Category : Year 1 blog

Today we celebrated Children in Need, we wore our costumes, bright colours, pjs and lovely clothes to fundraise some money for children in our national community who need a bit of support.

We found out why we give money and celebrate Children in Need and looked at some of the reasons why children might need a bit of extra help. We said some special prayers for these children and families that need God’s help and strength at the moment.

We spent the last part of our afternoon doing some Pudsey themed activities and it was a lovely end to a very busy week!

Thank you to all who donated and supported the day; the children all looked wonderful.

This Wednesday, in Year One, we remembered and commemorated the soldiers who never came home. We discussed why we wear poppies and joined together in a prayer service to reflect on the sacrifice of these people. As part of our prayer service we offered up our poppies to remember the service men, women, animals, nurses, children and many others who gave up their tomorrows for our todays.

We then went outside at 11am to stand in 2 minutes of silence in memory of all who died. The children were respectful and stayed silent the whole time. When we were walking back into the classroom one of the children said, “that was one of the most beautiful things ever!” We would have to agree, the whole school commemorated such a special day in a reverent, respectful and thoughtful way. It was a very humbling moment.

This week we took to our outdoor area on the hunt for BEARS! We took inspiration from the book ‘We’re going on a bear hunt’ and acted out the story by following the journey of the characters. The children joined in really well and could respond to the familiar lines from the story. We all got very excited!

As we moved around we found bear paw prints, a store of food that we thought the bears might be collecting and when we got closer to the end of a story we even thought we might have seen a bear through our fence! Our favourite part was creating a ‘leaf storm’ and splashing through the ‘river’.

Our focus in art this year was fireworks! We worked with a new medium of chalk to create which we found a little bit tricky to start with. We realised quite quickly that drawing with chalk onto paper was a little bit different to writing on the concrete floor and that we had to be very careful to not smudge our wonderful creations.

The children created some beautiful pieces of artwork!

We spent a cold Thursday morning working in teams outside working on our reasoning skills. We had a first had to collect different items of food that would be eaten by animals and had the challenge of making different shapes. We then had to work out how to transport food from one side of the ‘bog’ to the other using only tubes.

We had to work with our team to figure out the most effective way to do this without dropping the food into the bog. We worked well as teams and will continue to work on our listening skills when listening to our friends.

What a lovely first day back to school celebrating All Souls’ Day.

We joined together in a whole school prayer service via Zoom and thought about all those in our family, school community and wider world that have died over the past year and joined Our Father in his Heavenly home. We remembered all those who have no one to remember them and remembered that although they have gone to God, God is very near.

The children all wrote a person on their purple star and placed them in our special boxes to be placed as offerings at the masses throughout November.

May the light of God’s eternal rest shine upon them all.