Whiteley Year one

Friday 28th February World Book Day Next Week-  Thursday 6th March  On this day we will be walking to Waterstones to spend our World book day voucher and listen to a story. We are very short of volunteers to accompany us to Waterstones on Thursday morning.  Please can you let us know if you can support us.  Each class has only had one volunteer so far. On World book day please can your child bring in their favourite book to share with the class.   This week we have started our history learning about the Titanic.  We have approached this from the point of view of a passenger - Delia McDermott who travelled on the Titanic as a third class passenger.  Delia bought a new hat for her journey and we discussed the differences between the clothes worn by different groups of people, rich and poor in 1912.  We discussed how the lives of rich and poor people were very different in 1912.  Next week we will learn more about how Delia travelled on the...

 Thursday 13th February     Waterstones walk - Thursday 6th March We have been invited to Waterstones in Whiteley to spend our World Book Day vouchers and share a story.   We will be walking to Waterstones in the morning on Thursday 7th March.  We would be very grateful if any parents or carers could volunteer to support us in our walk down to Whiteley. Many thanks! This week we have been carrying out our Design Technology unit of work, where we learnt about creating stable structures.  We explored construction kits and materials including straws, pipe cleaners, wooden sticks and elastic bands.  We learnt how to join materials to make stable, free standing shapes.  We then designed and made our own tent frame, after talking about how in 1666 people had to live in tents after the Great Fire. English In English this week we applied our learning about past tense verbs to write our own versions of Toby and the Great Fire of London. Phonics In Pho...

  Friday 7th February Thank you for bringing in boxes and tubes for our modelling table outside 1J.  Please could you continue to bring these items into school.  If you have any spare sponges at home (or are happy to put an extra one in this weeks shopping), we would appreciate them for our water trays.  Many thanks! This week we discussed what happened to the people in London after the Great Fire.  We learnt that they camped outside the city in tents and shacks.  In science we explored fabrics that could be used to cover a tent.  We tested fabrics to find out which would let the least water through and recorded our ideas in a table.  We independently wrote simple conclusions to our investigations. English In English this week we have been learning to put words into the past tense by adding "ed", where no change is needed in the root word e.g. walk - walked. We wrote sentences about our Toby story to practise this skill. You might like to watch th...