Class 1

We had a fantastic Science lesson today investigating our sense of taste. We compared sweet, sour, salty and bitter foods. Marshmallows were our favourite! There were some interesting facial expressions when we tasted lemon! 

Our first visit of the year to the Library Bus!
We can change our books every two weeks and had great fun choosing today.

We had a wonderful time in our outdoor area exploring some new equipment to make our own water channels. Some fantastic teamwork and lots of sharing ideas to make the water flow the way we wanted it to! 

What a great start to phonics!
Reception have been learning s,a,t and p and forming the letters correctly. Year 1 have been revisiting some learning from last year and writing super sentences using all the digraphs and trigraphs they know. 

Our Design Technology topic this term has a food focus - we will be making some Pumpkin Soup ready for autumnal days!
We have been investigating the difference between fruit and vegetables and sorting them. 
Fantastic teamwork! 

Reading for pleasure and sharing books is such an important part of our learning journey. It was fantastic to have so many parents join us for our first session of Rock up and Read of the year. Thank you! 

We spent our first three days together getting to know our new friends through play and collaboration! Everyone looks super smart in their uniforms! 

Today we welcomed our new Reception children to a Teddy bears picnic for their final transition session. Class 1 were so kind and helpful! Friends have already been made and we are all  looking forward to September! 

Today a thief came to Mary Howard to steal all our sounds!
We created our own poems using lots of sound descriptions. Next week we will put our ideas together to create and perform a whole class poem! 

Some collaborative learning and problem solving in Maths this week. The children had to program a Robot Mouse to move around a track collecting cheese! They had to use forwards, backwards, left, right and turn functions to work out a route! This helped our position and direction knowledge! 

We are thinking about summer and have set up a beach cafe role play area! We have been using our imaginations to be the chef and customers! 

In computing Year 2 revisited how to use Scratch Jr. They added a new sprite, changed the background and created a sequence of commands. Then they worked with the Reception children and showed them how to program. Great teamwork!