On Monday the children, staff and parents enjoyed the Year 1sports day at Calthorpe Haven. All children worked well in their teams to score points to become the winning team. A big congratulations to Red group for coming first with 499 points. Thank you to all of the parents that came along to support the children. Here are a few photographs of the children in action.

To begin our topic ‘Once Upon A Time’ we visited the magical Wonderland in Telford. We saw lots of things from a number of familiar fairy tales such as; The Three Bear’s cottage, the Gingerbread house and the Big Bad Wolf. We even got lost in ‘Alice in Wonderland’s’ crazy maze! (We did get out after a while).

After reading the story ‘Pirates Love Underpants’ by Claire Freeman and Ben Cort we set the children and parents the challenge of making a plasticine boat with a competition to see which boat could hold the most bears without sinking. A big congratulations to Corde who made a boat that floated holding 18 bears!

We sailed our Pirate ships to see which ones floated and which ones did not. Did yours float Miss Alexander?

As part of our ‘What an Adventure’ topic this half term the children designed their own pirate ships using their knowledge of which materials floated and which ones were waterproof that they had previously tested in their science lesson.

This week as part of our ‘What an Adventure’ topic we have been using our Connections power. We have used our Literacy skills to follow instructions for making a pirate hat and used our Science and D.T. skills with our Creative power to design and make model pirate ships. We have had lots of fun and been very busy. Here are a few photographs of what he have been doing.

A big congratulations to Karimah for winning the Easter egg raffle today! We hope you enjoy sharing the egg with your family during the Easter holiday.

Year 1 have learnt lots about growing plants and vegetables this half term. Today we used our Literacy skills to follow the instructions of a recipe with our D.T. skills to peel and chop vegetables to make vegetable soup. After working hard in the morning the children got to enjoy the warm soup they had made with bread in the classroom. Mrs Hadley thought our soup was delicious.