This week we have been lucky to have visits from experts:

23rd June 2021Emma Powell

The inspirational Ray Matthews came to talk to us about his amazing achievements in running. He also launched his 80 – 80 – 80 challenge and we are looking forward to our sponsored walk next week to raise money for his charities.

We also had a visit from three wonderful volunteers at the Yorkshire Air Ambulance. We asked lots of questions and found out all about the important work that they do. We are going to have a ‘bring your bike’ to school day later in the term to raise as much money as we can to support the invaluable work that everyone at the Yorkshire Air Ambulance do.

We have also been Creative Chameleons in Class 1 this week:

  • Rudy built a Rocket.
  • Crew Elmer prepared questions for the Air Ambulance.
  • The girls made a ‘clubhouse’
  • Myla made NumberBlocks and wrote labels for each one.

Busy vehicles:

17th June 2021Emma Powell

We have been working collaboratively to design and then make a boat. We explored materials to see which ones would be best to use to help our boats to float. We had lots of fun in the water tray:

We have also been busy decorating out papier mache hot air balloons. They look wonderful floating in the air in our classroom:

We have been thinking hard about all of the vehicles that we have found out about throughout this expedition so far:

And now we are ready to think about which vehicle we would choose to go on our adventure!

    Learning about busy land vehicles in Class 1:

    13th May 2021Emma Powell

    We looked carefully at pictures of vehicles and used pencils to draw them.
    We then critiqued our first draft and acted upon kind and specific comments from our friends to help us complete our 2nd draft. We are very proud of our racing car drawings.

    Beautiful vehicle paintings

    The boys love to build a train track and play with our new trains.

    Busy vehicles in Class 1:

    21st April 2021Emma Powell

    We have been busy making large vehicles to put in the different areas of our classroom. We have a jeep in our reading corner, cement mixer in our construction area and an aeroplane flying above our creative area. We have really enjoyed designing and making these.

    We have also been creative making our own vehicles using different resources and equipment.

    Celebrating Holi:

    11th March 2021Emma Powell

    In India people celebrate the start of spring by enjoying a colourful festival called Holi. People throw colourful powder at each other during their celebrations. We did some fabulous artwork:

    We also celebrated in school by getting very colourful……and messy!!!

    We celebrated our first week all back together with a silent disco – we had a great time.

    We have also enjoyed being back in our classroom and being back with our friends:

    We have started learning about how people in Brazil celebrate with carnivals:

    4th February 2021Emma Powell

    We looked at where Brazil is and identified the flag. We then started to design and make masks that we could wear to our own carnival parade next week.

    We have looked at special landmarks in the Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro.
    Myla found some interesting facts about Christ the Redeemer.

    We have also been working hard in maths this week:

    We are looking forward to having our own carnival in Reception next week.

    #nortoninspired

    London Landmarks

    21st January 2021Emma Powell

    Reception have been learning about some of the landmarks in our capital city. We have had some fabulous drawings and models – can you guess which landmarks they are?

    We have also been watching videos of the New Year celebrations that are held in London every year. Here are some of our own firework pictures:

    Fruit and vegetable artwork

    By Emma Powell26th November 2020

    This week in Class 1 we have been busy making pictures using real fruit and vegetables in the style of Guiseppe Archimboldo:

     

    We had great fun!  We are now going to draw and paint our creations…….watch this space!