This week in Class 1, we have been enjoying lots of exciting Halloween activities!

Adding the legs onto the spider after the wicked witch’s spell took them all away!!

Pumpkin picking – read the words on the list and picking the graphemes for make the word

Wreath making

We have also been reading the book, Room on the Broom by Julia Donaldson. We focused on lots of different vocabulary including; broomstick, witch, cauldron and wand.

We then made our own spells! We chose one ingredient at a time from the witch’s cauldron and using our new spelling technique, wrote the word:
Say the word
Sound talk the word
Sound talk using segmenting fingers
Talk about how many sounds are in the word
Write it

This week we have been reading the story ‘In My Heart’ a book all about feelings! We discussed different feelings and times we have felt certain ways and used our Zones of Regulation to talk about how we could get ourselves back into the Green Zone.

We then created our own hearts, filled with things that make us happy and help us to feel calm, happy and regulated again

This week Class 1 have been exploring our zones of regulation

We discussed the different zones (green, blue, yellow and red) and how we might feel when we’re in those zones. We shared ideas on different ways to regulate our emotions, to help get us back into the green zone.

Teaching self regulation to children is so important, so we introduced our ‘Zones of Regulation’ in the classroom, where each child can use their picture to show which zone they are in throughout the day, to help children recognise their feelings and respond in an appropriate way

Class 1 have had an amazing first week in Reception – exploring our new classroom, making new friends and learning new routines. We are so excited for a super year ahead!!

Class 4 had a fantastic day on our trip to Gibside!
We spent the morning looking for minibeasts! We used a classification sheet to help us identify what we found️

We then spent the afternoon creating art using nature! We created our own artist palette using natural items before using mud as paint to create our own natural paintings️

What a fantastic afternoon for our Year 1 sports day!

We are so proud of the children for the hard work and resilience they demonstrated throughout every single race! It was so lovely to hear them cheering each other on!

And a huge thank you to all the grown ups for coming along to watch and cheer on the children and of course, getting involved in our adults race!!

As part of our transport topic, we have been exploring Peter Thorpe’s ‘Space Art’. We explored his different paintings of rockets and discussed the colours he used and why we thought he had chosen them. We then created our own rocket paintings