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Class Newsletter- updated 5th June

Updated 5th June

Round and round! (Brum, Brum!)

 

A big welcome back to everybody! We’ve started our new topic off with a flying start, it’s all about transport and pushes and pulls. There is already a garage role-play area in our classroom and all the construction and small world has a transport or push and pull theme to it. On Monday we created some questions that we’d like to find the answers to during our topic, such as,

• Who invented cars?
• Why do cars need petrol?
• How do they make cars?
• Who fixes cars?
• What is the difference between petrol and diesel?
• Why is petrol so expensive? (That’s Mrs Walker’s question!)

 

We also watched a video about a petrol station and a workshop. Oliver asked if I would put it on the website, so here is the link!

 

 The Garage | Teachers TV

 

  

On Thursday we visited the petrol station next door to school, Janet the manager showed us around. She showed us where the tankers deliver the petrol to. There are three big grids in the ground and 20 foot down there are tanks for the petrol to be stored in. We saw where the Ultimate unleaded petrol was kept, the tanks for unleaded petrol, ultimate unleaded petrol and diesel hold 9000 litres each!

 

 

 

 

 

 

We looked at the machines that people use to put air or water into their car. The water is free but you have to pay for the air!

 

 

The children also watched a man washing his car with the jet wash. He was very cheeky because he tried to splash us!

 

 

 When we came back to school we looked at all of the teachers’ cars in the car park and had a close look at the badges on the fronts of the cars to see which company had built them. That helped us choose our new table names; BMW, Mercedes, Ford and Audi.

We had a lovely morning and are all really enjoying this topic!

 

Updated 8th May

Eat more fruit!

 

 

Class 1 have been working with Mrs Topping recently doing a project all about fruit. Mrs Topping brought in some fruit for us all to have a look at. We cut it open and had a really good look at the seeds inside each fruit and drew very carefully what we could see. We also had a chance to taste the fruit and decide which we liked best. Some children were very surprised to find out that they liked the kiwi and pomegranate as they had never tried them before. We made a pictogram of our favourite fruit which is displayed on our classroom wall.

 

                                    

  

After the drawing and tasting session the children designed their very own fruit salad and on Wednesday they got the chance to make their own recipe. The children had lots of fun carefully cutting up their fruit and eating it!

                               

 

Thank you Mrs Topping for working with us! We had lots of fun and I’m sure we will all eat more fruit in future!

 

 

Money probems

 

We’ve also been working with money this week. Looking at coins and their value and working out how to add them up. We decided it was good to start with the highest value coin and work to the lowest.

 

Here are two websites that will help with learning about money. Have fun!

 

Piggy banks

 

Working with coins

 

 

 

Curriculum

Year 1	Autumn 1	Autumn 2	Spring 1		Spring 2	Summer 1	Summer 2
Science	1a Ourselves	1c Materials	1d Light and Dark	1f sound & hearing		1b Growing Plants	1e Pushes & Pulls
History	1 Toys Visit from museum service		2 homes Trip to Shibden Hall
Geography			1 local study walk around Mytholmroyd			2 how can we make our     local   area safer
Art	1a Self Portrait		1b Investigating materials			1c What is sculpture
DT	1d moving pictures / 1b playgrounds Trip to local playground		1d homes			1c Eat more vegetables
Music	1 Ongoing skills 2 Sounds interesting		1 Ongoing skills 3 the long and short of it			1 Ongoing skills 4 feel the pulse
PE	Games/ Dance	Gym / Dance	Dance / Gym		Gym / Games	Games / Dance	Games / Dance
RE	Myself Celebrations		Stories Special People			Belonging Belief
ICT	1A  An introduction to modelling	1B Using a word bank	1C The information around us		1D Labelling and classifying	1e Representing information graphically: pictograms	1F Understanding instructions and making things happen
PSHCE	Self awareness		relationships			Decision making