the rocket this week, Eli and Ovie.

Madison has been playing Bluey shopping game with her Dad and showed great turn taking and sharing skills! She also made a princess out of recycled materials!

Hunter made an incredible rocket out of recycled materials and did a great job of explaining how he did it to his class!

Leen has been learning how to measure at home using a tape measure. 

Imaani got creative with and recycled an old box and made some mountains!

Our PE star was Ashleigh.

We had more children passing their counting in 10s, 5s and 2s,  Yazan, Mollie, Wren and

Our PE star of the week was Haroun. 

They truly are stars and in the words of my favourite song 'oh how proud we are!'

We appreciate understanding on the problems we had with sound but it didn't detract from the incredible performances all these wonderful children put on!

Thank you for support from home as well in helping the children learn their lines and practising the songs!

Well done to Hunter for earning the Value Being Special badge and Jaxson for earning the Be Positive badge!

Hana is our PE star of the week this week.

Yousuf is the latest superstar to get on the rocket!

Please help by sending your child to school with their book bag every day and writing in their reading records when they read at home. Four times a week is the school expectation as this is proven to make the biggest difference to reading progress. 

Well done to Orange group because we had all but one book bag in today so almost everybody could get a new book! 

The reads are being given to Mr Smith at the end of next week for the Autumn term reading mileage badges so there is still time to get up to 40 reads!

After the lesson today Y1JS really wanted to make pictures with 2D shapes and then lots of them wanted to show families! I'm sure you'll agree they did a fantastic job!

Archie got PE star of the week.

Leen and Eric got their rocket badges.

Quinn earned the Enjoy Challenge badge and Ovie earned the Be Positive badge.

Adam and Iqra got their rocket badges in assembly too!

Jonah earned the Value Being Special badge and Finley earned the making links badge. 

Our PE star is Imaani this week for working hard on balancing in gymnastics!

Archie is the 2nd Year 1 child to get onto the rocket!

You have all done a wonderful job of spotting signs of Autumn!

We hope you enjoy looking at these photos!

There was mixed reaction to the lemon in particular!

Aleyiah earned a solving problems badge, Areen earned a careful choices badge Majed got PE and Arthur is the first child in Year 1 to get on our times table rocket for counting in 10s, 2s and 5s forwards and backwards. 

Last week Eric earned a reflect and share badge but unfortunately was ill so we celebrated this week!

Our PE star of the week is Mylah.