This morning Year 1 have been practising writing and reading numbers in words and numerals.

Year 1 have been busy this morning acting out our new class text: Rescue and Jessica. We have learnt all about prosthetic legs and how Rescue came to be an assistant dog to help Jessica with task and her life.

Today Year 1 continued to explore primary and secondary colours by completing an experiment using simple equipment such as food colouring and pipettes. We created our own colour circle using the primary colours food colouring and kitchen roll which absorbed the food colouring and mixed together to make the secondary colours.

On Friday Year 1 had another busy day publishing their AMAZING writing about Aretha Franklin. They have been working so hard on their handwriting!

This week in Learning Mission Year 1 have been exploring the question: How are we connected? We have been learning about how people communicate around the world and also how people with disabilities communicate so we decided to learn some sign language. We learnt how to spelt our names, say ‘hello’ and ‘goodbye’ and the days of the week.

This week in Learning Mission Year Two looked at whether food is shared evenly around the world. We spent time creating our favourite plates of food and then drew names out of a pot to see who was lucky enough to receive their lovely meals.

This week in science Year Two went to the pond area and searched for different wildlife. We were focusing on habitats and micro habitats.

Year 1 have been learning about what we can do to help others around the world and we decided to create our own posters to put up around school informing everyone of the importance of recycling, reusing and reducing waste to help improve our world! We created our posters on a word document by copying and pasting inspirational photos, saving our work and printing it off.

Year 1 have been busy experimenting with colour this week! We have been learning about primary and secondary colours and investigating what happens when they are mixed together.

Year 1 have been busy collecting lots of adjectives to describe Aretha Franklin. We are going to use these adjectives to draft our first paragraph of our fact files!