Class of 2015

On Friday afternoon, we took part in a PE competition.  We competed in four different activities and had to try our hardest to score the most points.  The green team scored the most points in our class.  Our class total will be added together and compared to the totals of other year 1 classes in…

We had an amazing surprise on Monday!  Mrs Monks from the school library service visited our class and told us lots of stories about dinosaurs and then we had a visit from some baby dinosaurs - Junior and Trixie.  We all had a fantastic dinosaur day.

As part of our 'Civic Pride' work we went litter picking in our community.  Even though the weather took a turn for the worse part way through our litter picking, we did not let it beat us!  Here are some photographs of our hard work.

A special 'thank you' also goes to the parents who were able…

We had an amazing day at Smithills and througoughly enjoyed our experience.  The children's behaviour was faultless and they were a credit to their parents and the school!  I would also like to thank all the adult volunteers who gave up their time to accompany us on this trip.  Without their…

The children were excited to find that a dinosaur had visited our classroom over the holidays!  We have been investigating our intruder, examining dinosaur fossils and even making our own fossils using plaster!  We look forward to more exciting weeks learning all about dinosaurs.

This week we invited Jeremy into our classroom to tell us all about the Jewish religion.  He brought many religious items for us to look at and we were even able to wear some of them.  He also taught us a Jewish song that we all stood up and sang back to him.  We had a great morning learning all…

We are looking at the religion of Judaism in Year 1 and we have a museum loan in school full of Jewish items and artefacts.  Here are some photographs of us exploring the museum loan.

We have kicked off our Pirate Topic is style this week.  We have been 'Swashbuckling' ourselves, thinking about what we would put in our treasure chest, creating sea shanties and making pirate treasure maps!  We have also made pirate flags, pirate hats and cutlasses.  Below are some photographs…

We have had a great final week at school and we have certainly got into the Christmas spirit with parties, entertainers, Christmas food and a whole load of fun!

Here are some photographs from our Christmas week...

We would like to wish everyone a

MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A HAPPY NEW…

Here are some of our fabulous Christmas jumpers.

We all had an amazing time this week performing our Nativity.  The children all working extremely hard and were outstanding, particularly those children who had lines and/or lyrics to learn.

Once again, the children shone brightly and made us all very proud!

Here are some photographs of…

Dear Father Christmas...

There has been a magical Christmas buzz in the Beech Tree class this week. Our classroom is now taking on a Christmas feel with our Nativity scene, Christmas tree and beautiful Advent calendar. We have had visits from Snowdrop the elf and we even heard Father Christmas…