Whiteley Year one

 Friday 25th April Welcome back to school, we hope that you had a good break.  This half term at school we will be learning about plants and how they grow.    If you have any spare seeds, flower pots, soil or plants that you could donate, we would be very grateful. In Science this week we learnt about seeds.   We set up an investigation to find out how we could discover which items in our collection were seeds and which were not.  The children suggested planting each object to find out if it would grow. Earth Day  This week we celebrated World Earth Day on Tuesday 22nd April.  We talked about all the ways that we can help protect the environment for example, turning off lights and screens when they are not being used and using paper sensibly at school. St George's Day In Geography we learnt about St George's Day (wh ich is on the 23rd April) and the traditions associated with it.  We located England and London on a map of the United King...

  Friday 2nd April This week we had a wonderful trip to the Sea City Museum.  We learnt lots more facts and information about the Titanic and her crew.  Did you know that Titanic was taller than the clock tower in the photo! We were really proud of the way that the children participated sensibly on the trip. The children wrote some fabulous recounts of their trips on their return to school. Money After the Easter Holidays, we will be focussing on money in Maths.  The children usually find it quite hard to learn to identify coins as they don't have so much experience of coins with our ever increasing use of cards! Over Easter please can you give your child opportunities to handle coins.   Can they identify the value of each coin? Can you play shops and use coins to pay for objects. Try lining the coins up in order of value or sorting coins into groups so all of the 2p coins are together for example.  Thank you! Don’t forget to keep reading over the holidays ...