YEAR 1 UM
Mrs. U MitchellWelcome to YR1M’s Blog
I am so thrilled about my new class of enthusiastic children. I invite you to join them in their learning adventure. This is a great opportunity to share news and achievements.
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Our Class Blog
The Island
Today, we created our own 'Readers Theatre'. We took parts and wrote lines for our characters. We chose our language so carefully.
Ratio
In year 6, we have been learning about ratio. We have been creating ratios and building towers to help us solve problems.
Y5/6 Basketball
As we look to next week where we have some of our year 6 children out for a basketball tournament at Thorp Academy, let's take a look at what the children got up to in their basketball PE unit. The children developed their ability to: dribble the ball at a jogging...
Multi-Skills
Reception children visited Gateshead Leisure Centre and took part in a range of multi-skills activities. It was a lot of fun but exhausting! The children worked very hard and worked well together as a team to complete the different activities. They used a range of...
Listening to stories
In Year 1, we have been loving listening to different stories in provision on the Yoto. We like being able to choose which story we like independently. Our current favourite is Peter Rabbit!
Computing – Branching Data bases
In computing, we created and selected attributes to create a data base to find animals using yes or no questions.
Potential Strike Action
Please see the letter from Mrs Clarke below regarding potential strike action during February and March.
A frosty forest school
Parts of our body
We have been learning all about the parts of the body, and we then drew around each other and labelled it with the parts we had learned.
Cushions
Throughout our cushion unit we discussed the different functions of a cushion and researched some designers to help understand why cushions are made for aesthetic purposes. Children have worked very hard to: attach buttons create a button fastening use a range of...
Y6 Vocabulary
Today, we looked very closely at the illustrations in our text 'The Island'. We had to describe them to our partners using our most precise word choices. Our favourites were: raging, destruction, obliterate, fierce and awful.
Snow Much Fun!
We couldn’t have asked for better weather this morning! We took the opportunity to go outside and use real snow to build a snowman like Lily from our story. We all agreed that it was a lot colder than the snow we used in school last week!